//Shana Tova!
To all my amazing students and their families, I hope you enjoy and share this time with your loved ones. You may find the light, the beauty, the positive and the sweetness in any situation and may you start this new beginning trying to be your best selves.
Morah Jaqui
//Hi!
For me, as a human being and a teacher, getting to know you as a person and as a student, is one of my most important goals. So our first project will be to write about yourselves and who you are. Also… to practice a little bit of Hebrew.
Here is the Guiding Presentation you’ll need to prepare your own.
//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
//Hello to everyone!
Being a native Spanish speaker made me realize about some of the challenges that native English speakers can have when learning Hebrew (grammatically speaking, Spanish is more close to Hebrew than English).
Because of that, I want to leave here some cues and resources to your use. Click on the link!
//Hi, everybody! Here again to help!
We can find the resources for numbers, with the logic we have been working at class and through the necessities of the class.
Here is the presentation!
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1L0T5dwvoL7Z4TQViPPVm0RtFIIFd0XXHxDHFkVv-ZpE/edit#slide=id.p
//Hi, everybody!
As we have been doing our work, some language necessities have been appearing during the classes so, here you can find a presentation with the Hebrew names for the months!
Hope it will help!
//Hi, everybody!
I’m excited to present you all the blog for the 6th Grade Hebrew Core Class.
We are working on the topic of “Trips” (Tiyulim). For that, we have been working with different strategies and materials like, songs, Israeli websites, online activities, answer questions about daily basis knowledge to encourage oral expression, reading texts, translation and games. All of this so the students can start building new vocabulary and reinforcing the one that they already have. The goal, is to make a project about a place in Israel of their interest (they already chose it) and present it in a creative way.
Yulie- Javat Susim Dror (Horse Farm Dror).
Ben- Muzeon Israel (Israel Museum).
Alma-Hamitzpe Hatat Yami (Submarine Observatory).
Sadie- Park Sha’ashuim “Superland” (“Superland” Amusement Park).
The students have been working in vocabulary like: parking lot (janaia), weather (mezeg ha’avir), telephone number (mispar telephone), address (chtobet), museum (muzion), art (omanut), exhibition (taaruja), to enjoy (lehenot), to learn (lilmod), and many more. With all of this words, the students are making a dictionary (milon), categorize the vocabulary in Nouns (shemot etzem), Verbs (shemot poal) and Adjectives (shemot toar) and practicing and understanding how to do the root (shoresh) from a shem poal so they can practice and understand how to conjugate in Present Tense (zman hove).
Keep tune for the Project Presentations!
Shabbat Shalom!
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