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Read below to see what we are doing in Kittah Gan.
Today we continued our Shema and Modeh Ani project. The students brought home their posters with Shema on one side and Modeh Ani on the other. Please encourage your children to say Modeh Ani when they wake up and Shema when they go to sleep and when they wake up. Shabbat Shalom!
Morah Emma
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Today we learned the whole megillah! No really! We had a great morning, so busy that I forgot to take pictures. Our first part of our Purim study was a special story telling by Morah Rena Meyers. She is a professional story teller and that is one of her favorite stories. The children had an important roll in telling the story. We then returned to our classroom to illustrate our own megillot. Your children can use them to tell you the story this weekend. Of course you can hear the Megillah this weekend at Shaarey Zedek during the Purim celebration Saturday night. We do have school Sunday morning so we can celebrate more together. I wish you all a Chag Purim Sameach. Morah Emma Last week's torah reading including the section on receiving the 10 commandments. As we read this book, the children asked some excellent questions about G-d. After we wrote our questions down on the board, we sought out an expert for some answers. Rabbi Dahlen was incredibly helpful. His explanation to many of these was that G-d was around before there was anything and he will be around after there is anything. Therefore, G-d has no age and takes up no specific space but can be everywhere. We started learning about Purim and will make our own Megillot next week. We also learned the letter Mem which is the first letter in מָקָרוֹנִי (macaroni). I wish you all a Shabbat Shalom. Morah Emma We celebrated Tu B'shevat a day late but that's ok. As a class, we planted a tree in Israel! How? We bought one in class from JNF! We spent a portion of our class time working on our aleph bet, learning the letter Lamed, getting our binders caught up, and practicing the sounds they each make. We also had a lockdown drill. Afterwards, we had a bit of extra energy so we did some exercises. The kids picked what we did and how many reps but the rule was they had to be able to count that high in Hebrew. Here are some pictures. Remember, there is no school this weekend.
Shabbat Shalom, Morah Emma Our lesson today was about Adam and Eve's sons Cain and Abel. We talked about how both brothers made sacrifices (which described as somewhat like fancy dinners) to G-d. The difference was Abel picked his best lamb while Cain only gave some extra crops. G-d liked Abel's "dinner" better. This made Cain jealous and he ended up killing his brother. We focused on two messages: even if we get jealous, we still need to be nice to our siblings and we should always give our best effort. We then continued with our aleph-bet. Today we added a new mode for learning the sounds - we added movement to each sound. For example, we huff like we were out of breath for the letter Hey and we look like we are screaming really loudly for the letter aleph but really we make no sound. We have studied all the letters in this picture. I will be out of town for the next two weeks but Sophie, Sophie and our substitute will take great care of the students and continue with our learning.
Shabbat Shalom, Morah Emma Welcome back! We got right back to work on our Aleph Bet letters and stories from the Torah. Take a look at pictures of our arks and our letters. Each student is making their own Aleph-bet binder. Feel free to come into class and have them show you what they are learning.
Shabbat Shalom Morah Emma We've continued our study of Chanukah. Today, during tefillah we even made a human menorah in order to practice the brachot.
We broke into smaller groups again this week to continue our focus on our Aleph Bet. Next week you will be able to see the binders we are creating but in the meantime, the students brought home review sheets for two more letters today. We have started getting ready for Chanukah in our classroom. During tefillah, we started learning the brachot we sing when we light the menorah. Some of our students already know them! We compared how they are similar and different to Shabbat candles. When we returned, we had a visit from Kitah Bet who sang a Chanukah song for us. After the visit, we began a super secret Chanukah project. Make sure your students are here the next two weeks so they can finish their project and bring it home in time for Chanukah. As the students finished their project they broke up into partners and worked with the madrichim on reviewing the first three letters of the Aleph-bet. We are excited to show you are Aleph-bet binders we are making in class. Shabbat Shalom! |
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