News for week of 2-18-08

What a great week we had! For some reason on Tuesday the class was extremely loud, not out of control “coo-coo crazy” but the noise level was HIGH…we then got back to business and having fun and had a great week.

We worked on money books that involved starting the idea of change and how many cents make a coin amount, it was a fun creative project and the kids seemed to enjoy making them. We also had a great center activity about time, transferring digital time to analog clocks. Lots of thinking happening at that center.
We worked more on short vowel sounds and making sentences with words.

Our literacy focus has been determining pretend from real information. We ask ourselves “could this really happen?”. We are also continuing to work on being a good reading detectives…looking for information without even reading the words, then we’re making predictions based on the text. We will continue this along with building on other skills.
We worked on learning the “ay” family and the “y” rule at the end of a word.

We started a “Silly Newsletter” that the kids really got into. We looked at real newspapers and decided on the layout then put some silly stories together. The kids were put into groups then given the objective to make a story of silly ideas, they each had to give input. The only perimeters were that it had to have the basic story elements, characters, setting, problem and solution. The ideas generated were amazing and it’s going to be wonderful when it’s complete. Hopefully we’ll complete the stories and our newsletter can go out by the end of the week. We’re going to begin planning for Purim---YEA!! Can’t wait, we have so much fun stuff in mind, should be lots of fun.

We have really enjoyed the parent conferences so far and are looking forward to the rest, the extra time has given us more time to share wonderful information about the year we’ve had!

Dear parents

The last few weeks we added few more words to our vocabulary. The children can say now more complex sentences in different combinations. We still have to repeat over and over again the old phrases that we learned because if we don’t use them on a daily basis the children tend to forget.
We learned the verbs ochel/ochelet (eat) omer/omeret (say) and the names of different kind of foods.
I use pictures of foods that their names sounds a lot like English so the children look at the pictures and can say it with out difficulties. For example: macaroni, melon, yogurt, pizza, pancake and so on. We also learned the word beteavon (have a good appetite).
We are up to the letter Ayin in our Alef Bet song, which mean we only have six more letters and we will know all the Hebrew letters, the children are so excited about that.
Here are the parts of the Alef Bet song for the letters Samech and Ayin

Samech--- chag sukkot

Ayin--- aytz yarok

Leah