One of this week’s activities was to explore slip. Slip is a sticking agent, made from water and clay, to help “glue” two pieces of clay together. Some of the children used it to create animals, while others explored it’s properties.
We also worked on December self-portraits. We just have one or two more to finish and they’ll be up next week!
We began working on patterns.
The children are beginning to master our 12 - 16 piece table puzzles, so we have brought out our floor puzzles, some of which have 36 pieces.
We noticed a few of the children measuring things around the classroom, using cardboard tubes. Seeing this, we wanted to foster this interest with a group activity. Next week we will have measuring tapes available for the children to further explore. We’ll see where their interest leads.
There was some great block play this week. A doghouse was built and both groups of children did a wonderful job of working together, problem solving, and including all their friends in the play.
Since we have been using boxes so much this year, we decided that instead of buying one for school, we would make one out of all our boxes. The first step was to paint everything green.
On Friday we celebrate Hanukkah with Noam and her family. We read a book, ate latkes, got dreidels and gelt, and lit the hanukkiah (not menorah). Thank you Noam, Ella, and Ofer!
We ended our Friday by celebrating Noam’s 3rd birthday! We sang Happy Birthday and ate sufganiyot. Happy Birthday Noam!
