Parshat Shemini: The Right Thing to Do
Welcome back from Pesach vacation!We are so happy to be back in school and back to learning!
This week we added to our Davening the of counting the Omer.
We count the days between Pesach and Shavuos. We are so excited for Shavuos when we will receive the Torah. We spoke about how a person that is expecting a gift or something very special, would usually count the days in excitement for the gift- so too we count the days until Shavuos.
We also need to make sure that our soul is clean and pure to receive the Torah.
How can we clean our soul?
"The soul is like a little diamond that gets dirty, when you do mitzvos it cleans it"- Max.
During this special time between Pesach and Shavuos we are learning about the different inner qualities of the soul. We started with the first inner quality of our soul; Chesed. Chesed means kindness, love and giving.
What does it truly mean to be kind? In class we play out different scenarios of kindness using poppets. The children got to identify the difference between good kindness and misplaced kindness.
Parsha class with Morah Davina - Parshas Shmini.
In this weeks Parsha the Torah teaches us the signs of Kosher animals, fish and birds.
Animals that "chews its cud" chews its food over and over again and "split feet" hooves that are split in half are a kosher animal.
Fish that have fins, "wings" that it uses to swim with and scales, hard circles over parts of the fish to keep it from getting hurt, are Kosher.
Most birds are kosher. We are not allowed to eat birds that eat other birds. The Torah lists all the non-kosher animals.
The kids were able to look at different toy animals and find the signs of a Kosher animal.The Next Level!
Now that our Kindergarteners can read, we are fine-tuning our Hebrew writing skills as well. Employing several different methods, such as chalkboards and dry erase markers as well as regular pencil and paper helps to keep our writing practice from getting too monotone!
Morah Avigayil tied different colored strings onto our wrists to help us remember the difference between right and left. When we write Hebrew we start on the right and go towards the left.
Muka works diligently on reading the word and then writing it neatly on her worksheet.
English, Fine Motor and Math, Oh My!
In this teacher-assisted activity, Yisroel is learning how to identify sight words, by reading a simple story and sequencing the events that occur.
You can help! When you are reading a story at home to your child, feel free to stop at any small common word such as; I, that, the, are , of ,is... etc.
Even if we haven't learned it yet it's great practice!
Encourage and assist child- directed reading!
Malka (left) uses water color pastels to create a base for her hand-cut Aleph- Bais letters.
For the past couple weeks the children have been using specially-created pin-pencils to hone their fine-motor skills and cut out the lettersof their name.
Elizabeth (right) putting together her masterpiece.
Menucha creates her own math problems using sensory tiles
and a dry erase board during morning centers.
Max practices separating double digit numbers into ten frames.
10+9= 19
Happy 6th Birthday Devorah Leah!
We are so lucky that you are in our class!
Making your cake was so much fun!
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