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Resources for Tishrei and the new year.
In this newsletter we have gathered together the best resources from around the web to help you teach about the Chagim in Tishrei. We have included some general Jewish content delivery apps , resources and content creation apps to help plan what you would like to use this year.
Contents
- What's new?
- Resources for Tishrei
- Highlights of our exciting new app
- Collaboration tools
- Recommended apps
- News and Articles
- Competition news
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Resources for Tishrei
Rosh Hashanah
- Check out our Educator page to learn all about Rosh Hashanah.
- Download our photo roll to create your own Simanim plate and more.
- Download the Mitzvah Hunt (free) from the iPad app store to help teach about doing good deeds in the New Year.
- Download iThankYou from the iPad app store to focus on saying thank you to Hashem for everything we have.
4 Kidz by Kidz:
- See the amazing projects that children in schools around the world have created about Rosh Hashanah here.
Other:
- Check out the free Shofar 4 Kidz app to learn all about the history of the Shofar, read a story and listen to the different sounds it makes.
Yom Kippur
- See the amazing projects that children in schools around the world have created about Yom Kippur here.
Other:
- Look up the Jonah and the Whale (free & paid versions) app to read along and interact with the story of Yonah and play a game.
Sukkot
- Our comprehensive Sukkot Educator page will help you learn about Sukkot.
- You can also find an Educator guide to our new Sukkah Challenge app (highlights video can be found below) to help you integrate it into your lessons.
4 Kidz by Kidz:
- See the amazing projects that children in schools around the world have created about Sukkot here.
Other:
- Watch Noam’s Sukkot: a short documentary about a boy in Israel who visits an etrog farm and helps his family build their sukkah to prepare for the holiday.
NEW: Sukkah Challenge
Collaboration
We've recommended three of our favourite apps below but would like to hear from you about the apps you like to use. Please leave a comment at the end of this newsletter or on our website discussing which apps you like to use and why.
You can find more of our recommended apps here.
Educreations
Scribble Press
Toontastic
Mitzvah Hunt
Spanish version coming soon!
In this app you can learn about why the pomegranate is one of the simanin (signs) for Rosh Hashanah and reinforce the idea of oing good deeds every day.
You can download the app, use it on a computer, see the educator guide or order a poster for your classroom.
jiConnect
Learn about the different Jewish communities around the world in this iPad app and add your own. Read more about it here. If you don't have an iPad, you can access the unit here and add your community here. You can also see all the crowd sourced communities here.
iThankYou
The app features a Tree of Thanks, a karaoke tool, an interactive quiz and a poster-making tool. Read more here or download the app here.
News, Articles and more!
Articles
- how Israel has become a hub of technology;
- how Jewish Interactive and Shabbat Interactive can enhance your classroom.
Give4Sure
Wishing you a G'mar Chatimah Tova and a wonderful year from all of us at Jewish Interactive
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