Let's Discover Holidays Set (Revised Edition)
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Newly revised and updated!
Bring the Jewish holidays to life with this freshly designed update of the classic, Let’s Discover the Holidays series. It’s all here: fun activities, thought questions and crisp, descriptive text that will engage young learners and help them discover their own connections to the holidays.
Each four-page folder includes an introduction to the meaning of the holiday, its objects, and rituals. Simple retellings of the holiday’s stories are also included alongside rich illustrations that will delight young readers and their grown-ups, too.
This set, containing all folders from Let’s Discover Fall Holidays and Let’s Discover Spring Holidays, includes all sixteen folders listed below: one for each of that season’s holidays.
GRADE LEVEL:
K-2
CONTENTS:
Let’s Discover Fall Holidays
Folder One: The Jewish Holidays
Folder Two: Rosh Hashanah
Folder Three: Yom Kippur
Folder Four: Sukkot
Folder Five: Simchat Torah
Folder Six: The Story of Shabbat
Folder Seven: The Story of Hanukkah
Folder Eight: Celebrating Hanukkah
Let’s Discover Spring Holidays
Folder One: Tu BiShevat
Folder Two: The Story of Purim
Folder Three: Celebrating Purim
Folder Four: The Story of Passover
Folder Five: Celebrating Passover
Folder Six: Yom Ha’atzma’ut
Folder Seven: Celebrating Shabbat
Folder Eight: Shavuot
ABOUT THE AUTHORS:
Leslie Kimmelman is an award-winning author. She has written Let’s Discover Kindness and many well-regarded picture books, including Everybody Says Shalom, a Sydney Taylor Honor Book, and The Rabbi Slurps Spaghetti. She is also an editor at Sesame Workshop.
ABOUT THE SERIES:
A set of 8 shrink-wrapped folders for Fall; a set of 8 shrink-wrapped folders for Spring.
Also available: A Teacher’s Guide that covers all 16 folders.
SPECIAL FEATURES:
- Full color photos showing today’s diverse Jewish community
- Thought questions and prompts
- Mindfulness, movement, art and other multi-sensory activities
- Individual, partnered, and group activities