We are discussing the holiday of Rosh Hashanah and thus we read the following books:
We read, Apple Days: A Rosh Hashanah Story, by Allison Sarnoff Soffer. This book tied in nicely with our apple sauce cooking day.
We read, Its Shofar Time, by Latifa Berry Knopf. This book explained the holiday in simple terms that the children could relate too.
We read, Is It Rosh Hashanah Yet? by Chris Badash. This simple book explained the holiday in kid friendly terms.
We read, Sammy Spiders First Rosh Hashanah, by Sylvia A. Rouss. This book explains the holiday from a spiders point of view. Although it was very informative, it is also a bit wordy and we ended up doing a picture walk through the end of the book. However the children still got a lot out of the story.
We began learning how to formerly write the alphabet this week. It was explained to the class that by using just four types of sticks, you can create the entire alphabet. There are long straight sticks, short straight sticks, small curved sticks and large curved sticks. We will begin by writing all the straight lined letters. (ex - H, T, E, L etc) Once these are mastered then we will add some curved letters and lastly will be the letters with diagonal lines. Its all about mastering the foundations and building on these skills. The letter H and L was introduced this week. We practiced making this letter using our sticks, tracing the sticks with our fingers (always starting at the top) and then using erasable sentence strips to actually write the letters. (ask your child to draw these letters - the results we saw were fantastic!) Finally we thought of words that begin with these letters. The class did an amazing job with this and we are thrilled with all of their hard work!
