1st+Grade+Tefillah

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 * ~ Unit ||~ Start Date (duration) ||~ Essential Questions ||~ Content / Concepts ||~ Skills ||~ Texts ||~ Supporting / Supplementary Materials ||
 * ||  || דוגמה ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * || First day of school ||  || Modeh Ani ||   ||   || All tefillot from the beginning of the year until the siddur play are sung or chanted together by the teacher and the class. The teacher leads and gives instructions on when to stand, sit, say amen, etc. and all tefillot are color coded on the smart board. ||
 * ||  ||   || Reisheet Chachma ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ||  ||   || Torah Torah ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ||  ||   || Tzitzit (boys only) ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ||  ||   || Ma Tovu ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ||  ||   || Adon Olam ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ||  ||   || Yadayim ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ||  ||   || Asher Yatzar ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ||  ||   || Birchot Hashachar ||   ||   || We say the first five brachot together before the chagigat siddur. ||
 * ||  ||   || Shema
 * ||  ||   || Hatikvah ||   ||   || This is added at the end of tefillah on Fridays. When there is a Friday assembly and we say hatikvah there we will not add it to the Friday davening. ||
 * ||  ||   || Lecha Dodi ||   ||   || First stanza is said on Friday after davening. Before oneg Shabbat we sing Shalom Aleichem together. ||
 * ||  ||   || Eyn Kelokeinu ||   ||   || end of Tefila on Fridays ||
 * ||  ||   || Ani Maamin ||   ||   || sing at the end of prayer ||
 * || Two weeks before siddur play ||  ||   ||   ||   || We start to talk about what tefillah means and what tefillah means to ||
 * || Second semester/third quarter ||  || Above tefillot ||   || The Artscroll chinuch siddur. || The Monday after the chagigat siddur we begin tefillah from the siddur. We focus on reading from this point in the year and on. We begin with the very first tefillah we have always said (modeh ani) and every few days add another tefillah. We read through the tefillah first and then start to sing it again, all the while the children following along in the siddur by pointing. ||
 * ||  ||   || Birchot Hashachar || Reading and understanding the words. ||   || I use pictures from another book that are scanned and shown on the smartboard, depicting the main idea of each bracha. We add a new bracha every two to three days depending on how much time we have. By the end of the school year we have added all of them but do not learn the "yehi ratzon" at the end. ||
 * ||  ||   || Yigdal ||   ||   || Each week add a new tefillah. Read through first, a few lines each day and then practice singing up to the point where they have learned to read the words. ||
 * ||  ||   || Birchot Hatorah ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ||  ||   || Baruch Sheamar ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ||  ||   || Ashrei ||   ||   || start practicing choral reading of 2 first psukim for a week ,then add two more until the kids can read them all ||
 * ||  ||   || Yishtabach ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ||  ||   || Aleinu ||   ||   || If there is time at the end of the year. ||
 * ||  ||   || Second paragraph of shema ||   ||   || If there is time and the kids are ready to go on. ||
 * ||  ||   || Lecha Dodi ||   ||   || Every two weeks add another paragraph on Fridays. Read and then sing that part. By the end of the year they are singing and reading the whole tefillah. ||