Dear parents
The last few weeks the children got more and more familiar with Hebrew phrases.
They know how to describe the weather in Hebrew and love to do it daily.
We use these words: Shemesh (sun), Ananim(clouds), Geshem(rain), Ruach(wind).
They can ask simple questions in Hebrew with the vocabulary they learned so far and they all love to participate as long as Bentzi (the turtle puppet) is listening and talking back to them.
We also learn these Hebrew letters: “Alef” “Bet” “Gimel” and “Daled”.
Ask them to sing you our “Alef Bet song” they just can’t get enough of it.
Vocabulary we learned so far: Shalom (Hello) Boker Tov (good morning) Ani(me)
Atah/Aht (you boy/girl) Naeim Meod (very pleasent) used for when you introduce people to each other. To help with introductions and review, I use favorite children’s characters. They hold the character and introduce themselves, the others answer that character with the Hebrew greeting.
Vocabulary we learned with our letters:
Aba (dad) Ima(mom) Balon(baloon) Banana Gezer(carrot) Glidah(ice cream)
Dag(fish) Delet(door).
Shabbat Shalom and have a great week!
Morah Leah


We have a new friend joining our class on Tuesday!! His name is Bennett Handler and he visited a couple of times this week. He is a wonderful addition to our classroom and will give us an even number of 16 kiddos! The kids were so loving and welcoming it was wonderful.

Lots of Strep throat going around…several students have been out with it, so be mindful of this if your kinder hints at throat pain. One student showed negative on the “fast” throat culture, but the test that is back the next day showed him positive for strep, just something to keep in mind. Also, we found out about a stomach bug that one of our students had. Ah, the season is upon us!!

This week was a wonderful week of colors!! We sang songs about the colors, learned the words on our word wall, and used them in centers galore! You will notice your kinder cam home with lots of books this week, they are simple to read and “personalized” through their coloring. The kids loved wearing colors each day and it helped reinforce the learning. We also talked about punctuation this week; comma, period, exclamation point, and question mark.
We made so many patterns during math this week. We clapped, snapped, stomped, stood, sat, you name it, if it made a pattern we did it! It was so fun and an active way of learning all about patterns. To extend this the students then had to “name” their pattern, not just with a color but with a letter. This really helped them think in a different way about patterns and what they represent. We recreated pattern using fabric and wrapping paper, this was a tough concept. It involved understanding how to extend the pattern in more than one way. We’re adding to this particular piece and should finish it this week. We’ll be doing patterns several more weeks and I plan on extending this into finding things in nature that have pattern, I expect it to get very interesting.

The guided reading groups are set and will begin on Tuesday morning. A few important things about what to expect your child to bring home…
1. Your child will bring home a bag with a book and a reading log each night. It is imperative that they bring it to school everyday.
2. Monday through Thursday they will get a new book, if we complete it during our reading in class. Some may take two days, depending on the specific skill being taught.
3. On Friday, they will get to choose their favorite book to take for the weekend. They must bring it back on Monday.
4. An adult will need to initial daily after reading, and return the log with the book and bag.

On Friday, we had a pizza party to celebrate Sara’s birthday. We invited our friends in Chaverim to come make pizza with us, it was wonderful. We paired a Kinder with a Chaverim child and they helped the little guys make their pizza. It was great community building, and yummy too! The kids seemed to take their “jobs” seriously, being not only a host to our guests but a helper to our friends.
We started our class scarecrow this week, he’s awesome! If you can, come by and see him, he’s off to a great start.

***In honor of Veteran’s Day on Monday, November 12th, we’d like to take a field trip to the Veranda retirement community on Friday, November 9th. We plan to take flags and sing the National Anthem as well as the Pirate Song (this is the kid’s favorite). We could use parent drivers or the Veranda has a bus that is available. If you’d like to drive, please let me know. We would need enough drivers to transport 16 students with booster seats.