My Name Is Not Isabella

Isabella and her mom, Amanda, shared a book with us to celebrate Isabella's fourth birthday.  For days prior to the reading of this book, Isabella excitedly told us "My Name is Not Isabella", sometimes leading to great confusion and hilarity with her friends.  Finally, when Amanda and Bella sat down to read My Name is Not Isabella, by Jennifer Fosberry, it all became clear.  We enjoyed this book almost as we enjoyed Bella's excitement about it!  Thanks Bella and Amanda!

A Birthday Celebration x 2

Keshet had such a wonderful time celebrating with the Fox family today!  Harrison brought in Marcus Pfister's Rainbow Fish book and Ethan chose to share The Cat in the Hat with us.  Mom and Dad read the two stories together.  The kids shared some sweet moments and some silly ones as we listened to the two tales.  Together we sang Happy Birthday in English and then in Hebrew - once to Ethan, and then to Harrison.

Happy 3rd Birthday, Harrison!        Happy 3rd Birthday, Ethan!

At snack time, we were delighted to sample the baking of the Fox family.  There were blueberry muffins AND pumpkin muffins to share.  The muffins were just delicious.  Thank you for sharing your birthdays and your talents with us this morning!

Happy Birthday Joshua!!

Tuesday was Joshua's 4th Birthday!! His mom and grandma came in to sing, celebrate and read to the class. Joshua was so excited to share his books from home with us and we were excited to give our birthday book to Joshua! I have been impressed with how thoughtful the Tel Aviv birthday books have become as the year has gone on. Each child created something that they spent time on and dictated a special message for Joshua. We hope that you enjoy the book and thanks again for sharing your mom and grandma with us! It was such a special day!!

Happy Birthday Charlotte!!

This Monday Charlotte turned FOUR! On Tuesday we had a special treat of listening to her Dad read Fancy Nancy to our class! Everyone loved it! Happy Birthday Charlotte! Thanks for sharing your family and special book with us! We hope you had a fantastic birthday!!

Creating a Birthday Book

The Tel Aviv class has a ritual for celebrating birthdays where every child draws a picture and writes a message for the birthday child and then we compile the messages into a Birthday Book! It’s a nice way to have a personal message from each child yet have one present from the whole class. Today we worked on creating Zach’s birthday book. Kids created drawings of their “Mama’s and Papa’s (Adam)” to “Roller Coasters (Joshua).” Noah used the opportunity to practice drawing all the shapes he knew and was so proud that he could give these shape’s to Zach as a birthday present, “Look I made a triangle for you!” I love watching children draw and hearing their explanations and thought process as they create art. We have some fantastic artists in the class and I am excited to watch them develop throughout the year!