Gan Students Learn about Pablo Picasso

Gan Aleph has been engrossed in a sophisticated artist study in which we learn about different artists and mimic their art work through our own eyes. Recently, we learned about Pablo Picasso. We learned about his blue periods, rose period and cubist period. We observed some of his art work and saw that he painted a person's profile as well as the front of the person's face in the same picture thus creating a very interesting and abstract looking working of art. The children mimicked his work by having their own profiles traced and used that outline to create self-portraits in the style of Pablo Picasso. Their work of art is being displayed on our classroom bulletin board. It truly brightens up our classroom and is beautiful to look at. Our "mini Picassos" did a fabulous job!

 

משנכנס אדר מרבין בשמחה -  Purim will be here before we know it! 

Ganon Gimmel  spent the past few weeks getting to know the characters in the Purim story. We  met   אחשורוש   , ושתי  המלכה ,  אסתר  המלכה , מרדכי היהודי , בגתן , תרש , המן . We listened to the story through song and puppets, we dressed up as all of the characters and then we reviewed the story and had fun sequencing the story with picture cards. We have been working hard on our very own Megillot which are illustrated and dictated by the children. Singing and dancing in honor of Chodesh Adar helps us feel the Adar spirit. We learned about the four mitzvot we do on Purim and they all start with the letter מ ; מגילה , משתה , מתנות  לאביונים ,  משלוח  מנות  . Our dramatic play center was transformed into שושן , and at any time you can find any of the characters wandering around in costumes!