Norman Rockwell

We spent some time this month learning about Norman Rockwell. We read some books,looked at photographs of his work. Lily and Aj did a watercolor painting using a Copy of his painting. They also did drawings of themselves using photographs we found.
( Aj did the orange painting. I wrote Lily on it by accident)

Santas Village

First Ski Trip of the Season

Celebrating Hanukkah!!

We lit the Hanukkah candles while Alex said a prayer and we enjoyed a homemade brisket for dinner. We also played games, colored and celebrated Alex's Jewish heritage.



We Colored Hanukkah pictures








We ate Yummy Jewish Food which includes Latkes,Matzo ball soup and more....












We played The Dreidel game using raisins





Books and movies we read and watched

Another Celebrated Dancing Bear

Another Celebrated Dancing Bear written by Gladys Scheffin-Falk

This book is about a true friend who shares his time and expertise.




Social studies-(geography,culture)
This book takes place in Russia so we placed the story disk on the map. We colored a map and flag of Russia. We Made and played Bingo.The kids had fun learning about Russian culture and matryoshka dolls. We watched a movie and read a couple books too.


















Language-(Drama)
We acted out some of the new words we learned like applauded,giggling,chattering and leaping.




Science-(Boiling point and Freezing point)
Max the bear sets his semovar to boil. I explained why the water boils and freezes. Lily and Aj did an experiment using thermometers, boiling water and ice cold water.









Mathematics-(time,days of the week)
In this book Borris the bear has his dance lessons 3 days a week at a certain time. We talked about time.We played a game using a clock and telling time. We discussed how many days in a week and Lily copied the days of the week in a work book.











Art-(Architecture)
In this book their is a picture of the Russian skyline. We found that these buildings were very different from the buildings around us. They have onion shapped turrets and unusual colors. We looked at pictures of St. Basils Cathedral,The Kremlin and Red Square. After we decided to cut and color turrets out of paper. Then paste them on a larger piece of paper. We drew many shapes using rulers to make a picture of our own Russian skyline.

Falmourh Dancing Parade!

Sunday December 2 2012 Lily was in her first Christmas Parade.