From a recent PJ Library post: A BELOVED JEWISH SPIDER is making two appearances on PJ Library book selections list: Sammy Spider’s First Book of Jewish Holidays and Sammy Spider’s First Yom Kippur. Both books are written by Sylvia Rouss and illustrated by Katherine Janus Kahn. For author Sylvia Rouss, it wasn’t…
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Fun Things to do at Home and at School with Sammy Spider
Sammy Spider’s First Rosh Hashanah (focus on sizes to reinforce holiday symbols as you teach size relationships, small, middle-sized, and large). Use a picture of Sammy Spider or a spider puppet. Ask children to help Sammy Spider find the smallest apple, the middle-sized challah, the biggest bowl of honey, the…
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Passover Learning Games for Young Children
Matching Game Color and cut out the Passover symbols. Glue into a file folder. Color and cut out a second set of symbols and glue to construction paper. Laminate. Have children match the symbol cards to the cards in the file folder. Variation: enlarge one set of symbols and have…
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Passover Recipes for Young Children and their Parents
MATZAH PIZZA 1 matzah square per pizza 2 Tbsp. tomato or pizza sauce 4 Tbsp. shredded mozzarella cheese Prepare the matzah square by spooning on the sauce and adding the cheese. Place on a foil covered baking sheet and bake at 400 for 5-10 minutes, until cheese melts. MOCK OATMEAL…
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Celebrating Simchat Torah Just Like Sammy Spider
I just received this letter from a friend of Sammy Spider. It made my day and hopefully it will brighten yours too. As a school librarian at a Jewish Day School, I so enjoyed sharing your books with my students. Now retired, I am still enjoying your books, but now…
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But, You Promised!
“Parents use promises for a variety of reasons—to bribe their child into doing what they want, to avoid a possible confrontation with their child, to spare their child from disappointment, to create hope in their child,” I wrote in an article for Glo online magazine in 2013. “But children are…
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