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