Preschool Creations

  Here is a quick 20 second summary of the parsha featuring our puppets available for download. Click here  to download the adorable sefer beraishis puppets. Parsha Summary In this week's parsha, we learn about Yosef's 2 dreams. In one, the sun, moon and stars are all bowing down to him, and in the other, the stalks of wheat are bowing to his center stalk. Yaakov also makes Yosef a special colored coat. His brothers get jealous and conspire to get rid of him. First they throw him in a pit and then he gets sold to Egyptians. In Egypt while working for Potiphar, Yosef gets thrown in jail. There, he meets the king's baker and butler. He interprets their dreams for them. Click here  for a parsha song. Parsha Craft Being that there isn't much time to teach parsha this week, as we're busy with getting ready for Chanukah, we did a short and easy craft. Yosef's Colored Coat Materials needed: outline of a coat colored tape scissors I gave the kids an outline of a coat,

Check out  our previous virtual trips to  Australia ,  Brazil ,   Colombia ,   Denmark ,  England  and France. See  this post  for the passport and stamps that we used. Be sure to check out my  Pinterest  board with these and more ideas. FOOD: I had trouble finding a recipe that had ingredients I could find but I came up with this one: Guatemalan Buñuelos PLACES: We watched a video about Mayan Civilization and Tikal National Park. We also learned about Volcanoes and watched some of the ones in Guatemala erupting.  Videos are linked below. We read some beautiful books about Market Day in Guatemala. ART: We made worry dolls. This was lots of fun. I bought the split clothespins and used embroidery thread I had in the house and we made lots of them, all in different colors.  Follow this link  for instructions. We learned to weave. I didn't have a loom so we learned to weave using this technique using straws .  ANIMALS: We already spent an extensive amount of time learning about the rai

       This post contains affiliate links. Check out  our virtual trip to Australia  here .   Check out our virtual trip to Brazil  here . Check out our virtual trip to Colombia  here . Check out our virtual trip to Denmark  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 had such fun learning about England. We spent a lot of time learning about it and creating our own mini London to play with. We read lots of books you can see linked below. I also linked many videos that we watched throughout the few weeks we were learning about Great Britain. We made a tea party using my china tea set that I got when I was little girl.  Here is our worksheet for England that I created FOOD: We made a bunch of different recipes that we've never tried before. HOMEMADE MINCED BEEF AND DUMPLINGS FLAWLESS ROAST POTATOES (I left out the couscous, but the technique make such a delicious crispy crust) YORKSHIRE PUDDI

      This post contains affiliate links. Check out  our virtual trip to Australia  here .   Check out our virtual trip to Brazil  here . Check out our virtual trip to Colombia  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 really enjoyed learning about Denmark. We focused mostly on Windmills and Wind Turbines. We learned about wind energy and did some STEM activities to explore it. We learned some phrases in Danish and we read the book The Ugly Duckling. The author, Hans Christian Anderson is from Denmark and there are statues and a museum of him in Denmark. We also learned the queen of Denmark is Margrethe II. The popular mode of transportation is cycling. There are many bicycles in Denmark. FOOD: I made  Frikadeller (Danish meatballs)  following this recipe. I used ground beef instead of pork. It was really good, and my family loved it. PLACES: Faroe Islands - A beautiful island with gorgeous