Sukkot

Sukkot

(still under construction)

Read

Bubbe Isabella and the Sukkot Cake by Kelly Terwilliner (Kar-Ben)

Hillel Builds a House by Shoshana Lepon (Kar-Ben)

The House on the Roof by David A. Adler (Kar-Ben)

Leo and Blossom's Sukkah by Jane Breskin Zalben

My Very Own Sukkot by Judyth Robbins Saypol and Madeline Wikler

Night Lights: A Sukkot Story by Barbara Diamond Goldin

Sammy Spider's First Sukkot by Sylvia Rouss (Kar-Ben)

Sukkot: A Family Seder by Judith Z. Abrams (Kar-Ben)

Tamar's Sukkah by Ellie Gellman (Kar-Ben)

Submitted by Myra (Msmyjacoblieb@aol.com):

Tikvah Means Hope by Patricia Polacco

The Wind and the Sukkah by Aydel Lebovics

It's Sukkah Time!

Written by Latifa Berry Kropf

Photographs by Tod Cohen

Available from Kar-Ben Publishers.

Chant

Good Morning Song

Several of my favorite secular teaching sites (The Learning Leap and Mrs. Sirois's Farm) list "Good Morning Songs," songs that are often accompanied by pocket charts with corresponding graphics to help the children become familiar with sight words. I thought it would be fun to compose my own songs based on the Jewish holidays that could be used for several weeks. Holiday concepts and symbols may be reinforced daily through these simple predictable charts. Adding graphics to the sentence strips would help the children read the songs. With older children, one might place the graphics on separate cards so that children can match word to picture. For classrooms that may incorporate more Hebrew, substitute Boker Tov in place of Good Morning. I used the tune to "Shortnin' Bread," as suggested at The Learning Leap.

Good morning to the three walls.

Good morning to the s'chach.

Good morning to the sukkah that we built.

Good morning to the ushpizin (guests).

Good morning to the etrog.

Good morning to the lulav that we shake and tilt.

Fun with a Sukkot Rhyme

You will need a drying rack with clothespins, fruit and vegetable models (paper or housekeeping type, one per child)

Chant Sylvia Rouss’s “Build a Sukkah.” Give each child a fruit picture or model. When appropriate, insert names of fruits in the blanks of the chant. Transform your drying rack into a sukkah. As the children’s fruits are called, they come clip the fruit to the drying rack with clothespins.

Variation: Have each child insert the name of a fruit that hasn’t been called. He/She will have the chance to identify his/her own fruit then name another.

PLAYTIME!

Blocks

(Coming Soon)

Table Toys

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Writing

(Coming Soon)

Art

Collaborative Pomegranate

We introduced the pomegranate to the children prior to the High Holidays. The children touched and had the opportunity to taste a new fruit. During our center time, they had the opportunity to help scoop out the seeds from the fruit and blend them. With the addition of some beautiful watercolors, our pomegranate paint was ready. The children used eyedroppers to paint large coffee filters (you can see some of the residual seeds). When dry, a teacher stapled around the edges of three filters, leaving room for the children to stuff with newspaper. We made two pomegranates: one for our school sukkah outside (not waterproof, though) and one for the sukkah we construct and decorate inside the classroom.