First garde 2.25.2011

2-25-11
Dear Parents,
Our first grade “Siddur Party” is not this week! It has been rescheduled for on May 20th B”H.

Purim:
We have started learning about Purim and the Megillah story!
Please send to school an empty “Pringels” can. ( If you can send more then one that will be great!)

First Grade Album:
We are working on a special album that includes all the subjects we are learning in “Tal-Am”. Please send to school by next week two of the following pictures:((4”x6”)
1. A picture of the outside of your child’s house.
2. A picture of your child’s family (a group picture of as many members of the family as possible).
These pictures are very important for our learning in the class!

Hebrew Sentence of the week:
הפה אומר..." ”Ha’peh Omer (The mouth says….).
We learned that it is very important that our “Peh” will say “Todah” to everyone and this is very important to Hashem.

Cursive Hebrew letters:
We are almost finishing learning how to write all the cursive Hebrew letters. The students have been focusing on forming the letters correctly and reading words written in cursive script. This week, we reviewed the letters up to “ש”. Please make sure your child is writing his/her letters correctly.

Homework:
The students are ready to write their homework in cursive. I know that for some students this transition will be hard so please courage your child to form the cursive Hebrew letters correctly. Please use the example of the script Hebrew letters that are posting on the inside of the homework notebook cover.

Parashat Hashavua:
This Friday you will find in your child’s folder a picture page with a summary of the story of Parashat :ויקהל"”. We reviewed all the various vessels that are in the Mishkan and we learned that Bezalel was the one appointed by Hashem to build the Mishkan. We also learned that Moshe first warned them to keep the Shabbat before giving them the commandment to build the Mishkan. This told the Jewish People that even though the building of the Mishkan was important the still must rest on Shabbat are recognize that Hashem created the world.

Shalom Babayit Uavchutz (Shalom at Home and Outdoors)
We started our new Tal AM workbook called “Shalom at Home”. The “Shalom at Home” Workbook focuses on the daily life of a Jewish child at home from waking up in the morning until going to bed at sunset. This week we focused on body parts and how we thank Hashem for giving us a healthy body every day. Next week we will learn Hebrew words for the different clothing we wear.

Ariot 2:
This week we finished our workbook. We read and studied the following stories:
“Adon Balon” (Mr. Balloon) We learned the names of all the colors in Hebrew as well as the words: Dag (fish), Dov (bear), Gag (roof) and Vav (hook).
“ Zozo Ha avazon” (Zozo the goose) In this story we learned the words Zaz (moving), Bayit (a house) Har (a mountain) the goose family and Dag (fish).
In the process we learned to differentiate between animate and inanimate objects.
“Ach Bamishpacha” (“A Brother in the family”).
Our Hebrew vocabulary included words like: “Chagiga” (party), Mishpacha (family), Aba (dad), ima (mom) dod (uncle) doda (aunt) Saba (grandpa) Savta (Grandma) Ach Chadash (a new brother), Achot chadasha (a new sister), Buba (doll), B’dicha (joke).

We really liked reading the story “Oh Oh Hatoast”! (Yes, that’s how you also say toast in Hebrew!)
We learned the following Hebrew words: Tabach (chef), Oto (a car) Televiziya (T.V), Tov and Tova (good)
The chef likes (ohev) good toast, a yellow one and not black one.

-For the letter “Yud” we read the story:
“Yesh Chagiga” (“There is a Party”) We learned the Hebrew words: “Yoshev” and “Yoshvet”(“sitting” for boy and “sitting” for girls). We practiced these words by saying sentences in Hebrew about ourselves such as: “ Ani yoshev/yoshevet al ha keese”- “I’m sitting on the chair”).
We also learned that the word “yoyo” is the same word in Hebrew and in English.

Vocabulary words:

Our Hebrew vocabulary words for this week come from our unit on different clothing in “Shalom 2” workbook:

Shirt חוּלְצָה-

Pants מִכְנָסַיִם-

Socks גַרְבַיִם-

Shoes נַעֲלַיִם-

Skirt חֲצָאִית-

Pajamas פִּיגָ'מָה- 
Dress שִׂמְלָה-

You can practice with flash card at:http://www.flashcardmachine.com/1203980/7ua5

Shabbat Shalom,

Morah Irit

 

First garde 2.18.2011

2-18-11

Dear Parents,
Hebrew Sentence of the week:
בבקשה לקום..." ”Be’vakasha La’koom (Please get up….).
We learned that Abba or Ima may wake us up and say: “בבקשה לקום”

 

Cursive Hebrew letters:

We are continuing to learn how to write cursive Hebrew letters. The students focused on forming the letters correctly and reading words written in cursive script. This week, we reviewed the letters up to “ע”. Please make sure your child is perfuming “מ” and “ג” right.

Homework:
Next week, since we do not have school on Monday for President’s Day, we will do our Monday homework on Tuesday during class time.

Purim:

We are going to start learning about Purim and the Megillah story!

Please send to school an empty “Pringels” can.

Parashat Hashavua:

This Friday you will find in your child’s folder a picture page with a summary of the story of Parashat :כי תשא"” we learned about the Mitzvah of giving a “Machtzet Hashekel” (1/2 shekel coin) to the Bait HaMikdash so they can count how many people there are in Bnei Yisrael . Ask your child to tell you why ½ and not whole Shekel? We learned that the Kohanim used this money to buy animals for the daily Korban (sacrifice) that was brought every morning and afternoon. We also reviewed the story of the “Aigel Hazahav” or the sin of the golden calf. Have your child tell you the story!

Shalom Babayit Uavchutz (Shalom at Home and Outdoors)

We started our new Tal AM workbook called “Shalom at Home”. The “Shalom at Home” Workbook focuses on the daily life of a Jewish child at home from waking up in the morning until going to bed at sunset. This week we focused on our morning routines. Next week we will learn about the body parts and how we thank Hashem for giving us a healthy body every day.


Vocabulary words:
The Hebrew vocabulary words for this week come from our unit on body parts in “Shalom 2” workbook.

Eye עֵינַיִם -

Ears  אוֹזְנַיִם  -

Hands יָדַיִם-

Legs רַגְלַיִם-

Belly בֶּטֶן-

Nose אַף-

Mothפֶּה -

Shabbat Shalom,
Morah Irit

First grade 2.11.11

2-11-11
Dear Parents,

This Wednesday was “100 day” in school! We made a big picture with 100 numbers- all written in Hebrew. We then practiced counting up to 100 in Hebrew while we jumped up and down. We were so tired that we rested for 100 seconds.

Hebrew Sentence of the week:

יש לי מאה..." ”Yesh Li Me’ah... (I have one hundred….).

Cursive Hebrew letters:

We are continuing to learn how to write cursive Hebrew letters. The students focused on forming the letters correctly and reading words written in cursive script. This week, we reviewed the letters up to “מ”. We learned that there are 5 letters that do not start from the top and we now know that two of them are “ט”and “"ל.

Parashat Hashavua:

This Friday you will find in their folder a picture page with a summary of the story of Parashat :תצווה"” we learn about the Cohen and Cohen Gadol (the Priest and the high priest) clothes. We did a project making two kohanim with all their special clothes out of paper and then we dressed them up. We learned that the regular Kohen wore 4 different kinds of clothes and the Kohen Gadol wore 8 different kinds of clothes.

Homework:
The children are still having trouble getting their homework notebook back to school on time. Please make sure the homework notebook is placed back into your child’s backpack. It is extremely important to have it in class on time. Otherwise, I can’t post their homework.
Vocabulary words:
This week’s words are taken from the story” Hagigah Ba’kitah” (a party in the classroom) from the “Ariot 2” workbook. We learned the word “Hagigah”(party) a few weeks ago. Please make sure your child knows the translation of this word.
The test will be on Thursday, 2-17-11.
Sitting (M) יוֹשַב -
Sitting (F)יוֹשֶבֶת-
Riddle.- חִידָה
Letters אוֹתִיוֹת-
Saying (M) אוֹמַר -
Saying (F) אוֹמֶרֶת –
Shabbat Shalom,
Morah Irit

First garde 2.03.2011

2-03-11

Dear Parents,

Even though it was an unexpectedly short week, we still got a lot done! Yesterday we had a birthday surprise for Ms. Tanenbaum and today we celebrated the new month of “Adar I” with a special treat of fruits. Thank you Moreh Dror for providing a special treat every Rosh Chodesh!

Hebrew Sentence of the week:

במשפחה שלי יֵשׁ..." ”

Bamishpach sheli yesh (In my family, there is….) Ask your child to sing our song.

Cursive Hebrew letters:
We are continuing to learn how to write cursive Hebrew letters. The students focused on forming the letters correctly and reading words written in cursive script. This week, we reviewed the letters up to “כ”. We learned that there are 5 letters that do not start from the top and one of them is “ט”.

Parashat Hashavua:

This Friday you will find in their folder a picture page with a summary of the story of Parashat: “תרומה” we learn that the Hebrew word "תרומה" -(Terumah) means to give a present (contribute). We went over all the different things that were in the Mishkan including: the Mizbayach, the kiyor, the menorah, the shulchan, the mizbayach haZahav. We learned about the different miracles that Hashem did in the Mishkan as well.

Homework:

This week we completed the homework for Tuesday and Wednesday during our class time. After we finished practicing, the students took their test. Everyone did very well!

Vocabulary words:

This week’s words are taken from the story” Oh, Oh Hatost” from “Ariot 2” workbook. The test will be on Thursday, 2-10-11.

Chef טַבָּח -

Carאוֹטוֹ -

T.V.- טֶלֶוִיזְיָה

Toast טוֹסְט

Good (M) טוֹב -

Good (F) טוֹבָה –

Shabbat Shalom,

Morah Irit