Mama and Baby Animals

Sara signs in on our new sign in sheet. Our names are written in a tracing font so each of us can trace over our name and practice the strokes of the letters of our names. 

 Dalya pushes her chair in after cleaning up her lunch. This is something we have been working on and our friends are being very responsible and remembering to push their chairs in when leaving the table. 

 Jacob enjoys a back massage from the sprinkler.

 Over the past two days we have been exploring animals and their footprints. Today, after swimming, we dipped our feet into white paint and walked down a long strip of paper. We noticed how each one of us has a different footprint as well. Peretz's foot print was big, Dalya's was small, and Sara's was thin. 

 We take a look at the lines on our hands and see that each one of us has a different handprint as well. 

 We read a book about baby animals.  With many animals that we are already familiar with, we now learned what they are called as babies. There were many interesting facts that this book shared. Here are some you may enjoy as well.

Puppies are born blind and deaf. Adult Rhinos weigh 2,000 lbs. The children pointed out that they would not be able to carry a rhino!! Garter snakes have 20 or more babies at a time. Chicks are born without teeth. 

 Chayala uses a tweezer (which builds fine motor skills) to transfer the cow's "spots" onto the cow. 

 After Nechama Liba put the spots on the cow, she counted them. She found the #6 card to represent the six spots on the cow. 

 Peretz matches each kind of mama animals with their babies.

 Jacob 's unequivocal favorite center in the classroom is the block area where he loves to build zoos and farms with animals. Since we have been exploring animals, some of the other friends have taken an interest in this as well. Above Jacob, Dalya, and Tzemach work together to create a "zoo". 

More friends join in building the zoo!

 Tzemach holds up a small cow and tells his friends, "This is a calf."

Chayala pretends to be on the phone with her mommy. She prefered not to share what they were talking about. :)