39 days of the omer

Corresponding to Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Jewish Soul Art by Hannah Niva Glick ​ Besiyata Dishmaya - You may not represent my artwork as your own in part or whole, nor sell it without my permission nor use it for idolatry. https://jewishsoulart.com/index.html

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Today is thirty-nine days, which are five weeks and four days of the Omer .

Barukh atah, A-donai E-loheinu, Melekh Ha-ʿolam, asher qid'shanu b'mitzvotav v'tzivanu ʿal S'firat Ha-ʿomer.

Blessed are You, Lord our God, King of the Universe, Who has sanctified us with His commandments and commanded us to count the Omer.

39: Ha-yom tisha u’sheloshim yom, shehaym chami-sha shavuot va’arba-a yamim la-omer .

OR

39: Ha-yom tisha u’sheloshim yom, shehaym chami-sha shavuot va’arba-a yamim ba-omer ba-omer .

Intention, Thanks to Morah G kn Morah B"s Kitah א : We count down to the numbwr of days until the end of school (17 days left), but we count up to the number of days to receiving the Torah

URLs

https://www.ou.org/holidays/transliterated_version_of_sefirat_haomer/

https://www.chabad.org/holidays/sefirah/omer-count_cdo/jewish/Count-the-Omer.htm#lang=heb

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counting_of_the_Omer#

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The American High School

Cultural references related to rules, expectations, and related controversies at American high schools have come up when I'm working with advanced English Language Learners (ELLs) who are also teacher candidates: Example terms are curfew, eligibility, and dress code. 

To give you an idea of the vocabulary and references that you might come across, I'm posting sections of a 2011 student welcome packet. "Eligibility" refers to meeting a minimum academic standard, as measured by letter grades in classes, which allows a student to be eligible to participate in sports competitions with other schools. Instead of school uniforms, most public schools have a "dress code" to promote a respectful learning environment. "Curfew for minors," which is the time that those under 18 years old have to be home so that their parents are not called into court, is not covered here. 

The National Center for Education Statistics  allows you to look up typical names of American schools. The Washington Post mentioned the site in a cute 2014 review, How many schools are still named after John F. Kennedy?   Here's the link that gives you an answer, except that the first page has mostly schools named for other Kennedys. There's even a school named for JFK's widow, which is  the Jacqueline Kennedy-onassis High School .

Poems to inspire summer in my ear

source from NIH
Give your ears a summer break!

Poem in Your Pocket Day takes place every year on a day in National Poetry Month. Poem in Your Pocket Day 2024 will take place on April 18.

From ReadWorks.org

• ReadWorks Summer Reading Packets - ReadWorks | K12 Reading Instruction that Works (archive.org)

• K-12 Poems with vocabulary lists (archive.org) right-click to view

Poem or song? Versus or lyrics?

TESOL Certificate from the UMD College of Education

Youglish and Movie English

 

1. Youglish video clips for whatchamacallit

2. English at the Movies   from the Learning English channel at the Voice of America (VOA) Wikipedia

1. English @ the Movies: Give it a Shot

2. English @ the Movies: I Got This!

3. @EnglishwithMovies 

1. whatchamacallit

Don't Mess with Texas! Dame la Basura!

Reading for understanding AND fun.

Listen to my "trashy" Texas playlist while you read this Smithsonian article to practice reading for understanding AND reading for enjoyment.

Read titles and captions under photos first.  Read each saying on the "Don't mess with Texas" trash cans at the Texas capitol building in Austin, TX .

Compose your own vocabulary list, starting with
- Seemingly - seems like; 
- Myriad - many

- Lone Star state 1848 - Remember the Alamo

Explore more vocabulary and songs about and from Texas. 

The present perfect is a time span that includes now.

Source from NOAA

You can try thinking of the birds as discrete points of time and the waves as on-going aspects of a time span.

This video has the answers to these fill-ins. Thanks to Rachel's channel  (Archived ) and Voscreen.

- Scene 1: A: He's your uncle? B: Him? Uh-uh. I've ______________ seen him before. - Scene 2: ______________ never been sick before. - Scene 3: Hello darkness, my old friend. I've ______________ to talk with you again. - Scene 4: l've ______________ changes for you, Shrek. Think about that.