Long Distance LehrmanAlone Together: for Passover
Kindergarten
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6: Last Day of School7-17: NO SCHOOL: Passover
8: Erev Pesach: First Seder9-10: Pesach: Days 1 & 2 (Yom Tov)
11-14: Pesach: Intermediate Days (Chol ha-Mo’ed)15-16: Pesach: Days 7 & 8 (Yom Tov)
20: Distance Learning Resumes
Dear Kindergarten Parents,We want to wish you a healthy and happy Pesach. Chag Samei’ach.We know that this Pesach will be like no other. Families who usually
gather together from far and wide will not be traveling. Anticipated reunions have been put on hold. Your seder may be, like work and school and even weddings and b’nei mitzvah, virtual, We long for life to be back to normal—babies found in rivers by princesses, 10 plagues from God, slaves freed from back-breaking labor, and the sea parted so we can flee our pursuers. Next year—altogether again…for real!
We understand that this Pesach break will also be like no other for you. Usually teachers do not assign work over the break because over the eight days of Pesach, four are Yom Tov, days on which, like Shabbat, work is prohibited, and of course there is usually a Shabbat or two in the mix as well.
This year two days of Chol ha-Mo’ed—intermediate days—on which work can be done fall on weekdays, one more is a Sunday. There is also the one day after Pesach. So we have asked teachers to pull together activities, suggestions, and resources for families to do with children on every grade level.
We hope these sources and suggestions will help you and your family during the break.
We all look forward to seeing you back at your screens on Monday, April 20th.
Chag Samei’ach v’Kasher. Stay safe and healthy.
Your Kindergarten Team and Linda and Jodi
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Passover plans
• Make an origami frog with an adult.https://www.origami-fun.com/origami-jumping-frog.htmlhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=pddCghMF5og&feature=emb_logohttps://youtu.be/pddCghMF5og
• Create a frog bookmark with an adult. https://youtu.be/wK59TVawzLM
• Draw and label the 10 plagues
• Make plague finger puppets or stick puppets.
Online learning resources
• Readbrightly.com• Getepic.com• Munchkinfunathome.com• Readingeggsjunior.com• https://classroommagazines.scholastic.com/support/learnathome.html
• Read “The Matzah Man: A Passover Story” by Naomi Howland• Make a matzah man (see attached).
Using brown lunch bags, create the ten plagues:
Wide Open School . Some you may have seen items listed by us here or in otherreferences, but these are comprehensive and curated carefully. Enjoy.
https://www.origami-fun.com/origami-jumping-frog.htmlhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=pddCghMF5og&feature=emb_logohttps://youtu.be/pddCghMF5oghttps://youtu.be/wK59TVawzLMhttps://classroommagazines.scholastic.com/support/learnathome.htmlhttps://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/41105436/matzah-man-puppet-craft-story-central-agency-for-jewish-https://wideopenschool.org/?j=7723549&sfmc_sub=170697759&l=2048712_HTML&u=144169164&mid=6409703&jb=992&utm_source=WOS_announcement_20200331&utm_medium=email
Passover plans**Read a book or research online the life cycle of a frog.Illustrate the life cycle...be creative...use crayons, markers, collage materials.Label each part of the life cycle.
**Use your origami frogs for the next activity To play leap frog math, we started by making some origami jumping frogs.Then use coffee filters with some openings cut out. These are the lily pads for the frogs. Write thenumbers 1-10 on the lily pads.
Then the kids take turns jumping their frogs onto the lily pads. They write down their numbers and tallythem up to see who has the highest score.
**make a Lily pad hopscotch board. Find a beanbag and play hopscotch
Make a matzah holderhttps://reformjudaism.org/matzah-holder?pp=0&epik=dj0yJnU9TUtnVHpqZGNBY1hFMmE3aC0yZjR5Y20tZTNQZ19iUjImbj1idmNNMk4wSGxYSHlzV3luQTNJS0FBJnQ9QUFBQUFGNkhpTlE
Make a Passover cootie catcher https://downloadablecootiecatchers.wordpress.com/
Passover activities https://www.care.com/c/stories/3667/10-kid-friendly-crafts-for-passover/
Science and Art Passover Ideas Art Ideas for the Whole Family
● The Bass Museum of Art has a selection of wonderful interactive lesson plansand virtual tours. They even have a virtual art camp!
● Check out The Haas Brothers Virtual Tour at The Bass Museum of Art- anexhibition of whimsical sculptures that delight and inspire. Draw or create yourown 3-D sculpture inspired by the Haas Brothers creations. Enlist your family andcreate an exhibition in your living room! Take turns discussing everyone’sartwork. Give each a name!
● The Bass Museum Art Camp from Home● The Met Kids interactive website has awesome activities made with, for, and by
kids! ● Scholastic Learn at Home- engaging and educational lessons and activities for
students in pre-k through grade 9.Art Ideas for 3rd Through 5th Grade
● Moma learning: Migration and Movement● See how artists share their histories and culture through their art. Look at the
work of Jacob Lawrence. Select an activity from each of the categories and learnabout your family and its migration and heritage.
● Here are 12 museums that offer virtual tours. Check out as many as you like!Some have ground level views and walks through galleries.
○ Find a couple of artworks that interest you.○ Directions:
1. Look at a piece of art for a minute.2. Write down ten things you see.3. Look at it for another minute.4. Write down ten new things you see.5. Discuss with a family member.6. What do you know now about the art that you didn’t know before
you made your list?7. Now, look at the title of the work. Does it make sense to you? What
would you title the art and why?8. Your viewpoint helps complete the painting. Why do you think that
is important?9. Pretend you can go inside the piece of art. What do you see, hear,
and smell?10.What do you think is going on and what would happen next?
Science and Art Ideas for the Whole Family
https://thebass.org/education/lesson-plans/https://thebass.org/learn/the-haas-brothers/https://thebass.org/education/art-camp-home/?utm_source=The+Bass+Bulletin&utm_campaign=b807cd56c2-The_Bass_MEMBERS_Bulletin_edu_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49324eab64-b807cd56c2-273291961https://www.metmuseum.org/art/online-features/metkids/https://classroommagazines.scholastic.com/support/learnathome/grades-3-5.htmlhttps://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/themes/migration-and-movement/https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/75809/12-world-class-museums-you-can-visit-online
● The Tastiest Popcorn Test is a fun experiment to create tasty popcorn. Draw the popcorn kernel before and after it pops.
● This is a video that explains How to Make a Paper Airplane and how they work. Draw your paper airplane flying over where you live!
● Do the Fizzy Drip Painting science experiment and create a work of art at the same time! Make an abstract painting of your experiment.
● The Photo Ark has incredible photography by Joel Sartore. Pick one of Joel Sartore’s photographs of an animal and draw that animal. Give it a name and a story.
Science and Art Ideas for 3rd Through 5th Grade ● The Egg Drop Project is a classic Science Experiment of making a basket that
will keep an egg safe when dropped. Before you make your egg basket, draw a plan for it.
● Read the National Geographic Article on Locusts and then create a painting (or drawing) of locusts. Think about the texture that the locusts might have.
Science Ideas for the Whole Family ● Sid the Science Kid is a PBS Kids TV Show with games about Sid, who poses a
Science question to explore. ● South Florida’s National Parks video takes you on a journey through South
Florida’s incredible national parks! ● Check out as many Live Cams at the San Diego Zoo as you would like. Write a
story about what you see and hear. ● Looking for more Live Cams? Check out the Monterey Bay Aquarium, the
Georgia Aquarium, and the Smithsonian’s National Zoo Live Cams! Write more stories about the animals and draw them!
● NASA Space Place has many great activities that you can do at home. ● Learn about Mary Anning and how she discovered fossils through Google Arts
and Culture. ● Science Bob has many Science experiments that use materials you have at
home. Before you do an experiment, predict what you think will happen. After you do the experiment, see if your prediction was correct. Science Kids has even more experiments!
● Explore the National Geographic Kids website for games, videos, quizzes, and fun activities.
Science Ideas for 3rd Through 5th Grade ● Do a Scavenger Hunt with the Mangrove Fringe 360! You watch the video and fill
out the scavenger hunt below. Write down anything interesting that you learned on your scavenger hunt.
http://www.schoolofdragons.com/resources/the-tastiest-popcorn-testhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KPaxKUDj6Ihttp://capriplus3.com/2018/02/fizzy-drip-painting-art-meets-science.htmlhttps://www.joelsartore.com/gallery/the-photo-ark/http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/projects/eggdrop.htmlhttps://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/invertebrates/group/locusts/https://pbskids.org/sid/http://www.odysseyearth.com/videos/south-floridas-national-parks/https://zoo.sandiegozoo.org/live-camshttps://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals/live-camshttps://www.georgiaaquarium.org/webcam/indo-pacific-barrier-reef/https://nationalzoo.si.edu/webcamshttps://spaceplace.nasa.gov/menu/activities/https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/mary-anning-history-s-pioneer-of-palaeontology%C2%A0/RwLC8g-VfbBAJAhttps://sciencebob.com/category/experiments/http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/http://www.odysseyearth.com/videos/mangrove-fringe-360/
● Watch as many of the Odyssey Everglades videos as you would like. Write down any new questions that you have. I suggest the The Everglades: River of Grass video.
● Wild Kratts is a PBS Kids TV Show with games about animals. ● Explore NASA’s next mission to the Moon and Mars called the Artemis Program. ● Explore the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History online. Write down
and draw three interesting things you saw! ● Printable word searches can be found at Science Kids. Send a picture of your
completed word searches.
http://www.odysseyearth.com/video-category/odyssey-everglades/http://www.odysseyearth.com/videos/the-everglades-river-of-grass/https://pbskids.org/wildkratts/https://www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis/https://naturalhistory.si.edu/visit/virtual-tourhttp://www.sciencekids.co.nz/quizzes/wordsearches.html
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Seder Plate Craft Project
In addition to your own, classic seder plate, why not have the kids create one of their own to display on your seder table.
HuffPost ran a piece two years ago (but hey, it’s Passover—are we worried about two years when we are celebrating several thousand?) with 15 clever ways for kids to create a seder plate.
Two that we liked in particular were the felt seder plate and the Femo seder plate.
Some of the projects require materials you may not have around the house (though you could purchase them online), some need nothing more than your routine art supplies.
At a different time and a different place, you could make clay from flour; however, Passover does not exactly lend itself to hametz-based DIY projects.
If you do manage to pull one of these off, let us know via a photo.
We’d love to share it.
Chag Pesach Kasher v’Samei’achחג פסח שר ושמח
A happy, healthy, and (virtual?) family-centered Passover
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MATZAH PUZZLE
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Color the matzah below. Then, cut out the matzah:
first cut out the big square shape, and then cut into pieces along the dotted lines.
See if you can put this matzah puzzle back together!
(No need to just use brown—make this matzah as colorful as you want!)
5. Fold the uppermost trianglesup to the top point.
8. Now fold the same partdownwards, in half.
9. Turn over, and your froggy is finished!Press down on his back, as shown, to make him jump. Boing boing!
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PASSOVER ORIGAMI FROGGIESFollow these instructions to make bouncy origami froggies for Passover.
(Definitely more fun than the ones the Egyptians had to deal with!)
1. Start with a rectangularsheet of paper, white side up.
Fold it in half,and open out again.
2. Fold both top cornersto the opposite edgeof the paper. Your
creases should looklike this.
3. Where the diagonalcreases meet in the middle,fold the paper backwards,
crease well, and open.
4. Holding the paper at the sidesbring these points down to the center line,
then flatten. The creases should domost of the work here!
7. Fold the bottom of the paper upwardsso that the end sits in the center of the top diamond.
6. Fold sides in to meetthe center crease.
CRO
SSING
THE SEA
Color the sea below
. Cut these instructions off along the solid line. Fold the paper along the dotted lines.
Draw
a picture of the Jewish people on the other side of the paper.
When you open the sides of the card, it w
ill look like they’re walking through the splitting sea!
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FOLD
FOLD
THE FOUR QUESTIONS
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Telling the Passover story is a very important and special part of being Jewish.
It helps us remember where we came from, and what we should strive for.
And since Judaism and Passover are all about questions and conversation,
Passover is a great time to ask things you’ve always wanted to know!
The Haggadah has four traditional questions, but why stop there?
Write your own four questions below.
Bring this to the seder to ask your own four questions too!
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4.
THE FOUR CUPS OF FREEDOM
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On Passover, the four cups of wine commemorate the four words of freedom in God’s promise,
and we drink them to show how happy we are to be free.
Draw four things that make you feel happy and free!
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