Wednesday FouR Winds

Morning meeting....
Stop counting, we count every day the number of days we have been in school and we stop counting sometimes, pause and see if we can continue counting wher we left off.

Reading the chart just gets better and better every day! They recognize more and more words, and are developing great reading skills and using their clues to help them read. Hard to believe they couldn’t read many words or any at all
We also had the activity this morning to count the number of windows there are in the classroom.

We talked a little about Hanukkah. Do you knows what Hanukkah means.
Zoe- spin a dealer.
Luca- give things to other people.
Jack - give presents.
Light candles.

We read Happy Hanukkah Curious George by
We learned that it lasts for 8 days. There’s food, chocolate. There are good deeds that happen too or mitzfas! Which brings us to our kind deeds that we have been workin gone too. Another good deed is our boxes of cheer! Boxes of cheer are focused on providing boxes with kid created cards, ornaments, treats. These boxes go to some local folks who may not have family with them this time of year.

Math...,
We did some shape recognition. Sorting by colors, by sizes, by sides, etc.
Jack “This is fun!”
Zoe “This is easy.”

Four Winds.....
Today we learned about rocks and minerals. Stacey and Rachel came in to talk about how rocks are made. We pretended to be molecules which over time get together with more molecules and create bigger and bigger rocks. We got into small groups and described our rocks not using our eyes, but describing with touch. Then we looked at the rocks we described and found more characteristics about our rocks by seeing! We also made our own rock fossils, which we will bring home. Thank you Rachel and Stacey for taking time to teach us about rocks and minerals.