Red, White, and Blue Snack!

Red, White and Blue Fruit kebabs were the perfect, refreshing snack to celebrate red, white, and blue day! The children used fine motor skills as they threaded the wooden kebab through the center of the fruit. Some children created patterns, while others selected their favorites among the blueberries, strawberries, and bananas. What a yummy treat to fill our tummies, celebrate the Fourth of July, and strengthen our fine motor skills! 

The Snowy Day

Despite the late start and a smaller number of friends in school today, there was no shortage of activities going on in the Keshet class today.  Ethan and Harrison brought in their new SteveSongs CD which provided our beautiful background music.

 The children built towers with the magnetiles...

...Made necklaces with the cheerios,

 

...and even helped prepare our snack by peeling clementines with a special visitor.

We ended the day by going down to the community room and playing with the Levana class.  Not bad for a short day!   We look forward to seeing everyone on Thursday.

The joy of juicing

In the Etzim class, we have begun to chart the colors of our snack to see how many different healthy types of fruits and vegetables we eat. We wanted to explore a new way to take in those healthy snacks.

Today in the Etzim class, we had a special gadget join is in circle time, Julia's juicer! Many children at first were a bit nervous at the sight of such a large machine. With hands covering their ears, many friends were worried it would be too loud.

When I turned on the machine and only a soft buzzing came on, my friends relaxed and got into the fun!

First we juiced carrots. Everyone Oowed and aahed at the bright and sweet orange drink!
For the second drink we juiced clementines. Also sweet, this frothy juice was an instant favorite!

Juicing was SUCH a big hit, we are going to do it again tomorrow! Some requests were celery, cucumbers, starwberrys and chocolate chips! Cannot wait to see what Etzim picks to juice tomorrow!