First day of Hebrew School!
Sep. 11th, 2006 10:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xiphiasSo, after getting home from tending bar at 2:30, and talking to Lis for another hour and a half about what my day had been like, and how the party she'd gone to had been, I finally fell asleep at 4:00, and got up three hours later, at 7:00, to go to work for the first day of Hebrew School of the year.
Larry Rich is my co-teacher this year -- I think this is the first year that I've had a co-teacher more experienced than I am. Two of his sons are madrichim (assistant teachers) at the school, and he's basically the main Hebrew teacher of the school. Beth's two sons are in my class this year -- they're identical twins, but fortunately, one of them has a mole under his lip, so I can tell them apart. They're, of course, totally different personalities.
So, as always, they are putting grades together in order to get reasonable numbers of people per class. This means that I get to teach students from BOTH of the groups of kids that I taught before. So I'm truly happy about this class. If you remember me posting cool things about any of my students from any year before last year, I've got that student again this year.
What else? Mark, the other teacher who plays guitar, is back again this year, which is awesome, because it's more fun to lead singing together than by myself. Not that it's not fun to lead it on my own, but it's more fun with the two of us.
We did Hebrew review in the first half of the class. All of the students stated that they knew no Hebrew, and had forgotten the Hebrew they didn't know over the summer, which we allowed was reasonable and expected. And they stated that they couldn't write cursive. They then went on to write the Hebrew alphabet in cursive, which, of course, they had totally forgotten how to do, but somehow still could.
If these kids actually knew that they knew what they knew, Larry and I would have very little to do in class.
In the second half of class, I started teaching History. I started off, as I planned to do, talking about "what is history and why do we study it", and went on to "when does Jewish history start?"
A lot of what we talked about I posted to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
tbbhistoryclass, which is the discussion LJ community I set up for the class. Feel free to read along, if you like. It's primarily for my students, but feel free to pop in to correct information I get wrong, and so forth.
So that was most of it, really. I'm so looking forward to this year!
Larry Rich is my co-teacher this year -- I think this is the first year that I've had a co-teacher more experienced than I am. Two of his sons are madrichim (assistant teachers) at the school, and he's basically the main Hebrew teacher of the school. Beth's two sons are in my class this year -- they're identical twins, but fortunately, one of them has a mole under his lip, so I can tell them apart. They're, of course, totally different personalities.
So, as always, they are putting grades together in order to get reasonable numbers of people per class. This means that I get to teach students from BOTH of the groups of kids that I taught before. So I'm truly happy about this class. If you remember me posting cool things about any of my students from any year before last year, I've got that student again this year.
What else? Mark, the other teacher who plays guitar, is back again this year, which is awesome, because it's more fun to lead singing together than by myself. Not that it's not fun to lead it on my own, but it's more fun with the two of us.
We did Hebrew review in the first half of the class. All of the students stated that they knew no Hebrew, and had forgotten the Hebrew they didn't know over the summer, which we allowed was reasonable and expected. And they stated that they couldn't write cursive. They then went on to write the Hebrew alphabet in cursive, which, of course, they had totally forgotten how to do, but somehow still could.
If these kids actually knew that they knew what they knew, Larry and I would have very little to do in class.
In the second half of class, I started teaching History. I started off, as I planned to do, talking about "what is history and why do we study it", and went on to "when does Jewish history start?"
A lot of what we talked about I posted to
tbbhistoryclass, which is the discussion LJ community I set up for the class. Feel free to read along, if you like. It's primarily for my students, but feel free to pop in to correct information I get wrong, and so forth.So that was most of it, really. I'm so looking forward to this year!