Kitah Alef Update

Dear Parents,

Welcome back! Hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving and a relaxing few days off.  Last week we learned the letter Zayin. We learned how to read the word Zebra in Hebrew and practiced writing the new letter. Your children colored in a zebra that had different Hebrew letters on it. Each letter had to be colored a specific color and when they finished they could see the zebra very clearly. They really enjoyed this and it was a great activity for them because they didn't realize they were actually learning.

We worked on our word building and each student read various lines of different letters and vowels. The also learned the vowel "Eh" they understand that three dots make the eh sound along with five dots. Some students wrote letters and vowels on the board and other students had to figure out what they were writing. The students also had to listen to several words in Hebrew and match them to the proper picture. For example, Degel is Hebrew for flag...the word Degel was spelled out in he brew and the picture of the flag was mixed in with ten other pictures of different things. Some students figured it out right away and some had to think about it for a bit. Both were successful at matching the correct words to the correct pictures. Once they knew it was okay to make a mistake, they were more relaxed and enjoyed this exercise rather than being frustrated.

Lastly, we played an End Game which was listening to the sound they hear at the end of each word. I read the word and they had to focus on what the sound was at the end of the word and find the Hebrew letter in the sentence and circle the correct answer.  We talked a bit about Hanukkah and will continue learning about the holiday and the miracle of the oil. We will continue learning the next letter and reviewing the ones we have learned so far.

Have a great rest of your week and we will see each other on Sunday.

Thank you,
Morah Dresner  Wais