Beth Sholom Early Childhood Center

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