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Saturday, November 26, 2016

Grade 5: Kitah Hey- Diana's Update

Dear Kitah Hey parents,

Fifth grade Hebrew is going great! The students have been working hard on their Hebrew reading skills, participating in a variety of games including a class favorite, BINGO. After learning the Vayehi Binsoa prayer, I created several BINGO boards that included words from this prayer. Words were called out and the students were expected to find the correct word on their boards. The fifth graders had so much fun with this and I was very impressed with their ability to find the words so quickly. 

Last Sunday, the students spent all of class working on their group art projects where they collaborated to artistically represent morning blessings of their choosing. During this time, the students showed their ability to both delegate and compromise. The projects are coming along beautifully.

This past Tuesday, we continued on with Hebrew games. 

Three different games were designed and played during this time:

#1  As our class will soon begin learning the Hebrew vocabulary for emotions (happy, sad, excited, etc.), I created a memory/matching game to preview this. Emotions with their corresponding picture and Hebrew name were put on cards. Teams played this game against each other, competing for the most matches, in order to expose themselves to this new vocabulary. 

#2  Another game students participated in was a Hebrew word race. Students took turns reading a column of Hebrew words as fast as they could, while timed, to see who would win. Some of the students even asked to race against me! They loved doing this.

#3  The last game the students played was designed just like a game board (boxes filled with previously learned Hebrew words winding around the page). Students took turns picking numbers from a deck of cards to find out how many boxes they needed to move. The students had to correctly say the word they landed on. Each word was worth a certain number of points, needless to say, the students got competitive. They each took their time so that they could carefully read each word.

Who knew learning could be so fun?

A brief note regarding homework:
Because of the art project, we have not yet had time to begin learning the prayer said when taking the Torah out of the ark. We will begin this on Tuesday. The fifth graders will receive a December calendar at this time and a copy of that calendar will also be uploaded here on this blog. 

Hope you had a great Thanksgiving break!
Diana

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