Sunflowers Morahs

We had a fabulous first week. Our theme was music, The children made percussion instruments from water bottles filled with noodles. We filled the bottles with noodles and drops of different colored paint. The children shook the bottles to paint the noddles and make music. The children also danced around with tambourines.

The children played outside in the water with sprinklers, water tables and toys! They had a great time cooling off from the hot sun The kids enjoyed music with Jill as they danced around with puppets, guitar music and little toy bugs. They absolutely loved holding the puppets. They had a fabulous time in music class and were beaming with smiles and laughter listening to music,The children had a great time playing in the indoor gym with cars and ride on toys. They also played in the exploration room with the train table and sandbox. They had an amazingly time together playing and laughing with smiles all around!

The children loved playing the the playground. We slid down the slides, drew with chalk and popped bubbles that the Morah’s blew.

The children loved celebrating Shabbat. We drank grape juice for kiddush. The challah was so yummy to eat.

Looking forward to another fun week.

Shabbat shalom,

Morah Lauren, Rachel, Lilly and Macky

We were so happy to welcome our friends to camp.

We hugged our friends, ran through the sprinklers. We joined the sprouts group and used buckets and shovels with the water table.

We played with blocks,animals, kitchen set, play dough and had story time.

This week is music week. We made our first instrument of the week. We filled our water bottles with blue and white marbles and shook them to hear the sound it made. It was very loud. We used paintbrushes to glue on colorful tissue paper to decorate the outside of the bottle. The children loved squishing their hands in the glue.

We cant wait for more of our friends to come to camp!

Morah Blimie, Rory, Macky

The last project of the year is a worthwhile one, because it is a present for the fathers.  It is good for the children to think about other people and to be aware of all the thoughtfulness and care their fathers bestow upon them.  It is also good for them to think about and show their appreciation to this important figure in their young lives.  The children have always shown interest in the insect world.  They love to check on the worms in the park and enjoyed the whole caterpillar/butterfly experience.  They have consistently been “reading” the Eric Carle book, The Grouchy Ladybug.  It is a very popular book in our classroom.  So we merged the bug interest with Father’s Day and came up with our project.  It is a simple concept, but cute, and will be a constant reminder to Dad of who made it. It involved painting and working slowly and super carefully, in the execution of the gift.  Can you guess what it is from the pictures?

The children have also been preparing the last birthday present for the year.  Emily will be celebrating her fifth birthday later in June after school is over. But we wanted to celebrate with her!  So the children decorated her treasure box, cutting and gluing on pieces  of beautiful and colorful napkins

What’s a birthday celebration without a cake?  So, of course, the children were happy to whip one up.  This was their eighth time making one.  They are experts in measuring, pouring, mixing, and checking the eggs for blood spots and shells.

We had just enough time to introduce the letters, “Mm” and “Nn”.  Most of the children understand the idea of the initial phonetic sound of […]

Our last week of school started with baking a cake for Ethan’s birthday party. The children each took turns pouring the ingredients into the bowl. Using dot dots we decorated Ethan’s birthday crown. We also took turns gluing on shiny square paper to create a beautiful treasure chest to give to Ethan as his birthday present. We had so much fun at Ethan’s birthday. We sang “Happy Birthday” and ate delicious cake. Thank you to Ethan’s mommy for reading to us that wonderful animal book. We loved making the animal sounds.

Playing with our red play dough was very relaxing. We took turns with the rolling pins and shapes.

Just like we celebrated Mother’s Day we now started talking to the children about Father’s Day. The Hebrew word for father is Abba. Our fathers do so much for us. They go to work to make sure we have everything we need. Sometimes they give us dinner, read us a story or put us to bed. Father’s Day is the day when we say an extra thank you and give extra hugs and kisses to our fathers for all that they do. The children wanted to make their fathers a special present. Using fabric markers they drew pictures on to tube socks for their fathers. The children chose which color paper tie they wanted to decorate for their fathers. Using buttons and different color fabrics the children glued them onto their ties, their fathers are sure to make a fashion statement when wearing them.

We played outside with our friends. We took turn sliding down the slide. We colored pictures with different colored chalk.

We filled our sand table with rice and transformed it into a rice table. The […]

The children measured out ingredients and took turns pouring it into the mixing bowl to make a delicious cake for their end of the year party.

Shavuot is our upcoming chag where HaShem gave the Jewish people a special present- the Torah which is a book of mitzvot/rules. The Jewish people said “Naaseh V’nishma”, we will listen and we will do. Hashem chose a simple plain mountain named Har Sinai on which to give the Torah. After the Torah was given on this humble mountain, Hashem made it possible for the mountain to grow beautiful grass and flowers as an honor. The children started their experience with climbing a mountain outside. They chose to take flowers from the ground and put them on the mountain to make it beautiful just like Har Sinai. Some children drew mountains with chalk.

The children created their own Har Sinai masterpiece. They glued a shiny silver Torah on top of a mountain. They used green string for the grass and flattened mini cupcake holders with glued gems inside for the flowers. They wanted their mountains to look beautiful for the Torah and they sure do! They took turns hugging our stuffed Torah as we sang Torah Tzivah Lanu Moshe.

The children each made a spring flower sensory water bottle. First, we poured water and glue into the bottle. Next, they pushed flower petals into the bottle. finally, they helped to fill it up with green glitter to look like grass. They were fascinated to turn it upside down and watch as the glitter and rose peddles floated.

The Torah factory came to IBECC. We joined the threes and Pre-K classes to learn all about how the Torah is made. We learned that […]