1. September 2012 Updates: End of Term 3 at school

2. Hahgoot collected another 10 teacher’s awards and won a Principal’s Bronze certificate!

3. At school Hahgoot studied about the Israeli artist Piven, thanks to a book I lent her teacher. The kids used Piven’s style of making people out of objects and made portraits of people with different occupations using objects that related to that person. Hahgoot mad e a sweet and gentle ballerina. Hahgoot has been enjoying going out of class twice a week to study maths with a combined year 1-2 class. The teacher there was very welcoming and included Hahgoot quickly. She has been exempt of spelling lists and has been writing stories instead. She has also been doing year 2 and 3 maths workbooks on her own in class.

4. At home, Hahgoot has been working well in year 2 comprehension workbooks in Hebrew and in workbooks I compiled for her, about Hebrew grammar (roots and verbs). Her grandpa Ido sent her a book about fairies in Hebrew. When she finished complaining and being negative, she found out she could read it easily and really enjoyed it.

5. She has been increasingly working more independently in her Hebrew workbooks and doing silent reading in Hebrew as well, so I no longer need to push her forward.

6. Hahgoot has been very positive about the activities in the Debora Plummer book (activities dealing with stress, anxiety and change), so we have been exploring emotions in a variety of ways, through drawing, discussion, worksheets and physical games.

7. In English Hahgoot has been hooked to the “Australian Girl” series (top left). In maths she has been working hard on multiplication and other mathematical explorations

8. She especially likes this Maths workbook in Hebrew, that is all about figuring out patterns and rules through thinking, exploration and experimentation.

9. Hahgoot got photography homework from me as part of the school homework I write for her each week: she had to take a photo of a mini-beast, an animal and a flower using close up, while paying attention to focus and composition (the main subject needs to be in the centre of the picture). She took these pictures by herself, I only helped with technical issues (the camera is still a bit heavy for her). She decided on subject, focus and composition by herself. In our next presentation: Last days of Term 3