Happy Birthday Nechama!

This week in the Green Room we baked a delicious cake for Nechama's birthday celebration.  Everyone loved mixing all the ingredients together and then seeing what the cake looked like after it came out of the oven.  We enjoyed it together while celebrating Nechama.  She shared pictures of herself as a baby and everyone said "awww" to her baby photos.  We also danced with purple glow sticks and sang Happy Birthday in English and Hebrew.  Our friends are become very bilingual!  In our Hello song that we sing every morning we have learned to say Bonjour which is French, Ciao which is Italian, and Ni Hao which is Chinese!


Our friends stir the batter for the cake.

Vella adds the oil and stirs it up!

Ben and Shimmy find amazing treasures in the archaeological dig site outside.  They found a piece of clay and also an unfamiliar leaf.


Our friends eat cake and celebrate Nechama's birthday.

We have begun working on Aleph-Beis on a daily basis.  Everyone has enjoyed matching the Hebrew letters on popsicle sticks to Hebrew letters on boxes.  They then stick the popsicle stick into the corresponding hole on the box.  This develops fine-motor skills and Hebrew literacy.  In addition, we printed their names in Hebrew and glued the first couple letters to one box and the last letter or two to the second box.  They then practice finding the beginning of their name and end of their name and matching the boxes together.  We use the boxes as stools and drums during davening and circle time.

Shimmy and Ben play their drums.

Vella finds her Hebrew name "Batya" and matches the boxes to make her full name.

Thank you to Morah Ora for bringing her slide and ball pit.  We were able to enjoy this outside and took turns sliding into the balls.  It was so much fun!
  

We had very interesting conversations this week.  Nosson said, "I have a color in my sandwich, can you guess what it is?  I'll give you a hint.  Ye-llow."  Ben said, "Hey, I know, it's lellow!" Then Nosson said, "See, my hint helped!"  Our friends are so silly and creative!

Shabbat Shalom,
Morah D and Morah Shoshana