פרשת שמיני 2014

3.21.2014

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Dear Parents,
Spring has come and we can feel Pesach in the air!

Passover:

This week, we started learning about “Pesach” (Passover). We have starting making our own Haggadadot. Each of us will bring one home before Pesach.

We have learned the story of how the Jews became “Avadim” (slaves) in Egypt. We have reviewed the entire order of the Seder night as written in the Haggadah. Of course, there is still a lot to learn! We will be spending a lot of time over the next few weeks learning all the laws and customs surrounding the Seder night and Pesach.

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.

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”.

Ariot:

This week Ariot is going to Gabeiel’s home.

“My library” הַסִפְרִיָה שֶלִי "

This week’s story is called: “בּוֹקֶר טוֹב בִּינָה וְדֹב” (Good morning Bina and Dov).

This story is a great exercise for this week unit in “Shalom” workbook.

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.

Parashat Hashavua: Parashat :שמיני""
This Friday we learned about kosher and non-kosher animals, birds, and fish.

Vocabulary words:
Our Hebrew vocabulary words for this week come from our next story in the “Ariot 3” workbook. The theme of this story is: “She’ e’lot” (questions):

Questionשְׁאֵלָה 

Who? מִי   

What?מָה   

Why?לָמָה  

How many?כַּמָה

Where? אֵיפֹה

You can practice with flash card at:
http://www.flashcardmachine.com/1265507/d77f

Shabbat Shalom,

Morah Irit