• Calendar/Weather - Introducing Math Concepts; Order and Sequence (days of week, months, year); Season/Weather

• Rug Time - Group Attendance; Listening

• Alphabet - Letter Recognition

• Show & Tell - Build speech/languge skills; Enhance listening; Develop self confidence

• Hebrew/Jewish Studies

• Free Play

• Physical Education - Hand-Eye/Hand-Foot Coordination; Listening; Gross motor development

• Music

• Art Projects - Correlate with units, holidays, etc.

• Computers/Technology

• Library/Story Time/Reading Buddies

• Community Service

• Repetition, counting practice

• Circle Time

• Painting, art experimentation, stickers, utilizing textiles and other items to create art, integrating numerous art media

• Beginning Hebrew vocabulary, weekly Shabbat celebrations, holiday celebrations

• T-Ball/Kick-Ball, scooters, tunnels, other games, bouncing balls, playing on the playground/field, sports in the gym

• Hebrew/Jewish holiday songs, general/popular songs, dancing, playing musical instruments, musical parades throughout school

• Computer software and online programs, including Tux Paint, One More Story, and more

• Reading time with Lower School buddies, bonding with Lower School buddies playing games, putting on and watching plays, movies, and more

• Tzedakah (Children's Memorial Hospital, canned food drive, toiletry drive)

Teachers work to introduce the students to their classrooms, to each other, and to the routine of school. We begin working to develop listening skills, self confidence, problem-solving, sharing, turn-taking, cognition, and other critical skills. We aim to help develop students with a love of learning, a positive Jewish identity, a strong self image, strength of character, responsibility, and appreciation and respect for their community, family, and world.

In addition to above:

• Rosh Hashanah
• Sukkot
• Simchat Torah
  

• Marble/finger painting
• Apples & honey, shofar cards, apple printing
• Fruit kabobs, painted fruit, sukkah visit, sukkah decoration
• caramel apples, decorating flags, holiday parade through school

As above.

In addition to above:

• Fall Tree
  
• Thanksgiving

• Art projects
• Early Childhood Thanksgiving Feast
• Canned food drive
  

As above.

In addition to above:

• Hanukkah

• Cooking/creative foods
• Hanukkah songs
• Holiday arts & crafts
  

As above.

In addition to above:

• Winter
• Tu B'Shevat
  

• Winter activities & art projects
• Science experiments - make snow?
• Planting grass for Tu B'shevat
• Toiletry drive for families in need
  

As above.

In addition to above:

• Purim
• Passover
  

• Hamantashin
• Purim costumes
• Passover Model Seder (present families with a seder plate, matzah cover and seder place mat made in class)
• Toiletry drive for families in need
  

As above.

In addition to above:

• Spring
• Israel's Birthday
• Special Friends' Day
• Mother's Day

• Spring games, lessons & activities
• Israeli flags
• Creative projects to share with grandparents/special friends
• Collect toys, CDs, DVDs, books, games and more for Children's Memorial Hospital
  

As above.

Continue with many of the themes, lessons and projects introduced in nursery, progressing at age/developmentally appropriate levels.

See above.

Teachers continue encouraging the development of listening skills, self confidence, problem-solving, sharing, turn-taking, cognition, and other critical skills. Our students are growing and learning every day and we continue to nurture a love of learning, a strong Jewish and individual identity, strength of character, sense of responsibility, and appreciation and respect for their community, family, and world.

In addition to above:

• Reading Readiness: Letter of the Week
  

• Question of the Day (using the letter of the week)
• Journal entries
• Handwriting Without Tears letter practice
• Alphabet Book
• Art/other creative activities linked to the letter of the week
• Reading books featuring the letter of the week

As above.

In addition to above:

• Math Readiness

• Learn to count to at least 30 (counting activities, games, songs, utilizing workbooks, weather, calendar time, etc.)
  
• Learn number names and values
• Learn number vocabulary (big/little, more/less, whole/half)
• Learn geometric shapes by recognition and name (patterns, etc.)
  

As above.

In addition to above:

• American Holidays: Thanksgiving, Presidents' Day, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Mother's Day, Father's Day, Special Friends' Day

• Become familiar with the stories of the holidays (i.e., learn about Pilgrims & Native Americans)
• Learn themes of the holidays
• Language arts projects associated with the holiday
• Math tied to holidays (i.e., counting pumpkin seeds, stringing beads in a pattern)
• Social studies/science lessons associated with holidays
• Arts and crafts projects related to holiday (i.e., centerpieces for Thanksgiving Feast, handprints in different colors, cards, self portraits, and pictures, etc.)
  

As above.

In addition to above:

• Seasons
  

• Learn order of the seasons
  
• Learn environmental changes that occur during each season
• Introduce seasonal language (i.e., Autumn, hibernation, migration, etc)
• Science projects tied to seasons (i.e., weighing acorns)
• Learn about animal behavior in different seasons
• Read books about each season
• Discuss observations regarding the seasons
• Arts and crafts projects related to the seasons (i.e., sponge painting leaves, tracing winter coat patterns to color)
• Learn about metamorphosis of a butterfly
• Study Earth Day
  

As above.

In addition to above:

• Jewish Holidays: Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, Simchat Torah, Hanukkah, Tu B'Shevat, Purim, Passover, Yom HaAtzmaut

• Develop an understanding of the significance of the holidays and their traditional elements
• Learn the stories and characters associated with each of the holidays
• Arts and crafts projects related to the holidays (i.e., stained glass apples, build a miniature sukkah, create your own Torah scrolls, decorate construction paper dreidels, coloring trees, making Purim megillah scrolls, creating matzah covers, making your own passports for a "trip" to Israel on Yom HaAtzmaut
• Read stories associated with each of the holidays
• Visit the synagogue's chapel
  
• Learn about (and attempt) blowing the shofar
• Learn songs for the holidays (Hebrew and English)

As above.