'Dancing Dreidels' - Read and Rise Book Club December 2020
Happy St. Nicholas Day to anyone celebrating! If you missed our St. Nicholas story and activity, you can find it here: "The St. Nicholas Day Snow" by Charlotte Riggle
This week our focus will be Hanukkah - the first night of Hanukkah is this Thursday, December 10th. Our story today is "Dancing Dreidels" by Alva Sachs. It is a sweet story about a group of dreidel friends preparing for a Hanukkah celebration. One of the dreidels has a hard time spinning but she never gives up! Her loving friends are there to lend support and encouragement as she keeps trying and trying. It is a great reminder that things in life are not always easy, but hard work and practice always lead to progress - especially when we have loved ones to help us! This lesson was mirrored in my collaboration with Alva Sachs this past week - it took us so many tries to get the video read aloud made, the file transferred, and the file uploaded! But we never gave up and now I can share her wonderful story with you <3
Featured story: "Dancing Dreidels" by Alva Sachs.
I wanted to share that Alva's book will also be featured on OnceUponAStorytimeLive Tuesday, December 8 at 3pm PT/6pm ET! You can watch Alva read it live and hear a Christmas and Kwanzaa story as well. I will post a reminder on the Cardboard Mom Facebook Page Tuesday to remind everyone!
Activities: Author Alva Sachs has free printables to go along with the story available on her website. I've already downloaded them and will use them this week as some of our literacy lessons! In addition, I thought it would be fun to try and make our own dreidels! And since "The Dreidel Song" says "I made my dreidel out of clay," making a clay dreidel just seemed like the way to go. Here are printable instructions - including how to make your own clay.
I feel like this post about Hanukkah and dreidels can't be complete without "The Dreidel Song," so here it is! Happy Sunday!
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