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2nd Year B’nei Mitzvah: Holidays & The B’nei Mitzvah Ceremony

Creating our own board games based on the Omer (the time from Passover to Shavuot.)
Crafting miniature bonfires to celebrate Lag B’Omer
Playing a Shavuot inspired pictionary game to teach us some of the traditions and customs.
Discussing our thoughts about the B’nei Mitzvah ceremony.
Acting out the full B’nei Mitzvah ceremony.

Talking about traditional Shavuot customs, and making a crazy dairy dessert recipe “Mad Libs” style.
Learning about the history of Shavuot and hearing the story of Humble Har Sinai.
Talking about the 10 Commandments and how they relate to our relationships with spirituality and with other people, and creating our own meaningful sets of 10 personal rules.
Learning about who Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai (Rashbi) was, and discussing the parts of Judaism we are “on fire” for.
Learning that Lag Ba’Omer focuses on showing kindness and respect to others.

Hearing the story of Lag Ba’Omer and learning about the customs of Lag Ba’Omer.
Re-enacting the Lag Ba’Omer story with a shadow puppet theater
Creating campfire songs about Lag Ba’Omer, to sing around the bonfire on Lag Ba’Omer night.

Taking turns reading the story of G-d giving Moses the 10 commandments on Mount Sinai aloud
Creating skits in small groups to act out different scenes from the 10 commandments story
Decorating our classroom for Shavuot with flowers and plants that symbolizes the vegetation on Mount Sinai

Doing a traditional commandment “night-time” study with flashlights and seasonal fruit.
Creating poetry focused around the things we learned during our study.
Watching a video about Shavuot.

Challenging ourselves to identify different countries based on just their outline.
Reviewing basic facts about Israel and seeing how much we know about Israel.
Playing a “hot and cold” game to place different geographical features on the map.
Creating our own 3D maps of Israel with different craft supplies.

Exploring all of the different geographical features of Israel through a game using a large map of the country.
Watching a video about Israel and discussing what we learned and what questions we may have that we want to learn more about.
Playing “pin the star on Jerusalem” using our big map of Israel.

Making Israeli flags and listening to HaTikvah, the Israeli national anthem.
Reading books about Israel that take us on a tour of its many sights.
Playing a movement game that teaches the locations of the major cities of Israel.
Doing a science experiment inspired by the Dead Sea.
“Building” the Western Wall together and listening to HaTikvah.