4's Class

Posting continued from Last Week - Part 2: Art and Shabbat Party

Last week we got to meet with Morah Yael, our new art teacher. We all recognized Morah Yael as Dalya's Ima who we see every day! 

We had a wonderful time exploring with and learning about different types of materials that we can use to shape with our fingers and hands.  The first and most familiar material is Playdough.  We explored the playdough and noted all of its properties (texture, softness, ease of use, etc.)  

The children saw (and some children held) chunks of dirt from a construction site, (the orange tray). We learned that the dirt in Maryland often contains a lot of real clay.   When the dirt is removed, we are left with clay!

 The children spent a long time exploring the clay. 

The instructions were open - explore and play using our hands as tools.  They came up with their own ideas about how to proceed; They punched, rolled, banged, smoothed, poked. Peretz made one big flat shape and Remy divided his clay into made many small pieces. 

 They made wonderful designs and representations of real things. The class is very fortunate to have more sessions scheduled with Morah Yael!

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We washed the tables and chairs - the room was extra clean. We pretended to pick out our clothing and put on a special outfit for Shabbos. We set the table in a special way. 

Finally... the sun was setting - it was about to be night time. Nechama Leiba was the Shabbos mommy ~ she lit the candles and said the bracha on her own.  We said "Good Shabbos" or "Shabbat Shalom" to each other.  

Remy said the bracha over the grape juice and 

Peretz said HaMotzi and served the children a piece of challah. 

We had a Shabbos treat ~  special cookies made in a bakery. We were celebrating the end of the week with Shabbos coming soon and we were saying good-bye to Morah Anne. We had a lovely time singing and remembering fun and funny things that we said and did in the past.