5th Grade Week of 2/11

In Chumash we are fully into Joseph’s time in Egypt. We are exploring how he is changing as a person because of his experiences. We discussed how we have had experiences in life that have also changed the way we act and think. We are now looking at all the dreams Joseph interprets in Egypt. We translated carefully the text while he was in jail. Students had goals in their new chevruta to practice kindness while reading aloud to each other. They did a great job kindly correcting each other and debating possible translations. We are now looking at the text where Pharaoh has his dreams. Students are looking for repeating words and roots and highlighting and underlining them. They are then chunking the text into sections using context clues skills instead of reading it work by word. At first their were some groans looking at a full page of unlabeled Hebrew. After a few days they are getting exciting about how organized they are making it and how much they are understanding without word for word translation. You children all write wonderful diary entries in first person as Joseph. They are on their google classroom. I recommend asking them to share it with you! Have a wonderful week off!-Laura

5th reg:

This week we continued our unit about the human body and leisure time. To this we added a review of adjectives . The kids practiced using those adjectives by describing family members or classmates.

5th acc: We continued the unit of ” Biographies and places”. The goal of the unit is the strengthen the usage of past tense and expand narratives. We focused on Golda Meir as the first (and only) Israeli prime minister in Israel. In addition, we learn about Eliezer Ben Yehuda and his work as part of the revival of the Hebrew language.-Anat