Eric Carle

Eric Carle has taken over our classroom!!  We've been reading some of our favorite books of his... "Brown Bear, Brown Bear", "The Very Quiet Cricket", "Little Cloud", "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" and "From Head to Toe." We talked about Eric Carle not only as an author, but also as an illustrator.  The children learned how he used different color paints, and different utensils to paint, and make beautiful collages.  We even made our own collages!

Matching colored pom poms to animals from "Brown Bear"

"Brown Bear" puzzle

"Brown Bear" puzzle

counting caterpillars on a leaf

matching colors

layering colors like Eric Carle

layering colors like Eric Carle

making a collage of colors

making a collage of colors

making a collage of colors

making fingerprint caterpillars

making fingerprint caterpillars

bleeding tissue paper to blend colors

bleeding tissue paper to blend colors

After reading "Little Cloud," we looked outside to see what the clouds looked like to us. Some of the answers:

"A hat"...Meli

"A dinosaur".... Dovid

"A tree".... Yosef Sion

We spent the week learning how Eric Carle paints colors on top of other colors, and uses different tools to do this.  First, every child was given colored paper to paint on, using toothbrushes, paintbrushes, corks, even lego pieces!

When the paint dried, the children cut up the paper into small pieces.

We then glued the small pieces together to make a colorful collage, that was sent home today!

When we weren't learning about Eric Carle, we were learning about the letter aleph... airplane....

making an aleph out of pipe cleaners

making an aleph out of pipe cleaners

making aleph puppets

making aleph puppets

doing puppet shows....

building with blocks....

having fun with Morah Lili...

doing yoga with Morah Bayla,

and playing on the playground!

We ended our week with a shabbat party.. thank you to our Shabbat Ema, Naomi, for the special treats!