First Grade Blog

Dear Families, In science, students have been studying different types of clouds. We made flip up posters to show what we learned about cumulous, cirrus, stratus, and cumulonimbus clouds. Check out pictures of them below! Students also learned a song about the cloud types. We are including the lyrics, ask your student to sing with you at home! Our word detectives have solved the case of the “long e” and investigated the vowel teams “ee” and “ea”. First graders have explored vowel teams through word hunts (in books, around the room, and tiny words), mixed up sentences, and creating new... Read More

Dear Families, In Math, we are learning about place value! Students played a game where they arranged unifix cubes on a place value chart, and challenged their partner to figure out the number by looking at how many tens and ones there were. In their math books, they also practiced counting and recording numbers in place value charts. In Hebrew, we learned about the parts of our body (haguf sheli) and how to say them in Hebrew. We also learned more action words like: shar (sing for boy), shara (sing for a girl), nach (rest for boy) and nacha (rest for... Read More

Dear Families, This week we celebrated our new groups and worked on building our new communities.  We played games, sang songs, and explored new partnerships. We also went through the voting process to decide on our new group names  –  the red snakes and blue dolphins!  We also explored our feelings about the changing groups and events happening in our personal lives.  We have started keeping feelings journals, and are practicing writing in them daily to notice patterns in how we are feeling and the reasons behind our current moods.  If your child enjoys this, feel free to have them... Read More

Dear Families, In Hebrew, we learned the words aroch (long), katzar (short), Katan (small) and Gadol (Big)and learned how to use those words when speaking and writing. The students also wrote about their hair and the color of their eyes using aroch, katzar, yesh li (I have) and ein li (I don’t have). We had a party in class to celebrate our accomplishments – finishing learning the Hebrew alef-bet and our nitzanim workbooks. I encourage you to look through your child’s workbook to see the amazing work that he/she has done! In Tefilah, we learned a new prayer from the Amidah... Read More

Hello Families, In Hebrew, we learned the letters tet and zain and now we know all the letters of the Hebrew aleph-bet! Our first graders are Hebrew experts! This is a very exciting accomplishment, and we are looking forward to celebrating as a class community next week. In Yahadut, we continued working on our siddurim and learned two new prayers from the amida. The first one is called, melech ohev tzedakah umishpat. We spoke about the rules that we have in our classroom and in America and how they help us stay safe and be better people. The second one is called, shover oyvim umachniyah zedim. In this prayer we thank God for protecting us from... Read More

Dear Families, In math, we have been learning how to split shapes into equal parts! We are practicing using fraction words, such as one half, one quarter, and one fourth to describe the equal parts. Students learned how to fold paper shapes so that they are even. We decorated the shapes and labeled the fractions to show off our work. In science, we showed how the Earth revolves around the sun using flashlights and a globe! Students took turns holding the flashlights and spinning the globe to recreate a year! In Music class, First Graders read and had a discussion... Read More

Dear Families, In Hebrew we learned the letters pey, fey and fey sofit (final fey). We added more words to our word wall like: pilpel (pepper), parpar (butterfly), para (cow), perach(flower) and pil (elephant). We also started learning about Tu Bishvat (the birthday of the trees) and spent time learning Hebrew words related to the holiday. The first graders made beautiful trees and we are looking forward to learning more about Tu Bishvat next week! In Tefila, we learned two new prayers from the Amidah. The first one called mevarech hashanim. We spoke about the importance of taking care of our Earth and what we can do to... Read More

Dear Families, It was so lovely to get to welcome you all into our building to celebrate our first grader’s learning so far this year. It was truly wonderful to walk around the room and get to greet you all and express how proud we are of them—better yet, we got to see how proud they are of themselves as they presented their portfolios. In case you missed it, photos from the event can be found in this album: Shabbat Shalom, Talia, Ilana, Liz, and Noa

Hello Families, In Hebrew, we learned the letters kaf, chaf and chaf sofit as well as a new vowel, which makes the “Oo” sound. We wrote lots of sentences using the verbs ochel/ochelet (to eat) and ohev/ohevet (to love). We also learned how to say the symbols of  Chanukah in Hebrew and used those words in our writing. We had a very special week together! We played with dreidels, sang Chanukah songs, and read Chanukah stories. In Tefila, we learned a new prayer from the amidah called chanun hamarbeh lisloach. We spoke about the importance of apologizing to people when we make mistakes and forgiving others after they say that they are... Read More