Dear Green Room Families,

It was “All About Me” in the Green Room! Our friends practiced writing their own names, painted self portraits, worked with loose parts to make framework patterns and explored different shapes by tracing them on the carpet with blocks. 

We also enjoyed our new “Safe Center” addition in the classroom. This is a space to go to when we are feeling sad, overwhelmed, or just in need of some space. It helps remind us that we are safe, loved and capable. In addition, our sensory table was filled with sand which had hidden pictures of emojis where our friends were able to learn and identify a variety of emotions. During circle time, we can choose to sit on pads which help us work together to create a calm atmosphere for davening and story time. 

We can’t wait to continue seeing the amazing learning that’s been happening.

Masha has been interviewing teachers over the past week to make sure we find the best possible teacher for your precious children.  We hope that by Wednesday, we will have official news and can introduce our new teacher to you all.  Thank you so much for your patience and understanding during this past week!

See you Monday!

Morah Sarah and Morah Brielle

Dear Green Room Families,

In the short time that I got to know your little ones they have blessed my heart more than I can express. Thank you all for bringing me in with open arms and treating me like family. Unfortunately, I have to relocate to Tennessee in lieu of a family emergency. Although I am departing I want you to know that the Green room will remain as is to enhance the learning and exploration for your children. I pray you and the children have a wonderful year in the Green room and that they blossom beyond my expectations. Thank you for understanding,

Sincerely, Morah Andrea

Happy Last Friday of the school year! 

This year has flown by! I love seeing how far the children have grown in height, academically and growth within the classroom in the short time I’ve been here. These children are a very close set of friends and act like a family! What a fabulous community! 

This week as you may have seen, we worked on many art activities. We studied 3 artists over the past few weeks and the children are loving the different media we have been doing. Today we talked about Claude Monet and how he used small strokes to paint his pictures. We are adding our own 3-d part to it and the kids will be able to take them home on Monday. They are so cute! 

The last week is upon us and we will be finishing up the year. We will be practicing for our last day graduation ceremony all week as well as doing our last project of the year. 

It has been our pleasure to work with all your children and getting to know each one of you. 

Thank you for everything you do for us and your children.
Morah Amanda and Morah Devora 

Happy Friday! 

Thank you Moms for all that you do! Your children worked so hard this week on many many projects! We measured and stirred a lot this week as we prepared your sugar scrub! It was cute to see the children smell the three different essential oils and to see which one your child picked out. Most went with the Lemon scrub and a couple picked the Lavender. We hope you enjoy it. We loved today and watching you all decorate your aprons and make your challah! It was wonderful to see the teamwork! Thank you for joining us.

This week we not only did our Mother’s Day project but we also learned about 2 artists! Henri Matisse and Piet Mondrian! Please look at our Henri Matisse Art that is posted in the hallway. Next week we will display our Mondrian pieces! They are so amazing! 

Please remember to bring a water bottle for your child as next week is going to be in the 90’s! We have been so lucky so far with just a few hot days but I think our luck has run out! 😊
Reminder- Please write your child’s name on all their belongings (towels, bags, clothes- swimsuit included) and apply sun screen before the come on Monday for water play.  Thank you in advance! 

Morah Devora and I would like to say Thank you to all the families who gave us the many wonderful gifts, treats and items for the classroom! We truly do love your children and are grateful for each and every one!  

I hope all of you Moms have an amazing Moms day and dads we appreciate you as well! 

Have a great weekend
Morah Amanda and Morah Devora 

Happy Shabbot and Friday! 

I hope everyone had an amazing Passover with your families. Devora and myself  spent some time with our own families and we are glad to be back! 

This week seemed to fly by. The children have noticed that the weather is getting warmer and the need for outside time was great! We have discovered digging, the bugs outside which we did some research on and found instead of them being Box Elder bugs they may in fact be Milkweed bugs and of course we found the water! I’m sure you have noticed how much fun they have had at bath time! 🤣. 

This month is going to be a very busy one as we start the end of the school year! We have so many planned events and lots of projects to complete before the school ends. 

We are going to be learning more about bugs and explore different art media! 

Wishing everyone a Happy Shabbat 
Mora Amanda and Mora Devora

Shabbot Shalom

The children have been so busy this week with Pesach projects! We have been busy sewing, painting, fusing beads together, making our Afikoman bags, as well as taking pictures for the Haggadah!!

The children’s sewing has improved so much! We only had a few pokes with the needles and it was mainly to Mora Devora and myself when they needed help to hold their sewing projects!

The Seder plate was made for future use- we used velcro on each piece so it is removable and can be used for many years. We hope everyone enjoys the keepsakes!

Mora Devora has been telling the Pesach story and the children have been very interested in it! They love the part of- “Let my people go!” And the Pharaoh says- “ No, No, No!”. The ten plagues have intrigued the children and we have had many interesting questions from it.

Please remember that our weather is getting hotter and that the children need their water bottles and to have sunscreen applied before they come to school. We will reapply sunscreen before going outside during the late morning hours.

Wishing everyone a Happy Friday and a safe weekend!
Morah Amanda and Morah Devora

Shalom parents
This week we had a really busy week learning about Pesach (passover).
The kids were busy cleaning our classroom for passover.
We learned about the story of the Jews in Egypt, how Pharoah was a mean king and made the Jewish people work so much, and built so many pyramids, and the green room made some real bricks too with plaster.
We learned about baby Moshe in the basket, and we had our own baby moshe in the basket, that was visiting us for a day, and the kids were really exited to play and take care of the baby.  They took turns giving it a bath in the sensory table and were very gentle when they soaped him down!
We made a cool experiment with the yeast: we made two batches of dough, one with yeast, and another matza dough without it, and the kids got to see how big the dough with the yeast became after one hour.  We learned that matza is the dough without the yeast, because once the dough rises its consider chometz, and we can't have chometz on Pesach. The kids were really exited to make their own real matza (even though our matzas were to hard to eat) and to decorate the matza box.
We also learned about the 10 plagues, and we even had some pretend blood in our class today.
We are concentrating on the 15 steps of the seder. We made some real grape juice, the kids were really exited to try it right away. We also made the cup for Eliyahu (Elijah) hanavi. Some kids are even writing the steps in Hebrew.
We missed Morah Amanda this week, and she will be back next week.
Shabat shalom, Mora Devora