Pre-K+4+Chanukah

Kids dramatize the story of Chanukah Kids tell the story of Chanukah in their own words Read Chanukah books Sang Chanukah songs ||  ||
 * = Essential Questions ||= * What makes a person Jewish? || Content/ Skills ||
 * = Judaic Studies ||= * Telling the story of Chanukah through books and drama
 * Learning the Hebrew letters on the dreidel
 * Hebrew vocabulary for Chanukah items
 * Making a Chanukiyah
 * Learning, recognizing,and possible reciting the brachot ||  ||
 * = Language Arts ||= KWL chart
 * = Social Studies ||= * We learn how the Maccabees lived and worked together
 * Importance of gift giving/sharing
 * Collaboration and cooperation (latke making)
 * Look at different Chanukiyot and dreidels from around the world ||  ||
 * = Math ||= * Counting and patterning candles
 * Sorting dreidels
 * Playing dreidel game with coins
 * One-to-one correspondence
 * Recognizing numbers ||  ||
 * = Science ||= ** Making predictions and speculating
 * Experimenting with oil
 * Size of candles vs length of burning time.
 * Different uses of candles
 * Sensory awareness (black and green olive tasting)
 * Exploring the 5 senses within the Chanukah experience ||  ||
 * = Social Skills ||= * Turn taking, collaboration, patience, following rules, empathy (dreidel playing)
 * Show and tell, presentation (kids bring items from their homes pertaining to Chanukah) ||  ||
 * = Creativity/ Critical Thinking ||= * Making the their Chanukiyah(the children can choosehow they want to place their candles)
 * How kids act out the story-they learn it first but then decide who they want to be, how they should
 * make their costumes
 * , and how to act out the part. ||  ||
 * = Resources ||= * Chinuch.org
 * You Tube
 * Chanukah books
 * Chanukah CDs
 * Photo Story ||  ||
 * Assessment || Kids can tell over and dramatize the stroy of Chanukah ||  ||