"Look, its like a drain!" -Sasha

Mr. President

Sukkot preps

Shake it! Shake it! Shake it!
Willow branch paintings
Dip it in...
Deep concentration required!
Which color will it be?

Skills we've been working on in the 2's classroom...

Sorting...
Pouring using spatial awareness...
Cleaning up the toys and putting them back where they belong...
Sharing...
Enhancing our artistic skills by using many different art mediums...

Our Autumn nature walk

Veins on a leaf...

Autumn in the writing center

More pomegranate excitement...

Pomegranate painting

Literally...

Working those fine motor skills to get the seeds out, examine them, and count them.

One in the bowl, one in the mouth, one in the bowl, one in the mouth- patterning...

Overheard in our classroom...

"Hashem (G-d) wears special glasses so He can see everything!" -Elan

"Mmmmm... tastes yummy like grilled chicken!" -DJ

"It's good for you (the pomegranate). It makes you go kacky!" -Aviv

"Where did you get this pomegranate- Norway or something?" -Sasha

"Are you sure it's from Israel? When I went I didn't see any pomegranate trees there- just stones." -Doran

During circle time on Tuesday, Morah Chevee took out a circular object wrapped in aluminum foil. We passed it around to smell it, touch it, listen to it, and ultimately guess what it was hiding inside. 

Morah Chevee: "What do you think it might be?"

Doran: "A cookie thingy."

DJ: "A baseball."

Aviv: "A round challah."

Elan: "A tennis ball."

Menachem: "Can't be a tennis ball 'cuz it has a crunchy thing on top"

Sasha: "Mmmm, smells like a treat!"

Jonah: "A baby giraffe."

IT'S A POMEGRANATE!!!

The artistry continues

Viewing the world through a blue lens

Wow, it's almost my height!

"I gonna fix it" -Luca

"Choo! Choo!"- Jacob, Luca, and Sammy

The Terrific Twos

Little artist

Little artist #2

Little artist #3

The little engineer putting one track in front of the other all the way...

to here!

THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT...

The children listening to the story of how the world was created... "Once upon a time there was just Hashem in the world. He felt kind of lonely because it was just Him and nothing else. He decided to create many things. The first thing he created was dark and light. But He was still lonely. Next He created the heaven and sea but He was still lonely. Then He created the flowers and trees, sun, moon, stars, animals, and even people but He still felt a little uncomfortable in this big, beautiful world that He created. Do you know what makes Him sooo happy? Yep, you guessed it- mitzvahs make Him feel so happy in this world- when we use all the special things in this big, big world the mitzvah way.

"There's a bumble bee. No, a deer. Actually it's a spider." -Aviv

"What? How can there be flowers in the water?"-Elan

"Wow! So many flowers, SO pretty!"- Jonah

The world complete

"We can't see Hashem in these pictures because you can't take pictures of Him." -Menachem

"Hashem is invisible! Like in Hebrew School they have little bottles of invisible ink." -Shneur

END OF A GREAT WEEK!

Doran and Menachem working on their "Time machine"

Adding people to the time machine...

"Look, it's like my hair!" -Aviv

Stiiiiiiiiiiiiiicky!

Setting the table for shabbat

BEFORE

AFTER

Jonah tracing the letters of his name on the light box.

Shneur building "The Leaning Tower" with a gate around it in case it falls.

Clean up, clean up, everybody, everywhere. Clean up, clean up, everybody do your share. 

Little torah, little torah let me hold you tight at circle time!

When introducing the sound of the shofar, we played a game called "Guess the sound". We listened to the different sounds that came out of the computer and tried to identify them. We heard lots of different animal sounds and of course, our very favorite construction sounds!