Noah and the Ark and Thanksgiving Weeks Ending November 13th

Noah and the Ark and Thanksgiving
Weeks Ending November 13th & November 20th
Short, short summary: This week the children have enjoyed continuing our investigation of animals with our exploration of Noah’s
Ark. We counted all the animals ‘two by two' as Noah did when he brought them into the Ark. We created a colorful rainbow using lots
of loose parts in all the many colors, similar to the rainbow Hashem showed Noah after the flood. In preparation for Thanksgiving we
have been working in our organic garden, planting vegetables and herbs, with the guidance of Bubby Lilah, our gardening expert. We
have also been learning all about Thanksgiving and preparing for thanksgiving lunch with our families. We have added real forks, glass
cups and beautiful fabric tablecloths to our in school dining experience. The children are doing so well transitioning from baby cups to
real cups. They are learning how to hold their cups with two hands, slowly sipping and gently placing it back on the table. It’s no easy
task, but we are all persevering.
Please read below for a more in depth look at our explorations and don’t forget to check out our FB group to see all of our pictures.
Mazel tov to Lauren and Brett on the birth of their daughter and Mazel tov to Zachary on becoming a big brother to sister Eilin!
We welcomed another new friend this week; Riley Rogge. He is settling in so well and we are excited to have him join our class!
Provocation Table 1 “Noah and the Ark”
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Pairs of animals - male and female
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Wooden Noah’s Ark with compartments for the animals and animal shape sorting
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Books about Noah’s Ark
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Books about colors
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A rainbow made with magna-tiles.
*Literacy, Fine Motor, Color Recognition, Math
Provocation Table 2 “Thanksgiving”
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Pictures of turkeys
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Ornamental pilgrims and Indians
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A horn of plenty
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Pumpkins
*Gross Motor, Sensory, Math, Color Recognition, Literacy
Invitations to Play, Create and Re- Create
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Cardboard rainbow, single color loose parts and glue - color matching
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Playdough, craft sticks and toy animals to create habitat for animals
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Bags, glue, loose parts, glitter - challah bags
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Nature walk to find unique parts for our thanksgiving centerpieces
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Ark shaped cardboard cutout, glue and various sizes of sticks and twigs and animal skins to create an Ark
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Pictures of turkeys, feathers, brown cardboard circle and contact paper – our version of a turkey
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Clay, wire pieces, feathers, googly eyes, pipe cleaners and pictures of turkeys – making a turkey
*Sensory, Art, Fine & Gross Motor, Social and Emotional
Atelier ~ Art Room
Our “invitations to create” were:
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Planting with Bubby Lilah
We dug the earth, planted seeds and watered them
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Painting Sticks, Stones and Pine Kernels
We offered the children sticks, stones, pine kernels and paint and encouraged exploration
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Dying Corn Kernels
The children helped put food coloring and corn kernels in a ziplock bag, we shook the bags and revealed beautiful new colors
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Cumulative Burlap
Various vegetable stampings, green, brown and red
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Corn Kernel Mosaics
We stuck the colored corn kernels we made onto the rim of glass plates
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Playdough Corn Exploration
Corn cobbs, corn kernels, playdough
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Making Challah
Shaping the dough
*Sensory, Science, Cooking, Art, Social and Emotional, Fine & Gross Motor
Assembly
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Discussing new babies and being a big brother
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Introducing Thanksgiving with books on thanksgiving
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Books Noah and The Ark and colors of the rainbow
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We discussed how we will set the table and make it beautiful
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Introduced the table cloth and place settings
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Shapes and colors and animal counting
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Music and movement enrichment class with Miss Sue
* Cognitive, Social and Emotional, Color Recognition, Music & Movement, Literacy and Math
see below for the awesome books we read this week