OJCS Jewish Studies

Hi grade 7th… my mistake! Almost grade 8th!

Hope you’ll have an amazing summer filled with adventures, rest, laughter, music and quality time with family and friends and… of course with some Hebrew!
I’ll leave here some resources, activities and games that you can do by yourself or better! With your family or even with some friends!
Have fun, I wish the best summer ever!
Morah Jaqui.

GRAMMARS:
–Feminine and Masculine.
–Infinitive Verbs, Root and Present Tense.
–Articles and Prepositions.

LISTENING:
-Suggestions for Music.

READING:
–Suggestions of Texts.

ORAL EXPRESSION:
–Suggested activities.

TRANSLATION:
–Suggested activities.

I hope everyone will have a delightful, restful and meaningful Summer.

One of the most important things to acquire a second or third or fourth language is to be exposed to it in a continuous and conscious way so, for the Summer this are the recommended exercises and activities. I hope you will enjoy it, individually and as a family.
For having more confident and fluency in oral expression:
SING!

Do you like Pop Music? Do you like Rap/HipHop Music? Do you like Rock Music? You know what… Israeli Music has it so… why not expand your taste and your repertoire and sing your favorite type of music in Hebrew? How about a sing a long? Or maybe a family Karaoke? Or maybe if you are camping, along the fire, introduce a “Shiron” with Israeli music and sing with all your friends? Or maybe a game night where your family plays some of the songs and make a contest about how many and which ones are the words each one of you understood and/or knows, then… pick one and formulate a complete phrase!
Singing not only will help you to speak because is Hebrew, it will also help because having a melody and music will improve your fluency (is easier), will improve with the accent and pronunciation and also it will help you as a mnemonic strategy (remember words and lyrics, even if you don’t understand all of them).
Here are some recommendations for each type of music:
POP:                         RAP/HIP HOP:                ROCK:
-Idan Raichel         -Subliminal                     -Synergia
-Netta Barzilai       -Hadag Nachash           -Ehud Banai
-Ivri Lider                -Hatikva 6                      -Beit Habubot
-Omer Adam
-Eden Golan
-Static & Ben El

These are some of the representative for each type of music. Ask your mom or dad to help you choose wisely and try also to come out of your confort zone.
I’ll be eager to listen which one was your favorite!
Wishing you the best summer ever!

How about if I tell you that Math is a language… Have you ever thought about that. Human beings after trying to discover and understand the world, figure out that they needed a language to do so and they saw this potential in numbers and Math. The first thing that Hebrew and Math have in common, they both are languages.

Math tries to explain and figure out the reality and our world by observing the environment. One of the outcomes of this, is that the mathematicians, philosophers and scientists, through observation, understood that the natural world works through rules and laws so they needed to translate that into numbers and… voila! The logic of Math was developed and the formulas to achieve a rule or a law was fulfilled.  So second thing here, Hebrew tends to have rules, laws and most important formulas. So if you understand, practice and apply these formulas, most of the things that mastering a language needs, you will be able to do.

So, after all these interesting (or maybe not so much… sorry I’m a nerd ) information, I leave here a presentation where you can find the basic laws and formulas to conjugate a verb into the Present Tense.

CLICK ON THIS LINK: PRESENT TENSE PRESENTATION