May 11

וְאָהַבְתָּ לְרֵעֲךָ כָּמוֹךָ”- רַבִּי עֲקִיבָא”

In the spirit of Lag BaOmer, and Rabbi Akiva’s teachings: ” love your neighbour as yourself” we brought both classes together to incorporate the themes of teamwork, self-control, kindness, joy, gratitude, forgiveness, modesty and humility with the “Win-Win” mindset ( one of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People®)

Through meaningful discussions and activities, the students focused on understanding how to resolve conflict in a positive way, so that everyone can be happy with the solution.

Having a Win-Win mindset means:

  • Seeing life through a lens of cooperation instead of competition
  • Balancing courage for getting what you want with consideration for what others want
  • Being kind to others and trying to make them happy
  • Working to find solutions to problems that make everyone happy

We finished off our time together with spreading kindness and leaving each other meaningful messages.

April 4

Passover Celebrations in Grade 5

Passover is an important Jewish holiday that celebrates the freedom of the Jewish people from slavery in Egypt. It is a time of joy and reflection, and a time to come together with family and friends. This year, we celebrated Passover with our students in a fun and engaging way, with a Model Seder and various educational games.

The games were a great way to engage with the students and help them learn more about Passover. It was also a great way to bond and create memories together.

!חג האביב שמח וחופשה נעימה

March 24

Restaurant Project-work in progress…

Working on our next project, which summarizes what we learned in the Restaurant unit:

  • Students applying the vocabulary and the skills that were learned in the unit of the restaurant.
  • Students get a chance to build their own restaurant in the classroom.
  • Students are choosing the type of the restaurant,creating menus and using the vocabulary to communicate at the restaurant.

February 16

כַּבֵּד אֶת אָבִיךָ וְאֶת אִמֶּךָ

כַּבֵּד אֶת אָבִיךָ וְאֶת אִמֶּךָ, לְמַעַן יַאֲרִכוּן יָמֶיךָ עַל הָאֲדָמָה אֲשֶׁר אֱלֹהֶיךָ נוֹתֵן לָךְ ( שְׁמוֹת, פֶּרֶק כ’ פָּסוּק י”ב)

In this week’s Parashat Hashavua : Parashat Yitro, The Israélites receive the ten commandments.

This week, Grade 5 explored the concept of the fifth command:  respect your parents!

We started by writing all the things that our parents do for us ( and it was a lot!!!)

Next we discussed what it means to respect our parents, and shared examples on how we do it in daily life.

We ended up making a list of all the ways we can fulfill this command:

הַכָּרַת הַטּוֹב ( SEEING THE GOOD)

לְהַגִּיד תּוֹדָה ( SAYING THANK YOU)

הַקְשָׁבָה (LISTENING TO OUR PARENT)

הַקְפָּדָה עַל כְּלָלִים (COMPLIANCE WITH THE RULES)

הִתְחַשְּׁבוּת ( CONSIDERATION)

הֲבָנַת נְקֻדַּת הַמַּבָּט שֶׁלָּהֶם ( UNDERSTANDING OUR PARENTS PERSPECTIVE)

We concluded this learning with writing ( in Hebrew and English) thank you notes to our parents ( trying to be as specific as we can) to express our gratitude.

Here are a couple of examples of the amazing cards they made:

 

 

 

February 12

Parshat Yitro-Respecting parents

In the Parsha this week we spent some time talking about two important topics that are connected  to each other, and had a discussion around it:

  1. Yitro advises Moses to appoint a hierarchy of magistrates and judges to assist him in the task of governing and administering justice to the people. How can you Help your parents with house chores, how can we split the work at home between every one who lives in the house?
  2. The ten commandments -Why in the ten commandments we have a separate section for honoring and respecting the parents, why was it not simply written to respect every person?

We summarized it with an activity ,where the students had to write- What should you do to show your parents respect? How can you Help your parents with house chores?

 

 

 

February 6

JNF-Tu Bishvat

Today the Grade 5 students  had the pleasure to learn about the Ariel Sharon park in Israel, which was led by the JNF representative. Ariel Sharon Park is an amazing environmental project, one of the biggest in the world. The park is built on the ‘Hiriya’ , which is formerly a 60 meter high mound of waste. The topic really interested them and they asked a lot of great questions, that we all could learn from.

 

פארק אריאל שרון: ריאה ירוקה במרכז הארץלוקיישן לצילומים: פארק אריאל שרון - לוקייט
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December 13

Understanding hard words

How do we understand hard words when reading a story? 

Last term we spent some time on important strategies, how to understand new vocabulary words when reading a text. This strategy teaches the students  to rely on the content and Shoresh (root letters) to understand the stories they read. 

Shoresh (root letters)– Looking for a small word in a bigger word (words from same family). 

Content– Read the sentence before and after and look for words that you know, rely on the content to understand the meaning of what you read.

We call this strategy Moshe (מ.ש.ה), in Hebrew every letter stands for a different strategy that we use. We call him our helper, the students even drew a character to represent him 🙂 

 

 

December 6

Term 1 Recap 5B מסכמים שליש ראשון בעברית

,היי משפחות יקרות

We’ve had an amazing first term in our Jewish Studies class. We’ve gotten to know each other and become a strong community of eager learners who look to support each other while working on the Hebrew language. Here are some highlights from this term:

Unit- Welcome to our Shop 

Students worked on building their own shop using the vocabulary that related to what they were selling. They made an advertisement, had a conversation between the buyer and seller, created a menu of what they sell at the shop and much much more.  This unit allowed them to work on all the Hebrew strands while enjoying working on something they are passionate about.

Unit- All About Me

Students shared all about them both orally and in written form. This unit helped them to work on the vocabulary related to their family, themselves, their interests, etc.

 

]ewish values, and our OJCS north stars

Working better together and  Being responsible for each other ( כל ישראל ערבים זה לזה)

Students participated in activities that required collaboration to succeed

These are some examples of the wonderful time we had. ( make sure to check with your child to see their own work)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

November 25

Fall Escape Room

Yesterday the grade 5A students reviewed what they know about the topic of Fall through an Escape Room. Students were provided with different components that involved Hebrew language skills such as reading, writing, speaking and listening, all integrated into the game. Students listened to a song and identified the Fall symbols, and wrote texts about what they like about Fall, and added it to the tree that we have in class. Students also researched and found additional information about the Fall, and practiced new vocabulary through matching games,secret writing and word searches. Students were also required to make a song about Fall using the vocabulary they learned. The students were so engaged and interested to show their knowledge, but the most important thing was that they were having fun!