3rd Grade: 10/29
Reading: We continued using Stone Fox to strengthen our reading skills. We worked on making predictions and furthering our predictions by saying HOW something might happen, not just WHAT. We practiced retelling the story, taking big steps to mention the important parts of the story. Towards the end, we noticed that the text leads us to ask questions. Questions about what happens in the story (Why did Grandfather not tell little Willy what to do about the farm?) and questions about why the author made certain choices (Why did the author title the book Stone Fox?) The ending of Stone Fox is quite... Read More
10/29 Kindergarten Blog
Dear Kindergarten Families, This week in our Morning Meetings, students paired up with someone new each day to share something about ourselves, and then shared to the group what our partners said. The children are getting to know everyone and working on their listening skills! We introduced a tricky new song called “Dreams of Harmony,” where we sing “Goodnight” in many different languages. We also learned “You Are My Sunshine.” The big news of the week is that we have student jobs! The children were very excited to learn that starting Monday, everyone will have their very own classroom... Read More
First Grade News
Dear Families, In Hebrew, we learned the letters yud, lamed and hey. We added lots of new words to our word wall like, yam (sea), yad (hand), lechem (bread), lev (heart), lashon (tongue) and har (mountain) and our vocabulary just keeps growing. We continued to practice our reading and writing with all the letters and vowels that we have learned so far. In Yahadut, we learned about the amidah prayer. We learned about the meaning of the prayer, when to bow, and how we stand. We also talked about our forefathers (Avraham, Yitzchak and Yaakov) and our foremothers (Sarah, Rivkah, Rachel and Leah) and we added one... Read More
2nd Grade 10/29/21
In General Studies our second grade readers and writers explored and learned about beautiful language in texts such as Owl Moon, by Jane Yolen. The students studied what makes language beautiful and why the author chose certain words to express emotion and meaning. Then we learned what synonyms are and how to use a thesaurus using guide words on the pages. We gathered words from our writing and other common words that are used in second grade. Each writer chose a word, looked it up in a thesaurus, and wrote them on paint chip samples moving from weakest (palest color)... Read More
10/22 Kindergarten Blog
Dear Kindergarten Families, This week, we got creative with our greetings! We’ve gotten used to greeting each other individually in our Morning Meetings, but now we’ve added in fancy waves and movements to our greetings for friends to mirror back to us. We also learned a new alphabet song called “Alligators All Around.” As part of our continued study of sharing about ourselves and learning about others, we had an interesting discussion about what Kindergarteners can do! We made three lists, things that all Kindergartners can do (draw, play), things some Kindergarteners can do (read, ride a bike,... Read More
First Grade News
Dear Families, In Hebrew, we learned the letters kuf and alef as well as the vowel which makes the “Ee” sound. Then we practiced our reading, and we were able to read and write lots of word with the letters that we have learned so far. We added new words to our word wall like; Keshet(rainbow), kobiya (a cube), arnav (rabbit), ananas (pineapple), agas (pear) and aron (closet). In Tefilah, we started learning the Amidah. The Amidah has 19 parts, and we are going to learn all of them. Our first graders are up to the challenge! During this prayer we need to stand, by standing we show respect (kavod) to God. This... Read More
2nd Grade– 10/15/21
In Second Grade we have officially kicked off workshop in reading and writing! It has been amazing to watch the students dive in and get excited about all parts of our literacy program! In writing, the students have started their own small moment stories and are learning how to craft their ideas with details. In reading, we have been building reader habits while practicing strategies such as scooping up phrases to help read fluently. At home, be sure to ask your child to read aloud while scooping phrases with a pretend ice scooper just like we did in class! In... Read More
10/15 Kindergarten Blog
10/15 Kindergarten Blog Dear Kindergarten Families, This week we learned new games in Hebrew, Math, and P.E., sang new songs and old favorites, and are continuing to make friends with each other. In our Morning Meetings, we introduced two new songs: Down By the Bay, and This Land Is Your Land. We shared our favorite movies, books, places, and songs, and began a class-wide conversation about daily rotating student jobs, which will be introduced next week. As we continued to set up our classroom for the year each child made their own batch of playdough, carefully following... Read More
3rd Grade 10/15
We have been busy here during the first two full weeks of school! Reminder: Parent Event, Wednesday, 10/20 8:40-9:20 am at school. Full details went out by email. Reach out to Shira if your child will NOT have a guest in attendance. sbecher@hannahsenesh.org Reading with Shannon In reading, we set up our classroom library to allow children to take home the book they are reading in school. Ask your child how they check out a book. We also started reading Stone Fox. It is about a 10 year old boy who lives on a potato farm with his grandfather. While reading,... Read More
October 15th – Full weeks of school!
Photos of the Week Here is where you can find the link to our photo album for this blog. There are pictures from the Beit Midrash, our Judaic Studies Event from 10/12, and Science with Sammi. Science with Sammi Over the last two weeks, the 4th grade scientists have continued to work on team challenges. Both challenges they have completed focused on sketching out a plan and continued our conversations on compromising and positive language. In one challenge, they worked with cups, sticks, blocks, and binder clips to build different structures that had one cube as the base, was tall,... Read More