This Week In Preschool

We are nearing the end of our first Camp Gan Shalom Trip! This summer our theme is “Camp Out!” and we have had a blast learning about birds, trees, stars, tents, and more! We have been swimming in the wading pools, playing in the sprinklers, when it is too hot playing in the gym, andContinue reading

A Bounty of Babies!

It has been a fruitful month here for the Beth Shalom Family!Mazel Tov to all and we’re excited to have you join our family! We hope you join us in celebrating your baby during the Bounty of Babies ceremony during Shavuot. . Jennifer Ferris-Glick and Chad Glick welcomed a beautiful baby boy Big sister Matana andContinue reading “A Bounty of Babies!”

Learning about Havdalah with Rabbi Werbow

This week Rabbi Werbow visited the three-year-old classes to teach them about Havdalah. As we learned, Havdalah marks the end of Shabbat and happens when three stars can be seen in the sky. We learned about the special braided candle, the cup of wine, and the spices. These represent an aspect of Shabbat and ourContinue reading “Learning about Havdalah with Rabbi Werbow”

A Visit to the Faye Rubenstein Sanctuary

During mitzvot week here at Beth Shalom the three-year-old classes visited the Faye Rubenstein sanctuary with Rabbi Werbow. Rabbi Werbow opened the ark and showed the class the Torah and talked about the inner light. Then he sat with the class and discussed where in the Torah it talks about mitzvot. What a wonderful experience!Continue reading “A Visit to the Faye Rubenstein Sanctuary”

What a great week here at the preschool! We continued to learn about pumpkins. Seeing in the inside of the pumpkin was especially neat! After we opened up the pumpkins we planted the seeds, made pumpkin muffins with the pumpkin, and all kinds of art with the pumpkins. The toddler teachers created a pumpkin patchContinue reading “This Week In Preschool”

Our Preschool Sukkah

We hope you have stopped by the preschool lobby to see the amazing Sukkah built by the Pre-K classes and decorated by the rest of the school! It is an amazing community project and we are thrilled to have this Sukkah in our lobby! Our classes are spending time in it and we are thankfulContinue reading “Our Preschool Sukkah”

This Week In Preschool

Shana Tova from the Early Childhood Department! We have had a wonderful week learning about Rosh Hashanah! We learned about the shofar, baked with apples and honey, and had so much fun with the color red! We looked at apples and honey on the light table, we painted with apples, and the infants played withContinue reading “This Week In Preschool”

Art in the Sweet New Year!

We have been very creative here at Beth Shalom Preschool this year. We are enjoying experimenting and creating in our new Valinsky Art Studio. We are following the educational theory of Reggio Emilia. As a refresher, here is a definition of this educational practice. The Reggio Emilia Approach is an educational philosophy focused on preschool and primary education. ItContinue reading “Art in the Sweet New Year!”

Our First Week of School and Upcoming

We had an exciting first week of school! Our theme was getting to know you and friendship. We had a wonderful time getting to know our friends and our teachers. We sang and danced with Morah Marina, we learned “welcome words” in Hebrew with Morah Tamar, and we loved being creative in the new artContinue reading “Our First Week of School and Upcoming”

This Week In Preschool

This week was Bear Week at Camp Gan Shalom. We crawled, growled, built caves, and made bear puppets. We went on a bear hunt through the shul and learned how to bear crawl. We read a variety of books to help learn about bears including the Berenstein Bears, Brown Bear, Brown Bear, and many others! We madeContinue reading “This Week In Preschool”