Books to support this Subtopic
Engineer Ari and the Rosh Hashanah Ride
by Deborah Bodin Cohen
Sammy Spider's First Rosh Hashanah
by Sylvia A. Rouss
How the Rosh Hashanah Challah Became Round
by Sylvia Epstein
Monday August 3, 2010
Welcome Activity:
Get to know our new friends & Dot Art
Circle Time:
Introduce Calendar
Color: Blue Hebrew: Kah-Khol
Nursery Rhyme: Muffin Man
Rosh Hashanah Song:
Tune of: The wheels on the bus
The shofar in the shul (temple or synagogue)
Goes toot toot toot, toot toot toot, toot, toot, toot,
The shofar in the shul goes toot, toot, toot, on Rosh Hashanah morning.
Art Time:
Make Apple Rosh Hasnanah Cards
Education Stations: Math
Small Group: Color & Shape Sorting
Outclass: (P.E. Will Begin 9/13)
Let's Make Apples & Honey Plate
Closing Story Time:
Happy Birthday World
Wednesday September 1, 2010
Welcome Activity:
Make the Muffin Man Puppet for Circle Time
Circle Time:
Introduce Calendar
Color: Blue Hebrew: Kah-Khol
Nursery Rhyme: Muffin Man
Rosh Hashanah Song:
To the Tune of My Darling Clementine, from Uncle Moishy Holiday Tunes..
Dip the apple in the Honey
Make a Bracha loud and clear
L'Shana Tovah U'Mesuka
Have a Happy Sweet New Year
Art Time:
Make Shofar
Education Stations: Science
Small Group: What happens when we mix blue & white
Outclass: (Music Will Begin 9/15)
Blue Snack Mats
Closing Story Time:
It's Shofar Time
Friday September 3, 2010
Welcome Activity:
What is Tzedadakah?
Circle Time:
Introduce Calendar
Color: Blue Hebrew: Kah-Khol
Nursery Rhyme: Muffin Man
Rosh Hashanah Song:
3 Juicy Apples (tune - Baa, Baa Black Sheep)
Three little apples hanging on a tree. Shiny, juicy, waiting for me. Here I come, shake, shake, shake.
Down come apples for me to take.
I'll wash them well, then I can eat. Apples for a Rosh Hashana treat.
Art Time:
Begin making round challah
Education Stations: Fine Motor
Small Group: Tracing Practice
Outclass: Shabbat Art
Finish making round challah
Closing Story Time:
It's Challah Time
