Beth Sholom Early Childhood Center

This week we've had loads of fun celebrating Adar and the upcoming holiday of Purim.  If you've missed our Facebook posts, here is a recap of the week:

Silly Hat Day

 Pajama Day

 Favorite Color Day

After a long week of planning, building, painting and taping, here are the final projects from some of our classes.  We set up a "Box Museum" in the atrium for all of our shul members to see.  If you aren't able to stop by the museum, here is a look at what the childre...

Scroll through the gallery below to see all the exciting things that happened in and around our school in honor of Tu B'Shevat!  You will also see boxes in some of the photos because we are honoring trees by having our Annual Box Week during Tu B'Shevat.  Its been a gr...

This year, in conjunction with Tu B' Shevat, we are celebrating our annual Box Week.  Using the themes of trees and recycling, our children are learning where boxes come from and how we use them.  The creativity and imagination has gotten underway and here is what's ha...

Everywhere you look, and smell, you get a sense that Chanukah is near!  From cooking latkes to painting with dreidels, all of our classes are enjoying the activities that involve the upcoming holiday!

An important segment was shown this morning on the Today Show about preschoolers and screen time. 

The study found “an association between increased screen-based media use and lower microstructural integrity of brain white matter tracts supporting language and emergent...

We've been so lucky to have nice weather during Sukkah building time and the beginning days of the chag.  Our children spent lots of time watching our maintenance team build the shul's sukkah.  Some classes sketched what they saw being built while others picked up the...

In the days leading up to Rosh Hashanah, the children have been exploring all items and concepts related to the holidays.  From measuring their height in apples to blowing the shofar, there has been a lot of rich learning going on here at the ECC!

YES!  A helicopter landed today in the BSCTT parking lot for Transportation Day!  It was amazing, loud, windy and exciting!  Here are photos from the day and videos of the landing and take-off below.

It was beautiful weather today for our kids to be outside celebrating Lag B' Omer.  After having snack outdoors with roasted potatoes, the children enjoyed biking around the parking lot, throwing balls, playing basketball, hula hoop, frisbee and more!  One class even m...