Shalom!שלום We started our new unit in Hebrew about food.
Please watch the story below and practice the fruit vocabulary. On Friday we went on a Field Trip to the National Gallery of Art. I prepared a scavenger hunt and we tried to follow the following route. Click on our plan here. We started with Leonardo da Vinci's Ginevra, stopped in gallery 50 to see Dutch still live paintings with food and flowers, walked to the East Building, enjoyed escalators and a huge elevator, visited Calder's animals and arrived to the huge blue rooster on the terrace. See our adventures in the Moment of the Week slideshow below.
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Picture Day sneak preview and other great moments of the week. Shalom!שלום This week we read the book about Ayelet who is going on a walk and meets different animals. She places the animals in her pocket, on her shoes, on her head.... It was a great book to practice clothing and body vocabulary words. Watch the video and listen to the story below. In addition we learned words of the animals. Chipushit - ladybug Tzipor - bird Chilazon - klavlav (kelev) - doggy kis - pocket kis hasimla - pocket of the dress tzav - turtle giraf -giraffe On Friday, we exhibited our books about Datya Ben-Dor's rhymes and poems. During the exhibition we also screened the video about us reading from our books. We are going to send home the books before spring break. Ask us to read rhymes and poems in Hebrew at home. Click here to see the film. Greetings and Salutations once again Gan Ramat Gan Families!
Over the last few weeks on the English side of things we have been continuing to create awesome space projects. They have played with space slime, made mini telescopes,and of course finished up the jar nebulas. They have had an absolute blast with this unit! They enjoyed all of the books that we have read on the subject but their favorite was, “8 Spinning Planets”. Their favorite song from this unit has been, “Zoom Zoom Zoom We’re going to the moon”. On Monday if you look at the dry erase board you can see which planet your child chose to live on if they didn’t live on Earth, which was pretty cool. I have loved every moment of teaching the children this unit! Okay...one last thing about the planets, well Pluto in particular! They have learned that Pluto is not a planet because it has too many neighbors. To be a planet you have to be round, and have your own space(no neighbors). Pluto is round, but has way too many neighbors, hence the downgrade to a dwarf planet. It’s in our solar system, but is not considered one of our planets. During Math and reading small groups, the class has been been working on letter recognition, sound recognition, and beginning word knowledge. The last one is based on how well they are doing with the first two, if they can not identify that many letters, we are working on just that the identification portion(and name recognition). They have also been doing rainbow names, which is basically getting them familiar with recognizing the letters in their name and then learning to write it by tracing over each letter with different color markers(hence creating rainbow names). During math we used a lot of block building materials, number counting games, and floor puzzles (problem solving). Your children have done a wonderful job working together in a large group and in small groups. FYI, on Wednesday all space projects will go home, so that’s the: Moon dioramas, Jar nebula’s, and the mini telescopes. So please either take them with you Wednesday morning, or upon pick up in the evening that day. Until next time... Ms. Cindy |
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