PreK3

Dates ||~ Essential Questions ||~ Judaic Content/Skills ||~ Language Arts Skills ||~ Social Studies ||~ Math Skills ||~ Science ||~ Social Skills ||~ Creativity /Critical Thinking ||~ Resources? ||~ Assessment || (2week) ||= Why are bees important? Why do we celebrate Rosh Hashanah? ||= SweetNewYear Teshuva - saying I'm sorry recognizing a shofar Hashem cares about what we do Hebrew Vocabulary: dictating imaginative sentences ||= identifying simple color patterns(e.g., black and yellow stripes) ||= Jobs (e.g., beekeeper) ||= Where do bees live? What do bees eat? what are botanical gardens? admitting when we're wrong ||= brainstorming about bees questioning - creating a list of things we want to know about ||= Memphis Botanical gardens Rabbi Radkinsky comes to blow the shofar teacher observation create a bee activity || My Family Feelings My Friends/2 weeks ||= Why am I special? What makes up my Family? How to be a friend? ||= Body Parts in Hebrew Af peh ozen ayin yad regel Mitzvot I can do wtih my body Sing songs and read books about it. ||= Make ALL ABOUT ME book
 * ~ Unit/
 * = Bees
 * דבש
 * תפוח
 * תשובה ||= Recognizing the letter B
 * ||= Saying I'm sorry
 * ||= skills checklist
 * = All About Me

How are we special?

What is a friend.

" ||= Who is in my family?

Acting out family roles

Bring pictures with our families. ||= Measuring height and weight of child with conventional and unconventional methods

Height Graph

Eye color graph ||= What does your body look like?

How is your body shaped?

Body Parts ||= Work on sharing and taking turns with our friends.

Discuss feelings: happy, sad, mad, silly, scared ||= Ask questions ( how many blocks will it take to be as tall as you?)

Design your own paperdoll for our friends board. ||= Starfall-all about me

Books ||= Observations || (1 week) ||= What makes up the world that Hashem made? Why is Shabbat special?What would the world be without shabbat? ||= Learning about Parsha of the week Experiencing the beauty and excitement of Shabbat Hebrew words associated with Beraishit and Shabbat ||= Picture and dicatation about "My Favorite thing to do on Shabbat" Shabbat and creation stories, books and felt board activity Shabbat songs Picture board with labels about our walk. Recipe page for our class Cookbook ||= Creation Walk outside to see the world Things and customs we do in our homes on Shabbat ||= Sort people and tree game Number puzzles Counting game Measuring when we bake challah ||= Collect things from our Creation Walk and put on our Discovery table to view with magnifying glasses and weigh on scale Baking challah/ talk about how yeast makes challah rise Compare to matzah ||= Shabbat dances together ||= Make a world in art by painting and deciding which objects to glue on it Make a Shabbat box filled with things we made to celebrate Shabbat ||= Beraishit and Shabbat pictures ||= Questions at Group Time || How do we celebrate Rosh Hashana? ||= Talk about concept of teshuva(say I'm sorry) Tefilah and Tzedaka Make a Torah for our class Aron kodesh. Go visit real shul and see real Torah. Make a siddur for our class davening. Make a Tzedaka box for our class and one to take home. Bring real shofar and learn shofar sounds. Talk about eating customs on Rosh Hashana night. Have someone come and blow shofar each day. books, songs and art projects to re-enforce these concepts. ||= Write experience chart together about Mitzvot we can do ||= Use puppets to act out ways of playing not nicely together, then redo with better way and saying I'm sorry. Memory game with Rosh Hashana objects ||= Bake honey cookies together. Measure ingredients Rosh Hahana objects size sequence game. Felt board game with numbers and Rosh Hashana objects. ||= Explore how bees make honey and do mini project approach on apples. ||= Work on treating our friends nicely at center time and saying I'm sorry if we hurt our friend. ||= Making chart together about what we know about apples and what we want to know. Venn diagram comparing applesauce and baked apples. Designing our own apple tree. ||= Botanic Gardens program about bees. ||= Observations Class discussions || create a pretend sukkah and Lulav and Etrog in art Make a Sukkah in our housekeeping/ go outside and collect Schach for it ||= Writing material in store with shopping lists. Play Hanging in my sukkah is/ each child continues with a new idea Write in journal about Sukkot ||= Look at picture of Sukkahs in Israel ||= Fruit sorting game Number and fruit match-up game How many etrogim/ match to numeral count pomegranate seeds. Counting money in our pretend store and on our real trip to buy fruits and vegetables. ||= Compare Etrog to lemon. Trip to market/ make fruit and vegetable salads for snack. Compare fruits and vegetables. Describe their differences and textures. Take out seeds. Plant seeds. ||= Working together in store and taking turns being buyers and sellers ||= Designing fruits to hang in our sukkah Ask questions about our seed planting -ex. what do we need to do for our seeds to grow? ||= Easy Way Market ||= Observations || What are colors in life that you love? What colors will mix to make other colors? ||= Names of colors in Hebrew red-adom blue-kachol yellow-tzahov green-yarok ||= My favorite color chart. Charts with our answers to questions about: How do you think we get green? ||= Go on a walk and discover the colorful things outside our school. ||= Sequence color cubes. Graph favorite colors. Match color squares. Mix colors to get other colors. ||= Water table with safe color tablets to mix to get other colors Color water bottles on discovery table. Color viewers. Ice breaker activity - freeze water filled with colorful toys to hammer and watch it melt to get out the toys. ||= Working together on icebreaker activity. ||= Designing our own Color book using many different art-media. Asking questions and writing their answers like: How do you think we get orange? What will happen to the block of ice left in the room over night? Making our own colorful crayon cookies for coloring. ||= Computer color ideas ||= 1 on 1 observations and discussions || What changes happen outside in the fall? ||= Hebrew words for fall colors orange-katom purple-segol brown-chum ||= Chart about our fall walk. Write page for journal; Things I like to do in the fall. Make a Leaf Man book and tell his name. Make a book about Pre-k 3 and the Purple Crayon and write their dictation.write descriptions of our bears and tell about what they did during our bear sleep=over ||= Show picture of fall in the world aroung us. Talk to Morah Yehudit about fall in Israel (is it like here?) ||= Sequence leaves according to size. Sort things from fall walk. Mix colors to get other colors. Weigh and compare fall objects ||= Use magnifying glass to examine fall objects. Use droppers to mix colors. Make raisins from purple grapes. Touch and feel box with fall objects. Mini project approach about bears hibernating - build cave Leaf rubbings. ||= Take a walk outside together. Sort fall objects as a group. Bring bears from home. Talk about our bears and play with them together. ||= Design our fall shadow box using fall objects we collected and dripping paint over it. Design our own fall tree. Put on records and dance like falling leaves ||= Computer ||= Observations || (Why do we celebrate Chanukah?) ||= children are able to identify and recognize menorahs and Dreydles Tell story of Chanukah ; emphasize the following facts: 1) Greeks did not want the Jews to do mitzvot. 2) They messed up the Beit Hamikdash 3) The Macabees were brave and few, fought back 4) Hashem made a neis/miracle. The Macabees won the war. 5) Hashem made another neis-oil for 1 day burned for 8 days Decorate room using Chanukah symbols ||= Preassess Ask students what they already know about Chanukah? Record responses. Chanukah books ||= How do we celebrate Chanukah at home: 1) Light menorah 2) Play dreidle 3) Eat latkes 4) Get gelt or presents ||= Recognizing Numbers 1-8 1 to 1 Correspondence Counting 1-8
 * = Shabbat/Beraishit
 * = Rosh Hashana/2 weeks ||= How do we prepare for Rosh Hashana?
 * = Sukkot 1 1/2 weeks ||= How do we celebrate Sukkot? ||= Look at pictures of a real Sukkah and Lukav and etrog
 * = Colors/ 1 week ||= What would the world look like without colors?
 * = Fall colors/Fall/ 2 weeks ||= What are the colors of fall?
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 * = Winter/1 week ||=  ||=   ||=   ||=   ||=   ||=   ||=   ||=   ||=   ||=   ||
 * = Chanukah/ 3 weeks ||= What celebrations are in your life? How do they make you feel?

Sorting Dreidels by Color

Measuring Assorted Candles

Build large menorah out of different shape blocks

Measuring for baking ||= Comparing and Contrasting Assorted candles (size, shape,color)

Recording Data

Experiment with oil and water

Candles need air to burn ||= Working together for a common goal (for ex. building menorah, sorting dreidels, hammering ice block)

Communication

Taking Turns ||= Make a free menorah design (give different material such as play-doh, straws, wood pieces)

Design your own wrapping paper

Chanukah Cards ||= live Kotel cam-

menorahs from world

survey

Freeze dreidles in a block of ice and excavate them with hammers and observe melting ||= Observations

Group Discussions

Observation of Number Recognition ||