Preschool Creations

    This post contains affiliate links. Check out  our virtual trip to Australia  here .   Check out part 1 of our virtual trip to Brazil here . See  this post  for the passport and stamps that we used. Be sure to check out my  Pinterest  board with these and more ideas. This week we delved into learning about the Amazon Rainforest. There are so many animals and plants in the rainforest and we took our time reading lots and lots of books and learning the names of many of them. We learned about the 4 levels of the rainforest. And finished off by creating a diorama of the rainforest. We saw 2 videos linked below of the beautiful Iguazu falls. We learned a few words in Portuguese. We've been using the word obrigado in our house, which means thank you. FOOD: I made Galinhada - a Brazilian chicken and rice one pot dish. Here is one version  and here is another . I made Brigadeiro  (Brazilian fudge balls) and let me tell you, those are decadent! They are incredible. I didn't have swe

   This post contains affiliate links. Check out  our trip to Australia  here .   See  this post  for the passport and stamps that we used. Be sure to check out my  Pinterest  board with these and more ideas. We started out the week with looking at the map and traveling to Brazil. We stamped our passport with a Brazil stamp and took a look at the Capitol on Google Maps. We learned about several animals this week and we also got to cook several authentic Brazilian foods.  The animals we explored this week are: Armadillo Anteater Jaguar Golden Lion Tamarin Next week we will delve into the Amazon Rainforest and create our own diorama.  FOOD: My favorite Brazilian food we made was Coxinha. They were absolutely delicious.  I loosely followed this recipe. For the dough I used: 2 cups flour, 2 cups chicken broth and 1 tbsp of margarine. I also added some paprika to the filling. We couldn't get enough of them! I made this  Brazilian Rice recipe. It came out really good. We made these del

Click here to purchase our adorable puppets and props set for sefer beraishit. Here is a quick 30 second summary of the parsha featuring our puppets available for download. We learned all about camels, how much water they drink. We learned about the 3 miracles of Sara's tent and focused on Challah. To bring out the point of how much work it was for Rivka to gather enough water for 10 camels, I had students come up and spoon water out of a bucket into a small "trough". They saw how long it took and I said, can you imagine how much work it was for Rivka to feed all these camels?!! Parshas Chayei Sara Crafts We made camel handprints and use a paintbrush to create the humps. When it was dry, we added a face, tail and trough with marker. We also focused on the number 10 and sequenced camels from 1-10. We created Sarah's tent. They traced a triangle and cut it out. placed "clouds" made of cotton balls on the tent. The candles are made of pipe c