Weekly Newsletter
4 Year Olds

Dear Parents,

This week was a short week but what fun we had! We began learning about the holiday of Yom Kippur. This holiday is a time to apologize to our friends if we have hurt them. We also ask G-D to forgive us for anything we may have done wrong. This led to a conversation about being nice to our friends, sharing together and being part of a team. We made a big friendship rainbow to hang in our classroom. We painted all of our friends’ hands different colors. The friendship necklaces were really exciting to make, each of use put five beads on a necklace and then passed it to a friend. When we were done, our necklaces were made by all of our friends!!

During circle time we had a puppet show acting out different scenarios of sharing and being nice to our friends, and using our words.  We read the book “Sharing a Sunshine Umbrella”  By: Yaffa Ganz. Playing the friends matching game with all of our friend’s smiley faces was so great. Can’t wait to make heart cookies with all of our friends on Monday!!

In our letter program we are beginning to learn about letters and sounds. We listened to the different sounds of a dog , cat, closing door and a zipper sound. We are becoming familiar with the wood pieces (big curve, little curve, big line, little line) from our handwriting program.

Each student has a red folder in their back pack.This will be used as a home-school communication tool. The left side is for paper work for home and the right side can be used if you need to send anything to school such as mitzvah notes.

We are off to a great start! Shabbat Shalom and wishing all a happy and healthy New Year.

Morahs Mushky and Lynn