March 13, 2016
Dear families:
Another great day in class! After
breakfast, we participated in tefillah. The students are becoming very adept
with the pages of the Siddur and with the prayers themselves. Today we looked
for . The vowel sign for the sound "ee". You can be very proud of how
well the children behave in the sanctuary.
STORY: We
read a book called Can You Guess? Purim Big Book. We reviewed
Purim—Esther, Mordecai, Ahashuerus, Haman, Vashti, Adar, the gregger, and
more. The children helped apply objects
to this Purim book.
CRAFT: Each
student made four finger puppets of their own design—for Esther, Mordecai,
Haman, and King Ahasuerus. They enjoyed
experimenting with the puppets.
HEBREW: Our lesson today
was in two parts—one was the vowel sound “ee,” represented by a . under any letter. Some examples are “eema” (mother), and
“keepah,” and” tzeepor” (bird). We also
learned עayin.
Some words beginning with ע are “etz “(tree), “etz hayyim”
(rollers for the Torah), “ayin” (eye), and “eparon” (pencil). Besides reading the lines to sound out the
letters, the children practice writing the letter and work in pairs to identify
letters from our review packs. Thank you
for helping the children review each week to reinforce the letters.
After craft, the students can
read books, play Purim games, or work with my magnetic Hebrew letters.
A FEW DETAILS:
Our breakfast is some cereal until 9:15. This is to supplement the breakfast they have at home. I have only one box for all the children to share.
Please empty your child's bag each week for projects, notices, and reinforcement pages.
Next week in anticipation of the Purim carnival at noon your child can come in costume to class. I will be wearing a costume I made a few years ago.
A few parents
asked: the first grade shema program, with the parents, is on May 22.
Have a wonderful
week.
Judy and Cheryl (Esther and Tzipporah)
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