Cumulative Displays – review and reinforce

Like a snowball rolling down a mountain, certain topics in Judaic Studies gather more and more information as the weeks go by. Students recognize and decode more and more Hebrew letters, vowels, and whole words. They study the Holiday cycle from ever more mature points of view. Torah Study centers around gleaning additional insights each time a Parsha is examined.

Making review a part of each lesson enables students to re-learn (if necessary) and to reinforce key concepts. In this way, knowledge gained from Religious School becomes firmly established and can be readily applied to future life long Jewish learning.

And that brings us to the Cumulative Display, a means of keeping major categories of information visible and more easily incorporated into review activities.
A Cumulative Display can be organized around a form such as the tree shape described in my post, “No Dinos Here! Interactive Classroom Displays” 7/29/10.
A Cumulative Display might be a growing collection of Hebrew letter, vowel, and vocabulary flashcards tacked to a defined wall space.
Other possibilities include a series of Holiday pictures surrounding a Jewish calendar.
My students were particularly intrigued when we tacked mini-posters representing each Parsha around the wall. By the end of the school year, they were surrounded by Torah!

What goes around comes…to mind. However you organize your Cumulative Display, make it a frequent focus for learning activities:
-Which words in our prayer text have this final letter (letter from the display)?
– Point to words in the display that have the root mem, lamed, chaf.
-Find the Parsha (on the wall) where Jacob gets a new name.
-Name the colors (in Hebrew) that are found in this Holiday picture.
-Azeh Chag B’chodesh Kislev? (Students choose a picture from the display.)

Cumulative Displays – at your service.

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Ronni Sims

Ronni has been a Jewish educator since Moses was in preschool (almost!). She has had the pleasure of teaching all age groups in a variety of formal and informal settings, as well as directing a Jewish Teacher Resource Center. While teaching in a Jewish Day School, Ronni coached an award-winning Odyssey of the Mind creative problem solving team.Ronni was an active participant in the former Conference on Alternatives in Jewish Education (CAJE), where she held leadership positions including Network Chair and Conference Co-Chair of CAJE 29 at Hofstra University. She currently teaches Hebrew at the Congregation Albert Religious School in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The Talmud teaches: “The Torah cannot be learned unless it is learned among friends.” Ronni views blogging on JCast as such a learning opportunity.

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