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CU PKK K-1:9 Tzedakah – Caring for others Goals: Students will review the concept of Tzedakah by reading Button Soup or Fly Away Home, children will brainstorm ways for helping people that are need of a home and food. Materials – one of the books above, drawing paper, and crayons 1. ** Gain attention of the learner ** Brainstorm a list with your students about the things they have in their homes. Review the list with them, ask them to tell which of the things on the list describe things everyone must have to live. Put a star next to each of these items. 2. ** Review relevant past learning ** When people built Sukkot they were temporary shelters. Ask students to describe the difference between temporary and permanent homes. 3. ** Present new material ** Some people today are lucky. They live happy lives in the same home for many years. Some people are not lucky. They are forced to loose their homes and live in temporary places. These people are called “homeless,” because they don’t have homes of their own. 4. ** Provide guided practice ** Read the book Button Soup or Fly Away Home. Ask the students to describe how the people in this story survive with out having a home. What different ways can your students suggest to help people that don’t have homes of their own? List their ideas on chart paper. 5. ** Provide independent practice ** Review the ideas recorded and ask the students to make signs showing how people can help the homeless. Add these posters to the “Me” book. 6. ** Close the lesson ** Share the posters. Review the ideas and describe the Mitzvah project that the Folkshul performs during the Thanksgiving holiday. How do their ideas compare with this project? When we help others, sometimes we reflect on the things that we are make us feel grateful. Ask children to draw pictures of the things that make them feel thankful. K-1:10 Winter Holidays celebrated by Folkshul Families Goal: Students will describe which holidays are celebrated this time of year in America in their families. Materials – pages with comic strip, and crayons, a menorah, a dreidel, menorah pages, nine coins in a bag for each person 1. ** Gain attention of the learner ** Ask the students to list the names of the holidays celebrated during the winter. Students should describe what they know about each holiday. 2. ** Review relevant past learning: ** People in the Folkshul celebrate lots of different types of holidays. Some holidays are from our cultural heritage. Some holidays are based in American Heritage. 3. ** Present new material ** Ask students to describe what and how they celebrate during this time of year with their families. 4. ** Provide guided practice ** In our Folkshul we celebrate Hanukah as a reminder that Jews must continue to stand up to oppression and that the formerly oppressed should not become the oppressors. This holiday is full of many symbols and rituals. The menorah (Hanukiah), the dreidel, and special foods and songs are shared with families in our homes and in the Folkshul. 5.    ** Provide independent practice ** Before class section a piece of paper into fourths so that students draw four different scenes in a comic strip format depicting our their families celebrates in the winter. (Bring some comics from the newspaper to help explain how to set up their picture stories.) 6. ** Close the lesson ** Share the pictures and add them to the “Me” books. Distribute a paper to each child with a picture of a Hanukiah(9 candle menorah specific to Hanukkah) on it. Distribute a bag with eight coins in it. 7. Divide the class into groups of four each person takes turn flipping a coin. If the coin lands heads up they get to place it on the top to light the candle. The first person to light the menorah wins.