ויקרא 2018

בס"ד

3.16.2018

Dear Parents,
We can feel Pesach in the air!

Passover:

This week, we continued learning about “Pesach” (Passover).

 We have reviewed the entire order of the Seder night as written in the Haggadah. 

What’s in the box?

This week we almost finished Ariot 3 workbook.

 We read the story called “Dan Ve Dina naganim” (The story is about children named Dan and Dina who play musical instruments). I brought to the class my own musical instrument in a big box. I asked the children to guess what musical instrument was in the box and no one was able to guess correctly!  (Ask your child what instrument it was or flip the page and look at the picture.). I explained what the instrument was and I played some songs the students knew. We concluded with the “Hatikvah”.

“My library” הַסִפְרִיָה שֶלִי "   

This week’s book is called:"יש חמץ?" - “Yesh Hametz?” (Is there a “Hametz”?).

It is a story about finding the Hametz with a special helper. (The “Tuki”- parrot).

Please encourage your child to read it aloud to you over the weekend. It is a great way to practice.

Ariot: 

This week Ariot is going to Elianna’s home. 

Parashat Hashavua:

This Friday you will find in your child’s folder a picture page with a summary of the story of Parashat :ויקרא"”. We learned that the Jews brought Korbanot because the process of bringing a korban helped them become close to Hashem.

Vocabulary:

We are continuing with our two week Passover’s  word list.

The test will be on Thursday  3/22/18.

Passover words

Egypt מִצְרָיִם- 1  

Slave- 2 עֲבָדִים

Evil-  3 רָשָע

  Plate 4 קְעָרָה-     

Cup - 5 כּוֹס

Wine –  6 יָיִן

 Spring   אָבִיב-  7

Vegetable 8 יְרָקוֹת

Order-   9 סֶדֶר   

Smart-   10 חָכַם

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בהצלחה!

ויקהל פקודי

בס"ד

3-9-2018
Dear parents,

This week, we started learning about “Pesach” (Passover). 

We were very busy making our own Haggadadot. Each of us will bring one home before Pesach. 

We learned that there are four names for Passover and the reason for each name. 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. 

Ariot: 

This week Ariot is going to Esther’s home. 

“My library” הַסִפְרִיָה שֶלִי "   

This week’s book is called:"  “Boker tov Bina Ve Dov” (Good morning Bina and Dov).

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

Parashat Hashavua:

This Friday you will find in your child’s folder a picture page with a summary of the story of Parashat : "ויקהל פקודי" We reviewed all the various vessels that are in the Mishkan and we learned that Bezalel was the one appointed by Hashem to build the Mishkan. We also learned that Moshe first warned them to keep the Shabbat before giving them the commandment to build the Mishkan. This told the Jewish People that even though the building of the Mishkan was important the still must rest on Shabbat are recognize that Hashem created the world.

Shabbat Shalom

Morah Irit

This is our next word list.

It will be a two weeks unit.

The test will be on Thursday  3/22/18.

Passover words

Egypt מִצְרָיִם- 1  

slave- 2 עֲבָדִים

Evil-  3 רָשָע

  Plate 4 קְעָרָה-     

Cup - 5 כּוֹס

Wine –  6 יָיִן

 Spring   אָבִיב-  7

Vegetable 8 יְרָקוֹת

Order-   9 סֶדֶר   

Smart-   10 חָכַם

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בהצלחה!

כי תשא

Dear Parents,
Our Purim celebration yesterday was a big success! We had so much “simcha” (happiness) all day! We wore costumes, we saw an amazing performance of the Megilah story by the 6^th grade (thank you for 6^th  grade students & Moreh Dror). We played games in the Purim carnival. At the end of the day, we received Mishloach Manot " משלוח מנות" The whole day was such fun!

The Story of Purim

On Wednesday I sent our Megillah.
 I’m sure you will agree that your child’s effort and learning is outstanding and I know you share in my pride.

Ariot:

This week Ariot is going to Avi‘s home.

 “My library” הַסִפְרִיָה שֶלִי "   

This week’s book is called:""מִשְלוֹחַ מָנוֹת מֵאֲרִיאוֹת -Mishloach Manot  from Ariot.

Please encourage your child to read the books aloud to you over the weekend. It is a great way to practice all the vocabulary we have learned and will learn.

Passover:

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

Parashat Hashavua:

This Friday you will find in your child’s folder a picture page with a summary of the story of Parashat :כי תשא"” we learned about the Mitzvah of giving a “Machtzet Hashekel” (1/2 shekel coin) to the Bait HaMikdash so they can count how many people there are in Bnei Yisrael . Ask your child to tell you why ½ and not whole Shekel? We learned that the Kohanim used this money to buy animals for the daily Korban (sacrifice) that was brought every morning and afternoon. We also reviewed the story of the “Aigel Hazahav” or the sin of the golden calf. Have your child tell you the story!

Vocabulary words:

The Test will be on Tuesday 3.8.2018.

The Hebrew vocabulary words for this week come from our unit on body parts in “Shalom 2” workbook.

Ears  אוֹזְנַיִם

Eye עֵינַיִם 

Hands יָדַיִם

Legs רַגְלַיִם

Belly בֶּטֶן

Nose אַף

Moth פֶּה

You can practice with flash card at:

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Shabbat Shalom from

Morah Irit Karavani

שבת זכור

Dear parents,

We started the story of Megillaht Esther. B”H next week we will place it in our “Pringels” can. (Only if I have enough cans).

Please keep sending more “Pringles” cans.

Hebrew reading:

Last 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.

Cursive Hebrew letters:

Yey!  We can write all Hebrew words in script!

We finished learning how to write all the cursive Hebrew letters. Please make sure your child is writing his/her letters correctly.

The students have been focusing on forming the letters correctly and reading words written in cursive script.

This is the time to write all assignments in script.

Ariot:

This week Ariot is going to Dovy’s home.

 “My library” הַסִפְרִיָה שֶלִי "   

This week’s book is called:"?לִכְבוֹד פּוּרִים מִי בַּכִּיתָה"- Lichvod Purim Mi Bakitah- (Who is in the classroom for Purim?)

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 and will learn.

Parashat Hashavua:

This Friday you will find in your child’s folder a picture page with a summary of Tetaveh - תצוה"”. We learned about the Kohen Gadol 8 different garments he wore and the 4 garments the regular Kohen wore.

Shabbat Shalom

Morah Irit

Vocabulary words:

We are continuing with last week’s words.

The test will be on Wednesday (2.28.2018) instead of  Thursday .

Questionשְׁאֵלָה 

Who? מִי   

What?מָה   

Why?לָמָה  

How many?כַּמָה

Where? אֵיפֹה

You can practice with flash cards at:

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בהצלחה!

ראש חודש אדר 2018

2.5.2018
Dear Parents,

Rosh Hodesh Adar started with great “simcha” (happiness)! We danced and wore mismatch clothes.  It was a lot of fun!

Moreh Dror gave us Hamantashen " אֹזֶן המן " to eat.   It was very Yummy!

Purim:

Next week we will read the story of the Megillah  and will place it in our “Pringles” can. (Only if I have enough cans).

Please keep sending more “Pringles” cans.

Cursive Hebrew letters:

We are almost finished learning how to write cursive Hebrew letters. The students focused on forming the letters correctly and reading words written in cursive script.

I am sending home the first work book for you to keep.

Homework:

Some children are still having trouble getting their homework notebook back to school on time.

Please make sure your child is writing his/her homework with pencil only!

Please make sure the homework notebook is placed back into your child’s  backpack.

It is extremely important to have it in class on time, otherwise I can’t post their homework.

 “My library” הַסִפְרִיָה שֶלִי "   

This week’s book is called:"וְנַהֲפוֹךְ הוּא"- Ve’ na ha foch Hoo- (the opposite!)

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 and will learn.

Ariot:

This week Ariot is going to Ava’s home.

Shabbat Shalom

Morah Irit Karavani

Vocabulary words:

This is our word list.

The test will be on Thursday  2/22/18.

Questionשְׁאֵלָה 

Who? מִי   

What?מָה   

Why?לָמָה  

How many?כַּמָה

Where? אֵיפֹה

You can practice with flash cards at:

http://www.flashcardmachine.com/1265507/d77f

בהצלחה!

פרשת שירה 2018

Dear Parents

Today we prepared food for the birds. Please read about our parasha to understand why.

Tu Bishvat

This week we almost finished the Tal-Am unit for Tu-Bishvat. We focused on the tree’s parts.

Next week I will send the workbook for you to review and to keep.

Purim Project:

Please send to school an empty big size “Pringles” can. (If you can send more than one, that will be great! It is supposed to be easier than sending the house and the family Pictures).
 “My library” הַסִפְרִיָה שֶלִי "   
This week’s book is called:"עץ גדול עץ קטן" -“Etz Gadol Etz Katan?” (Big tree, small tree). When we read the book, we clapped our hands each time we read the words “Gadol Gadol” (big). We snapped every time we read the words “Katan Katan” (small).
Please encourage your child to read it aloud to you over the weekend and clap your hands and snap to follow to the story. It is a great way to practice all the vocabulary we have learned.

Ariot:

This week Ariot is going to Sydney’s home.

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 “ז”.

 Hebrew workbook:

This week we finished our workbook which teaches about the vowel “Holam” (the “O” sound). We learned to spell words with all four of the vowels we have learned (“Ah”, “Ei” ,“O” and “Eh”).

We are now learning the last vowel: Shoorok & Koobots (oo sound).

This means that soon we will finish our reading program. Wow!  

Andria Rosenbaum's visit to CTA

Please look in the folder for more details.

Parashat Hashavua:
This Shabbat is Shabbat Shirah, (The Shabbat of Song). The Shabbat on which the Parsha of  Beshalach is read is called Shabbat Shirah, because it contains the song sung by Israel after the splitting of the Red Sea.
We learned that one of the customs associated with this Shabbat is to place crumbs outside for the birds to eat. We read in the Torah this week about G-d giving the "מן" (“Maan”) to the nation of Israel, for their sustenance. Moshe told the nation of Israel that the Maan would not fall on Shabbat, and therefore they should collect a double portion on Friday.  Datan and Aviram, who wanted to embarrass Moshe and weaken his authority, took Maan they had collected on Friday, and after dark placed it out on the ground. When morning came, they hoped that people would think that the Maan did indeed fall on Shabbat, and Moshe was wrong.  However, no Maan was found on Shabbat morning. Why?  Because the birds carried it away before the nation awoke. Therefore, the nation indeed trusted Moshe and respected the sanctity of the Shabbat. To reward the birds for this noble deed, we feed them the week on which we read of the surrounding incident, the week of Beshalach.
There is an additional reason why we feed the birds this week. The chirping of birds is not just idle song. It is the way that birds praise G-d for providing them with their needs. Because, this week, we too sing praises of G-d for providing for us in the desert, we recognize the constant song of praise chirped by the birds by providing for their needs.

This is our word list from Ariot 3.

The test will be on Thursday  2/2/18.

מילים למבחן

Crying בּוֹכֶה/בּוֹכָה-

Starכּוֹכָב-

Sickחוֹלֶה/ חוֹלָה -

Writing כּוֹתֵב/ כּוֹתֶבֶת-

It hurtsכּוֹאֵב -

Jar כַּד -

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Shabbat Shalom,

Morah Irit

ראש חודש שבט 2018

Dear parents,

We started the month of  “Shevat” with  great new learning:

Tu Bishvat:

 We started to learn the Tal-Am unit for Tu-Bishvat.  We used gematria 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”.

Cursive Hebrew letters:

This week we started learning 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 first two letters, א&ב

SHALOM BAKITA (Shalom in the Classroom):

This week we finished the “Shalom 1- Shalom Bakita”  workbook from theTal-Am program.

The workbook deals with everyday life in the classroom from 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.

I am sending the workbook to review and keep at home.

Ariot 2: 
This week we finished Ariot 2 workbook. We read and studied the following stories:
“Adon Balon” (Mr. Balloon) We learned the names of all the colors in Hebrew as well as the words: Dag (fish), Dov (bear), Gag (roof) and Vav (hook).
“ Zozo Ha avazon” (Zozo the goose) In this story we learned the words Zaz (moving), Bayit (a house) Har (a mountain) the goose family and Dag (fish).
In the process we learned to differentiate between animate and inanimate objects.
“Ach Bamishpacha” (“A Brother in the family”).
Our Hebrew vocabulary included words like: “Chagiga” (party), Mishpacha (family), Aba (dad), ima (mom) dod (uncle) doda (aunt) Saba (grandpa) Savta (Grandma) Ach Chadash (a new brother), Achot chadasha (a new sister), Buba (doll), B’dicha (joke).

We really liked reading the story “Oh Oh Hatoast”!  (Yes, that’s how you also say toast in Hebrew!)
We learned the following Hebrew words: Tabach (chef), Oto (a car) Televiziya (T.V), Tov and Tova (good)
The chef likes (ohev)  good toast, a yellow one and not a black one.

-For the letter “Yud” we read the story:
“Yesh Chagiga” (“There is a Party”) We learned the Hebrew words: “Yoshev” and “Yoshevet”(“sitting” for boys and “sitting” for girls). We practiced these words by saying sentences in Hebrew about ourselves such as:  “ Ani yoshev/yoshevet al ha keese”- “I’m sitting on the chair”).
We also learned that the word “yoyo” is the same word in Hebrew and in English.

“My library” הַסִפְרִיָה שֶלִי "   

Please read the 5 stories from Ariot 2 workbook

Ariot:

This week Ariot is going to Asher’s home.

Parashat Hashavuah

 This Friday you will find a picture page in the folder with the 10 makot (the Ten Plagues). We reviewed the 10 makot 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).

Vocabulary words:

This week’s words will be from Tu Bishvat unit:

The test will be on Thursday, 1-25-2018.

Tree עֵץ 

Leafעָלֶה

Leavesעָלִים

Flower פֶּרַח

Fruit  פְּרִי

You can practice with flash cards at:
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Shabbat Shalom,
Morah Irit