Kindergarten Blog 10/16

Dear Families,

This week kindergartners planted our pepper seeds! We learned about soil, and how to care for a plant at home. Kids brought home their planted seeds today— please water every day (peppers are thirsty!). Place in a sunny area, and move to a bigger pot after the plants are a few inches tall.

Kindergartners are becoming experts at our new math books. They are learning to match pictures and numbers, and how to show their work with unifix cubes and other counting tools. We now know how to write our numbers “the Kindergarten way!” If your child is writing at home, ask them about starting numbers at the top!

Our focus in reading has been going through books slowly to try to figure out what they are about. We are reading books several times and seeing what things we notice when we read a book the second time that we did not notice the first time.

We continued to introduce the names of letters and the sounds they make by studying the names of the people in Kindergarten. Ask your child what is similar about the names Anat and Atalya as well as what is different. If your child is in Pod A you can include the name Amit and if your child is in Pod C you can include the name Ara.

The students continued to learn about colors and are able to use short phrases describing their clothes using the words l have (yesh lee יש לי) I don’t have (ein lee אין לי) We read a story about five balloons which describes the colors and emotions of the kids. In addition we learned about who is in our families.

Family vocabulary:
Father – abba אבא
Mother – ima אמא
Grandma – savta סבתא
Grandpa – saba סבא
Boy – yeled ילד
Girl – yalda ילדה

In Judaics we started learning about creation, and in Tefila, Mode Ani (מודה אני)

Shabbat Shalom

Talia, Dawn, Anat, and Atalya