Tuesday, November 1, 2016

 Kindergarten גן News



In addition to learning the letter ה, we have also learned a new vowel!


THE LETTER ה (HAY)
ה (hay) is a fun letter because of the silly way you can remember its "h" sound. Imagine that the letter is a horse stall. The gap on the left is where you throw the hay to the horses. Also, you can think of hay as only having half of a side. It is important to note that ה is silent when it shows up at the end of a word. Here are some new words that start with a hay:

Mountain       Har                  הר

Parents         Ho-reem         הורים

Haggadah     Ha-ga-dah      הגדה

She                Hee                 היא

He                  Hoo                 הוא

Havdalah       Hav-da-lah     הבדלה

Hora                                      הורה



New Vowel  


Our new vowel is the sh'va.  It's job is to tell us to say the sound (s) before and then stop.

  For example:  


The sh'va lets us know to say Riv-kah as 2 separate syllables.  Though this can be a hard concept, the students got it very easily.  

Another example would be : 

 לְ  = l

To work on this vowel along with reviewing our others, each students completed a color by vowel worksheet Vowels are "falling" all around.  It was a blast!

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