Ganon Aleph and Ganon Bet Skype With Residents of Jewish Home at Rockleigh

Jakie Herman's mom, a program director at the Jewish Home at  Rockleigh, arranged for the children of Ganon Aleph and Ganon Bet to Skype with some residents of the home.  Shirley, one of the residents who is a retired librarian, read the children a Dr. Seuss book called  "I Wish I Had Duck Feet", after which we sang some Purim songs together.

We hope to repeat this experience several more time during the school year, perhaps to coincide with holidays.  It was a fun and fulfilling experience, both for the children and for the residents!

Green Eggs!

We had a lot of fun making green eggs today to add to our 

Dr. Seuss celebration this week! 

Like 'Sam-I-am' many children were brave and tried the eggs 

even though they looked very different! 

Thanks to Ezra's mom for coming in to make this special snack with us! 

We had such a good time with Dr. Seuss's rhymes!

Gan Aleph spent a lot of time,
Reading books with silly rhymes.
Cats in Hats and teeth that are loose,
It was not hard to guess that the author was Dr. Seuss!

One Fish, Two Fish, Rabbi Knapp came to read.
Gan Aleph loved his cat friend- that we all agreed!



Mrs. Cohen helped us learn about reading different ways,
With I Can Read with my Eyes Shut, the children were amazed!

Rabbi Penn tied his tongue when he read Fox in Socks,
And he only encountered one or two roadblocks!

The Tooth Book was the way we ended our week,
Dr. Feit helped us learn we need our teeth to help us speak!

All in all when Gan Aleph was done,
Celebrating Dr. Seuss's birhthday was certainly fun!

Celebrating Dr. Seuss

Ganon Bet had a birthday party in honor of Dr. Seuss. While we enjoyed reading all his books, we liked Marvin K. Mooney so much that we re-wrote our own version! We voted on our favorite book so far and we had a tie between The Cat In The Hat Comes Back and The Foot Book. Do you have a favorite? We'd love to hear from you!

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!!

On Wednesday we celebrated Dr. Seuss' 107th birthday in Ganon Aleph. We sang happy birthday to Dr. Seuss and enjoyed a homemade Cat in the Hat birthday cake! All week long we read Dr. Seuss books which the children brought in from home.