Beth Sholom Early Childhood Center

This year, we were fortunate to celebrate Lag B’Omer with beautiful weather, giving the children the perfect opportunity to head outdoors and flex their muscles while strengthening their gross motor and core skills. The outdoors was filled with excitement as the children explored a variety of activities including basketball, hula hoops, balancing stones, potato sacks, frisbees, jump ropes, and more. To continue the celebration, Morah Heather prepared delicious roasted potatoe

What a day of celebration we had at school today! We cut up tomatoes and cucumbers to make Israeli salad; we blended chick peas to make our hummus; we sampled pita bread from our local Israeli market; and we took our annual "trip" to Israel. We've learned so much over the past week about Israel and its flag. Here is a look at our learning and programming. We hope it will make you want to visit Israel as much as we do!

As we prepared for Passover in our classrooms, the children had a wonderful time learning through hands-on experiences and meaningful activities. They practiced retelling parts of the story, often through songs, puppets, and dramatic play. Our classrooms were busy with special projects that included creating Seder plates, decorating afikoman bags, dyeing matzah covers and more. The children especially loved learning all the traditional Passover songs together. Through these

Purim is here, and our classrooms have been filled with excitement! The children have been working so hard to get ready for this joyful holiday, and we are so proud of all they have accomplished. We spent time learning and retelling the story of Purim. Some children performed puppet shows, while others dressed up and acted out the story themselves. They practiced their lines and brought the characters to life with enthusiasm and confidence. One of the highlights was the bakin

Every year, Box Week is a very special week of exploration and imagination for the Early Childhood Center. All of the toys are removed from the classrooms and replaced with boxes of all shapes and sizes. Originally introduced through an imaginative story, This Is Not A Box by Antoinette Portis, the children used their creativity and imagination to transform ordinary boxes into wonderful designs. This year the children were obsessed with vehicles...mainly rocket ships! Here

🌳 Our ECC children enjoyed learning all about Tu B’Shevat, the Birthday of the Trees, through hands-on and meaningful experiences. They created art projects, explored trees by feeling bark and textures, counted the rings of a tree, planted seeds, and worked together to create tree webs, learning how trees are connected to people, animals, air, water, and the earth. Through discussion and collaboration, they discovered how trees give us shade, oxygen, fruit, and beauty—and ho