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1 1. a succah 2. a lulav 3. an etrog 4. a palm branch 5. myrtle branches 6. willow branches Match the words below to the correct pictures. Discussion and brainstorming page
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1. a succah 2. a lulav 3. an etrog 4. a palm branch
5. myrtle branches 6. willow branches
Match the words below to the correct pictures.
Discussion and brainstorming page
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Here it is! Come inside!
See the door … it’s open wide!
Family, friends and special guests
Sit in our succah!
Eat and drink and sing a song
In the succah all day long!
Having fun so many ways
Seven nights and seven days!
Shlomit please come with me
Bring leaves from the palm tree
We’re building a succah today!
Take the hammer and some wood
Some nails … a ladder’s good
We’re building a succah today!
Tune: שלומית בונה סוכה
Tune: ירוקה … נהדרת … הסוכה … סוכתי
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knowledge ידע
ladder סולם
leaf (leaves) (עלים)עלה
learn ללמוד
middle אמצע
myrtle הדס
nails מסמרים
palm דקל
roof גג
show להראות
smell ריח
species מינים / סוגים
symbol סמל / סימן
blessing ברכה
branch ענף
celebration חגיגה
circle מעגל, עיגול
decorations קישוטים
deeds מעשים
direction כיוון
flag דגל
guest אורח
hammer פטיש
hut צריף
invite להזמין
kinds מינים / סוגים
synagogue בית כנסת
taste טעם
tie לקשור
willow ערבה
wood עץ
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Color the picture according to the letter-color code.
A,B – red
C,D – yellow
E,F – green
G,H – blue
I,J,K – orange
L,M – brown
N,O – purple
P,Q,R – gray
S,T – black
U,V,W – pink
X,Y,Z - white
a
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1. The etrog is __________. 3. The willow branch is __________.
2. The myrtle branches are __________. 4. The palm branch is __________.
willow branch palm branch etrog myrtle branches
Color the pictures and complete the sentences accordingly.
Write the correct words under the pictures. Use the words from the word bank.
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9
2
3
4
5
7
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Which pictures belong to Succot ? Say the number in English and draw a line to the word: Succot.
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1
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Read the following sentences to the pupils and tell them to number the pictures.
1. We are sitting in the succah. 2. It’s night time. 3. The boy is holding a flag. 4. The doors are open. 5. Please come inside. 6. It’s yellow. 7. The boy is holding a branch.
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Help the man find his way to the succah and write the words he passes on the way that are connected to Succot and Simchat Torah. There are 12 words.
Please help me find my way to the succah!
one
ten
decorations
cat
lulav myrtle
lion
dance
tiger
flag
Torah palm
cow
ladder
hen
succah
rabbit
giraffe
etrog
willow
fox
monkey
branch
gorilla
penguin
red
box
pen
book
door
bag
hat
six egg
pink
black brown
green
lamp
window
desk
pencil
jacket
table
seven
two
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Happy holiday! I’m an _______! I have both taste and smell.
Hi! I’m a _______branch. My fruit has _______, but no smell.
Hello! We are myrtle _______. We smell good, but have no taste.
I am the willow branch. I have no taste and no _______.
We are the Four Species! Like the people of Israel, we are all different but come together as one!
smell taste palm branches etrog
Read what the four species have to say about themselves. Fill in the missing words from the word bank below.
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a willow branch
special guests
a palm branch
an etrog
a succah
happy holiday
a myrtle branch
the four
species Succot
Connect the Hebrew words and pictures to their English translations.
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3. My succah has many decorations inside.
4. The walls of my succah are different colors!
1. My succah is still empty. There is only a table inside.
2. My succah is almost finished. There is food on the table for our guests!
Read what the children have to say about their succot. Match the descriptions to the pictures.
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Use the number-letter code below to help Uncle Max read the invitation. Remember to use a capital letter for names and the beginning of a sentence.
1 2 3 4 a b c d
5 6 7 8 e f g h
9 10 11 12 I j k l
13 14 15 16 m n o p
17 18 19 20 q r s t
21 22 23 24 u v w x
25 26 y z
4 5 1 18 21 14 3 12 5 13 1 24 _______ ___________ ______,
16 12 5 1 19 5 3 15 13 5 20 15 ____________ ________ ____
15 21 18 19 21 3 3 1 8 20 8 9 19 _______ ____________ ________
5 22 5 14 9 14 7 1 20 _______________ ____
19 5 22 5 14 ___________.
Amit
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We celebrate the 1.________ of Succot five days after Yom Kippur.
We also call Succot, Zman Simhateynu, the time of our 2.________.
After Yom Kippur we begin to build a succah. The succah is a small hut. It has three or four 3.________ that can be taken down and put up again. We cut branches from 4.________ for the roof of the succah.
We build the succah to 5.________ the kind of homes the Jewish people lived in when they left Egypt and walked for forty years across the 6.________ to Israel.
The mitzvot of Succot are: 7.________ and decorating a succah, sleeping and 8.________ in the succah, blessing the 9.________ species and inviting 10.________ to sit in the succah.
guests holiday trees four eating walls remember building happiness desert
Read about Succot and fill in the missing words from the word bank below.
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1. The woman and the girl are making decorations for the succah.
2. He is holding the lulav in his right hand.
3. He is holding the etrog in his left hand.
4. The boys are carrying a big branch for the roof.
5. The boy is standing on a ladder.
6. The girl is giving the boy a palm branch.
7. The boy is putting leaves on the roof.
8. The boy is hammering a nail in the wood.
9. The man is inviting the boys to come into the succah.
10. They are sitting in the succah.
Match the sentences to the correct pictures.
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myrtle leaves
build
wine the four species
make decorations
an etrog
desert a palm branch
willow leaves
a roof
invite
a lulav
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Color the picture according to the number-color code.
8 8
8
8
8 8
3
3
2
2
7
4
4
2
1 – red
2 – blue
3 – yellow
4 – green
5 – purple
6 – orange
7 – black
8 – brown
9 – gray
10 – white
11 - pink
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8
8
6
6
6
6
6
8 8
2
2
1
1 1
1
7
7
4
4
9
9
5
11
3
8
8
8 8
3
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Simchat Torah begins on the night after Succot.
Simchat Torah means “celebrating the joy of the Torah”. On Simchat Torah, we finish reading the last part of the Torah and begin again with the first part. This shows us that the reading of the Torah doesn’t stop.
Simchat Torah is a time for celebration. Many people sing and dance with the Sefer Torah around the synagogue seven times. This is called the hakafot. Children carry flags and dance too.
s g a f l r o a t h t n e e c r o l b a i
Read about Simchat Torah then unscramble the words below.
c d e a n
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r o o f t o r a h f l a g l u l a v e t r o g g u e s t s d a n c e
b r a n c h e s n o r t h s i n g c u p s u c c a h e a s t h a p p y
s o u t h d o w n b u i l d u p d e c o r a t i o n s w e s t
t a s t e h a m m e r i n v i t e s m e l l n a i l s l e f t w o o d l e a v e s l a d d e r r i g h t
_______ _______ _______ _______ _______ _______ _______ _______ _______ _______ _______ _______ _______ _______ _______ _______ _______ _______ _______ _______
Find at least ten words in the wordsearch connected to Succot and Simchat Torah and translate them.
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1. dancing Sefer Torah. are with We the
___________________________________________
2. up. He holding Sefer Torah the is
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3. carrying He flag. with a is
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4. reading from They are Sefer Torah. the
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5. am my Sefer Torah. holding I little
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Rearrange the words in the sentences. Match them to the appropriate pictures.
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The boy is holding a Sefer Torah.
bringing a palm branch.
The boys are inviting guests to the succah.
reading from the Sefer Torah.
The man is putting branches on the roof.
holding a lulav.
They are dancing with the Sefer Torah.
carrying a flag.
Write at least six sentences from the chart describing the pictures.
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The Ghost of the Succah
It was Succot and all our friends and family were sitting with us in our succah.
Suddenly I saw a golden apple. Where did the golden apple in the corner come from? It wasn’t there before. That night I asked my father, mother and brother if they put the golden apple in the succah, but they said they didn’t. This was very strange!
The next night when we all sat down again in the succah, I saw another golden apple hanging in a different corner of the succah. “Where did this apple come from?” I asked. But again, everyone said they did not know.
During the next four days of Succot, four more apples appeared in our succah and still no answer to where they came from. I then decided to ‘play’ detective and waited all day long by my window to try to catch ‘the ghost of the succah’.
The next day, at 2 o’clock in the afternoon, I heard a noise from the succah. I ran outside and saw a little boy sitting on the ground and holding his knee. There was a golden apple on the grass next to him.
“Who are you and what are you doing in our succah?” I asked.
“My name is Nir and my family came to live here a week ago. My father is a greengrocer and is very busy. He does not have the time to build us a succah so I took some apples from my father’s store to hang in your succah.
I helped Nir into the house and my mother cleaned the cut on his knee. I told her about Nir and the golden apples and we both decided to invite Nir and his family to our succah for the last night of Succot.
That night our succah was full of guests. We had a wonderful dinner and Nir’s mother made a delicious apple pie.
Read the story and answer the questions on the next page.
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1. What did Maya see in the corner of the succah?
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2. What did Maya decide to do after she found the six golden apples?
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3. Why was Nir holding his knee?
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4. What did Maya and her mother decide to do after they heard Nir’s story?
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5. What did Nir’s mother bring to the succah?
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After reading the story, The Ghost of the Succah, answer the questions.
