Succot

Understands holiday celebrations || Demonstrates understanding of conversations through responses to directions
 * = Essential Questions ||= How do we celebrate Sukkot? || Content/ Skills ||
 * = Judaic Studies ||= Look at pictures of a real Sukkah and Lukav and Etrog. Create a pretend Sukkah and Lulav and Etrog in art. Make a Sukkah in our housekeeping/ go outside and collect Schach for it. Have pretend Lulav and Etrog in dramatic play. Song in Hebrew: Patish Masmer. || Understands basic Hebrew vocabulary Hebrew vocabulary related to holidays
 * = Language Arts ||= Writing material in store with shopping lists. Play Hanging in my sukkah is/ each child continues with a new idea. Shopping cart game: put in items that we would buy for Sukkot. Write in journal about Sukkot. || Easily grasps control of writing materials

Uses language for a variety of purposes || Begins to label and identify objects using numbers || Begins to make use of one-to one correspondence in counting objects and matching groups of objects. || Sorts objects and counts and compares groups formed. || Participates in group activities ||
 * = Social Studies ||= Look at picture of Sukkahs in Israel. Take a trip to Market to buy fruits and vegetables. Set up Grocery store in dramatic play to buy fruits and vegetables. Talk about harvest season in Israel. || Discriminates individual, culture and community
 * = Math ||= 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. Way up high counting song with fruit. || Begins to sort objects on the basis of one dimension
 * = Science ||= Compare Etrog to lemon. Trip to market/ each child makes own fruit salad for snack. Compare fruits and vegetables. Describe their differences and textures. Take out seeds. Plant seeds. Seed exploration jars. || Begins to sort objects on the basis of one dimension
 * = Social Skills ||= Working together in store and taking turns being buyers and sellers. Work together putting up Sukkah and making fruit decorations for it. || Discriminates community
 * = Creativity/ Critical Thinking ||= Have a small Sukkah to play at a table with small people and table and chairs. 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? Make a pretend Etrog out of crayola magic/with holder. Make a pretend Lulav. Make a pretend Sukkah with Schach. Make a ME in the Sukkah decoration. Build Sukkah out of blocks together. || Participates in group activities

Understands holiday celebrations Expands knowledge of and abilities to observe, describe, and discuss the natural world, materials, living things, and natural processes

Expands knowledge of holiday symbols

Participates in group activities ||
 * = Resources ||= Easy Way Market Pictures computer ||  ||
 * = Assessment ||= Observations ||  ||