Counting With Dominoes

Kindergarten is about to finish our counting/numbers unit (though will always be reviewing). The children reviewed their counting skill by taking dominoes, placing them together and counting the dots on them. They would then write the number they counted. Another center rolled dice and counted both dice and practice writing the number they counted as well. Morah worked with the children in their workbooks to assess their progress.

Our Favorite Part of the Book!

We have learned so much with regard to our reading skills. Kindergarten knows: 

• A book has a front and back cover
• What a title is
• What the author does
• What an illustrator does
• Who a character is
• They can tell you the setting of a story
• What their favorite part of the story is

We recently learned a story has a beginning, middle and end. When you read to your children, ask them what happened at the beginning of the story, what came next and what happened at the end? It will be a great review for them.

Morah read a story and the children broke up into groups to discuss and illustrate the story. This also helped them work on team work and sharing space to come up with one idea.

Jewish Home

This past week we introduced the topic of the Jewish Home. The children went to visit the Shul to see the different Jewish Objects found in it. We then discussed how a Jewish Home is also suppose to have Jewish objects. We then pretended to move into our own new Jewish Home. Morah brought a big empty house and as we learn about the different objects that go inside, we will fill up the house.

Handwriting Continues!

Our Handwriting Without Tears program continues. We learned the letters U and V this week as well as reviewed the past ones. Once learning the proper formation, the children had the opportunity to have hands on centers with tracing the play-doh letters they create, practicing writing with slates, a magnetic board or chalk boards. There is also a worksheet center that they sit with Morah and do. Their handwriting is really coming along.

Using slates with
solid double lines and a dotted line to practice

 



Using Play-doh to form and trace their letters

Worksheets to practice. Morah gives us a sticker for good work :)



Welcome Back!

It was truly a pleasure seeing the children back after the break we had. A huge thanks to all the parents and children who helped out in a variety of ways. It is greatly appreciated. In our new classroom we have continued learning the Alef Bais letters and are almost half way done. Today we learnt the letter Mem.

Our Elections!

Over the past few weeks, kindergarten has been discussing our country, where it's located on a map, how many states we have, The American Flag, The White House and so much more. We also talked about our country's leaders and their responsibilities. Kindergarten discussed who the current president is and that there was going to be an election. Morah explained what an election is and how we vote. We know some requirements to allow us to vote as well as how lucky we are to be able to do so.
Today we had our very own Mazel Day School election. There was a booth set up for privacy. One at a time, each student placed their ballot in the bowl under the picture of the candidate they chose. The votes were then counted and contrary to popular belief...Mitt Romney won! The children went wild and were cheering.

Warm Wishes

Today we came together to discuss lightly, the hurricane and it's effects on our school. Morah Chani received an envelope from the students at Metrowest Jewish Day School in Massachusetts. They heard about our situation and made cards for us. They shared warm thoughts and wishes and even wished our school a refuah shelema. It was truly touching to see others reach out to us.