High Holidays

Hello Nursery families,

These past 3 weeks we learnt all about Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur, Sukkot and Simchat Torah.


We put ate apples with honey, we made pomegranates, we had a visit from the beekeeper and learnt all about how the honey is made, we made bees and a beehive and we also pretended to be bees and buzz like the bees. We made Sofars and blew the sofars, we beaded pipe cleaners and decorated our honey dishes. We make our sukkahs and we decorated our sukkahs, and we went to shul and Rabbi Zarchri taught us all about the Torah.

Dipping the apples in the honey

By doing this activity the children get the chance to try the honey and the apple and identify the difference in the taste. After that they tried it together and made their observations on what it tasted like now!!

1.9 Interacting with Adults

2.2 Identity Formation

2.6 Positive Attitudes towards Learning

3.4 Conversing with Peers and Adults

4.4 Questioning

4.5 Observing

4.6 Collecting and Organizing Information

4.9 Reasoning Logically

5.3 Fine Motor Skills

Practicing our fine motor skills by making a pomegranate by making small balls out of tissue paper.

The children were very proud and very focused when making the small balls out of tissue paper. This activity really helped the children to learn how to coordinate their eyes and their fingers in order to make the small balls. It's also a sense of accomplishment when they master it.

5.3 Fine Motor Skills

2.1 Self-concept

2.3 Self-esteem

1.4 Helping Skills

Visit from the beekeeper. 

The bees are a very important part of our ecosystem so it was very nice for the children to learn all about how the honey is made and how the bees live in their beehive. They had a lot of questions! 

1.9 Interacting with Adults

2.2 Identity Formation

2.6 Positive Attitudes towards Learning

3.4 Conversing with Peers and Adults

4.4 Questioning

4.5 Observing

4.6 Collecting and Organizing Information

3.6 Listening to Others

4.1 Self-regulation

Making bees, a beehive and pretending to be bees.

After the Visit from the beekeeper, the children pretended to be bees and buzzed like the bees in the classroom and in the playground.

4.3 Representation

2.6 Positive Attitudes towards Learning

4.4 Questioning

4.5 Observing

4.6 Collecting and Organizing Information

3.6 Listening to Others

5.3 Fine Motor Skills

Blowing the sofars, making a shofar and beading the pipe cleaner to decorate the honey dish.

The children really enjoyed blowing the shofars and making them as well. They pretended they were in Shul and they were blowing the sofar.

4.3 Representation

2.6 Positive Attitudes towards Learning

4.4 Questioning

4.5 Observing

4.6 Collecting and Organizing Information

3.6 Listening to Others

5.3 Fine Motor Skills

Making and decorating our Sukkah. We also had snack in the Sukkah.

We had so much fun decorating and painting our sukkahs. During circle time we talked about the sukkahs that the children had at their houses. Everyone was so excited to talk about their sukkah and answer any questions their friends had.

1.9 Interacting with Adults

2.2 Identity Formation

2.6 Positive Attitudes towards Learning

3.4 Conversing with Peers and Adults

4.4 Questioning

4.5 Observing

4.6 Collecting and Organizing Information

4.9 Reasoning Logically

5.3 Fine Motor Skills

Visiting the Shul and learning all about the Torah by Rabbi Zarchri.

It was a very nice experience for the children to visit the Shul and have Rabbi Zarchri teach them all about the Torah. They had a lot of questions and also a lot of observations.

1.9 Interacting with Adults

2.2 Identity Formation

2.6 Positive Attitudes towards Learning

3.4 Conversing with Peers and Adults

4.4 Questioning

4.5 Observing

4.6 Collecting and Organizing Information

3.6 Listening to Others

4.1 Self-regulation

Fine motor activities and science activities.

This activity really helped the children to learn how to coordinate their eyes and their fingers. It was also a very productive science activity and the children were taught where the rain comes from and how it gets in the clouds!

4.4 Questioning

4.5 Observing

4.6 Collecting and Organizing Information

4.9 Reasoning Logically

5.3 Fine Motor Skills

I hope you enjoy the photos of your beautiful children!!

Morah Eirene