Nitzanim

This week is all about transportation. Each day we focused on a different mode of transportation. First it was cars and trucks. We got messy and drove our cars through paint to see their tracks. We also used fine motor skills to make our own tissue paper cars. At the block centre we made a car garage and also used ramps to experiment with the cars. The drama centre was an auto repair shop and we used tools to help us fix broken cars. Next it was all about airplanes! In the sensory bin we had the airplanes flying through flour. We also painted tubes to create our own planes. For dramatic play we took turns going inside of our very own airplane and enjoyed when our friends helped to push us around the room. We read a great book called Angela’s airplane and had fun flying all around our room! Another way to travel in the sky was hot air balloons. We had balloons all over the class. We used them to paint with. Used them in the block area and enjoyed throwing them up in the air and to our friends. We also used bingo Dabbers to make our own hot air balloons. During circle we helped a hot air balloon fly around by passing it to our friends and we also played a freeze dance games and tried to keep them up in the air. We did a really fun science experiment with baking soda and vinegar and loved seeing all the bubbles! Lastly it was all about boats. We made boats using Play-Doh and painted our own sailboats with water colour paints. We also enjoyed the sensory bin that was filled with blue shaving cream and boats! We read a book about transportation and sang row row row your boat with our friends. We even experimented to see if boats sink or float and how we can get them to move (with our hands and by blowing with our mouths).

 Perachim 

This week we have been very busy learning about different sports. We focused on soccer and made a paper mache soccer ball of our own for creative arts. We also practiced our gross motor skills by playing soccer in our class. In the Block Center we built our own arena and had little people playing soccer with little balls. Then we focused on hockey. To work on fine motor skills we cut our own pucks and made our very own hockey sticks! We also talked about the difference between hard and soft balls, and reviewed different kinds of sports that use them. We focused on the shape of a football and made our own handprint touchdown signs for creative arts. We also focused on the sport of fishing and made our own little lakes filled with fish so that we could practice! We also had a very meaningful visit to the old age home to have a combined music class together.