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Third Graders Learn Important Lessons Using Hebrew Language

Teacher Simi Hoze is always looking for opportunities to integrate the Hebrew language with other subject matters and with relevant topics for her third grade students. This week, the class is learning about friendships, including the vocabulary and verbs about friendships. The students have been learning how to talk about friendship in Hebrew and why it is important to create and sustain friendships. This lesson ties nicely into the Brandeis core value of chesed, kindness, because “As it says in the Torah, ‘V’ahavta l’reacha kamocha’ (‘Love your neighbor as yourself),” explains Ms. Hoze.
 
As a special treat, students also had the chance to examine Israeli shekels, as one student’s sister recently returned from the 8th grade Israel trip and shared the coins with him. “We’re going to do math in Hebrew,” exclaimed Ms. Hoze as she held out the coins, and the class proceeded to count and add up the money—all in Hebrew! MORE PHOTOS
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