The Early Childhood Center at OJC

Spinning like dreidels and playing with friends - another great week for the Unicorns.

The Kitty Cats get ready for Chanukah, dance with the dreidel,read their Chanukah story book, and enjoy playing with their besties.

Chanukah, Shabbat, dreidels and science in the Teddy Bear room this week.

The ECC wishes everyone a wonderful Thanksgiving.

In Around the World we are fishing in the Sea of Galilee

Busy week for the Kitty Cats- yoga, Shabbat with Rabbi Marsh and ‘Noah’, visiting the Western Wall, practicing math skills playing with friends and of course Yoga!

Thank you Veterans

Our fall mobiles!

Learning is fun in the Kitty Cat Class

Remember to vote! We voted in class- the winner- chocolate chip cookies!

The Teddy Bears welcomed fall with orange week and orange activities

Friends and fall fun in the Unicorn room

The Unicorns fill Noah’s Ark with animals and have fun with their friends.

Busy week attheECC- We visited a kibbutz, celebrated Succot and Simchat Torah and visited the succah with Rabbi Marsh.

The Teddy Bears put animals in Noah’s Ark and have a fun week learning and playing.

STEAM- so much to learn from pine cones...examining them, sorting them, making predictions and then seeing if they do float!

In Around the World enrichment class today we pretended we were on a kibbutz. One activity was finding the animals that escaped from the barn and clean them off. More pic to follow. WE HOPE WHEN WE DO THIS ACTIVITY NEXT YEAR OUR FAMILIES WILL BE ABLE TO JOIN US.

It’s Succah time for the Kitty Cats and Unicorns! The Teddy Bears will be visiting later this week.

Science, celebrations, succahs and smiles

Tashlich with Rabbi Marsh !

Our indoor shoes are waiting for our arrival in the morning.

Our toddlers are adjusting and having fun!

A great first week!!

Shofar, apple prints and a round challah dish...getting ready for Rosh Hashanah

We are so happy to be back!!!

Got my shirt and I’m ready to go! Only one more week!

Counting the days! Can’t wait to welcome everyone back!

From the ECC Family to your family...,

Re- opening in September!! Looking for a warm, quality learning preschool program for your 21 month old through prek? The ECC at OJC is the place to be. Very limited spots. Call 631-835-9558 for further information.

Wishing everyone a safe 4th!

Congratulations to our Class of 2020 and their families! We send you to kindergarten with our love.

Another wonderful Shabbat with Rabbi Marsh. He showed us the flags of the twelve tribes of Israel and we each made our own family flag. Shabbat Shalom

Art lesson- do you recognize our interpretation of Kandinsky?

The Prek lesson is the letter x. They practice writing upper and lower case and sharing items that have an x in their name.

The toddlers are making farm animals and it’s Mila’s turn for show and tell.

After hearing miss Paula read Something From Nothing we created our own something’s from nothing.

Check out these yoga poses

Dancing with our streamers!

The toddlers are having fun learning about farm animals. Are they baa-tiful?

The Prek class made ice cream today for Shavuot

It’s Shavuot! We wish everyone a Chag Sameach !

In STEM today we baked cookies. Yummy!

We had fun playing BINGO and eating our food markers! Everyone was a winner but our first place winners were Demi,Mark,Serena,Emily and Aviva!

The prek practices sequencing.

The toddlers learn about butterflies!

It’s been so much fun visiting our students! We miss them

Baking meringue cookies in STEM was fun and delicious.

Pre K read and answered the question of the day, recited their alphabet chart, played a game and watched a video about shapes and even had time to practice some yoga poses.

They are so proud of their projects!

The toddlers learn about caterpillars turning into butterflies today through story, video and a project. Jackson’s turn for show and tell.

To all the ECC Mothers and Teachers-

Fun week at the ECC! Toddlers show their Mother’s Day mosaic cards, threes drew pictures of their moms, Prek loves yoga! Humpty Dumpty was the STEM project and pirates were the theme of library. What fun pretending to be pirates and search for specific ‘treasures’ in our homes.

Thank you ECC teachers! You are very much appreciated.

Prek made octagon crabs and practiced yoga!

Five is the number of the week for the toddlers. They sang along to the video Five Little Ducks, jumped with Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed and colored and pasted five ducks on their pond.

In STEM we danced to a video about Roy G Biv and the colors of the rainbow. We did a cool experiment and made a picture of Roy G Biv.

Aftercare class danced to a video about rain, did a rain experiment and reviewed R is for rain.

The three year old class celebrates Israel’s birthday and reviews shapes.

The preK makes their hexaxagon people.

The toddlers make a project about the four seasons to tie in with the number of the week-4.

The turtles hear a fun story that made sounds and saw a video, both about a garden. Each child brought a vegetable and told about it.

The Shark Class has a lesson about parts of a flower in celebration of Earth Day. They also brought something to show that makes them happy. They listened to the story Owen and ended the class categorizing stuffed animals by size.

Prek reviews shapes, cuts shapes out, finds items at home representing shapes and uses their cut out shapes to create pictures.

The toddlers have their morning meeting.Mila and Hannah help with the calendar and weather. The focus today was #3. They heard the story of The Three Bears, made a cloud with 3 lightening bolts and each found 3 toys.