1/07/2011

1.07.2011

Dear Parents,

Welcome back! I hope you had a nice winter vacation. Yesterday was Rosh Chodesh  Shevat. Each student enjoyed eating delicious fruits at recess to welcome the new month.

Next week  (Monday) we will be having a special party with  treats from Israel (thank you to Zachary!).

We have so many things to celebrate:

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.

We are going to make a “Keter” (crown) to open this big event.

When you see the crown, Please encourage your child to tell you all about it.

We are finishing the reading program next week:

This week we finished our workbook with the sound Eh. We started the last sound “OO”. This means that next week we will finish 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!

We have finished “Ariot 1 workbook”:

That’s right! We started and finished the “Ariot 1” workbook.

It was very easy because we had already learned so many of the vocabulary words and writing skills while doing our reading program. “ Ariot 1” was so fun when we challenged ourselves to figure out the words in the  “Hactava” (the spelling test at the end of each unit) and we were able to figure out the words without help.

We filled the marble jar!

We have had a reward jar in our class. Every time our class receives a compliment for our good behavior; we get 5 marbles. Because the first grade has received a lot of compliments, our jar is full and it’s time to have a party!

Hebrew Sentence of the week: 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.)

Parashat Hashavua

This Friday you will find a picture page in the folder with a summary of the story of Parashat: “בא” (Bo). We learned the 10 makot (the Ten Plagues) names in English and in Hebrew.

We learn that “בא” in gematria is 3 and in our Parasha we have the last 3 Makot (plagues)

Tu Bishvat

We started to learn the Tal-Am unit for Tu-Bishvat.  We used gematria again to find out that “Tu” is 15 and we celebrate Tu Bishvat on the 15^th of Shvat.

We also learned that this is a Rosh Hashana for the trees.

We all knew that tree in Hebrew is “Ets”  but now we all know that another word for tree is “Elan”.

Prayer

We added more lines in the following prayers: “Ashrey”-  up to the letter “ס” and “Anim zemirot”- up to the letter “י”

Shabbat Shalom,

Morah Irit.