Read-alouds and Presentations Week-to-Week by Grade Level

Week of December 9, 2019
TK - Happy Hanukkah

Sammy Spider's First Hanukkah, by Sylvia A. Rouss
​When the Shapiro family celebrates the eight nights of Hanukkah, Sammy Spider keeps his feet warm over the Menorah and yearns for a dreidel of his own.
Activity Happy Hanukkah coloring sheet

Week of December 9, 2019
​Kindergarten - Happy Hanukkah

I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Dreidel, by Caryn Yakowitz
​A beloved grandmother spreads out a yummy Hanukkah supper only to develop an insatiable appetite that alarms her family, in a story augmented by parodies of art by such masters as da Vinci, Rembrandt, and Picasso.
Activity Happy Hanukkah coloring sheet

Week of December 9, 2019
​1st Grade - Happy Hanukkah

The Magic Dreidels, by Eric A. Kimmel
​When Jacob drops his new dreidel down the well a friendly goblin gives him magic dreidels that are stolen by the neighborhood busybody.
Activity Happy Hanukkah coloring sheet

Week of December 9, 2019
2nd Grade - Happy Hanukkah

Runaway Dreidel! by Leslea Newman
In this rhyming tale a family's preparations for Hanukkah are disrupted by a wildly spinning dreidel that no one can catch.
Ant and Honey Bee, a Pair of Friends in Winter, by Megan McDonald
​Ant isn't ready to hunker down. Will Honey Bee welcome an interruption of her peace and quiet? Chapter 2 of 3.
Activity Happy Hanukkah coloring sheet

Week of December 9, 2019
Third Grade - Happy Hanukkah

Hanukkah Bear, by Eric A. Kimmel
​At 97 years old, Bubba Brayna does not hear or see too well, so when old Bear wanders into her house she mistakes him for the rabbi and treats him to a delicious helping of potato latkes.
Activity Happy Hanukkah coloring sheet

Week of December 9, 2019
​Fourth Grade - Happy Hanukkah

Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins, by Eric Kimmel
​A resourceful traveler must use his wits to outsmart a pack of ghoulish goblins if he wishes to celebrate a bright and cheery Hanukkah.
Activity Happy Hanukkah coloring sheet

Week of December 9, 2019 - Fifth Grade - Happy Hanukkah

Latkes and Applesauce, by Fran Manushkin
When a blizzard leaves a family housebound one Hanukkah, they share what little food they have with some starving animals who later return the favor.
The Parakeet Named Dreidel, by Isaac Bashevis Singer
When David and Mama and Papa are celebrating Hanukkah one frosty winter evening in Brooklyn, Papa sees a parakeet sitting on the window ledge and it becomes part of their family. Many years later, David is at a party one night and tells Dreidel's story--only to discover that a woman at the party owned the bird herself as a child.