First garde 3.11.2011

3-11-11
Dear Parents,
Rosh Hodesh Adar 2 started with great “simcha” (happiness)! We wore funny hats and Moreh Dror gave us Hamantashen " אֹזֶן המן " to eat. We also danced with students from other grades. Even the tables in the lunch room were decorated. It was a lot of fun!

Hebrew Sentence of the week:
בְּאֲרוּחַת בּוֹקֵר אֲנִי אוֹכֵל/ אוֹכֶלֶת ___ וְשׁוֹתֶה/שׁוֹתָה ____ ..."”- Be arochat Boker Ani Ochel___ Ve’shote (for breakfast I’m eating____ and drinking______)
We ate breakfast in school to help us learn to identify all kind of foods we are eating in Hebrew. Please ask your child what he/she ate and drank in our class breakfast and what they are named in Hebrew.

Cursive Hebrew letters:
We continue to practice and review how to write all the cursive Hebrew letters. The students focus on forming the letters correctly and reading words written in cursive script. Now it is required for all students to write only in cursive! Please make sure your child is writing his/her letters correctly.

Parashat Hashavua:
This Friday you will find in your child’s folder a picture page with a summary of the story of Parashat :ויקרא"”. We learned that the Jews brought korbanot because the process of bringing a korban helped them become close to hashem.

Shalom Babayit Uavchutz (Shalom at Home and Outdoors)
This week we learned the Hebrew words for the different foods we eat. We learned that we thank Hashem for providing us with food by saying “Birkat Hamazon” every day after we eat.
We also focused on the “Bracha” (blessing) we saying before we eat the food. We practiced the different blessings by taking a quiz I created in the computer.
You can try it by your self by going to: http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/story.php?title=blessing_1. Please type in your name and press “take the quiz” button.
Please encourage your child to go to that site and take the quiz over and over to practice the different “brachot”.
I would like to hear any comments you have about my new experiment with this quiz

Purim:
This week in our weekly computer lab time, each student viewed on his/her own computer a slideshow of the Purim story! Everyone really enjoyed it.
We are about to finish the story of the Megillah and place it in our “Pringels” can.
Thank you for sending a “Pringels” can. If you haven’t been able to send one yet, please do it ASAP. (I’m still need 5 more!)

First Grade Album:
We are working on a special album that includes all the subjects we are learning in “Tal-Am”. If you haven’t sent in your pictures yet, Please send them ASAP.
You can send in 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! If you have already sent in one, you don’t have to send any more.
You can also Email me the pictures and I will print them for you. (My Email is: iritkaravani@hotmail.com or ikaravani@torahacademy.org)



Vocabulary words:
Our Hebrew vocabulary words for this week come from our unit of Purim:

King מֶלֶךְ

Queen מַלְכָּה

Crown כֶּתֶר

Banquet מִשְׁתֶּה

Feast סְעֻדָּה

Writing (M) כּוֹתֵב

Writing (F) כּוֹתֶבֶת

You can practice with flash card at:
http://www.flashcardmachine.com/1238396/x56v

Shabbat Shalom,

Morah Irit

First grade 3.4.2011

3-04-11
Dear Parents,
Rosh Hodesh Adar 2 is coming this Monday! As part of our special Rosh Chodesh program, please send your child with a funny hat to wear (it can be a special hat, funny hat or regular hat). Each student will receive a Hamantashen "אוזן המן" and we will be dancing with students from other grades.

Hebrew Sentence of the week:
היום אני לובש..."”- Hayom Ani Lo’Vesh…(today I’m wearing…)

Cursive Hebrew letters:
We finished 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 will review all the letters. Now it is required for all students to write only in cursive! 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 :פקודי"”. We reviewed the name of all the vessels of the Mishkan. We also learned that when Moshe put together the Mishkan, Hashem caused his special cloud to rest over the Mishkan. This told the Jewish People that Hashem accepted their Mishkan as his special house.

Shalom Babayit Uavchutz (Shalom at Home and Outdoors)
This week we focused on the Hebrew words for different the clothing we wear. We also focused on how we thank Hashem for giving us our clothing every day by saying in our morning prayers the blessing: “" מלביש ערומים. We labeled our self with notes on our body naming what we were wearing to learn what each part of our clothing is in Hebrew. Next week we will learn Hebrew words for foods. We will have a special breakfast in our classroom to learn the Hebrew words for all the foods we eat.

Vocabulary words:
Our Hebrew vocabulary words for this week come from our unit on food “Shalom 2” workbook:

Milk חָלָב-

Juice מִיץ-

Bread לֶחֶם-

Cheese גְבִינָה-

Chocolate milk שוֹקוֹ-

Jelly רִיבָּה-

Egg בֵּיצָה-

You can practice with flash card at:
http://www.flashcardmachine.com/1222434/b95e

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


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!
If you already send one you don’t have to send one.

You can Email me the picture and I will print it.(My Email is: iritkaravani@hotmail.com or ikaravani@torahacademy.org)

Shabbat Shalom,

Morah Irit