לך לך 2017

10.27.2017

בס"ד

Learning with "Ariot" in the Computer Lab:
Dear Parents,

On a weekly basis we are using Ariot in the computer lab to work on our Hebrew language skills.  Students hear on the computer the same story that we are currently reading in our Ariot workbooks.  This is providing them with a "fun" way to reinforce their newly learned skills and Hebrew vocabulary.  The students are extremely excited to use the special “noise cancelling” headphones, which helps them stay focused.

 “My library”  -  “ הַסִפְרִיָה שֶלִי "

This week’s book is called: “Shachar Bakita?” (?שחר בכיתה).

What happened to Shachar?  Is he in the classroom?

Please remind your child that he\she will get a “Dag”  (our fish reward) when he\she is returns the book with a signature.

Ariot:

This week Ariot went to Sydney’s home.

Hebrew workbook:

This week during the Alef Bet unit we almost finished part 3 of the workbook . We reviewed the name of the Aleph-Bet letters with their sounds and the vowel sound “AH” up to the letter “Ayin”. We focused on the meaning of “על” (on) and “

“ "על–יד (next to), We practiced writing sentences using these two important words.

Parashat Hashavua:

This Friday you will find a picture page in your child’s folder with a summary of the story of Parashat :

לך לך (Lech Lecha). We learned about the beginning of Avraham’s joureys. We learned the story of how Avraham discovered there was one G-d and what happened when he started to teach everyone about it. Please encourage your child to tell you the stories he/she learned about this Parasha using the pictures on the sheets.

We met “Avraham Avinu”  ( Moreh Dror) who came to our Kabbalt  Shabbat and showed us the land of Israel.

Prayer:

This week we have finished reading the entire “An’im Zemirot”  and we are now practicing singing it together.

Shabbat Shalom

Morah Irit.

נח 2017

בס"ד  ראש חודש חשון תשע"ח

Dear Parents,

I am very proud to introduce Ariot. Ariot is the “Lion” from the Tal-Am program.

Every Friday one of the 1^st grade students will have the honor and pleasure to host Ariot for the weekend.

In the Ariot’s backpack you will find Ariot along with a binder.

Please take a picture of your child and Ariot together and help your child write about their experience spending time with Ariot during the weekend.

It can be in English, or English and Hebrew, or only Hebrew.

(I am sending also a Rubik's Cube to play with. Please make sure it is in Ariot’s backpack as long with Ariot and the binder).

Please send everything back to school by Monday.

Ariot:

This week Ariot went to Jonah’s home.

”Shalom kitah Alef”

We read the story:”Shalom kitah Alef”-

 in this story the kids were excited to discover the lion named Ariot!

“My library”-“ הַסִפְרִיָה שֶלִי "

Book of the week: ”Shalom kitah Alef”- Shalom from Kitah Alef

SHALOM BAKITA (Shalom in the Classroom):

This week we started 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.

Hebrew workbook:

This week during the Alef Bet unit we finished part 2 of the workbook . We reviewed the name of the Aleph-Bet letters  with their sounds and the vowel sound “AH” up to the letter Lamed. We also focused on the final letters: “Kaf sofit”. We practiced writing words and we learned when to use a final letter.

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.

Prayer:

This week we started learning the beginning of “Baruch She’amar” prayer.

Parashat Hashavua-Parashat Parashat Hashavua

This Friday you will find in your child’s folder a picture page with a summary of the story of Parashat:  נח. We learned that Noach was 10 generations after Adam and Havah.

Please look at the Hebrew words we learned in this Parasha as well. We know Ark= Tevah,  תיבה  flood=Mabool  מבול and rainbow is Keshet קשת.

Shabbat Shalom from Morah Irit Karavani.

סוכות

בס"ד

סוכות תשע"ח

10.3.2017

Dear Parents,

This week we started the unit of Sukkot.

Your child will bring it home next week.

Calendar: We continued to develop and work on our Hebrew calendar skills.  We spent time locating Sukkot, Chol Hamoed and the last two days of Yom Tov on the calendar.

     4 species:

     We reviewed the names of the 4 species.

We compared each one of the 4 species. to our body parts:

Lulav= spine

Etrog= heart

Hadas= eye

Aravah= mouth

We also compared it to different kind of people by comparing the taste to people who learn Torah and smell to people who do Mitsvot (good deed).

Ushpizin:

We learned about the “7 ushpizin”. We learned their names and that every night we have one of the ushpizin coming to our sukkah as a guest.

You will find all of the 7 ushpizin names in one of your child’s decorations.

Decoration:

Your child is bringing a decoration to hang in the sukkah.

Please make sure to take it out from his/her backpack.

חג שמח    !

Happy Holiday!

לפני ראש השנה

בס"ד

אלול תשע"ז

9-15-17

Dear Parents,

We have been very busy continuing learning about Rosh Hashanah.

This week in Kabalat Shabbat with Moreh Dror we learned new things about the Shofar and we saw many type of “shofarot”.

Chagim (Holidays):

We continued working on our unit on Rosh Hashana. The students completed a project during Hebrew class and I will send it home B”H next week along with our Rosh Hashana workbook.

Please look for the Hebrew folder on Tuesday with our special projects.

Prayer:

We started the “An’im Zemirot” prayer. Wow! It is very impressive!

Hebrew:

This week we reviewed the Aleph-Bet letter names with their sounds as well as the “AH” vowel sound up to the letter “Tet”. We learned to read, sounding out and writ words. We also learned the meaning of some of the words.

Parashat Hashavua - Parashat Nitzavim and Vayeilech

This Friday you will find in the folder a Parasha sheet with pictures and a summary of what is in the Parasha. Please encourage your child to explain to you what in the pictures.

Shabbat Shalom, 

   Morah Irit.

כי תבוא

בס"ד חודש אלול תשע"ז

9.8.2017   

Dear Parents,                                                                     

 We have been very busy learning about Tishrey month.

Chagim (Holidays):

We were very busy learning about Rosh Hashanah.

Here are some of the thing we learned:

Rosh means "head" and Shanah means "year", together the two Hebrew words means: "head of the year". On Rosh Hashanh we go to "Bet-Keneset" (synagogue) and pray for a year of good health and peace. We need to think about the good things we did in the past year. We also promise to ourselves that in the year to come we will try to become better people by doing t'shuvah (repentance).

Prayer:

We Pray all the 3 parts of “Shema Israel”  all the way to “Emet” with the torah reading tune. Wow! It is very impressive!

Hebrew:
Our small groups are running very well. We are using a workbook called “Me Ot L’Ot”, where we learn to read, write, and sound out Hebrew words. This week, we finished the first “חוברת"- work book- up to the letter “Hey”. We learned the meanings of some of the Hebrew words and learned how to spell them as well. We focused on the “ ה” at both the beginning and the end of a word.  We learned that most of the time a “ ה” at the front of the Hebrew word means “The”.  We saw many examples of Hebrew sentences that start with “The”.

This week we also learned about the letter "ו"

We learned that "וְ" (veh) = And.

We practiced saying different things using "וְ" like: "אִמָא וְאַבָּא"

Please ask your child to say a sentence using- "וְ"  “Veh” (and) together with “הַ” (the) and ( "בַּ" ) in.

For example: “The fish and the Jar in the classroom”.

Parashat Hashavua-Parashat Ki Tavo This Friday you will find in your child’s folder a Parasha sheet with pictures and a summary of what is in the Parasha.  Please look inside each picture for the words your child wrote in the box.  The first graders learned about the Mitzvah  of “Bikurim”. “בִּיכּוּרִים”. We fulfill this Mitzvah by bringing the first fruits that our crops produce to the Kohein in the Bait Hamikdash. There, we said  special verses from the Torah to praise Hashem for the all the bounty He has provided us . We also learned about the “curses “ and “blessings” that Hashem will give us. Wonderful blessings  will come when we observe the Torah but if we do not observe the Torah, the Jews will receive curses.

Shabbat Shalom from Morah Irit.

Reading assignment:

I am sending home (at the back of this page) a list of words that are a combination of words of the letters Alef up to Vav.

Please let your child read it until he/she reads it fluently.

With your help and support we can make a real difference in your child’s Hebrew reading skills!

אַבָּא

בָּאָה

גַב

גַג

דָג

בָּד

גָד

הָב

הָבהָב

הָבָה

וָו

שבוע שני

בס"ד                                                                                                                                                    9.1.2017   בס"ד

9.1.2017

Dear parents

Thank you for coming to “Meet the teacher”

Chagim (Holidays):

We were very busy learning about Elu month and Rosh Hashanah.

We got to know about the Shofar, and Moreh Dror has even come every morning to blow the Shofar for us.

We learned a new song for the 12 Hebrew month, and we know that Rosh Hashnah starts on the first day of the first month of Tishri.

Prayer:
We learned the whole “Alenu  Leshabeach” at the end of the service. We added one more new prayer to our morning prayers:
“En ke elokenu” We love singing it with the music;
We are also saying the entire “Birkat Hamazon”. Please encourage your child to follow with his/ her finger along the words while he/she is davening or benching.

Hebrew:
Our small groups are running very well. We are using a workbook called “Me Ot L’Ot”, where we learn to read, write, and sound out Hebrew words. This week we finished up to the letter "ד" . We learned the meaning of some of the Hebrew words and learned how to spell them as well. 

Learning with "Ariot" in the Computer Lab:

On a weekly basis we will be visiting Ariot in the computer lab to work on our Hebrew language skills.  Students will hear on the computer the same story that we are currently working on in their Ariot workbooks.  This will provide them with a "fun" forum to reinforce their newly learned skills and Hebrew vocabulary.  The students are extremely excited to use the special noise cancelling headphones, which help them stay focused.

Parashat Hashavua - Parashat Ki Teitzei

This Friday you will find in the folder a Parasha sheet with pictures and a summary of what is in the Parasha. The first graders learned about the Mitzvah  of Hashavas Aveida. “השבת אבידה” which means we must return lost objects to their owner. A person cannot pretend that he does not see the object, and he must watch over the lost item until the owner returns for it. He/she also cannot use that object while it is in his/her possession. One must also ask the owner for signs in order to establish that the object is really his. We also learned about the Mitzvah of Tzitzit as well. We learned that there are 5 knots and 8 strings which add up to 13. We learned that there are 613 Mitzvot and looking at our Tzitzit reminds us to always be ready to follow the Mitzvot of Hashsem. Please encourage your child to explain to you what is in the other pictures as well.

Shabbat Shalom,
      Morah Irit.

שבוע ראשון

8.25.2018

Dear Parents,

First grade is doing very well. I am also sending this letter by Email. Please let me know if you did not receive it or if you would prefer me to send it to a different Email.

If you have any questions or concerns please feel free contact me at: iritkaravani@hotmail.com or ikaravani@torahacademy.org

Please look at the back of this page to see our class picture from the first day of school.

Here are some of the things we accomplished:
Prayer:

We are davening all together, reviewing what we already know by using the Artscroll Siddur during our daily Tefillah service. While singing the Tefillot, the children follow the words in the siddurim with their finger. This helps them become familiar and recognize the written word, which strengthens Hebrew reading skills. This week we added a new prayer to our service: “Ein ke’elokenu” We love singing it with the music! We also bentch Birkat HaMazon every day using a bencher as well.

We will be adding and learning new prayer as the year goes on.

Hebrew:

We are working in 3 groups. One groups work independently, one group works with Morah Malka and one group works with me. We are using a workbook called “Me Ot L’Ot”. We learn to read, write, decoding and sounding out words.

This week we finished the letter Alef!

Parashat Hashavua

Every Friday you will find in the folder the summary of the Parasha along with pictures. The first graders learned about the main ideas in the Parasha.

Please encourage your child to explain to you what’s in the pictures.

Please pass through the 1^st grade hallway, and see our bulletin board, were the students wrote in Hebrew about themselves.

Shabbat Shalom

Morah Irit.