Hebrew Reading in K2 - Alef, Beis, Veis and Gimmel!

Our Hebrew Reading lessons usually start with time in the circle introducing the letter and then time at our tables completing various fun activties which help us remember the name and shape.
We also practice the blending process and the direction of Hebrew text being right to left.

Below are the first four letters we have covered this year.

ALEF
We sorted magnetic letters into 2 different categories - alef  and not alef.
We also used these to form a large alef on the whiteboard.
See the next blog post below for the craft we completed by pasting alefs onto our Torah Scrolls.

 

  

BEIS
We learned that BEIS has a button in the middle and a little piece of its fence sticking out of the back. We played a blindfolded game of 'place the button in the Beis'.
 We shaped our body like a Beis and formed our own Alef and Beis sequencing patterns. 

 

   

               

We searched for Alef and Beis and glued down our own pattern on the strip, starting right to left.

We hunted for Alef and Beis and named the letters collected on our boards.

VEIS and the sound KAMATZ!!

Each of the K2 friends learned the vowel Kamatz.

It looks like this  ̞

When Kamatz is placed under a letter, it makes the sound aw.

The class formed Kamatz by placing our fist under our wrist. We sing a song with all of the letters in the Alef Beis, using a kamatz puppet, to practise the sound 'aw'.

 

 

 

Adding 'kamatz' under the letters found

When learning VEIS, we saw that VEIS and BEIS are exactly the same, except that VEIS doesn't have a 'button'.

At our centers, we turned VEIS into BEIS by adding a button. We also sequenced letter patterns, added kamatz underneath each letter and read it to a friend.

In Pairs, we took turns to name each letter on the reading worksheet. We then added kamatz underneath each letter and read the page again.

 

 

When differentiating Beis and Veis, we noted that the back of the Beis is the same, it sticks out. Each friend got a chance to color the back of the Beis and Veis. We then added kamatz underneath and read the sheet.

  

 

 GIMMEL 

Our GIMMEL is always running to help a friend and do a mitzvah. We named it 'Gomel Chessed Gimmel'.
In our centers, we drew Gimmel running to do a chessed/kindness for a friend.
In the playground, we ran with our body shaped like a Gimmel. It has been such a fun letter

 

 

Illustrating Gomel Chessed Gimmel helping a friend

Reading 'Gimmel' with a partner

Hunting for Gimmel

 

Gimmel Stamping