End of Year Party Signup at:
Let me know if you/your student have other ideas....
April, 2013
Where did the year
go?
Tomorrow we will finish
up some worksheets from the Mensch handbook.
Sunday, 4/28 is the last
day of "regular class". Let's plan to have a party! We
will ask your students for ideas tomorrow. If you have any
recommendations, please email or call me. I will send a
"virtual sign up" sheet after class tomorrow.
I am
attaching material we worked on the last couple of weeks. Hopefully,
you were able to see the Hebrew practice your student did and the
coloring pages.
I will send a separate
email with pictures and videos from Israeli dancing and making matzoh.
Fran Bunker
505-270-6479
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Good morning:
Here is the
lesson plan and handouts from January 20 which we are continuing this Sunday.
We are continuing the
mensch handbook, taking care of yourself, re-charging your batteries (the
picture frame for drawing) which completed Seeing Yourself As A Mensch.
What we did on January
20th was played Jewish bingo and made human alef bet letters in teams.
See the pictures attached! This was a challenge and made them think about
the letters.
On February 10th, we
will be learning Israeli dancing!
I'm hoping the internet
issues have been resolved so we can use the links on the lesson plan for
multi-media learning.
I will be on vacation
March 4th and will leave a lesson plan for the substitute. I am
considering having the students make matzoh on March 24th. If you have
any ideas or recipes about how this might work (or not!)....let me know.
Also, I will check with Tammy about whether parental supervision if we
cook would be okay.
The Rigler-Jernigan
family has snack this Sunday.
Look forward to
seeing you and your students on Sunday.
Please let me know of
any feedback and suggestions.
Fran Bunker
505-270-6479
Good Shabbos:
We are continuing the
mensch handbook, the focus last week was taking care of yourself, re-charging
your batteries (the picture frame for drawing) which completed Seeing Yourself As
A Mensch.
We broke up into small
groups and looked at our choices, and where we want to improve.
Our next chapter is
Treating Yourself As A Mensch....health, bodies and minds, discipline.
I didn't check who
signed up for snack on Sunday....the updated signup sheet is by the door to our
classroom.
Enjoy your long holiday
weekend. Look forward to seeing you and your students on Sunday.
Please let me know of
any feedback and suggestions.
January 16, 2013 ~ Boker Tov:
Happy New Year.
Hope everyone had an enjoyable break. I look forward to seeing your
students on Sunday and hear about what was important to them about the
"holidays".
Copied below is:
1. A
"rededication" worksheet, worth a shekel for partial or full
completion, using words, pictures, magazine clippings...was an opportunity for
students to connect the eight candles of re-dedication of the temple to their
personal lives and New Year's resolutions
2. The snack
calendar....I will post on the door. If you have not yet provided snack,
please take a day before others sign up for round 2. We need snack for
1/13, please reply to all if you can fill in this Sunday!
3. The Ten
Commandments Poster....we will pick up this thread for the Cantor's Challenge.
We will resume Seeing
Yourself As A Mensch...completing Part Two - "Be A Mensch To
Yourself" during January. We then move to Part Three "Be A
Mensch To Others".
Our madrachim will
continue the Aleph-Bet so we learn it by end of school year.
We will have a
guest in (late Feb/early March) to teach Israeli dancing -- to coincide
with Purim.
Please let me know of
any feedback and suggestions.
Fran Bunker
505-270-6479
Chag Chanukah Sameach:
We had a blast last
Sunday making our own hanukkiyah from recycled material - tiles and nuts.
Your children's individuality and creativity is always amazing to watch.
Picture of class displaying their talents attached. They shared, helped each
other and really enjoyed the background chanukah videos - inspired by the link
Mora Tammy sent in last week's school news.
Ask your child if s/he
remembers what the acronym Maccabee is from (answer on attached lesson plan).
I promised I would send
the links to the videos we listened to - incorporating multi media into the
program is engaging the students and holds their attention for a while.
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We are taking a little
break from the mensch book instead looking to cull out and recognize mensch
behaviors and values, such as using recycled parts. Although Chanukah is
not a torah festival "holiday", it is a cornerstone of this season
and we will sing (Ari?), make music (Ian?) maybe dance (Asher????), learn
history, do a skit about the Maccabee's and weave the Alef Bet in with
decorating a dreidel.
Speaking of Alef Bet,
our madrahim (teacher assistants) are teaching the Alef Bet in sign
language also. Cool video the students really like is from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD2AGCXqpr4
Be sure to check the
wall for the plates we made last month "Seeing Yourself As A Mensch".
Happy Chanukah!
NOVEMBER Dear Families of 3rd grade Mensch-kins:
Where did the week
go. Sorry I didn't get this out sooner.....been immersed in a final paper
for class at CNM due this week.....
An updated snack
calendar in bright pink will be posted today. Please sign up or email me
so we can fill days through February. If you email me, please provide a
preferred AND an alternate date.
Below is a quick recap
of what we have covered and what's on deck for December.....as time permits, we
will continue to learn the Aleph Bet song with sign language thanks to our
talented madrahim!
We are slowing down on
new material....the mensch plates are about enabling them to absorb and apply
what we have learned so far.
I continue to be amazed
by your children and their individual strengths, courage and aptitude.
Wishing you a wonderful
holiday, safe travels and many blessings.
Sunday, 11-11-12
- Several
volunteers acted out their "mensch-cam" from the previous
week. They acted out scenes or Acts of Mensch-oning from the
previous week.
- We
started on our plates for "Seeing Yourself As A Mensch".
- No
handouts! (hooray)
Sunday 11-18-12
- Finish
mensch plates
- Mitzvah
Mall
- Jewish
Thanksgiving Blessing - Learn Shehecheyanu
Sunday, 12/2
- Make
menorahs! No one in the class has made a real menorah. I will
probably go to Habitat for Humanity and pick up tiles and nuts (hardware).
This will ensure they are fire-proof.
- Learn
Chanukah songs
- Game,
such as pin the tale on Judah - learn about the story and symbols of
Chanukah
Sunday, 12/9
Chanukah Craft
Chanukah Songs
OCTOBER Dear Families of 3rd grade Mensch-kins:
Attached are packets
with materials we covered Sunday, 10/28 and yesterday, 11/4. We are
starting on Seeing Yourself As A Mensch - self respect - taking care of
yourself so you can take care of others.
They are supposed to
pretend there is a camcorder inside their head this week recording their
actions. The worksheet is to help them think about this "movie"
and review. Several students volunteered to act out their movie together.
Worksheets are optional, worth a schekel, and can be written, pictures, or even
pictures from a magazine. So, for those students who are not yet
confident in their writing.....there are options!
Now - the Mensch Plate
template. This is to prepare them for the plates we will be making on
Sunday. The idea is we divide or share our "slices"
between being a mensch to ourselves, those around them and
strangers/community. They need to split their plate into 8 slices
(could be more, could be less) and think about actions.
They can think about who
and how they will create their plate. We will glue mirrors so they can
"see" themselves as a mensch and hang on the wall in their bedroom.
If you have an extra
magazine or two, would you send it along so we have pictures we can cut out and
use through the year?
Thank you! The
Sandman family has snack. See you Sunday!
This Sunday, we talked just a little
about levels of tzedakah, for example, if you donate food you don't know who
will receive it and the person who receives the food doesn't know who donated
it.
We have moved from
mensch choices to mensch actions. Doing nothing is a choice, but if you
don't do something, you are not taking action and that is not being a mensch.
We acted out skits which
gave us a chance to work in small groups. Everyone's
imagination, creativity and personality really shined!
Thanks to our three
madrachim: Ian, Aryela and Asher! Their talents, enthusiasm and
experience enhance the program, our team and they really connect with your
students.
Hope to see everyone
Sunday!
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505-270-6479
August 28th -- First Day....So good to meet everyone.
Please see posted snack
calendar for openings and snacks to avoid. Snack calendar posted on door
or you can call or email abqftb@aol.com
with updates.
No homework but please
work on Too Many To Menschen Family Worksheet. Handouts are posted below.
We we did:
Introductions
Learning
about Tzedakah (handout)
What
does it mean to be a mensch?
Thinking
about menschen in our lives (Too Many To Menschen worksheet)
How
are Tzedakah and mensch related?
Alef-Bet: Shin Coloring Page
Family
Worksheet
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| Fran Bunker |
5773 School Year Above
5772 School Year Below
August 28, 2011
Today we talked about different situations a mensch would be put in and how they would react. How to be a mensch is our theme for the year and our textbook is a guide on how to become one. For the second half of class we started learning how to draw the letters in the Alef Bet.
Hello,
I will be starting my Sophomore year at the University of New Mexico this upcoming school year. I am still undeclared, but I'm almost positive my major will be communications. This year at Congregation Albert I will be teaching Third grade on Sundays, Fourth grade Hebrew on Wednesdays, as well as Modern Hebrew on Wednesday. I'm very excited to start teaching for the second year consecutive year at CA. I look forward to getting to know all of your kids and helping them learn and progress throughout the year.
-Zach Schwartz
