Yom Ha’Ivrit – Hebrew Language Day

Today we celebrated Yom H’Ivrit. Israel marks Hebrew Language Day every year on the birthday of Eliezer Ben Yehuda, the father of modern spoken Hebrew.

The revival of the Hebrew language is an extraordinary story, unparalleled in history. A language with roots dating back more than 3,000 years, it was brought back to life after centuries during which it effectively lay dormant, and it’s now flourishing in the 21st century.
We talked about  Eliezer Ben Yehuda and his vision, played Hebrew games, talked about onomatopoeia in Hebrew, sign a poster that says “גם אני מדבר עברית” – which means “I speak Hebrew too” and chose their favorite Hebrew word.
The new Hebrew –  העברית החדשה
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG8z5GpOazc
Shabbat Shalom,
Gev. Ishak

Mishpacha Unit

 

Hello,

In 2nd grade we learned the letter “chet” and about the Mishpacha (family). We learned how to say and write “Ach” (brother), “achot” (sister)  and to describe our family. Thank you for sending the nice videos!

We also started to use adjectives. We know that unlike  English, in Hebrew adjectives come after the nouns and we have different forms for female and male.

Today we practiced writing the letter chet, by writing Chanuckah cards to our family.

Shabbat Shalom,

Gev. Ishak

Learning Hebrew together

Today we had a great chance to study with the 5th graders. We reviewed words such as brother and sister (אח ואחות), snow (שלג), winter (חורף) , colors and more.

Every 2nd grader was paired to a 5th grader, and they read the text אדון בלון (Mr. Balloon) and worked on italam.

I enjoyed watching them working together, and were proud of them for being listening and serious about their reading.

 

 

Sukkot and more

Hello,

This week we learnt the letter ה and practiced our reading. I read with each of the students in person, while the rest of class were working independently.

For Sukkot We learned about the 4 species in Hebrew (Etrog, Lulav, Hadas, Arava) and the first letter for each one. We also created a decoration for the Sukah.

 

Thank you for your cooperation with the memory game cards. The kids told me about you playing together and teaching some of you new words in Hebrew!

Our next topic will be colors.

Shabbat Shalom and Hag Sameach,

Zehavit Ishak.