First Grade News
Dear Families, It was so great to see many of you at conferences this week! We look forward to seeing the rest of you on Monday. Please enjoy these pictures from school this week! Shabbat Shalom, Liz, Talia, Anat, and Noa PS. Here are a few jokes from a book we read this week about the weather: Why did the woman go outside with her purse open? She expected some change in the weather! What does a cloud wear under its clothes? Thunderwear! What did the cloud say to the lightning bolt? You’re shocking!
First Grade News
Dear Families, In writing, we have been focusing on elaboration or adding more to our stories. We are starting to use paper with more lines, taping on extra lines to revise, and using question words to add on to our sentences. We are also practicing telling our stories to our writing partner so we can add more details to our books. We tell our story while our partner makes a movie in their head, then they ask questions, after we retell our story with new details, and finally we add the details to our stories. In Hebrew, we learned the letters nun, nun sofit (final nun)... 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
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
First Grade News
Dear Families, It was a busy week in first grade! This week in writing workshop we started our small moments unit. We are learning to think about true stories that have happened to us and finding a small moment in the story to tell about. We are finding the beginning, middle, and end of our story and working with a partner to plan our book. First graders have worked on sketching out their book, writing labels, and writing on the line to match their picture. *At home, have your child practice finding small moments (seed stories) in their day and telling the... Read More
First Grade News
Hello Families, This was our first full week and we were very busy! In Hebrew we learned the letters mem and mem sofit and we were able to learn lots of new words which we added to our word wall like; menorah (lamp), melech (king), mechonit (car), matanah (gift), magafayim (boots) and michnasayim (pants). We also practiced reading and writing with the letters that we have learned so far. In Tefilah, we learned the prayer mah tovu. We discussed what must happen in our classroom/home so it will be a good place. We also worked on the shema and the meaning of the prayer and we added more pages to our siddurim. Our siddurim are looking... Read More
First Grade News
Dear Families, On Monday, we celebrated Simchat Torah with our fifth-grade buddies! We built sukkot out of snacks, danced with the Torah, and got to know our buddies on the roof. Check out pictures from the event below! In General Studies, we are continuing to work on our Hopes and Dreams, and practice classroom routines. We have begun our Handwriting unit, especially focusing on pencil grip and posture, and numbers 1-5. Reminder: Please return writing workshop folders on Monday! In Hebrew this week, we learned our first vowel, which makes the “Ah” sound and what sound the letter tav makes when you add this vowel. We reviewed some words that started with... Read More
First Grade News
Hello Families, We so enjoyed celebrating sukkot with all of you! In Hebrew, we learned the letter tav. First graders were so excited to work start work on their letter books for the first time. In writing we also started to work in our handwriting books, reviewing our numbers and singing our handwriting songs from last year! We also have continued to work on our hopes and dreams for the year, reading and discussing the amazing accomplishments of the people we learned about in “Of Thee I Sing” by Barak Obama. In reading, we practiced finding syllables, rhymes, and words... Read More
First Grade Blog
Hello Families, We are so excited to begin first grade! This week, we learned about classroom routines and spent time meeting our new friends. Students thought about what they want to accomplish in first grade, and then the class created their Hopes and Dreams for the year, In Hebrew/Judaics, we learned about the importance of Yom Kippur, and are beginning to learn about Sukkot. We are so excited to see you next week in the sukkah! A couple of reminders as we begin the year: Please be on time to school! Our day starts right away at 8:25 when students... Read More
Welcome to First Grade!
Welcome 1st Grade Families! We hope you had a lovely summer. The first grade team is looking forward to meeting you and your 1st graders at back to school night next week. We have been excitedly preparing our classrooms in preparation for the first day of school on Monday September 13, 2021. Please send your children to school with the following items: A separate labeled snack so children don’t have to choose from their lunch in the moment Lunch that students can open and manage independently (thermos with warm food is often hard to open due to suction) A... Read More