Shalom!שלום This week we focused on short Hebrew conversations. First the teacher asked us questions and we answered later we tried to ask each other. Ma shlomech? (f) - How are you? Ma shlomcha? (m) - How are you? Tov - Good Lo tov - Not good Kacha-kacha - So-so Ma at loveshet? (f) - What are you wearing? Ma ata lovesh? (m) - What are you wearing? We continued to edit our Datia Ben-Dor books and practiced the following words: Clothing Colors We watched the following childrens' program about clothing. This is a great way to practice colors. Watch the video below: We also played many games in Hebrew. One of our favorite games is Hiding Clothes behind our back. We close our eyes and Ms. Anna hid clothing items when we open our eyes and find the items behind our backs, we need to identify them in Hebrew and place them to the matching picture in the middle of the circle.
We enjoyed outdoor play this week. We have a new blackboard outside so we could draw and write with chalk during recess.
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Greetings and Salutations Gan Ramat Gan Families!! Last week on the English side of things the children continued to focus on alphabet and sound recognition through Fundations. As usual I try and change up the way I do Fundations in order to make it fresh and exciting for the class. One new way is to have them close their eyes, randomly pick a letter from the bag, and shout...”Surprise!”, and then tell me what letter they picked, along with the sound and a word that began with that letter. We have also continued to work on our Space unit, which they are really enjoying. I’m quite sure our Saturday field trip to the Air and Space museum helped your child grasp the concept a little better, and the planetarium show...”The stars Tonight”, was an awesome learning experience as well. It wasn’t the Sesame Street show that we thought we would see...but generally they still enjoyed it! Also during the week, we finished up our moon dioramas, and started on our jar nebulas. We are making these using small jars with lids, fine glitter, cotton balls, acrylic paint, and water. They are having a blast with this project. I have six more students to finish up next week, and then we will start on our next activity revolving around our solar system. During center time they are playing with my space and astronaut table toys, and during math we used the astronauts with the counting strips. During small group(math and center) time we have used the paper rocket letter/sound, and counting matching sets. They have only used them once, since we’ve had to finish up and then begin time consuming activities. Next week however, we will utilize these rocket sets a lot more(Thanks Ms. Sam!). So far during this unit, your children have: made and played with moon sand, created their own constellations, made a moon diorama, made a tube rocket, and started on their jar nebulas. Let’s see what’s next shall we? Until next time... Ms. Cindy Shalom!שלום This week we continued to practice the words and sentences of the Clothing Unit.. As part of our celebration of Women's History Month, Mr. Townsend invited us to create a project featuring women who have made contributions to society. We chose Datia Ben Dor, who is an Israeli writer, we read many of her books and listened to her songs this year. We were working on our own books by editing Datia's rhymes and stories. In case you missed the Saturday Air and Space event and the Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden picnic, here is the link for a short Hebrew Treasure Hunt in the Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden. Find the sculptures and answer the questions in Hebrew. Shalom!שלום This week we read, watched and listened to the story of Giveret Shir (Ms. Song) several times. Giveret Shir has 3 hats, 3 shirts and 3 skirt in her wardrobe. She has to find out in what combination she wears her clothes to be different every day.. We practiced the following words and sentences: Ma hi loveshet? - What is she wearing.? Hi loveset - She wears.... chulza - shirt kova- hat chazait - skirt kahol - blue adom - red tzahov-yellow Watch the story below in two versions. The second one is told by the author: Datya Ben Dor We also played a new game which helped us memorizing the words and practice number recognition in Hebrew. We attached vocabulary cards to bowling puppets, rolled the ball ,collected the puppets which fell on the floor. Recognized both the clothing objects and the numbers. Then we placed the puppets on a corresponding number in the row. Greetings Gan Ramat Gan Families!! Last week the children continued their lessons on space exploration! They are really enjoying every part of this lesson, and I can’t wait to continue to teach this fun and educational science unit. So, last week they helped to make moon sand at one of the tables using flour and baby oil, and then I transferred it to the larger sensory table. They took turns throughout the week (2 at a time) playing at the table using cups, and spoons. I showed them how to make sand domes and castles by packing the sand down into the cups and turning them over. They had a blast! We also started on our moon dioramas as well. They first glued rocks (moon rocks) to the bottom of the box, the next day the painted the entire inside of the box a bluish gray, and added two astronauts, and on Monday we will finish up the dioarama, and start on the next project. Also when you arrive on Monday check out the library area, I made a little planetarium (have to add a few things). I think they will love it!! Last week week we also reviewed our letter recognition and sound, as well as number recognition and sound. Our read-a-louds were mostly related to space with a few exceptions, like pancakes, pancakes, and a few others. It was a very good week! So until next time... Ms. Cindy Shalom!שלום We continued to play games with clothes and we created our own wardrobe.. Every morning we describe what we are wearing (michnasayim -pants, simla- dress, hatzait - skirt, chulza - shirt). We created a new board game with pictures of clothes. We use a dice , count in Hebrew and try to reach the sweater with the snowman (sweder im ish sheleg) Our new Hebrew greating game has three options: At/a rotza/rotze (Do you want)
Greetings Gan Ramat Gan families! On the English side of things last week, the children enjoyed their second week of learning about our solar system, and they are having an absolute blast with this unit. I am also having a blast teaching this unit! They are learning little tidbits of information on each planet, as well as our closest star, the sun. I have introduced some new solar system songs, shared some videos of real astronauts at the space station doing everyday things, and watched a space shuttle take off, and then land. I read about seven different space books that Ms. Sam picked up from the library, and they played with my toy astronauts, rockets, space shuttles, and satellites during either center time or math time (mostly during math). They are loving every bit of this unit! We are also continuing to work on letter and sound recognition, rhyming words, counting, and putting quantities to numbers. The activity of the week was to create their very own rockets using paper towel tubes, the cone shaped paper cups, tissue paper and the paint sticks. This week we will be working on constellations, asteroids, and nebulas. Below are items that we need.
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