Sukkot

We have been so busy these two days preparing for Sukkot and Simchat Torah!  Your children have been hard at work making sukkah decorations, and a flag and stuffed torah to dance with in shul (we even practiced in class!)  We even got to smell and touch a real etrog, and shake a real lulav!

making welcome sign for the sukkah

building a sukkah from magnatiles

circle time in the shul sukkah with Morah Abby's class

learning about the parts of a lulav

smelling an etrog

smelling an etrog

feeling how bumpy the etrog is

learning about schach

making our flags

finishing our mobiles for the sukkah

stuffing our torahs

stuffing or torahs

stuffing the torahs

putting schach on the sukkah

putting schach on the sukkah

feeling the etrog

smelling the etrog

shaking the lulav

shaking the lulav

dancing with our flags

dancing with our torahs!

Chag Sameach!

Yom Kippur and Sukkot

We have been so busy learning about Yom Kippur and Sukkot this week!  We discussed the story of Yonah and the big fish, about doing teshuva and saying we're sorry.  We made stuffed chickens and friendship bracelets.  We then started talking about building a sukkah (without a roof so we can see the stars) and shaking the lulav and etrog.
When we weren't learning about the holidays, we were practicing fine motor skills by cutting and stringing beads, playing outside and playing drums with Morah Danit.

practice beading

making friendship bracelets

making friendship bracelets

coloring chickens

putting feathers on our chickens

practicing cutting

fun on the playground

painting a big fish!

painting a big fish

making friendship bracelets

matching sukkot items

building a sukkah out of magnatiles

stuffing our "chickens"

stringing beads

fun on the playground

drumming with Morah Danit

drumming with Morah Danit

playing catch with our friends!

gluing feathers on our chickens

gluing feathers

decorating an etrog

decorating a torah

painting a lulav

making a sukkah

gluing schach on a sukkah

making a sukkah

Hope you all have an easy fast!

Shana Tova!

We've had so much fun preparing for Rosh Hashana!  We stuffed shofars, painted fish for tashlich, made honey cupcakes, and made ram hats!

"fishing"

painting fish

fun outdoors

fun on the slide

fun outdoors

making ram hats

decorating shofars for hats

fish puzzle

coloring apples and honey

baking cupcakes

stuffing shofars

blowing the shofar

We had a lot of indoor time today because of the rain, which gave us a chance to dance with beanbags, paint, and build with our friends!

bean bag fun

having fun with bean bags

painting

building with magnatiles

fun with peg boards

And we celebrated Yosef Sion's birthday!

yummy cake!

Shana Tova!