Happy Birthday Joshua!

Kindergarten celebrated Joshua's 6th Birthday! We baked a cake, gave birthday wishes, gave tzedakah, danced to Joshua's favorite tune and ate yummy cake! Thank you to Josh's Mommy and Grandma for coming and celebrating with us. Thank you also for the class gifts...Jet Boat Harbor, A Short Vowels Game and a book, Alef Beis Adventures with Ziggawat.

More Guest Readers in Kindergarten!

               

Eliana's Mommy came to read, Born to Read. After the children made a picture and wrote a sentence.      

                        

Ben's Mommy came and read, Sylvester and the Magic Pebble. 

Reuven's Daddy read, Around the Shabbos Table.

Tammy's Mommy read, The Better Than Best Purim. She also made hamantashen with the children.

Rachel and Rebecca Gurevich's Birthday Party!! :-)

Yay! It was another birthday in K1! Rebecca turned six years old!

Birthday Girls:  :-)

Rachel and Rebecca sharing with the class what they can now do that they are six years old that they were not able to do when they were much younger....

Collecting tzedakah on their birthday:

Birthday Cake- YUM! Birthday Cards- Each kindergarten friend made their very own card birthday card with a birthday wish for each of the birthday girls!

Kindergarten got to do a special dance in honor of the birthday! :)

Morah Dawn's Welcome Back party!

Kindergarten missed Morah Dawn very much when she was out of school after she had her baby! MAZEL TOV MORAH DAWN ON BABY MOSHE!!

The Yiladim celebrated Moshe Dawn's return with a blue cake (for a baby boy), singing "Happy Birthday to Baby Moshe" and gave her balloons. 

MAZAL TOV AGAIN- IT SHOULD BE CONTINUED HAPPY TIMES!!

Tu B'shevat Holiday - The New Years for the Trees

At Mazel Day School we had a very festive celebration for Tu B'shevat (the 15th day of the hebrew month, Shevat) the New Years for the trees. 

        Morah Mushka taught the children different hebrew songs all about Tu B'shevat and the different parts of a tree in hebrew. The Yiladim had a great time singing and playing different games/activities with the picture cards Morah Mushka brought in that were all the different parts of a tree!
Parts of a tree in hebrew:
Roots- Shorashim          
Trunk- Gezah
Branches- Anafim
Leaves- Alim
Fruit- Perot
Flowers- Perachim
Tree- Eitz

The Yiladim built their very own Tu B'shevat tree with their very own handmade fruit "growing" from the tree! 

The yiladim making the fruit for Tu B'Shevat:

         




















The children making their very own Tu B'shevat Tree out of blocks and their "fruit":

Thank you to Morah Yehudis and the Middle School for preparing a wonderful Tu B'shevat festival for us!

The children got to taste almost every one of the seven special foods of Israel (figs, dates, wheat, barley, olives, grapes, and pomegranate). The children were given riddles of each of the foods and when they guessed it correctly they got to taste that food. All of the foods were delicious:)

A Tu B'Shevat tree made out of cupcakes and different types of the seven special foods of Israel:

The children, in their beautifully colored hats of the different special seven foods of Israel, performed one of their Tu B'Shevat songs in hebrew for the whole school.

For Snack on Tu B'Shevat we got to try some exotic and "new" fruits! On "new" fruits, which we have not eaten the entire year, we say a special beracha: "Baruch Ata Ado-nai Elo-hei-nu Melech Haolam Shehecheyanu V'kiyamanu V'higiyanu L'ziman Hazeh." - "..... Who has granted us life, sustained us, and has enabled us to reach this time."

Thank you to the parents who sent in fruits/ exotic fruits for the entire class!:)

It really added to our special Tu B'Shevat celebration!