Kindergarten 2 Roundup: 2015

K2 Design Expo

We read a story called 'Dovid the Little Shepherd' by Dina Rosenfeld which is about King David when he was young and he looked after sheep.

He built small enclosures or corals to divide the age groups and only let out

one group at a time so that each would be able to eat in peace without the others bothering or intimidating them.

K2 divided up into groups of 3 and created their own model enclosures and presented their designs to the rest of the class. Below are two of the models.

Concluding the Alef - Beis

READING REVIEW GAMES

We rotated through many reading game centers towards the end of the year which focused on . combining many letter and vowel combinations. Some of the games were played in partners, others in small groups. Some were focused on only one vowel and others tried to combine as many as vowels possible. Some of the games focused on blending single letters with a vowel and others featured short words.

SHIN

We created the letters shin and sin using dominoes and moved a fluffy ball from the left side to the right side to indicate whether it was shin or sin.

We also had a stamp placed on the hand we use for Shema, to help us remember which side indicates each letter.

Many games were played on the carpet to help us practise differentiating the letters.

Taf - the last letter .

We used a variety of scrap materials including foam, cardstock, construction paper, buttons, string and corrugated bulletin borders to create our own letter taf and saf, freestyle. We had an example of the letter on the board but each student cut up their own materials to design and create their own letters.

Jewish Children's Museum

Kindergarten visits the JCM!!

There were so many awesome exhibits at the Jewish Children's museum. Below are only some highlights. We loved seeing the parts we learned about in school.

We started by making a torah craft using crazy foam mosaic tiles. We then went into a brachot game show. We explored Noahs Ark, the 6 days of creation (ending with shabbat), found kosher signs all over the products in an interactive supermarket, cooked in a kosher kitchen and explored the festivals of Purim, Shavuot, Lag B Omer and many more. See captions below for details What an awesome trip!!