Becky Henning

5 Sea Creatures, short paragraphs, spell words, known questions (greens) and a few semi-known (oranges), prior knowledge (blues) and numbers/math (purple) questions each lesson. Video links to enjoy the creatures you are learning about. Written for a large age range from 6 year olds to adult.

The Torah plays I write are based on the Torah text as much as possible. They are short, 2 sides of a page with pictures, and take approximately 15-20 minutes to act. You may need additional time to learn 6 Hebrew words/phrases, hand out the parts and set up the props. Your prep time before hand will be collecting the props and making photocopies as needed of the play. Props can be substituted to suit availability and your needs. The Hebrew can be ignored and substituted orally for English (tr

The Torah plays I write are based on the Torah text as much as possible. They are short, 2 sides of a page with pictures, and take approximately 15-20 minutes to act. You may need additional time to learn 6 Hebrew words/phrases, hand out the parts and set up the props. Your prep time before hand will be collecting the props and making photocopies as needed of the play. Props can be substituted to suit availability and your needs. The Hebrew can be ignored and substituted orally for English (tran

The Torah plays I write are based on the Torah text as much as possible. They are short, 2 sides of a page with pictures, and take approximately 15-20 minutes to act. You may need additional time to learn 6 Hebrew words/phrases, hand out the parts and set up the props. Your prep time before hand will be collecting the props and making photocopies as needed of the play. Props can be substituted to suit availability and your needs. The Hebrew can be ignored and substituted orally for English (tran

The Torah plays I write are based on the Torah text as much as possible. They are short, 2 sides of a page with pictures, and take approximately 15-20 minutes to act. You may need additional time to learn 6 Hebrew words/phrases, hand out the parts and set up the props. Your prep time before hand will be collecting the props and making photocopies as needed of the play. Props can be substituted to suit availability and your needs. The Hebrew can be ignored and substituted orally for English (tr

The Torah plays I write are based on the Torah text as much as possible. They are short, 2 sides of a page with pictures, and take approximately 15-20 minutes to act. You may need additional time to learn 6 Hebrew words/phrases, hand out the parts and set up the props. Your prep time before hand will be collecting the props and making photocopies as needed of the play. Props can be substituted to suit availability and your needs. The Hebrew can be ignored and substituted orally for English (tran

The Torah plays I write are based on the Torah text as much as possible. They are short, 2 sides of a page with pictures, and take approximately 15-20 minutes to act. You may need additional time to learn 6 Hebrew words/phrases, hand out the parts and set up the props. Your prep time before hand will be collecting the props and making photocopies as needed of the play. Props can be substituted to suit availability and your needs. The Hebrew can be ignored and substituted orally for English (tran

The Torah plays I write are based on the Torah text as much as possible. They are short, 2 sides of a page with pictures, and take approximately 15-20 minutes to act. You may need additional time to learn 6 Hebrew words/phrases, hand out the parts and set up the props. Your prep time before hand will be collecting the props and making photocopies as needed of the play. Props can be substituted to suit availability and your needs. The Hebrew can be ignored and substituted orally for English (tran

The Torah plays I write are based on the Torah text as much as possible. They are short, 2 sides of a page with pictures, and take approximately 15-20 minutes to act. You may need additional time to learn 6 Hebrew words/phrases, hand out the parts and set up the props. Your prep time before hand will be collecting the props and making photocopies as needed of the play. Props can be substituted to suit availability and your needs. The Hebrew can be ignored and substituted orally for English (tran

The Torah plays I write are based on the Torah text as much as possible. They are short, 2 sides of a page with pictures, and take approximately 15-20 minutes to act. You may need additional time to learn 6 Hebrew words/phrases, hand out the parts and set up the props. Your prep time before hand will be collecting the props and making photocopies as needed of the play. Props can be substituted to suit availability and your needs. The Hebrew can be ignored and substituted orally for English (tran

Students learn and teach their classmates about their Bar/Bat-Mitzvah Torah portion-a way to get students to know about Torah text and tradition through connecting with their friends and their Torah portion. A list of supplies and a list of projects that students will teach each other is provided.

Students learn and teach their classmates about their Bar/Bat-Mitzvah Torah portion-a way to get students to know about Torah text and tradition through connecting with their friends and their Torah portion. A list of supplies and a list of projects that students will teach each other is provided.

Silly Menorah /Chanukiyah for 4-5 year olds, pre-K and Kindergarten. Instructions for teacher give a simple explanation of the menorah, explaining what a shamash is and that the menorah's candles are usually all the same height. This silly colorful menorah project has the students trace their hands to create a very silly menorah. Supply list for teacher included with detailed instructions and sample pictures.

2 versions of the same word search, one easier, one harder, depending on the level of student. In our school we will be using the easier word search for second and third graders and the harder one for fourth though seventh graders. Can be blown up to a 11 by 17 inch paper and worked on by teams as a contest to find the most words. Words are in Hebrew, from the blessing le'hadlik ner, she'asa nisim la'avoteinu, she'hekheyanu and ma'oz tsur. There are a few other words hidden in the puzzle, specif

A quick introduction to Gematria. A worksheet that should take about 15 to 20 minutes in a Hebrew school setting. First a table to fill in the blank, either with a numeric / number value or the letter that corresponds to that number. Optional cursive practice included. Then an example is given for a Hebrew name and it's value. Student is then asked to figure out the value of their name. Finally a question about lucky number 18 (Chai).

The Torah plays I write are based on the Torah text as much as possible. They are short, 2 sides of a page with pictures, and take approximately 15-20 minutes to act. You may need additional time to learn 6 Hebrew words/phrases, hand out the parts and set up the props. Your prep time before hand will be collecting the props and making photocopies as needed of the play. Props can be substituted to suit availability and your needs. The Hebrew can be ignored and substituted orally for English (tr

Directions for introducing the Hebrew song Chag Purim to those with intermediate ability to read Hebrew. The back of the half-page song handout has people / characters from Purim. The main purpose is to pronounce them correctly in Hebrew, but also to review who the people are. You may use this as a full hour lesson plan by inserting your own story of Purim in between the song and name reading.

The Torah plays I write are based on the Torah text as much as possible. They are short, 2 sides of a page with pictures, and take approximately 15-20 minutes to act. You may need additional time to learn 6 Hebrew words/phrases, hand out the parts and set up the props. Your prep time before hand will be collecting the props and making photocopies as needed of the play. Props can be substituted to suit availability and your needs. The Hebrew can be ignored and substituted orally for English (tran

This activity allows students to practice the sentence pattern "Where are you from?" and "Are you from ____?" as well as the answers to these questions. It also allows students to practice the names of bigger cities in the United States as well as the San Francisco Bay Area. It is a word document so you can adapt the San Francisco Bay Area cities to neighboring cities in your area (and switch out the close-up map). This is for beginner ESL students, level 2 -ish. It should take approximately 30