Hebrew Unit Culminates in Both Individual and Group Work for Fourth Graders

As the culmination of one of their units of the Chaverim B’Ivrit Hebrew curriculum, fourth graders had the opportunity to demonstrate their understanding of their learning through both individual work and group work. Working in groups, students acted out a story about an elderly man, Mr. Cohen, who doesn’t like children playing in his garden. But when Mr. Cohen becomes ill, the children bring him food and he lets the children play in his garden. “The performance of this play ties in closely to the four aims of language acquisition—speaking, reading, writing, and listening—and in particular, speaking,” explains teacher Irit Daly. “The play also reinforces the vocabulary and speech patterns that the students were introduced to in this unit.” Working independently, students created comic strips of the story, using the Hebrew app Ivrit Beclick.

 

Adds Ms. Daly, “These activities give students a framework for what we have been learning in class, while also giving them space to take what they have learned and give it their own personal voice.” MORE PHOTOS