Curriculum

= = =Curriculum= Here is where we share curricula, or ask people if they have curricula to share. Hopefully we will get used to posting our favorite things routinely and end up with a wealth of curricula. You can create a page for each subheading, or if you know a better way - feel free! Also, please add subheadings. I just put the first things that came into my head! Use old CDs for decorations. Spray paint the side with writing using white or off white paint to cover any images. Then let the kids decorate either side using permanent markers. They can be hung using the hole in the center. When the light shines through the schach, they look great, with the shiny side really shining. Easy to do and fun for the kids and great looking in the sukkah - Anne W.
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We do strips of laminate paper. they write Hebrew or English (shalom, ahavah, etc) and decorate with pictures (flowers, fruit) and we make them into "paper" chains or just hang the strips. Like Anne's idea, it is pretty in reflected light. We also use paperclips as hooks to hang gourds. The brotherhood pre-drills holes in the gourds and the kids use paperclips that have been unfolded on one end as a crochet hook to pull yarn through the gourds and then tie them on beams in the sukkah. Last but not least: Old fashioned strings of colored macaroni and cranberries. Last year one grade traced their bodies and made ushpizin life size papre dolls. We laminated them and they lasted great in the Sukkah stapled to the beams. - Judy S

The Sukkah is a great setting to tell or read stories to the children in school. Even text study is more fun outside in this great setting during school. Also check out the CHAI level 1 lesson explore the essential questions of how Jewish time helps us appreciate what God gives us and why is //hidur mitzvah// important. If your second graders have not had this lesson, it would be appropriate for them. - Alan

Family Education
=Israel= Questions to use with Dershowitz/Lerner debate on Utube Worksheet based on Obama's speech (high School lesson based on an excerpt from an article by Marc Rosenstein)

High School
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