Making Room in Our Hearts
Experiential Learning for the Fall Holidays


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Table of Contents

A Welcome from CAJE

An Introduction to Experiential Learning- by Peter A. Geffen

A Preface by the Authors

About the Authors

The Columbus Jewish Day School and its Faculty

Rosh Hashanah

Lesson: Simanim Fun with Pun
Reproducible: Rosh Hashanah Simanim Symbols - Blessings
Reproducible: Rosh Hashanah Simanim Symbols Homework Sheet
Reproducible: Rosh Hashanah Simanim blessings - ideas of 4th grade students

Lesson: Shofar Blowing with our Feet (The King and I)
Reproducible: The Blasts of the Shofar

Lesson: Shofar Alarm Clock for the Spirit
Reproducible: Dig for Meaning with the Rambam and Rav Arama
Reproducible: The Shofar and Me

Ten Days of Repentance

Lesson: Magic Tashlich

Lesson: Tashlich reflections: Building a Better World
Reproducible: Tashlich Special Gifts Handout

Tashlich - a sample ceremony .

Yom Kippur

Lesson: Teshuvah Relay Race
Reproducible: Teshuvah - Coming Back, Turning, Returning, Repentance - when does it work?
Reproducible: Missing the Mark
Illustration for relay race
Cards: labels for cones and list of averot (sins)
Reproducible: Teshuvah Relay Race reflections

Sukkot

Lesson: Sukkot Time Travel
Reproducible: Envelopes and Dialogue Cards
Reproducible: Blessing When Sitting in a Sukkah
Reproducible: Sukkot Project: What Kind of Sukkah Did B’nai Yisrael Have?
What Kind of Sukkah Do You Have?

Lesson: Mashiv Haruach causing the wind to blow

Simhat Torah

Lesson: Party, Hunt, Repeat, and Rise