Hebrew for Parents of Israeli Kids Path

Hello and goodbye with teachers and other parents.

Read a name on a cubby and a line in a note from gan.

Pointed readers your child may bring home.

Ima, abba, ah, ahot, savta, saba.

Head, tummy, hand: for health and for “wash your hands.”

The words kids shout at crayons and clothes.

Counting snacks, stairs, and minutes.

Breakfast, lunchbox, and “eat a little more.”

Water, milk, and juice.

The shuk list and the snack plate.

Gan, kitah, moreh/morah, homework, trip.

Happy, sad, scared, proud: name them with the child.

Now, later, after school, bedtime.

The weekly schedule on the fridge.

Pickup times and “five more minutes.”

Shoes, coat, and “it’s in the wash.”

Rain, heat, and whether a jacket is needed.

Bedroom, bathroom, kitchen: for instructions.

What, why, who, where.

Come, sit, wait, eat, stop: the imperative you will use daily.

I am coming, you are eating, we are going.

Negation in “don’t” and “there isn’t.”

There is homework; there is no more pasta.

The festival names that show up in costume days and notes.

The date line on a school worksheet.

Your child’s name, and yours, as the school writes them.

Drill school, body, and food words.

A mixed check you can do with the child nearby.

Playground words, with a note on what is too rough to repeat.

A short note from school, pointed if needed.