Chapter 5 Continued

As students arrived, they worked on a vowel sound coloring sheet.  Then we played a game using the letters Bet, Vet, Kaf, and Chaf, which helped us remember how to tell the difference between them when we see them in Hebrew words.  We reviewed the story that we read last week, together as a class.  Then students worked with a partner to practice reading the next story in the chapter.  We ended class with a review game, during which everyone won a piece of candy as a prize.

Shalom Ivrit Chapter 5: Vocabulary & Reading

As students arrived, we worked together to match cards with block and script letters written on them.  After we had completed all of the matches, we put the letters in the correct order.

Then we had a mini lesson to review how to read Hebrew words.  We chose a vocabulary word from our textbook and used a series of steps to sound it out.  Next each student worked with a partner to sound out some of the vocabulary words from the book chapter, and to find their meanings in the chapter dictionary.  All of the groups shared their work with the class.  Then we read through the story in our textbook, which included the vocabulary words we had just learned.  

For our closing activity, students listened as I read through the story again.  The students were able to translate the Hebrew words into English and understand what the story was about.  The last line was true about the class in the story and about our class, too.  The final line said: "!הַמוֹרָה טוֹבָה כִּי הַיְלָדִים טוֹבִים"

Alef-Bet Review

We began class with a game of team tic-tac-toe.  We used the game to practice block and script letter recognition and vowel sounds.  Then we reviewed the Alef-Bet from Alef to Tav.  We used the Debbie Friedman version of the Alef-Bet song to remember the order of the letters, and each student made his or her own script writing guide.  Our wrap up activity was a quick letter recognition game (and everyone won a prize, of course!)