Kitah Gimmel is continuing their work with clay. In this project they combine their sculpting with natural materials.

The children of Kitah Daled continue to work on self portraits. This week they made their faces out of recycled materials!

The children of Kitah Bet have been exploring different types of art which strengthen their fine motor skills and the muscles in their hands.

Kitah Daled and Gimmel Extended Day children have been making collages for months.

The children of Kitah Bet have been exploring different types of art which strengthen their fine motor skills and the muscles in their hands.

Kitah Alef children have been practicing their fine motor skills in the Atelier. They seem to really enjoy the medium of paint and it’s texture.

The Kitah Gimmel children have been interested in nature and treasures, so those were the materials offered to the children to decorate their menorahs.

Kitah Daled children have had many interests already this school year. Among those preoccupations two of the strongest have been writing and building.

The children were offered a provocation of styrofoam shapes arranged into a structure and plastic animals. The children rearranged the materials, building their own structures.

Kitah Bet continues Fine Motor Mark-Making in the Atelier. For this project, the children first tore strips of tape and placed them across half sheets of watercolor paper.

Kitah Alef children continue to work with paint. They explore new ways of applying it, new tools, and new marks they can make.

The next project in our self portrait series was watercolor portraits. First, the children drew their faces while looking in the mirror using a pencil and eraser.

This week's Parsha was Noah’s Ark. The Kitah Gimmel children were really fixated on the rainbow Hashem sent to show that he wouldn’t flood Earth again.

Kitah Bet continues to explore mark-making in the atelier. Each new method the children practice helps strengthen their fine motor skills.

Kitah Alef seems to really enjoy working with paint. Observing this, they were offered a large canvas to paint in the Atelier.

Kitah Gimmel began exploring clay recently. The first time they focused on learning to use the clay tools.

Kitah Daled continued the thread of drawing to create their Thanksgiving invitation. The children first collected an assortment of leaves from the playground. The leaves were all shapes and sizes, green, yellow, red, and orange.

In the beginning of the school year, the KD children were offered playdough with ice cream molds.

Fine motor mark making strengthens the muscles in the hands.

The children looked at themselves in a mirror and drew what they saw with pencil.