Shomrai Nursery Parshas Ha azinu Candlelighting: 6:12PM Havdalah: 7:09 PM October 14, 2016 13 Tishrei 5777 Weekly Glimpse Let s Build a Sukkah In Kitat Rimon this week we explored building a sukkah. The children researched different sukkot made from all kinds of materials, and even found some built with big Lego pieces. After looking at all different sukkot the children decided to make some sketches of sukkot. Later, the children were given many different types of materials that the children could use to try and make their own sukkot. Some children decided to build a big sukkah out of big cardboard to keep in the dramatic play area. They first took two big boxes and cut them open. Then they used tape to connect them. They gathered sticks and leaves from the playground to use as schach, and made decorations for the inside and outside of the sukkah. Meanwhile, another group of children chose to make their own mini sukkot using all sorts of small cardboard pieces that the morot had given them. The children used tape to assemble their little sukkot, with some even using tape as schach for the roof. A third group tried to build a sukkah with PVC piping. They tried and tried and tried, but it didn t work, and thought that there must be some pieces missing. They decided instead to help the group building the big sukkah, and assisted in hanging up the decorations. Chag Sameach! Morah Naomi and Morah Yvette Daily thoughts, expressions, interests, communications, explorations, collaborations, adventures, research and discoveries, as experienced by students at Shomrai Nursery 2016 YISE SHOMRAI NURSERY
More Sukkot Building At Shomrai Nursery
Kitat Tamar and the Sukkah Decorations In preparation for Sukkot Kitat Tamar worked to create several beautiful Sukkah decorations. On Monday, the children worked to make paper chains. They were tasked with cutting strips of colored construction paper. Then they worked to form rings. After they finished with the first ring we challenged them to connect the second ring to their first one. At first this was tricky and some of the children had difficulty and could not figure out how to connect the second ring. The morah guided the children with how to loop the second strip into the first ring and then to glue it together. "I see now how to do it," Serena remarked. "I know how to do this because I made them yesterday," Shoshana commented. "I can do it by myself," Ami L. Responded. On Thursday, the children arrived and noticed some loose parts on the table and a stack of CDs. "I want to do this now," Naomi said enthusiastically.. "What is this?" Rivka inquired. The children had a choice to weave yarn around the CDs, or glue gems, buttons, sequins, tiles, or other items on the CDs. "I want to just weave my CDs," Rivky declared. "I want to glue and weave," Shoshana announced. "I want to weave part and glue part," Dina decided. The children took their time to work to add embellishments to the CDs. When the children were out on the playground we asked them to collect twigs for the next part of the project. Morah Devorah Sarah worked with the children and to help them wrap yarn around their sticks. Once the CDs dried we hung them on the sticks. They are now ready to hang in your Sukkahs! Happy fifth birthday Gavi Hershenson! Shabbat Shalom & Chag Sukkot Sameach! Morot Lisa, Devorah Sarah
Shake, Shake, Shake the Lulav
Shomrai was Abuzz with Our Flying Friends Shomrai Nursery had a very special visitor on Monday. Ms. Kameha from the Montgomery County Beekeepers Association came back to Shomrai this year with all things bees, including real, live bees!. The children (and the teachers!) were engaged and enthralled with her presentation. The beekeeper came to teach us why we need bees and how honeybees make honey. She showed us a beehive and the frames inside the hive where the bees live. She also had special tools that a beekeeper uses, as well as the clothes that beekeepers wear. Some of the children tried on the special beekeeper hat. Other children were reluctant to do so. Ms. Kameha also taught the children the difference between honey bees, yellow jackets, wasps and hornets. The bees produce wax from two glands near their legs. They ply and form the wax into combs. The queen bee lays her eggs in some of the pods in the combs. In other combs, the bees store the nectar that later becomes honey. Following her presentation, the children could see the equipment and real bees up close. There was a wood frame enclosed in a glass window and the children saw many bees, and some tried to find the queen!
Kitat Simcha Makes a Sukkah A piece of cardboard was brought into the room Thursday morning. One of the morot explained that it could be transformed into a box. Dalia and Kivi watched as the piece of cardboard became a box. "How can we make it into a sukkah?" asked the morah. They seemed unsure, so the morah began cutting off the flaps of the box so that the roof would be open. Dalia remembered that the top of the sukkah is called schach. String was laid out with some clothes pins so that they could attach the schach. Goldie and Kivi carefully placed clothespins along the edge of the sukkah. Kivi and Tehilla also thought that was a great idea, so they added more and more clothespins as well. "What do we do in the sukkah?" asked the morah. "Food," Goldie exclaimed, "chicken." Goldie, Tehilla, and Benjamin began preparing the meal for the "guests" eating in the sukkah. They put in many plates and pots from our play kitchen. They also discovered that they could make the plates and pots into musical instruments by shaking them around in the box. The morah asked if there was anything else we do in the sukkah. Dalia shouted out "Lulav!" She thought for a minute and then clarified that we shake the Lulav. "We're going to eat outside in the sukkah," added Ephraim. Tehilla also said that the roof of her sukkah looked like sticks. Shai, Ephraim, and Shira were looking at a picture of a real sukkah, so that they could try to improve our sukkah in school. Ephraim noticed a man on a ladder, and wondered what he was doing. He hypothesized that he was fixing it. We also have been working on a very special project for Sukkot. It involved a lot of glueing and beading. We hope that you will display your children s beautiful artwork in your very own sukkah for years to come. Wishing all of our Kitat Simcha Families a Good Shabbos and Yom Tov!
Kitat Gefen is Ready for Sukkot The children in Kitat Gefen have been busy preparing for Sukkot. Our preparation included looking at pictures of sukkahs and reading stories about the holiday of Sukkot. During morning meeting the children learned about the dimensions of the sukkah in singing "I have a little sukkah. The morah asked the children on Thursday if they would like to make their own class sukkah. "Yeah yay" said Tamar enthusatistically. I did that yesterday, Yosef told the class. The first step was to paint the sukkah. The children took turns painting the sukkah. Today we added decorations and the schach. "What does it look like?" asked the morah referring to the two etrogim at the table. Tamar explained to the class that it looked like an "apple." When asked if the etrog was bumpy or smooth, Jacob explained it was "bumpy." The children took turns smelling the etrog and felling it. Earlier this week, the children got to hold and practice shaking a lulav and etrog. "Mmm yummy," said Mirele when she smelled the etrog. We are all very excited to take home our much worked on sukkah decorations. We re excited to hear all about your children's Sukkot adventures when we return after the break. Chag Sameach, Morah Belana and Morah Chaya Sara Thank you to our Shabbat Party Sponsors! Josh Rabin and Family Michael Natanov and Family Gavi Hershenson and Family Temima Weiss and Family Kivi Karlin and Family Yosef Manheim and Family
The Little Sukkah That Could Inspired by the building experiences that children are doing at home, we invited our students to build a sukkah in our classroom. We laid out some cardboard, string, clothespins, scarves, sticks, and images and books about sukkahs. "Let's make a sukkah," said Esti S. as she walked into our class. "Let's clip it. I'll go inside to clip it," said Michal. The construction began to fall. "We need to hold it up," suggested Esti S. "I'm clipping it," said Seth as he began to attach clothespins to the top of one of the card boards. "We need to put on decorations, said Esti F. "You hold it while I clip it, Esti S. instructed Miriam Bracha. "We are working on our sukkah!" said Esti F. As the walls seemed to get a bit more balanced, Esti S. said, "There! Now we got it!" "Here we got another piece," said Michal as she brought over a piece of card board. "It's going to look perfect," predicted Seth. All of a sudden the whole structure collapsed! "Aww... It broke! I need to get more clips, said Shalom. The children persevered A few seconds later we heard,"i did it! It stayed! from Esti S. "It's turning into a sukkah!" said Esti F. Natan noticed all the commotion and asked,"what are you doing?" "We are building a sukkah!" exclaimed the group in unison. Miriam Bracha came up with a new solution,"look, I found tape." The sukkah project continued to evolve and currently we have a pretty sukkah for out little toy people to enjoy. Our students also had a chance to make some sukkahs with Lego pieces and we hope your enjoy the sukkah decorations that will come home today! Chag Sameach! Kitat Shalom Morot