Gan Gimmel Celebrates the 100th Day!

Last week, Gan Gimmel celebrated the 100th day of school!

Click here to watch a video of all the fun things we did to celebrate!

Fun Times in Gan Gimmel!

Gan Gimmel has been very busy the past few weeks.

Click here to watch a video of what we've been up to!

Yummy Mitzvot!

Gan Gimmel worked together in the annual Early Childhood bake sale to benefit Chai Lifeline's iShine Program!

Making chocolate-dipped pretzels

So much fun!

Telling Rabbi Knapp all about our pretzels

Come taste our yummy baked goods!

Enjoying ices as a thank you for all of our hard work!

Toboggan Like a Penguin

Gan Gimmel learned that penguins waddle because they have short legs, but they can slide on their bellies, or toboggan, to get around quickly.

We gave tobogganing a try for ourselves!

It's so much quicker to toboggan than to waddle!

We also discovered that tobogganing on the smooth floor is so much easier than tobogganing on the rough rug!

Little Picassos

Gan Gimmel recently learned about Pablo Picasso as part of our art curriculum. We focused a lot on Picasso’s Cubist Period since he is famous for starting Cubism. When looking at his works, we noticed that Picasso’s paintings seemed to look like many different pieces put into one. The people that he painted looked silly; painted with bright colors, faces split in half, and eyes and mouths facing different directions.

 

Pablo Picasso. Dora Maar au Chat. 1941.

Inspired by Picasso’s Cubist style, we decided to make our own portraits. First we made faces and put lines through the middle to split them in half. Then, using different bright papers with various designs, we created eyes, ears, mouths, hair, and more! Inspired by Picasso’s love of collaging, we collaged the features onto the faces. Come take a look at our Picasso portraits hanging in our classroom!

S-N-O-W!!!!

Gan Gimmel loves the snow!

Chazak Chazak V'Nitchazaik!

On Friday, Gan Gimmel commemorated the reading of the last Parsha in Sefer Bereshit together with the other Gan and Gannon classes. We sang songs and listened to stories to guide us through all of the parshiot. When it came time for Gan Gimmel to teach the other classes about Parshat Chayei Sarah and Parshat Toldot, we acted out the stories using props!

Then, it was time for our kiddush. We drank grape juice, ate potato kugel that we made in our class, ate cupcakes that were part of our forefather's "family tree," and sang "Chazak, chazak, v'nitchazaik!"