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CU PKK K- 1:6 Harvest Festivals looking for the changes in the season Goal: During the Fall there are several different traditional Jewish holidays. The final holiday of the fall season is Sukkot. Students will discuss the different seasonal attributes of the holiday. Materials – fruit basket of fall fruits, crayons and paper 1. ** Gain attention of the learner ** Bring to class a basket filled with apples, dates, pomegranates, pumpkins and any other fruits unique to the fall season ask the students to name the fruits 2. ** Review relevant past learning ** The Shofar and the Spice Box are two objects that remind us of the holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. We celebrate these holidays with our families and we celebrate them with the families that come to Folkshul. 3. ** Present new material ** Secular Jews celebrate many holidays. Some holidays are celebrated as a family and some as a community. 4. ** Provide guided practice ** The final holiday of the fall season is Sukkot. Sukkot marks the harvest time in Israel. The Sukkot celebration is full of fall symbols. Take the children on a walk around the building of the school. Tell children as the walk they are detectives looking for signs of the fall season. The signs they find are examples of how things are changing from summer to fall. When you get back to the classroom. Ask the children to describe the changes they saw. 6. ** Close the lesson ** Share the pictures. Then play “I Went on a Walk.” Each person in the circle tells a different fall thing they saw on their walk. After the first person tells what s/he saw, the next person tells something new and then the thing that the first person saw. The subsequent people add a new item and then recite each of the things already mentioned. This continues until all the person has had a turn. The teacher is the last person and tells all the things described by the children.
 * 5. **** Provide independent practice ** Ask students to draw pictures of what they saw during their walk.