Class on 10/5, Homework for 10/12, and a Shameless Plug for Reading Raffle!

Last week we focused on letter recognition, as we continue to refresh our memories from the last school year.

This week we started working in our new textbooks, Journeys Through the Siddur, Shabbat Morning. We read the Barcu and Yotzer Or prayers (p. 5 and 8) in relay races and learned about root words (p.4 and 9). We played a look-alike letter board game, played Milchama ("War") with Hebrew phrases, and used the new white boards in our classroom to practice writing.

For homework this week, please read the midrash (stories) on pages 3 and 12, complete the translation on page 11 using the vocab guide at the top of the page, and practice reading page 8 and 10 for your reading raffle.

Reading raffle is our monthly prize drawing to reward

our fabulous ARS students who read Hebrew every week. Just read 5 minutes every night for 5 nights, and get someone to listen to you and sign the card. Make sure you date it, and bring it in the next class. We have drawings within our reading group each month, and the winner can pick from Shari's famous prize selection. There's also the ARS-wide drawing where all the classes put their Reading Raffle cards together, and the prize is a pizza or ice cream party. If you read for an hour and a half every week, that's 25 minutes for every week night, you can fill out 5 Reading Raffle cards. You'd learn SO MUCH Hebrew, and up your chances at a delicious party in school! How can you go wrong? I require at least one Reading Raffle card a week, but you can submit as many as you like.

This week I'll upload a scan of a reading raffle card in case you read so much you need more cards, or loose a few. I'll accept a printed out reading raffle card with the signature of whomever listened to you read.

See you next week!

Ariana