פרנס היום. Oli ve Oil Wo r kshop בס"ד. The entire yeshiva family wishes mazal tov to Morah Davida and her family on the birth of a son

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1 בס"ד The entire yeshiva family wishes mazal tov to Morah Davida and her family on the birth of a son פרנס היום Oli ve Oil Wo r kshop In preparation for Chanukah, the students at Stein Yeshiva were able to see olive oil actually being pressed. Rabbi Deutsch of the Chabad of Bronxville, came to the yeshiva with olives for pressing and the equipment to make it happen. The children were surprised to find out that olives used for oil are not the olives you can eat! The ones that make the oil are very bitter. The children smelled and touched the olives and then watched carefully as the Rabbi had a batch ready to go in a net bag. He placed the bag in his press and put wooden blocks on top of that to press it down. The press was now ready to go. The children took turns using the handle to press some olives. Next, Rabbi Deutsch put the extracted liquid in test tubes which he put in a special machine that spins really fast and separates the oil from the juice. It takes many olives to make just a little oil. Everyone sang Chanukah songs while we waited for the oil to be ready and made wicks from cotton to take home. At last we poured the fresh oil into the menorah, put in the new wicks and wow! It lit up brightly. Now the children have an idea of just how much work it takes to make oil, and why without our modern equipment it took so long for the Maccabees to make new oil for the menorah in the Bais Hamikdosh. Todah rabah to the PTA for sponsoring this program. Stein Yeshiva extends sincere thanks to everyone who participated in Giving Tuesday and donated to the yeshiva. Come and join the fun PTA Chanukah Extravaganza Sunday, Dec. 17th See enclosed flier for details Todah rabah to: The Pollock Famiy: Tues. Nov. 21 in honor of the birth of a granddaughter. The Gross Family: Nov in honor of Olivia s birthday. The Schwartz & Querub Families: Tues. Nov. 28 on the birth of a grandson born to Deborah Querub & Eitan Schwartz. The Genack Family: Dec. 11 Mazal tov Morah Davida and baby Fried. R Yisroel & Ahuva Cherns who are sponsoring for the entire school year. Tizku l mitzvos. Please call the office or send in your reservation to sponsor a day of learning for $18, or a week for $72.

2 inquiry investigation interpretation D rei d el Ma th This week the boys math learning pod Alef focused on graphing and working with grids to proportionately increase an object s size. A diagram of how to make a 3D dreidel, each side measuring 2 inches was the basis for this lesson. The boys worked together to problem solve how to take the diagram and create a 3D dreidel not 2 inches wide per side but 18 inches in width per side. The huge oversized dreidel would then be used as decoration in the preschool. As the project evolved; the students wrote out all of the algorithms needed to figure out how to increase the size of the dreidel proportionately and make allowance for glue tabs on each piece of the dreidel. After figuring out the correct dimensions, the students measured, plotted out, and cut each shape necessary for the project. Before assembling the dreidel, the students were given the opportunity to paint and decorate each side. The boys also painted the nun, shin, hey and gimel that would be affixed to each side of the dreidel. The students worked hard; painting and stapling each side of the dreidel together. The end result was very impressive and now hangs in the Nursery Four classroom. Thank you boys for a wonderful Chanukah decoration. Todah rabah to the PTA for spearheading the grandparents Chanukah campaign. A special mention to Atara Joel for taking the pictures Luba Glasser for compiling the mailing and getting everything ready to go out. Todah rabah to Adina Wiezenfeld for spearheading the teachers gifts. לוח Dec. 12 2s Chanukah celebration 8:45-9:30 AM Dec. 13 3s Chanukah celebration 8:45-9:30 AM Dec. 14 4s Chanukah celebration 8:45-9:30 AM Dec No school. Chanukah recess Pre-1A through 8th Grade: Please be sure to send in a water bottle for your child Early Childhood Reminder to return your Shabbos bags on Monday Dec. 25 No aftercare Dec :30 dismissal Dec. 31 Registration due Jan. 1 No aftercare Jan Winter recess Asarah B Teves Jan Winter Camp Jan. 25 Camp Shemesh early bird ends Snacks: Please be sure to send in ample snacks for your child BOX TOPS FOR EDUCATION An easy way to support your yeshiva

3 Around the Early Childhood This Week DAYCAR E The toddler room was abuzz with the sounds of Chanukah this week. The kinderlach have been singing along with the Chanukah songs that they heard in the background as they played. They loved singing together with the morahs and saying the new words that they have learned. It is wonderful to hear the children say, Chanukah, menorah, dreidel and candles. This week the children were busy painting and gluing and have made their very own menorah. They painted a paper towel roll and used stamps and ink to decorate a paper cup which will be a decorative menorah. The children glued tissue paper flames on pop sticks to create candles so that each night they will be able to light their own candle. The kinderlach also made two beautiful stained glass dreidels by placing tissue paper on clear contact paper. The children love doing projects and say the word project whenever they do one. With each project comes more vocabulary words including colors, shapes, and sizes, as well as lots as sensory experiences as they squish, crumple, and glue. The kinderlach will continue with projects throughout the chag. The toddlers have really become good friends and it is wonderful to hear them call a friend by name or to help each other get their coats to go outside. It is great to witness the kindness and caring they show to one another. The infants continue to grow daily. The kinderlach love exploring and move around the room looking and touching. What a pleasure to watch the interaction and one can often find two friends chatting, sharing a toy or reading a book together. The children love music and enthusiastically clap and stomp to the songs the morah sing. It s wonderful to see the enjoyment and accomplishment on their precious little faces! Each day sees another child doing something new and exciting, whether clapping hands, taking a step, rolling over or smiling in recognition of a morah. THE T WOS Light up the nights! The Twos class was infused with the Chanukah experience this week. The children learned that a Chanukah menorah is different from a regular menorah because a chanukia has 8 lights and a shammash, but a Shabbos menorah has 6 lights and a shammash. The neis of Chanukah is that the oil continued to burn for 8 nights and that is why we have 8 lights. Eight is our number of the week! The children searched the room finding toys to use to practice counting to 8. It was so much fun! The children crafted their very own chanukiah this week using tiles, nuts, and paint. Each child was able to express their creativity and use different colors to bring to life their vision. The children enjoyed painting and cannot wait until their chanukiah is finished and ready to take home. The children also hung up and added candles to the class s hallway and inside menorahs. For their inside menorah the Twos painted special neiros out of paper towel rolls. The children continued to investigate menorahs during explorative play when they built menorahs out of Legos and created them on peg boards. Each child identified and made the shammash, the really tall candle in the middle. There was a special workshop at Stein Yeshiva this week to teach the children how to make olive oil. Each child took turns pressing the olives and rolling cotton wicks. They learned that it takes a lot of olives and hard work to get the oil out of the olive juice. The children also learned and recited the special brachos for Chanukah while they lit the wicks they made. The wicks were dipped in their very own olive oil. Candle lighting was also a fun activity that during imaginative play in their classroom, the children held the shammash candle and pretended to light each candle. The children loved being able to hold the helper candle and being in charge of making the pretend menorah shine brightly. The children found dreidels in our classroom and asked what they were. They discovered that dreidels can spin, going around and around for a long time. The children enjoyed learning how to make their dreidels spin and loved creating dreidel spin art. The children were filled with excitement as they watched their dreidels dance through the paint and leave colorful splatter on their outlined dreidels. To finish up their

4 driedel spin art, the children placed their dreidel shapes inside a salad spinner and watched as they spun in circles like a dreidel. They were very excited to see their work once it was finished. The Twos learned some new songs this week; Sevivon, Sov, Sov, Sov, and Chanukah, Oh, Chanukah. While singing I Have a little Dreidel, the children pretended to be little dreidels and spun around and around in circles. It was so silly to spin and spin like a dreidel and then fall down. Everyone giggled so much! Morah Yehudit told the story of Yosef and his colorful coat in this week s parsha, Vayeishev. The children learned that it was a special gift from Yosef s father and contained all the colors of the rainbow. The Twos made their own colorful coats using different colored strips of fabric. The children enjoyed hearing and learning about Yosef and loved to talk about the different colors in their own coats and who bought it for them. The Twos are looking forward to greeting their families on Tuesday at our Chanukah chagigah. THE THR EES The 3s class is in high gear for Chanukah! The yeladim are so excited for parents (and grandparents!) to come for the Chanukah Chagigah on Wednesday. They are preparing songs and arts & crafts to do with their families for this festive morning. This is a special opportunity for parents get to see some of what their children's classroom experience is like. This week, the class has been learning about chanukiyos and the 8 neiros for 8 nights. They know the halacha that there is no mitzvah to light the shamash, rather it is a "helper ner" for the mitzvah of lighting the other neiros. In addition to practicing singing the brachos, the children have also been lighting real Chanukah candles, with a teacher's close supervision. Getting to interact with the actual candles has lit up the excitement for the mitzvah. To illustrate the concept of increasing the amount of neiros each night, the class used blocks to build up progressively taller towers, until we had a tall staircase of blocks. This created a visual for doing addition and learning about "some" and "some more." In addition to the functioning chanikiyos that the children are making, they have been busy building "chanukiyos" out of any manipulative they can find in the classroom, such as Legos, magnetiles, construction blocks, and loose parts. The children are truly exploring the symbols of Chanukah throughout their day, in creative play, and in their conversations with each other. Having been introduced to Chanukah, and after exploring the Chanukah provocations throughout the room, the yeladim were so excited to make their very own unique chanukiah using tiles and ink. The children chose each color of ink carefully, dripped the pigment onto the block tile and used their hands to move it around. Once the ink settled the yeladim blew on the ink to create patterns. Each new color created a new pattern and a new unexpected color. Each is so different from the others even though the children all used the same materials. This week, the 3s began to investigate the next sense in their unit on the five senses: Sight. The children learned so many interesting things about their eyes and how important it is to protect our eyes by blinking and keeping our eyes clean. They learned that the sun is not good for our eyes and how squinting from bright sunshine is how Hashem helps us to protect our eyes from very bright lights. We can do our part by wearing sun glasses to shield our eyes from the sun. To understand how important and precious the sense of sight is, the children experimented to see what it's like not be able to see and to rely on their other senses to get along. Working in teams, some friends were blindfolded and given items to guess using their other senses, while other friends gave them clues. All the children had such fun and they really used their investigative knowledge to guess what they were holding. The children continued to try to navigate their environment blindfolded while playing a game of pin the ner on the chanukiah. The yeladim tried to walk blindfolded and pin a paper candle on the big chanukiah hanging on the wall outside the 2's classroom. As each child got a turn, the yeladim grew more and more comfortable being without their sense of sight. Many of the children found their way to the picture and were able to pin the ner on the chanukiah. Though everyone had such fun playing the game, all of the children agreed it was much more fun to be able to see Hashem s beautiful world. What an incredible time of year to investigate our sense of sight. The yeladim were so excited to see all the flames on our class chanukiah. They noticed that when the lights were on, the flames on the chanukiah seemed dim, but when the room was darkened, the light of fire got brighter. Before exploring the fire on the candles, the yeladim learned how to be near fire safely. They discussed the colors they saw. Shades of orange, red, and blue danced in the flicker of the little ner. The children also noticed that the flames created shadows on the wall. They wanted to explore further, so each child used a flashlight to make their own shadows on the wall. In an awesome experiment with glow sticks, the yeladim discovered that it is possible to communicate using the sense of sight. The children gasped in delight as they cracked their glow sticks open and they began to glow in red, yellow, and blue. Then, the children began silently to follow the morah s unspoken directions. It was very clear to everyone that they were communicating using their sense of sight and nothing else. Hashem gave us all five senses and the class used their sense of sight to communicate for almost 25 minutes without the use of any words, just lots of smiles and loads of fun.

5 THE FOUR S The 4s had a grand time learning about Parshas Vayeishev. Morah Riki brought in a long white shirt painted in colored stripes to represent Yosef s kesones pasim, (coat of many colors) and each child had the opportunity to wear Yosef s coat. The children also made their very own kesones passim out of large paper bags and strips of colored construction paper. They were very engaged in selecting just the right colored strips to put next to each other, putting on the glue, and then placing the strips just so on their kesones. When everything was dry, the children wore their coats proudly as they pretended to be Yosef. The story of Yosef and his brothers was the perfect opportunity to illustrate through dramatic play the concept of jealousy and how it is not a good thing. The children acted out scenarios where they could demonstrate good middos rather than being jealous. The 4s classroom was buzzing with activity for Chanukah this week! The class was engrossed in the story of Chanukah and had so many questions about the Maccabees, the Yevonim, the oil, the menorah, and so on. The children all gasped when they heard the decrees that Antioches put on the Jews. They dressed as the Jews and the Yevanim and acted out learning Torah, hiding when the soldiers came, and playing dreidel! Having learned about the very special Chanukah menorah, the children were very excited to create their own menorahs out of ceramic tile and glass beads and can t wait to use them next week. They also made a laminated menorah mat using finger paint and symbols of Chanukah to help keep their menorahs safe and mess-free! Morah Riki demonstrated the correct direction (right to left) to light the candles using a real menorah. She discussed how we light the menorah in the window so that everyone should know about the nes of the oil lasting 8 days. The children clearly internalized the lesson as they continued to light the various menorahs that they created during creative play throughout the day. What is the dreidel dance? Ask the kinderlach. They had a ball performing the dance! The children all sang together different Chanukah songs like a real choir. They also learned the letter Hay, this week s Alef-Bais letter, since it is on the dreidel. We are so proud of the yeladim who recognized all the letters on the dreidel. Uri noticed that his dreidel didn t have a shin it has fay instead. Morah explained that it is because that dreidel comes from Eretz Yisroel and instead of saying A great miracle happened there, it says A great miracle happened here. Chanukah festivities permeated the class this week. The daily calendar was switched to the Hebrew month of Kislev. The children have been singing the days of the week in Hebrew and are counting down how many more days until the first day of Chanukah! In math, the menorah was used to count forwards and backward from one to eight. The children worked on simple addition challenges to put the correct number of candles in each cup of the Menorah. The numbered cups were colorcoded: green for even numbers and purple for odd numbers so that the children could practice their understanding of even and odd numbers. In science, the children explored the different properties of water and oil. Colored discs were dropped into containers of water and containers of oil and the children discussed how much slower the discs in the oil moved to the bottom of the container. The Olive Oil Workshop, run by Rabbi Deutsch, was a fabulous follow up as the children were able to see hands on where olive oil came from and how it is produced. In art this week, the children made dreidel and oil jug paintings by dipping paper into oil that was mixed with droplets of watercolor paint. This produced a beautiful effect, with the oil preventing the color from affixing to parts of the paper. When the paintings were hung in the window, the light shone through the areas saturated in oil. The sensory table included a sandbox filled with sand, sparkles, Chanukah candles, dreidels, and shiny metal Chanukah gelt. The children filled up oil jugs with the different sensory loose parts. Making menorahs was a major activity as the children used wooden blocks, plastic jugs, Lego and Chanukah candles to make very unique menorahs all with eight candles and a shammash. The children are very excited for the Chanukah Mesibah next week and have their candle hats ready to go! The hats were made with woven strips of colorful paper topped with tissue paper flames. Each design is unique and the children are very eager to show them off!

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