Tu Bishvat

 The Montessori classroom has been learning all about the holiday of Tu Bishvat. In preparation for the "birthday of the trees" we planted tomatoes, painted q-tip trees, decorated tree crowns, and did the parts of a tree and puzzle of a tree lesson.

Painting flowers pots
 

 
 


Planting tomato seeds
 
 

Montessori lesson
 

Tu Bishvat Seder

 

Weekly Parsha: Vaera,

In Parshas Vaera (Torah Portion of Vaera), G-d punished the Egyptians with the 10 Makkos (plagues). We learned about the first Makkah (plague) Dam (blood) and how Aron struck the water with his staff. The student watched the water turn into "blood" and then made their own staffs!

 

Phases of the Moon: A Parsha and Brachos lesson

While studying this week's Parsha we discussed the importance of keeping a calendar. For this lesson we used sequencing cards to understand the phases of the moon. After that we made our own sequence using cookies. The students were so excited to recite the Bracha Mezonos that they just learned on their cookies!

 
 


Morah Chana's birthday party





Baking Aleph Beis cookies

Brachos Unit

The Montessori classroom transitioned from vacation to work mode so nicely! 
We started our Brachos (Blessing) Unit and the Bracha of Hamotzi was introduced.

A new lesson on how to make dough from beginning to end- sequencing.

We started the second semester reviewing all the Montessori lessons, spindle numbers, short beads stairs, teen boards, sounds and practical life.
The students also learned three new sounds this week, E-D-G, and practiced name tracing.

 

 


Making our own stalks of wheat

 

      


Miriam's birthday party