First Grade News

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 start a journal at home!

In Hebrew, we spent time learning about clothing and what we wear.  We learned the verbs lovesh (to wear, masculine) and loveshet (to wear, feminine). Students spent time writing sentences about the clothing that they and their friends are wearing.

In yahadut this week, we learned two new prayers from the Amidah. The first prayer called boneh yerushalayim. We saw pictures of how the city looked in the past and how it looks today. We spoke about the importance of the city of Jerusalem and what makes her a holy city.  The second prayer is matzmiach keren yeshuah. We listened to Louis Armstrong’s song – “What a wonderful world” and made a list of all the wonderful things in the world. We discuss what we can do to make the world a better place.

In Parasha, we learned about Parashat Terumah. We learned about the mishkan, the temporary place of praying while the Israelites wandered in the desert. We spoke about the similarities and differences between the mishkan and a modern-day synagogue.

Our word detectives have been busy solving the Case of the silent E in phonics, reading, and writing!  We have used vowel clues and sounds to solve riddles and investigations sent to us by the Super Secret Detective Agency.

Shabbat Shalom,

Liz, Talia, and Ilana