Kitah Aleph students learned a new Hebrew letter today, the letter resh which makes the sound /r/. The children are reading so many letters now and reading them so beautifully!
We continue practicing the names of the colors in Hebrew. Today the children made their own color bingo games. They are getting better and better at remembering the names of the parts of the body in Hebrew as well. They are fabulous players in our games of Shimon Omer.
Kitah Aleph students have been working on learning the Chanukah candle blessings. Cantor Ken has been teaching them a number of Chanukah songs as well. Ask your child to sing to you, counting to eight in Ladino, a mixture of Old Spanish, Hebrew, Aramaic and some other languges. Other favorites include: Sivivon and Lots of Latkes.
In class today, we reviewed the story of Chanukah including the two miracles: the miracle of the oil that should have been enough only for one day but lasted eight days and the miracle of the small number of Hasmoneans (Maccabbees) and the victory over the strong, huge Assyrian army. The children were reminded that it is traditional to eat potato latkes and jelly donuts on Chanukah to remind us of the miracle of the oil. We also talked about the difference between a regular menorah (seven branches) and a chanukiah (nine branches) and the difference between a dreidel/sivivon in the USA verses a dreidel in Israel. Outside of Israel, the dreidel has the letters, nun, gimel, hey, shin for a great miracle happened there. Inside Israel the final letter is a pay, for a great miracle happened here ie in Israel.
Bar read a Hebrew story to the children about an apartment shared by a group of animals. This is a well loved Hebrew story that every child in Israel knows quite well.
In torah today, the children acted out the rivalry between the two sons of Isaac and Rebecca. The children heard the story of Jacob trading a bowl of stew for Eisav's birthright. Kitah Aleph students agreed that that was not a very fair trade. One child suggested that perhaps Eisav agreed to the trade because he really did not want to become the head of the family after Isaac's death. We will be continuing this story next week.
Have a wonderful week. Shavua Tov, Hamorah Joanne
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