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We care for our friends even when they are far away and we can not see them.
Our friend Kristina has been away from school for a few weeks now. She is on a trip visiting her family in Russia. In class we were talking about Kristina wondering what she might be doing. We acknowledged that it has been a long time since we were with her. When we are away from someone we could start to get the feelings that we miss them. We were missing Kristina. We decided to write Kristina a letter telling her how we feel and let her know what we have been doing in school. We will use the avenue of this blog to communicate with Kristina. Please read along to hear how the children care for each other and feel like a community.

We brought our 'puppet friend Kristina' to join us at circle time.
This is where we decided to communicate with her and write her a letter.
This is our letter.

Dear Kristina

We have not seen you in a very long time and we are wondering about you.

We have been thinking about you and wondering what you are doing all the way in Russia?

Are you playing? Did you fly on an airplane in the air?

In class we have been thinking about some of the fun things we had done together.

This is what I remember that I like to do with you.

Moussia: "I like to play in the kitchen and do cooking and make cookies with you."

Olivia: "I like to play in the water and splash with you."

Carly: "I want to tell you that I love you."

David: "Hello Kristina, I want to make soup together."

Elisheva: "I like to help you with your sheet and your blanket at rest time."

Shalom: "I like dancing with you on the stage and looking out the window with you in school."

Delia: "I like to paint with you, remember when we painted the big picture in our classroom?"

Elana: "We play in the kitchen together."

Jasmin: "I like when I build blocks together with Kristina."

Now we would like to share with you some of the things we have been doing in school.

Today we were playing puzzles and look what we found...

"It's a 'K', It's Kristina's letter for her name."

"Here is another 'K' for Kristina!"

Kristina, here in New Jersey it is snowing! It is all white. The slide outside our classroom window is all white, you can’t really even see it. The trees look like there is snow-flowers, they are all covered in snow. You can’t even see the grass because it is covered in snow. The snowplows come and dig the snow away. In school we even had a chance to build a snowman.

When we were outside we tried to catch snowflakes on our tongue.

The snowflakes were so tiny and cold!

Today we decorated our classroom to get ready for the upcoming holiday, Purim. We made a palace, a place where a king and queen live. We put on beautiful dresses, jewels and crowns to dress up like King Achashverosh and Queen Esther.

This is a picture of us using the computer to write a letter to you. Then we chose which pictures we wanted to send you.

Kristina we have never been to Russia before, maybe you can tell us something about Russia. What does it look like and what you can do there?

Hope to see you soon Kristina.
We miss you.
Love, Elisheva, Moussia, Carly, Jasmin, Elana, Olivia, Shalom, David, Delia and Morah Batsheva