Shavua Tov!
Our Hebrew letters of the week are…Shin & Sin!
They are like twins… but Shin has a dot on the right, and Sin has a dot on the left.
It will help you to remember if you think of the Shema. When we say it we cover our eyes with our right hand (yad yamin) that is the same for Shin. Shin also rhymes with yamin.
Shin makes a sound like when you want someone to be quiet, shhh! It sounds like this:
Sin makes a sound like a snake hissing, it sounds like this:
Now let’s make שׁ & שׂ with our bodies!
This is how we make a Shin:
This is how we make a Sin:
Now let’s print them on paper:
Here is this week’s work for the letter sin (we started the year with Shin for Shalom so it was already done at school!).
Remember that you can work on it at your own pace.
When you are done, please take a picture and send it to: s.waldman@theojcs.ca
To learn more about the letters shin and sin including Hebrew reading practice, play this week’s assigned aleph bet game on JiTap: Shin says Shema and Sin likes to sing
