May 17, 2013

This was a short but busy week.

On Monday the class learned about Shavuot and created special bags for fruit to be used for our Shavuot celebration on Tuesday. We also worked on assembling our "passports" for our International Fair. As most of our country boards are finished, we spent time researching different foods from our countries and created menus to display at the fair. And, we continued to practice solving story problems by using either addition or subtraction.

On Tuesday we had a very exciting morning. We went to a "challah shaping" workshop. Each child got to shape and then bake his/her own challah. Then, later in the morning, we had a Shavuot procession and we sang lots songs. The students were also given a special treat of ice cream for dessert at lunch.

And, finally, today we celebrated our year long theme of "differently-abled" with a special connection to Shavuot. Grades K-2 got to circulate between two special activities: reading and discussing Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes and creating a "People Bouquet" showing the people who were standing at Sinai.

Shabbat Shalom,

Hamorah Caren

Reminder: our field trip to the Museum of Science is this Tuesday. Please sent your child's lunch in a paper bag.