Only 6 more days till the Soccer World Cup....and we are very proud to be South African. This week we have been discussing the impending World Cup....
32 countries taking part with 64 matches being played....we coloured in flags, learned that Bafana, Bafana means boys, boys in Xhosa and that Vuvuzela means 'noise' (thank you Moreh Caleb), we sang N'Kosi Sikelela, spoke about Zakumi, blew the Vuvuzela and even played our very own little soccer match.....
We have chosen 2 teams for our class, namely, Italy and South Africa and the children were divided equally into their teams....all the children got a chance to kick the ball, (some scored a goal for the opposite team or ran in the wrong direction), but the most important part was that all the children absolutely loved it and we laughed and cheered and each team worked well together.
The children were really excited about life skills this week, they got to spoon, mix, roll and bake their very delicious gingerbread 'soccer player' which we iced with green and yellow icing to represent Bafana Bafana - yummy!!!
Our focus letter this week was 'p' - which we painted and glued to create a cute little 'puppy'.
As an extra special treat we will be braiding our own challahs for Shabbat with Morah Sarah...Lauren will be supplying us the dough and we will be creating our masterpieces..
As this will be the last blog for the term, I would like to wish you all a very happy, safe holiday.....enjoy every moment with your beautiful children!!
Until we chat again next term.....
With lots of love.....Morah Mandy
