Shalom!שלום We had a wonderful week in Gan Ramat Gan with the warmest unit of the year. We learn about families and homes. We moved into our new home with our pets in the Dramatic Play area. Played our first serious memory game in Hebrew. This week was the first time when we played memory game with pairs. We practiced our family vocabulary and developed our visual memory skills. (see moments of the week slideshow) We played Bingo as well and practiced to link words in Hebrew. For example: kelev - dog chatul -cat kelev vechatul - dog and cat saba - grandfather savta -grandmother savta vesaba - grandmother and grandfather This is a very important step in language learning, we can practice linking with any nouns we learned. For example: adom veyarok - red and green kise veshulhan - chair and table This week we read an Israeli classic: Eliezer veHaGezer (Eliezer and the Carrot) We played the story several times, and in small groups we recreated the story with puppets. Please watch the song version of the story below. Greetings again and welcome to the Gan Ramat Gan blog! Last week on the English side of things, we continue to work on letter recognition and letter sound, because every child does not learn the same thing at the same time so of course we are taking our time and continuing the work. We have also moved on to rhyming words using fun games. This allows me to see how they are comprehending rhyming words. What I’ve noticed is that I have to try a different method of teaching rhyme based on a child’s readiness skills because many were having a hard time with the concept. I have a few new things to try next week, and we’ll see how that works. I will change it up as many times as necessary in order to teach them this skill. Our new unit is of course homes and families, so we are reading books on different kinds of families, and different kinds of homes. I used math concepts to count each member of each child’s household, and then group them based on that amount. So we found out that there are seven groups of four member households in our class, next in line is three, and one group of five, etc. So in essence the children are learning math concepts as they are learning about families. Remember to continue to work with your child on letter, number, and sound recognition in a non-pressure type of way. Based on my assessments thus far...your children will be ready for pre-k 4 this fall, so You need not worry. You can teach pre-reading, pre-writing, and math concepts using real life experiences.(taking walks, going grocery shopping, going on weekend field trips, etc). Learning environments are everywhere...point it out and have discussions with your little one!! Until next time! Ms. Cindy Moments of the Week Slideshow
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Greetings and Salutations Gan Ramat Gan Families! Last week on the English front, I focused on completing the assessments which were ALL done by Thursday. As I got the chance to see how much they generally improved with letter recognition and letter sounds, my focus was on making sure to continue to take my time with Fundations each morning. It is now very evident through these assessments that it is working and they are picking up more and more. Everyone has improved in at least two areas, but some in ALL the areas. So with things that I noticed need more work...I am slowly implementing verbal and visual learning experiences that will promote comprehension skills in these areas that need more work. I am very proud of our children!! Next week our new unit starts, and it is all about Families and Homes! Myself and Ms. Anna will be creating a house in the dramatic play area out of boxes. I already requested many boxes from Mr. Paul, and he came through big time! So we will create a family room, a kitchen, and possibly a small bedroom. Keeping this in mind, if you want to volunteer to bring in real items like: dish towels, grown-up mommy and daddy clothes/ shoes/ purses/ wallets, empty juice containers/cereal boxes, butter containers with lids, etc. Also yoga mats for our beds, small kitchen curtains, family room curtains (we can hang from the wall). Just think about what you have in your kitchen, family room, and a child’s bedroom at home that we can safely use in our makeshift house. Well, I guess that it for now! Remember Tuesday is a half day...now that’s it! So until next time... Ms. Cindy halom!שלום This week we learned about our families in Hebrew. We played memory, hiding and bingo games with family picture cards. Listened to and watched our Family Playlist songs in Hebrew. On Friday we celebrated Martin Luther King's birthday. We read a book of Shane W. Evans: We March. If you have a chance, find this book in your local library or click above to watch it on youtube. In the morning Ms. Cindy read the book in English. During Hebrew read aloud we read the book in Hebrew and learned the following sentences in Hebrew. Yesh li chalom. - I have a dream. Anachnu sharim. - We sing. Anachnu tzoadim. - We march. We also identified family members on the pictures.: Ima - Mother Aba - Father Ach -Brother Achot -Sister We listened to our Martin Luther King Playlist. In the afternoon we chose our favorite picture from the book see pictures below. MLK Day Album Moments of the Week: Greetings Gan Ramat families! On the English side of things...It’s Assessment Week!! Actually this week and next week are all about getting our students assessments completed, and since our previous body unit ended the week before our winter break, and the next one starts in about a week...this time is focused on seeing where your your child is academically, so that we can plan accordingly. I still had morning meetings with the children on Tuesday and Friday (today). We still had Fundations, but not second step. I introduced two new letters this week as well...V and W. After all of the assessments are complete, we will get ready for our new unit, which is “Family and Homes”. The read-a-Louds this week were: City Shapes, and Lewis Cardinals First Winter (two books I bought while in Williamsburg), and the children seemed to like both of these books! Well that’s it for now, so until next time... Ms. Cindy Shalom!שלום This week we reviewed the Hebrew vocabulary of our body. We learned a new game which helped us practicing the Hebrew words we already know. This game is the Hebrew version of "Simon said" In Hebrew we say "HaMelech Amar" which means the "king said" As we are going to start the Family Unit next week, we read the book about Naphtali again and again which teaches us family members besides the numbers. Ima - mother Aba- father Savta - grandmother Saba - grandfather Dag - fish Chatul -cat Kelev -dog Tuki - parrot Please play us the following video with Naphtali, the family members and the numbers. Started to listen to family songs in Hebrew. Click here to see and listen to the Family Playlist. We practiced tracing the numbers 1 and 2 this week.. Moments of the Week: |
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