Archive for October, 2009

Posting your students photos on line

Posting your students pictures on line

As the saying goes a picture is worth a million dollars.Posting your students pictures on line and having the opportunity to share with the parents and your collegues PRICELESS!

At Yavneh Academy we are practicing for 2 very important events. In second grade the chumash play where the children willr eceive their first chumash and begin learning about Avrahams journey to Canaan.

In second grade the first graders will receive their very own siddur. They already know how to read and now after receiving their siddur they could actually see what they have been saying since they started pre-schoo.

The best way to share photos with parents and teachers is by going to photo gallery on Schools on I net. You have 2 options there. One is “my photo gallery” and other one in our case is “Yavneh photo gallery”.

My photo gallery is where one would go to make an album and title it what ever the occasssion may be. So lets say we want to post pictures from the siddur play. I would label the album 1B siddur play and then make a second album for my afternoon class 1C siddur play. After I name my album I add pictures. Its very simple and quick. The best part is that there is No limit to the number of pictures. The sky is the limit. After I add all my pictures I then have the choice to “share” the album with whomever I choose. S ofcoarse my first choice would be the students and their parents. Then I like to share my albums with my fello co workers and administraters.

The best part is gettign all the positive feedback from the people I shared the albums with. Another thing I often do is print the pictures from the albums and make a neat bulletin board. That way evryone is treated to share in our schools smachot.

Shabbat Shalom

Dalia Golbari

 

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Report Cards

Report cards. Dont those 2 words just make you want to scream?! Atleast this year we have only 42 of them to do. All I have to say is thank G-d for So-in (Schools On Net). They make it so easy. Comments are so easy all you have to do is plug in numbers and the rest is taken care of. Lets say Im not sure how to describe a very “active” child all I do is look at the 100′s of suggestions that are number coded, plug them in and thats it.  The program is so smart that it knows where and when to put “he” or “she” what ever the case may be.

Adding grades couldnt be easier. Theres a choice for you to make everyone get the same grade by simply clicking on a box and poof everyone has an A. But if you needed to change a few students to a B then you simply change just that students grade.

You no longer have to worry about counting days student were absent or late. Its all taken care of since we enter it on line evry day the tally is already there.

Printing is my favorite part. I dont need to print each students report card one by one I check each childs name (by using the check box just like the one for the grades) and all the report cards get printed together at the same time.

What a blessing. How lucky we are to have soin on our team!!!

Dalia Golbari

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Sukkot

The beautiful holiday of Sukkot

This past weekend we celebrated the beautiful holiday of Sukkot. Everyone was excited to put up their sukkah. This year my sukkah was finally ready just before Shabbat. Every year I ask my husband for a larger, nicer sukkah and every year his answer is next year. He always reminds me of the other necessities we need all year round and that our sukkah is good enough.

What I’m trying to say is we should make the best of everything. For example. My husband built our sukkah. He bought all parts from Home Depot and put it together. Our “canvas” is blue tarp… yes from Home Depot. Every year we decorate our sukkah and make the best of it.  The children this year were in complete charge of decorations ( I was busy cooking).

Friday night arrived and we were about to enter the sukkah. We began by first welcoming our guests the “ushpizin”. (I put in an extra chair in our sukkah for our holy guests).  As we were sitting down in our sukkah I started to look around. I noticed the posters the children hung on the poles. The beautiful lights and flowers were also nicely hanging I became embarrassed by my behavior to my husband. I realized that I have the most beautiful sukkah in my neighborhood. Not because it was made in Home Depot but because it was made by love and special care by everyone in my family. Today I made the brachah over the lulov and etrog with my youngest child and that was truly the most beautiful part of all!

I would like to conclude by wishing everyone a “G’MAr Ve’ Chatimah Tovah”.

Till next week…

Dalia Golbari

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