October 4-8

10.8.2010

Dear Parents,

First grade is doing very well. During this week we learned how to ask for things only in Hebrew. We added : I need…. ( “("אני צריך.... (ani tzarich)

to last week’s sentence: May I have please….

We can sing all 7 days of the week in Hebrew.

We started talking about the weather in Hebrew such as “Ham=hot,  Kar=cold and Na im=not to cold and not to hot”

We played a game called “Ham Kar” – it was a lot of fun!

The following are more of the subjects learned:

Hebrew:

This week we learned the Aleph-Bet letter names with their sounds and the “AH” sound up to the letter Yud.

We focused on “ה” in front of a word and “ה” at the end of the word and “ו” as the word “and”.

Please ask your child to explain it to you.

-On Wednesday we were playing with the Ariot Hebrew programon our class computer.

The kids were excited to discover Ariot also on our computer.

Prayer:

We started to use Artscroll Siddur in our Tefillah service. The children are following the words in their  siddurim.

We added one new prayer to our morning prayers:

“En ke elokenu” We love singing it with the music;

We are benching Berkat Hamazon now from the siddur as well.

Parashat Hashavua

Every Friday you will find in the folder the Parasha in pictures, along with a summary. Every week the first graders learn  the main ideas in the weekly Parasha.

Please encourage your child to explain to you what is in Parashat Noach.

We got to watch a movie about Noach and the Ark.

We know Ark= Tevah,  תיבה  flood=Mabool  מבול and rainbow is Keshet.קשת

Shabbat Shalom

Morah Irit.