July 2013 Updates: Building up an identity as a whole person can be fun!

As the term started, Hahgoot’s BJE studies resumed. The first unit was about Shabbat. Hahgoot enjoyed learning about the various rituals and symbols.

In her Hebrew studies she is not negative about crossword puzzles any longer and was OK with writing stories. On the right: writing a story about a sad man in the classroom, that wants to eat a mountain of ice cream and it all ends well...

She reads in Hebrew very well, fluent and fast with the vowels and I have been trying for months to convince her to read without them (the next reading level), but she was as usual, negative. At last I managed to “trick” her into reading without the dots by using the wildly funny “Monsters Encyclopaedia” by talented Danny Kerman. She was happy to draw her own, of course!

Following the complex friendship issues she had last term, we started reading and doing the activities in “A smart girl’s guide to friendship troubles” from the “American Girl” series. She loves it and is highly interested, which is fantastic.

Just for fun I got her a very thick Captain Underpants workbook, packed with stickers, games, and tutorials on how to write your own silly adventures and draw “flip-o-rama” cartoons.

Top left: Hahgoot has been corresponding on the fridge with her dad, using magnets creatively. Bottom left: Hahgoot made up recipes Bottom right: Hahgoot is very concerned about healthy eating and decided to write a kids’ guide to eating well.

Hahgoot experimented with the many different shades of red, green and blue she can make (following a Pilon activity).

Following another Pilon magazine activity, she used Joofy as an object to learn about abstraction. Tough exercise!

One more Pilon activity: She made a doll with pop up parts, so she could draw what she was thinking about and what was in her pocket. Hahgoot is still very negative about using the Pilon magazines, though she always enjoys the activity at the end...

Hahgoot used her weird face stickers to make some odd creations... In the next presentation: Time for Alma’s news!