אהב-love, אמן-believe, בוש-embarrass, בכה-cry, בקש-seek, זכר-remember, חזק-strengthen, חטא-sin, חיה-live, יטב-do good, ישע-save, כון-prepare, כסה-cover, כפר-atone, כתב-write, לבש-dress, לחם-fight, לכד-capture, מלך-throne, נגד-tell, נגש-approach, נכה-hit, נצל-save, סור-turn, עבר-pass over, קבר-bury, קרב-bring close, רדף-chase, רום-raise, שאל-ask, שבר-break, שחת-destroy, שכב-lie down, שכן-dwell, שלם-complete, שמר-guard, שפט-judge, שרף-burn
Monday, April 23, 2012
Make your own online games: great online resource
I love this website. It lets you make arcade style games and interactive content for your class to do in school or at home with your own content. http://classtools.net/ I especially love http://www.classtools.net/education-games-php/quiz
online games for common shorashim Level 1
I made these online games a few years ago - they are arcade style games to learn the top 125 shorashim. I don't teach this way anymore because I like to teach shorashim in context only but it might be a good review for the middle of the year. students.
Shorashim Common List 1
אכל- eat, אמר- say, אסף- gather, בוא- come, בנה- build, ברך- bless, דבר- speak, היה- was, הלך- go, ידע- know, יכל- able, ילד- birth, יסף- add, יצא- go out, ירא- fear, ירד- go down, ישב- sit, כלה- finish, כרת- destroy, לקח- take, מות- die, מלא- fill, מצא- find, נפל- fall, נשא- carry, נתן- give, עבר- pass, עלה- go up, עמד- stand, ענה- answer, עשה- make, פקד- count,remember, צוה- command, קום- Get up, ראה- see, שים- put, שלח- send, שמע- listen, שתה- drink
Blog Name Change
I changed the name of my blog. It was Chinuch Thoughts. Now it is Chinuch ENERGY!
I decided the vision for this blog had to change. I was going to write my thoughts and ideas about the chinuch world. Then I realized that there are so many people doing that already.
Every crises that gets written about online and in the papers has the following words halfway through the discussion: SCHOOLS SHOULD . . .
I'm a teacher so that when it says SCHOOLS SHOULD it means me or my overworked principal or my dedicated colleagues.
when I see Yoni can't get married, feel religiously passionate or know how to make a good chulent I am supposed to realize that it is because I'm not teaching what/how/when/who I should. If I change, things would get so much better.
After reading the vague and generalized suggestions, i start to think "maybe i should have just stayed at my first job where I programmed the missile launches from moving ships onto moving targets. My mistakes were not such a big deal there." (yes that really was my first job)
It can get overwhelming, these educational manifestos or discussions about what societal ill I should be able to fix in my 3 hours a day in my classroom.
I was so proud that my class had finally learned how to put their papers in their binders so they don't get crumpled on the bottom of their back packs. Then i read an article and felt like I should have been teaching the kids the meaning of the universe instead.
Should I abandon ship? My students backpacks will end up with this huge mess of papers on the bottom! The papers will get thrown into landfills! The landfills will overflow and then the world will really end. Destruction of the world as we know it? Quitting now doesn't seem like a good option.
And depressing more teachers by adding to the cacophony of well meaning suggestions also doesn't seem like a good option. So i will continue to teach but no more chinuch thoughts from me.
What I, and probably other teachers (in school or at home) could use is more energy and more resources. We could use quick ideas about how to bring lofty ideals that we know are right into our classroom in a way that doesn't detract from all the other lofty goals that we are already pursuing.
We are doing a great job and can always get even greater. A good, practical idea is always helpful. If it has research to back it up, even better. If it wont take up time, even better. And if it adds time to our tight schedule, that is the best of all.
Just to clarify, I agree with the many suggestions that schools should teach our kids to be passionate about their Judaism, to have good character and to be independent learners. But rather on focusing on WHAT needs to be done theoretically, i want to look at HOW I try to do that practically.
So I'm going to post what I am doing to keep my class alive and learning and why I am doing so. Feel free to use what i post. Feel free to post your own ideas. I hope it brings energy to your students and to you and makes our Holy Torah come alive for us all.
Happy teaching!
I decided the vision for this blog had to change. I was going to write my thoughts and ideas about the chinuch world. Then I realized that there are so many people doing that already.
Every crises that gets written about online and in the papers has the following words halfway through the discussion: SCHOOLS SHOULD . . .
I'm a teacher so that when it says SCHOOLS SHOULD it means me or my overworked principal or my dedicated colleagues.
when I see Yoni can't get married, feel religiously passionate or know how to make a good chulent I am supposed to realize that it is because I'm not teaching what/how/when/who I should. If I change, things would get so much better.
After reading the vague and generalized suggestions, i start to think "maybe i should have just stayed at my first job where I programmed the missile launches from moving ships onto moving targets. My mistakes were not such a big deal there." (yes that really was my first job)
It can get overwhelming, these educational manifestos or discussions about what societal ill I should be able to fix in my 3 hours a day in my classroom.
I was so proud that my class had finally learned how to put their papers in their binders so they don't get crumpled on the bottom of their back packs. Then i read an article and felt like I should have been teaching the kids the meaning of the universe instead.
Should I abandon ship? My students backpacks will end up with this huge mess of papers on the bottom! The papers will get thrown into landfills! The landfills will overflow and then the world will really end. Destruction of the world as we know it? Quitting now doesn't seem like a good option.
And depressing more teachers by adding to the cacophony of well meaning suggestions also doesn't seem like a good option. So i will continue to teach but no more chinuch thoughts from me.
What I, and probably other teachers (in school or at home) could use is more energy and more resources. We could use quick ideas about how to bring lofty ideals that we know are right into our classroom in a way that doesn't detract from all the other lofty goals that we are already pursuing.
We are doing a great job and can always get even greater. A good, practical idea is always helpful. If it has research to back it up, even better. If it wont take up time, even better. And if it adds time to our tight schedule, that is the best of all.
Just to clarify, I agree with the many suggestions that schools should teach our kids to be passionate about their Judaism, to have good character and to be independent learners. But rather on focusing on WHAT needs to be done theoretically, i want to look at HOW I try to do that practically.
So I'm going to post what I am doing to keep my class alive and learning and why I am doing so. Feel free to use what i post. Feel free to post your own ideas. I hope it brings energy to your students and to you and makes our Holy Torah come alive for us all.
Happy teaching!
Sunday, April 22, 2012
April 23 plans
I know I won't have time to keep this daily blogging up but a few more posts won't kill me.
A. Tefillah time - It's Rosh Chodesh! So we will not have much time for the pre tefillah talks since the boys daven with the older boys and the girls join the older girls to sing hallel.
B. Chumash: פרק ל:ט-יד: translationThese pesukim have some difficult words with the continuation of the birth of the shevatim. Before the class - review who has been born, reason for the names. See if students can remember all shevatim and with partner remember reason for names.
Then we will do our "note taking" system. We will look at a pasuk, write down hard words, read Pasuk, and then at then end of 2 pesukim, each student will read those pesukim to himself 2x quietly.
Post learning - Why is Leah so happy?
Why did does it not say that זלפה was pregnant.
C: Rosh Chodesh Video: DHR had a great video presentation on bullying today from Torah UMesorah - It was a short story acted most ably by a few yeshiva students. The kids were spell bound. The movie led to a great springboard conversation about having witnessed bullying (who knew they had so much to say!), what could make a bully, who is considered a bully. This was an hour of time well spent.
D. Limudei Kodesh.
We finished reading the Rabbi Akiva story and answered questionsHomework: Review of Perek so far
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