Dear Parents,
Our first graders have been very busy learning more letters and sentence building. We learned letter Kaf and Koof and using small hints helps the students remember the letters. For example, the letter koof in our workbook had a picture of an older woman leaning on the letter and one student said it looks like she is holding a cane so from there the next student had examples for other letters and it became easier and easier for them to read the letters. It was great listening to them sort out the examples for several of the letters. The students practiced writing the letters several times and we read sentences and had to choose which picture matched with which sentence. All the students did an incredible job, I was very proud of all of them.
We had a puzzle that needed to be solved and by doing that each student needed to circle the letter that did not belong in the sentence and the remaining letters spelled out two words and the students had so much fun being Hebrew detectives.
We shared our first students experience with the Shabbat bear and talked about what we had for Shabbat dinner and who was at our dinner table. We shared the wonderful photos with the bear and the students family. The bear went home this week with the next student. Its so wonderful to see how excited they are to do this project and each student has taken on the responsibility of bringing the bear back each week for their classmate to have a turn. They are already asking me if they can have a second turn so we have lots of excited students.
We continued our unit on Who Is a Jewish Hero? The students learned about synagogue community helpers who perform acts of longing-kindness. They learned about people such as rabbis, cantors, teachers and volunteers are all Jewish Hero's Each student shared their experience on how they were a Jewish Hero this week.
Zachary--"Helped some random person by holding a door open for them"
Olivia--"Cleaned snow off her driveway"
Tony-"Held the door open at Somerset Mall for some random person"
"An old lady at the Cleveland Cavalier game was walking and I held the
door open for her--she didn't have any teeth but said thank you for holding
the door open" "It felt really good doing something good"
Justin-Scraped snow off of mom's window on her car
We discussed how it feels good to help others and we discussed examples of the importance of being a Jewish Hero. Rabbi Starr came into our class and we told him we are talking about being a Jewish Hero and he jumped in our room like a superhero...the students enjoyed his visit and we talked about the difference in hero's.
Olivia said Hebrew school is better than cupcakes
Tony said Hebrew is better than everything in the NBA except the Cavs
Justin said Hebrew is better than Hanukkah
Zachary said Hebrew is better than Ford Field.
We continued our G'milut Chasadim lesson about Who Is a Jewish Hero and why Tzedakah is a way of helping. It includes welcoming guests, being polite, saying you are sorry, and taking care of the earth. When we give tzedakah, we are giving money to help the world be a better place. Both tzedakah and g'milut chasadim are special ways of being a Jewish hero. We will continue discussing ways to contribute to society and help keep our community a better place to live.
Enjoy the rest of your week and I look forward to seeing your children on Sunday.
Thank you,
Lisa Dresner Wais
Our first graders have been very busy learning more letters and sentence building. We learned letter Kaf and Koof and using small hints helps the students remember the letters. For example, the letter koof in our workbook had a picture of an older woman leaning on the letter and one student said it looks like she is holding a cane so from there the next student had examples for other letters and it became easier and easier for them to read the letters. It was great listening to them sort out the examples for several of the letters. The students practiced writing the letters several times and we read sentences and had to choose which picture matched with which sentence. All the students did an incredible job, I was very proud of all of them.
We had a puzzle that needed to be solved and by doing that each student needed to circle the letter that did not belong in the sentence and the remaining letters spelled out two words and the students had so much fun being Hebrew detectives.
We shared our first students experience with the Shabbat bear and talked about what we had for Shabbat dinner and who was at our dinner table. We shared the wonderful photos with the bear and the students family. The bear went home this week with the next student. Its so wonderful to see how excited they are to do this project and each student has taken on the responsibility of bringing the bear back each week for their classmate to have a turn. They are already asking me if they can have a second turn so we have lots of excited students.
We continued our unit on Who Is a Jewish Hero? The students learned about synagogue community helpers who perform acts of longing-kindness. They learned about people such as rabbis, cantors, teachers and volunteers are all Jewish Hero's Each student shared their experience on how they were a Jewish Hero this week.
Zachary--"Helped some random person by holding a door open for them"
Olivia--"Cleaned snow off her driveway"
Tony-"Held the door open at Somerset Mall for some random person"
"An old lady at the Cleveland Cavalier game was walking and I held the
door open for her--she didn't have any teeth but said thank you for holding
the door open" "It felt really good doing something good"
Justin-Scraped snow off of mom's window on her car
We discussed how it feels good to help others and we discussed examples of the importance of being a Jewish Hero. Rabbi Starr came into our class and we told him we are talking about being a Jewish Hero and he jumped in our room like a superhero...the students enjoyed his visit and we talked about the difference in hero's.
Olivia said Hebrew school is better than cupcakes
Tony said Hebrew is better than everything in the NBA except the Cavs
Justin said Hebrew is better than Hanukkah
Zachary said Hebrew is better than Ford Field.
We continued our G'milut Chasadim lesson about Who Is a Jewish Hero and why Tzedakah is a way of helping. It includes welcoming guests, being polite, saying you are sorry, and taking care of the earth. When we give tzedakah, we are giving money to help the world be a better place. Both tzedakah and g'milut chasadim are special ways of being a Jewish hero. We will continue discussing ways to contribute to society and help keep our community a better place to live.
Enjoy the rest of your week and I look forward to seeing your children on Sunday.
Thank you,
Lisa Dresner Wais
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