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Hanukkah Kindness Emergent Reader Set for SEL

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Inside: Use this Hanukkah Kindness Interactive Emergent Reader to focus on kindness during the eight nights of Hanukkah.


Growing up in an interfaith family, I always loved December because I got Hanukkah and Christmas celebrations, decorations, and traditions. 

And while I absolutely love Christmas, since I’m Jewish I tend to “protect” Hanukkah from the Christmas. During our 8 Nights, I try to pause Christmas and we enjoy the lights of the menorah and play dreidel games and eat all the latkes we can.

We seek out out Hanukkah community events and do Hanukkah crafts and host Hanukkah parties for our non-Jewish friends to teach them more about Hanukkah. 

Related: 8 Things to Know About Hanukkah but Didn’t Know Who to Ask

And we try to bring some Tikkun Olam into our Chanukah days, focus on kindness, and teaching our kids how to be a mensch. And being an active mensch who helps others and gives to others is way better than being a Mensch on the Bench who just sits there and sings. 

To help them understand all the different ways to show kindness during the eight nights of Hanukkah, we use this Hanukkah Kindness Emergent Reader Set. 

Use this Hanukkah Emergent Reader Set to help show kids all the differnet ways they can be kind during the 8 Nights of Hanukkah.

Other Ways to Celebrate Hanukkah with Kids 

Do you celebrate Hanukkah like my family does?  

If you’re looking for ways to make Hanukkah more meaningful, you’ll love these 8 ways!

You’ll also love these Hanukkah crafts: Dreidel Sewing and Menorah Pointillism and Dreidel Spinning Art Activity. 

paint the fire on the menorah

We focus on kindness during Hanukkah with this Kindness Paper Chain Countdown where we do one kind thing a day for all eight days of Hanukkah. 

Link the kindness chains together to create the Hanukkah Kindness Countdown Calendar. #Hanukkah #bekind

We play this Kind or Unkind Sort game where we sort kind actions and unkind actions on the gelt to the correct dreidel.  

We practice how we can be kind with this Hanukkah Kindness Role Playing Cards that are perfect to practice with before family comes over on Hanukkah. 

Use these Hanukkah kindness role playing cards to help intentionally teach kids to be kind and giving them time to practice.

We use this I Want/I Want to Give Printable to help kids focus on giving rather than getting this Hanukkah. 

Helps kids battle the gimmes and focus on giving with this Things I want/Things I want to Give away Printable, perfect for Christmas, Hanukkah and birthdays

And we read these Chanukah books:

The Night Before Hanukkah: 

0448481405

Hanukkah Lights: 

0763630292

Hanukkah A Counting Book:

0545214076

Where is Baby’s Dreidel?

1416936238

Hanukkah is Coming! 

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Sammy Spider’s First Hanukah

0929371461

You can read Hanukkah Kindness Books like these:

Gracie’s Night: A Hanukkah Story

Oskar and the Eight Blessings

Oskar and the Eight Blessings

Latkes and Applesauce

Related: For 70 more book ideas and Hanukkah gifts, click here. 

And I love these Interfaith books if your family celebrates Hanukkah and Christmas like my family does:

Daddy Christmas, Hanukkah Mama:

0375860932

My Two Holidays: 

0545235154

My Two Grandmothers:

0152007857

And we also read our Hanukkah Kindness Emergent Reader. 

How to Use the Hanukkah Kindness Emergent Reader 

1. Purchase and download the Hanukkah Kindness Emergent Reader Set.

2. Print out the version you wish to use: color or black and white and cut them apart. I swear by my paper cutter I bought my first year teaching because I can’t cut a straight line. 

Use this Hanukkah Emergent Reader Set to help show kids all the differnet ways they can be kind during the 8 Nights of Hanukkah.

If you use the black and white version, use these skin color crayons so students can color in the people.

Use this Hanukkah Emergent Reader Set to help show kids all the differnet ways they can be kind during the 8 Nights of Hanukkah.

3. Staple the pages together and then read the book together. You can follow up with partner reading, silent reading, group reading, or reading to a class pet/stuffed animal.

4. Use the Discussion Starters to further the conversation about how they can show kindness and be helpful during Hanukkah.

Use this Hanukkah Emergent Reader Set to help show kids all the differnet ways they can be kind during the 8 Nights of Hanukkah.

5. Students can write or dictate about Chanukah and how they can show kind acts during the 8 nights. 

Use this Hanukkah Emergent Reader Set to help show kids all the differnet ways they can be kind during the 8 Nights of Hanukkah.

Happiest of Hanukkahs and may your dreidel spin straight and your latkes be delicious. 

Ready to get the Hanukkah Kindness Emergent Reader Set?

Purchase the Hanukkah Emergent Reader on Teachers Pay Teachers.

 

 

Use this Hanukkah Emergent Reader Set to help show kids all the differnet ways they can be kind during the 8 Nights of Hanukkah.


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Use these Hanukkah kindness role playing cards to help intentionally teach kids to be kind and giving them time to practice.

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I’m Nicole and am a recovering elementary school teacher, a mom to three super busy kids, and the founder of The Raising Kind Kids Club where we share strategies and resources with busy parents and educators to intentionally focus on kindness, family connection, and bullying prevention.

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