This week, we went over two big concepts: kavod (respect) and achrayut (responsibility) and reviewed them by playing a matching/acting game. The students would read a card and decide if it was an example of someone acting responsibly/respectfully or not.
We started to learn about Abraham and Sarah this week. We talked about how Abraham was commanded to leave his homeland, and how he and his nephew, Lot, had to determine how they were using their new land in a way that respected the environment.
This week we learned about motivation and respect. We started class by playing Barvaz, Barvaz, Chatul. Then, after our Hebrew Through Movement lesson, we read a few books and talked about how they related to our themes for the week.
We started class this week by watching a video recapping the Noah story. Then, we learned about the Tower of Babel, and played a game of “Telephone” to replicate what happened when everyone started speaking new languages.
This week we had a fun review of all the holidays that we’ve celebrated so far this year, and talked about why we celebrate Simchat Torah!
We learned about Sukkot this week, and everyone got to build their own sukkah out of magnetic tiles at the start of class!
This week, we discussed Yom Kippur and how we can begin again when we make mistakes. We did a classroom tashlich, where the kids drew or wrote about an attitude or behavior that they wanted to leave behind in the old year, and then they tore up their paper and cast it away.
Students explored a story about the first Shabbat and the first night and found similarities between Rosh Hashanah and Havdallah (the ritual ceremony that marks the transition of Shabbat to the rest of the week). Through listening to the story, playing a game and reflecting on the comparisons students came away with ideas about how we enter into new beginnings and transitions. In Hebrew through Movement students played with the words challah, kita and shofar.
This week our first graders reviewed what they’ve learned this year!
