Always Learning and Trying Something New

Last night I participated in a webinar given by Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano (@langwitches). The two main takeaways were that it is important to establish and give out class jobs or tasks and that there are different ways to take notes. So I tried to implement some of what I learned into today’s Chumash lesson.
I put the following jobs/tasks on the board:
1 Note Taking- writing down key points
2 Note Taking- making illustrations
3 Writing down key vocabulary words
4 Writing down new or hard vocabulary words
5 Editors- would take the notes and edit them

By pulling names out of a cup I assigned the students the different jobs. At the end of the lesson each one submitted their work and the note takers agreed to take the edited version and post in on our kidblog website.
By assigning tasks all the students were involved in the lesson and focused on what was going on in class.
Once again Kitah Hay you did an amazing job.
Rabbi Greenblatt

PEREK 12 PROJECT

Yesterday we finished Perek 12 in Parshat Bo and we are one perek away from finishing the entire Parsha. Perek 12 is long and it took us a while to finish and some of the material we learned before Pesach vacation.

As a culminating activity we divided the Perek into 5 main topics. Each student had to pick three topics and make a PowerPoint, a Prezi, a blog or poster about the main facts related to each topic.

All the students were engaged and excited working on this project as we see here:





Tomorrow students will present their projects to the class.

Once again Kol Hakavod Kitah Hay
Rabbi Greenblatt