Paper and Paint-less Mondrian

New Age-Mondrian

Last week we learned about a new artist, Piet Mondrian. 

After using the traditional art supplies to make their Mondrian inspired art work, 

we used iPads to create a digital Mondrian inspired picture!

                                                     Here are some of the final products!

Publishing Party!

    Congratulations Gan Bet! 

Over the last month we have been learning how to write a "How To" book, teaching someone how to do something.

Each child chose something that they wanted to teach their peers, and they made it into a book. 

After writing their words, and illustrating their work, we took pictures of each illustration on the iPad, and they read/recorded their words making their own audio book! 

This afternoon, we celebrated the fact that everyone had written a book, and we congratulated our friends on their amazing work! 

To celebrate, we paired up and enjoyed listening to and learning from our friends books on the iPads! 

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Working Up to New Levels in Gan Gimmel

[Teacher's note: May is blogging month. In honor of this, we are teaching the children about writing a blog post. This post was worked on collaboratively by Jason Gamss, J.Z. Mershon, Tamir Citron, Meira Kiss and Sarah Wasserman . The children decided what they would like to write about and then typed it up on an IPad. They selected the photos they wanted to use. They even came up with a very creative title. We hope you enjoy their first blog post.] 

Every Thursday we go to the computer room to play. We have fun. We play games. We play Lexia. Lexia helps you how to read. It has games that help you learn reading. There are many levels to pass. You have to wear headphones so you could hear the game. You need to log in by typing your name and password. We love Lexia!!! 

Shulchan Shabbat - What Makes Shabbat Special to YOU?

At this week's Shulchan Shabbat, we first spoke about the different words relating to Shabbat that we know in ivrit! Then, the yeladim illustrated pictures using oil pastels to create images of their favorite parts of Shabbat. All of the responses were wonderfully creative and completed independently. Below you can view some of the wonderful illustrations and creations that stemmed from our sentence starter, "My favorite thing about Shabbat is..."

The yeladim from each of the Ganon and Gan classes all had the opportunity to use our iPads to take a picture of their own illustration. I simply can not wait for the "voice-over" activity of having the children tell their part of their class story about what makes Shabbat special to them!