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CU PKK K-1:4 Title: Yom Kippur making ourselves better people Goal: Students will experience the looking back and looking forward on their actions that is central to Yom Kippur. Materials: magazine pictures of people helping, experience chart paper, paper, and crayons 1. ** Gain attention of the learner: ** Search magazines for pictures of people helping each other, ask students to describe the actions in the picture. 2. ** Review relevant past learning: ** Look at chart from Rosh Hashanah lesson. Have students discuss items they were able to do and as well as other good deeds they did. (Teacher liberally uses the word mitzvah to describe their actions). Are there other mitzvahs they would like to add to the list? 3. ** Present new material: ** Between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, Jews think about what they have done in the past and are sorry about. They also think about how they want to act in the future. (Read a story which shows this). 4. ** Provide guided practice: ** Looking at the list from part 2, students pick a mitzvah for the teacher to do. The teacher and some students role-play the teacher’s family with the teacher asking constant guidance on how to play the part. 5. ** Provide independent practice ** Divide the students into groups. Make sure there are enough people in the group so that the children can pretend that the group is a smaller version of their family. Assign them the task of making a play demonstrating how they will do a mitzvah for their family. Perform the group plays for the class.
 * 6. Close the lesson ** Students will add a page to their “Me” book of a drawing they make of doing a mitzvah or of a page they choose from a magazine.