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The Letter ע (AYIN)

The letter ע (ayin) is very similar to the letter א (alef) in that they are both silent unless paired with a vowel. Below are some useful words that start with ע (ayin). Many of the words are already in our vocabulary.

Pencil    e-pa-roan       עִפָּרוֹן

Eye      ah-yeen         עַיִן

Eyes    ay-nah-yeem     עֵינַיִם

Tomato   ag-va-ne-yah     עַגְבָנִיָּה

Ten           eh-ser            עֶשֶׂר

Hebrew     eve-reet     עִבְרִית

Cake       oo-ga       עוּגָה

The Letter נ (Nun) and ן (Nun Sofit)

The letter נ (nun) makes a "n" sound and is very small in size. It's like there is "nun" there. Here are the nun words we learned.

candle      nehr       נֵר

candles     nehr-ot    נֵרוֹת

Snake       Na-chash     נָחָשׁ

Shoe       na-al      נַעַל

Prophet    Nah-vee       נָבִיא

Miracle      nehs          נֵס

ן (Nun Sofit or Final Nun)

The letter נ is one of 5 letters that I refer to as transformers.  When a nun is the last letter in a word, it transforms into a different form.  When נ nun is the last letter in a word it becomes a final nun ןor a nun sofit.  If you look at the picture above, you will notice that a final nun is longer and goes below the writing line,  In class, we really focused on understanding that NUN SOFIT ן can only come at the END of a word.

To help reinforce our new knowledge, we made a נָחָשׁ (snake) that is both a נ  and ן depending on how you move it.  It was really neat seeing their excitement about learning a final letter,

Who? What? I. 

Last week in class we focused on some question words.  We also learned the very useful pronoun "I."

    מַה means What

    מִי  means Who

אֲנִי  means I

Birthday of the Trees

Not only does Tu B'shevat celebrate the trees, it also signals the blooming of the first flowers in Israel.  To celebrate this special chag, in our class, we learned the brachot (blessings) for foods that come from the tree and foods that comes from the ground.  To reinforce this concept we also sorted fruits and vegetables on our very own trees.  

In addition,  we learned about the Shivat Ha'minim (Seven Species) that we eat on the chag. 

AND DID A TASTE TEST!!!!   

Red = Solmson

Blue = Weiser

Green = Shell