Mrs.+Gordon's+Hebrew+Class

//  Dear 5th grade parents, My name is Orit Gordon. I am your children’s Hebrew teacher this year at North Shore Congregation Israel. I have been teaching Hebrew and Jewish studies for 35 years. I would like to welcome you to my class and tell you a little bit about our Hebrew program for the 2009-2010 school year. We have started reviewing our reading skills in class, going over the letters sound and the vowels. I give the students reading readiness pages which  we practice in class. They then are asked to read for 10 minutes every day for homework.

We also learned holiday prayers, greetings and songs in class and ate apples and honey for a sweet new year. Our homework for the holidays was going to synagogue and listening to the shofar which is a mitzvah for Rosh Hashanah. What a beautiful beginning! // // In the next few weeks we will learn the blessings for Sukkot and will practice them at home. We will also get some more reading readiness pages that we will work on in class. Again students will be asked to read for 10 minutes every day at home. This is the pattern of my teaching your children Hebrew reading, vocabulary and some spoken Hebrew this year. Small amounts of homework, no more than ten minutes will reinforce the skills which they are learning in class. After Simchat Torah the Gimel (5th grade) class book will be given out together with a CD ROM. The book is called Hineni 2. We will study from the book in class and then will practice at home with the help of a "private tutor"- the CD ROM. I will teach your child how to use the CD. It is a great program and I know that your children will succeed if they practice at home while listening to the tutor and reading with her. (Her name is Gila and she is very patient. You can click on the same sentence again and again and she will repeat it till you know it. Try it with your child. It's fun). After we master a lesson I will ask the children to bring a printout to class on a given date so I can check their work. I will ask the parents to sign that page as well. We ill all cooperate on this process and will keep in touch so your children will know that we are all supporting the work they've done and helping them to move forward. I am looking forward to a great year with work, fun, games, and songs and speaking Hebrew. I hope to hear from you. Your feedback is most appreciated. Please stop by any time or come on in and sit in a class. //
 * Have a Happy and Healthy New Year, **
 * Orit Gordon. **