Welcome to the Shamayim class!

We had a phenomenal first day!!  

Whenever you join a new group, it takes time to navigate your surroundings, get to know each other and form friendships.  Today, the Shamayim children showed that they are experts at exploration.  The seeds of friendship and negotiation were sprouting, as well!

Sonia, Victoria, Ilan and Bella enjoyed imaginative play in our kitchen.  It is obvious our babies are going to be well cared for this year.

 Josh, Grayden, Bennet and Rosie enjoyed an impromptu story about a colorful car race.  They were respectful when their view was obstructed and all really enjoyed the story.

We made sparkly apples for our families as we begin to talk about Rosh Hashanah.  We all shared the glue, shapes and buttons and waited patiently for Judi to add the awesome blue and red sparkles.

Sonia helped Max and Josh with the trains.  Together they built a large track for everyone to use.

 Grayden and Victoria did some extra exploring.  Grayden found our doctor tools and road the big blue truck around the room as a doctor.  Victoria built fun trees with our legos.  She even found a little hiding place for one of our animals.

We loved spending our first day with the Shamayim children.  We know it is going to be a year filled with learning, growth and smiles!

Nature Exploration

 The Kohavim boys and girls were presented with an option to go exploring on the school grounds. We were specifically looking for sticks of various lengths with which to build our fort. Prior to this exploration we looked at the new space where we were thinking of building our fort. What did we need, what size sticks could we use, how were we going to secure them? After some thought, we decided we needed long sticks for the roof and the entry way or door to come in an out of. Lots of thoughtful planning. Stay tuned as this develops.