March
11
March
5
Reading Recordings – The story of Megilat Esther
February
26
100th Day!
For 100th day each of you tried to come up with 100 Hebrew words… lets see how many we came up with together…
Add to this list in alphabetical order.
February
11
Ve’hadartah Pnei Zaken
Dear Grade Four Parents,
We are excited to share with you that the grade 4 class is starting an exciting program called והדרת פני זקן (Vehadarta P’nei Zaken: ‘Respect the Elderly’ ). It is an intergenerational program that will link the children with residents at Hillel Lodge. The goal of Vehadarta P’nei Zaken is to provide the children with an enriching opportunity to establish a relationship with an elderly person and learn about his/her lifetime achievements. In return, the Hillel residents will have the opportunity to get to know a young person.
This project is done in cooperation between the Judaic and General studies teachers. In groups of twos, the students will be devising a list of interview questions in class. They will then be assigned a resident to interview and get to know better. We will have several opportunities to get together with the residents to ask these questions and learn about their lifetime achievements.
As well as the interview we will have other opportunities to share time together, (such as Shabbat, Sedder tu-Bishvat, Passover Sedder, lunch time chat/games, etc…) build a rapport with the residents and thus enhance the students’ appreciation of the elderly, while engaging in this worthwhile activity.
A final presentation will be prepared both in class (Language Arts, Judaics) and at home to be presented to the residents and then displayed at Hillel lodge.
The students and us are very enthusiastic about this program and are looking forward to getting started.
Sincerely,
Morah Ada, and Mrs. Bennett.
February
3
Teaching Hebrew in Kitah Dalet
My biggest challenge as a language teacher is to get the students to speak more freely and to not be afraid of making mistakes.
As we add vocabulary, we often do little projects/activities that encourage speaking and it is often after the fact that I wish it was filmed, both to share on the blog, but more importantly so the students can watch themselves and learn from their mistakes…
They are happy to act out skits… but usually want to read… they are happy to play games… but want the structured sentence and to just fill in the missing word…. I so want them to take more risks and make mistakes… and learn from them…
The few times I did film our activities we learned a lot from it… and respecting my students wishes I will not share everything here as they are not yet comfortable with others hearing them speak… but here are few examples worth sharing, although they do not have the feedback part of learning from their mistakes, I am proud of sharing their first steps…
- Press the following link – על – תחת – על יד – to see the students practicing the use of on, under, beside,etc… and names of colours. They were grouped in pairs, and received coloured cubes and an ipad. One was filming and giving instructions and the other had to build with cubes accordingly. It was quite challenging, but a fun way to encourage both talking and using active listening for comprehension.
- Upon coming back from their winter holiday, the students received a project to tell us about it. Most of the students chose to use slides to present, others created a poster, made an album, or created an i-movie. They had a lot to say, and only this past week we ended the presentations. Follow these links – 1. Album presentation 2. movie to hear two of the presentations….
Although there is no talking, here is also a link to the Google slides presentations
And some photos too:
February
3
Listening Comprehension for Week of Feb 4-8
This week’s homework is recognizing verbs in past tense and pronouns.
You will be listening to sentences and in your מחברת you will indicate the verb
and one of the following pronouns: אני, הוא, היא, אנחנו, או הם
Here is an example:
You will write:
- הוא ראה, אני ראיתי
- היא אמרה, אני אמרתי
יום שני
יום שלישי
יום רביעי
יום חמישי
January
28
Listening Comprehension
This week Monday and Tuesday’s homework consists of 3 sentences each.
Listen to the two parts of each sentence and write in your מחברת:
- From part א – the verb – פועל
- From part ב – the verb and infinitive – פועל ושם הפועל
Here is an example:
In your מחברת you will write
- א- מצלם, ב – אוהב לצלם
יום שני
יום שלישי
יום רביעי
In today’s homework you will again listen to 3 sentences. This time you need to listen for the verb in present tense – פועל בהווה and the verb in past tense – פועל בעבר. write the two in your מחברת.
Here is an example:
In your מחברת you will write:
1- פועל בהווה = לומד, פועל בעבר = למד
יום חמישי
Tonight you need to listen and answer the following question in your מחברת:
?מה המילים היפות שאנו אומרים
Happy listening 😉
January
20
Listening Comprehension
January
14
Installing Hebrew Keyboard to Your Device
Hi everyone,
I received a couple of requests for help with this and forwarded the request to our technology expert, Josh Max.
He provided me with the following information which I thought would benefit all who still need help in this area.
so… following is what you need to do to add Hebrew:
Installing Hebrew keyboard on iPad or iPhone:
- Go to Settings –> General –> Keyboard –> Keyboards
- Click “Add new Keyboard…”
- Scroll down and select “Hebrew”
- That’s it! To use the keyboard:
- When typing select the globe icon in the bottom-left corner of the English keyboard.
- Push and hold the globe icon and you will be able to select the Hebrew keyboard.
- To switch back to English, simply push and hold the icon again and select “English” .
- If you want the nikkud/vowels push and hold on the Hebrew keyboard character
and select the what you need.
Installing Hebrew keyboard on Mac
- Go to Apple menu > System Preferences.
- Click Language & Text, and then click Input Sources.
- Select “Hebrew” ( or Ivrit).
- Be sure to check the “Keyboard and Character Viewer” box as well.
- At the bottom, select the “Show Input menu in menu bar” checkbox.’
- To use the keyboard: At the top-right of your screen, you should now see the Input Menu. Click on the “U.S. Flag” option, and choose “Hebrew/ Israeli flag”.
- You should now be typing in hebrew
- To switch back just click and choose the US Flag
- You may also want to choose “Show Keyboard Viewer” from this menu to see what characters match each key in this keyboard layout.
Installing Hebrew keyboard on Windows
- First, activate the hebrew keyboard through the Control Panel:
- Click on the Start button > Control Panel > Clock, Language, and Region > Region and Language.
- Click the Keyboards and Languages tab, and then click Change keyboards.
- Under Installed services, click Add.
- Double-click Hebrew/Ivrit, double-click “Keyboard,” and select the options you want. Then click OK.
- Next, turn on the Language Bar:
- While you still have the “Text Services and Input Languages” window open (or open again following steps 1-2 above), click on the Language Bar tab.
- Make sure the “Docked in the taskbar” option is selected. Click OK to close all control panel windows open.
- Use the Language Bar to select which language you want to type in:
- The Language Bar should now appear in the lower-right corner of your computer screen.
- Click on the language abbreviation – ENG or HEB/ענר – then select the language you want from the menu.
- You can also use the keyboard shortcut ‘windows key + spacebar’ to quickly switch back and forth.
- To see what characters are associated with each key:
- Click the Start button > All Programs > Accessories > Ease of Access. (In Windows XP, it’s called Accessibility.)
- Then click On-Screen Keyboard to open the On-Screen Keyboard.
- The On-Screen Keyboard will show you what letters are associated with each key. You can type the letters with your keyboard, or you can click on the letters on the screen. When you press/click Shift, Ctrl, Alt, etc., you’ll see what new characters can be typed by using these combination keys.
Hope this helps.
January
13
Hebrew Homework for Week of January 14-18
This week we will be working, together with Liam and Inbar, our wonderful Shinshinim, on creating a Tu Bishvat Seder to do with the Hillel Lodge residents.
Monday night, your homework is to read the song: השקדיה פורחת and then practice singing it.
Once we decide on the parts for our Seder, your homework will be to practice saying it in front of an audience.
This means:
- You need to practice looking at your audience while speaking (make eye contact)
- You need to speak clearly.
- You need to project your voice (use a loud enough voice so people can hear you)
- You need to pace your words.
- You need to know when it is your turn to speak.
Looking forward to another lovely week with a wonderful class…
Remember… there is only one thing we need to work on… 😉
I can’t wait to hear and see your presentations tomorrow… don’t forget to practice at home tonight…