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Color the picture. Say the names of the Hanukah symbols in English. Say the names of the letters in the word: Hanukah.

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Which pictures belong to Hanukah?

Say the correct numbers and connect them to the word: Hanukah.

Hanukah

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Candles, candles … red and pink and blue,

Orange, purple, green and yellow too!

Candle number eight is white,

Happy Hanukah tonight! (or: 8 little candles we light tonight)

Hanukah, Hanukah … Happy holiday!

Candles bright in the night,

Light one every day.

Spin the top round and round,

Spin it far and near.

Doughnuts … sweet … good to eat,

Hanukah is here!

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Tune: חג יפה כל כך ...חנוכה...חנוכה

Tune: נר לי נר לי

Hanukah Songs

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Oh, doughnut, doughnut, doughnut,

You are so round and sweet.

With jelly on the inside,

I want so much to eat!

Tune: Dreidel…dreidel…dreidel…I made it out of clay

Little top spinning ‘round,

Jumping, dancing off the ground.

Little top, spin away,

Hanukah is here today!

Spin around … off the ground.

Spin around … off the ground.

Little top, spin away,

Hanukah is here today!

Tune: סוב, סוב, סוב...סביבון...

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Color the candles of the hanukiah in the picture according to the number color chart below.

Finish coloring the rest of the picture by yourself.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1 – red

2 – pink

3 – blue

4 – orange

5 – purple

6 – green

7 – yellow

8 – white

9 - brown

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b c

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h i

j

k l

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n o

p q

r s

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v w

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Can you light the candles on the hanukiah? Take the “shamash” and follow the abc’s through the maze. You will reach the hanukiah if you connect the letters of the alphabet in the correct order.

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Brainstorming and pre-workbook discussion / word-picture match

__ a jug __ presents __ soldiers __ a doughnut __ a bad king

__ a brave young man __ a Hanukah lamp __ the star of David __ a brave old man

__ potato pancakes __ a top __ a candle __ oil __ coins

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10 9 8 7 6

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Listen to your teacher. Match the sentence to the picture.

I have candles. 1

I have a present. 2

I have a doughnut. 3

I have coins and a top. 4

I have a top. 5

*Teacher should ask: Who has the candles? (the boy)…the top and the coins? (the dog)…the present? (the bear)…the doughnut? (the man) …the top? (the girl)

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Match the sound of the Hebrew letters on the tops to the sound of the English letters in the picture below. Can you think of 8 other English words that begin with these letter sounds (one for each day of Hanukah)? Color the picture if you can!

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P

G

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A Hanukah Dictionary

• Antiochus אנטיוכוס • blessing ברכה

• candles נרות • celebrate לחגוג • coins מטבעות • doughnuts סופגניות • great גדול • Greek יווני • hanukiah (a Hanukah

lamp) חנוכיה • happen לקרות • holiday חג • holy קדוש • idol צלם, פסל • Judah, the Maccabee

יהודה המכבי • jug כד

• leader מנהיג • light להדליק • Mattathias מתתיהו • miracle נס • oil שמן • potato pancakes לביבות • pray להתפלל • presents / gifts מתנות • shamash (the servant

candle) שמש • soldiers חיילים • spear כידון • spin לסובב • temple בית מקדש • top סביבון • torch לפיד

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danlces pto tseeprn aainkhhu lio ncois gnohuudt

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Unscramble the Hanukah words and write them correctly on the lines provided and translate them.

1. ____________ : _________

2. ____________ : _________

3. ____________ : _________

4. ____________ : _________

5. ____________ : _________

6. ____________ : _________

7. ____________ : _________

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How many potato pancakes can you eat? There are 14 Hanukah words hidden in the plate. Write them on the lines given and translate. For each correct answer you receive a potato pancake!

____________ : _________

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hanukiah

jug

candles presents

potato

pancakes oil

Greek

soldiers

doughnut

to light

top

Judah

a miracle to spin

coins

How long can you spin your top? When will it stop?

How many times do you need to spin your top to read and translate all the words on the ‘spinning path’?

Happy

Holiday !

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What are they doing? Make sentences describing the pictures. Use words from the table.

He playing a doughnut

She is lighting a plate of doughnuts

They are holding with a top

carrying a torch

eating at the Greek soldiers

shouting the Hanukah candles

spears

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potato pancakes

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a top

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coins

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Mattathias

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a jug

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a box of candles

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a hanukiah

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a torch

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soldiers

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oil

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Judah, the

Maccabee

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presents

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a doughnut

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the king, Antiochus

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the Star of David

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Hanukah lotto board. Match the pictures to the words.

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A ________ _________ _________ _______.

miracle happened here great

Translate the Hebrew words represented by the letters of the top into English. Choose from the words given below. Say the sentence aloud.

Hanukah money a little jug a top a potato pancake a hanukiah Happy Holiday a doughnut Hanukah

Match the Hebrew words to their English translation.

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Which candle did he/she light? Read the sentences below and fill in the missing word. Write appropriate names under the correct picture.

first second third fourth

fifth sixth seventh eighth

Max is wearing a black T-shirt. He lit the __________ candle.

Phillip is wearing a green T-shirt. He lit the ___________ candle.

David is wearing a gray T-shirt. He lit the _________ candle.

Helen is wearing a purple T-shirt. She lit the _________ candle.

Benjamin is wearing a brown T-shirt. He lit the _________ candle.

Alex is wearing a purple T-shirt. He lit the ___________ candle.

Rachel is wearing a pink T-shirt. She lit the ___________ candle.

Bob is wearing a blue T-shirt. He lit the ___________ candle.

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The Story of Hanukah

Read the story below and fill in the missing words from the word bank.

Antiochus is the new king. He orders the Jewish people to pray only to ________ idols.

Mattathias lives in Modi’in. When the Greek soldiers come and tell him to pray to the Greek ________ , he says, “No!”

Mattathias and his five sons hide in the ________ above Jerusalem. Many brave Jewish men join them and they fight against Antiochus and the Greek ________ .

When Mattathias dies, Judah his second son becomes the new ________ . After many years of fighting, Jerusalem is again in the hands of the Jewish people. But when Judah enters the holy ________ , he sees that it is dirty and filled with Greek idols. He finds only one small ________ of holy oil. All of the other jugs are broken.

Judah lights the holy lamp of the temple with the little oil that he finds. This oil will not burn for long and it takes eight days to make new oil for the ________ lamp.

A miracle happens! The ________ from the small jug burns for eight days! The light of the holy lamp will not burn out again!

On Hanukah, we celebrate the ________ of the eight days the oil burned in the holy lamp.

miracle Greek temple oil idol

jug holy soldiers leader mountains

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The Secret of the Top

On the last night of Hanukah, my family always has a big party for all of my relatives. The cousins, uncles and aunts and grandparents from both sides of the family are invited. It is a very special night for all of us.

Everything looks beautiful! There are plates of potato pancakes and doughnuts and also different kinds of cold drinks on the dining room table. In the middle of the table is our hanukiah. This year it is my turn to light the eight candles and sing the Hanukah blessings. I am almost 13 years old and my Bar Mitzvah will be in two more months!

All of the relatives are here! Grandfather Max asks everyone to stand around the table as I light the candles and sing the Hanukah blessings. Then we all sing Hanukah songs together and eat from the delicious potato pancakes and doughnuts that my mother and aunts have made.

“Come children!” my grandfather says. “It’s time to play with Great-grandfather Aaron’s top!” Great-grandfather Aaron is my grandfather Max’s father. He died many years ago in Germany, but before he died, he gave my grandfather Max a Hanukah top and asked him to keep it safe.

Every Hanukah we play games with this special top.

“Who will be the first to spin the top this year?” asks Grandfather Max. “I think David will be the first! He will soon have his Bar Mitvah!”

But as Grandfather takes the top out of his pocket, it falls on the floor and breaks. Everyone suddenly stops what they are doing. No one says a word. We all know how special this top is to grandfather.

I slowly pick the broken top up, but at the same time see something shiny inside. “Look, Grandfather! A gold coin … and a note!”

Grandfather opens the note and with tears in his eyes says, “The note is from my father. It is in German. I will tell you what it says, ‘The one who finds this gold coin will keep it and pass it down to his children in the Hanukah top as I did. It will bring good luck to the one who keeps it safe.’ ”

Now we all know the secret of the top and I promise to keep it safe!

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Answer the questions about the story.

1. Who comes to the Hanukah party at David’s house?

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2. When does David’s family have the Hanukah party?

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3. Name 3 things that David’s mother puts on the dining room table for the Hanukah party.

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4. What does everyone do after David finishes singing the Hanukah blessings?

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5. Why is the Hanukah top that Grandfather Max keeps so special?

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6. Who is the first child to spin the top? Why?

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7. What happens to the top when Grandfather Max takes it out of his pocket?

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8. What does David find inside the top?

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9. What does the note say?

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10. What is David’s promise?

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