פרשת וארא

1.11.2013

Dear parents,

This week we finished our reading program. This program has strengthened everyone’s reading skills and taught the important skill of sounding out and writing Hebrew words. This means every student can read any Hebrew word with all of the vowels as well as write any Hebrew word with any vowels! Wow!

I’m very proud of everyone’s accomplishments! I am sending home the workbook for you to keep. Please encourage your child to go over the unit with you and read all the words.

We are going to learn writing cursive Hebrew letters:

We are going to start to learn how to write cursive Hebrew letters. In this unit we are going to focus on forming the letters correctly and working on reading text with cursive.

שיעורי בית(shi urey bayit) – Home work.

Yes, we are going to start assigning  Hebrew Homework- Please sign the Homework letter and send it back in the folder.

We are going to start “Ariot 2 workbook” and “Ariot 2 CD”:

This week we will start “Ariot 2” workbook, and Ariot 2 program on the computers.

“Ariot” in the computer lab:

As part of the complex of teaching Hebrew in First grade,

Students will go once a week every Monday to the computers and practice “Ariot” with a special program for the computer.

On their computer the students hear the same story we are learning from the “Ariot” workbook in the class.

Students practice the new vocabulary we are learning in the class in different attractive activities that change every unit.

Students are equipped with special noise canceling headphones which helps the students to hear and concentrate on the talking from the computer.

Tu Bishvat

We are going to start to learn the Tal-Am unit for Tu-Bishvat. 

 “My library” הַסִפְרִיָה שֶלִי "   

This week’s book is called:"שַרונה אוֹהבת אדום" -“Sharona Ohevet Adom” (Sharona likes red).

We read this book as a continuation of our unit of “"מָה בַּיַלְקוּט? (What is in the backpack?). Each student got to color his own book. (If your child didn’t finish coloring the book, please let him/her to finish it at home).

Please encourage your child to read it aloud to you over the weekend .It is a great way to practice all the vocabulary we have learned in this unit.

Ariot:

This week Ariot is going to Rachel’s home.

SHALOM BAKITA (Shalom in the Classroom):

This week we finished our Tal –Am workbook “Shalom 1- Shalom Bakita”. The workbook deals with everyday life in the classroom at the beginning of the school year, and focuses on familiarization with the characters of a "virtual" classroom, the articles and the learning habits in the classroom. 
Shalom Bakita is further organized into 3 subtopics: 
(a) Who is in the class? 
(b) What is in the class? 
(C) How to study. 
These topics will accompany the students throughout the year, since they deal with the everyday life of the students.

”My family” and “My house” Pictures:

Unfortunately, I didn’t get pictures from half of the class!

 If you haven’t sent your pictures yet or you have sent only one of the pictures, please send your pictures this week!

For your convenience you can Email me the pictures and I will print them for you! (My Email is: iritkaravani@hotmail.com)

Parashat Hashavua

This Friday we learned the summary of the story of Parashat: ” וארא“. We learned the 10 makot (the Ten Plagues) names in English and in Hebrew.

This is our first word list.

The test will be on Thursday  1/17/13.

מילים למבחן

    

                          Pink  וָרוֹד

Bear-     דֹב

Come-   בֹּא

  Roof     גַג-

Mr. -  אֲדוֹן

You can practice with flash card at:

http://www.flashcardmachine.com/1109491/w57b

בהצלחה ושבת שלום