________________________________ From: Hasafran <[email protected]> on behalf of ALBA TOSCANO <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, August 31, 2015 9:22:43 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ha-Safran] Rosh Hodesh Stories
Rachel Kamin wrote: ...suggestions of good read-alouds (picture books or stories) for 2nd-6th graders that correspond/relate to the months of Heshvan-Iyar but are not holiday related. I have a few children's books that I use as much with kiddos as with adults as an introduction to an introduction to Talmud. I hope some/any/one of them might be of use: * Kevin Henkes. Kitten's first full moon. I usually read this with the Hagar story. Sometimes what you are looking for is right in front of you if you just open your eyes. * Arnold Lobel. Frog and Toad all year. The Surprise is the 4th story. It's about true friendship and what friends do for each other without wanting, asking for, or expecting anything in return. * Shel Silverstein. The Giving Tree. The unconditional love of the parent for the child. The unconditional love of God for all creatures and each of us individually no matter who we are or what we have done with this unconditional love. Unconditional love of community for its members. Unconditional love of patriot for place. This is good for the Jonah Story. It is similiar to the Two Brothers story (they reap each others's wheat without telling or letting the other find out). * EBWhite. Charlotte's Web. The movie does not cut it. It has to be the book with the original Garth Williams pictures. I have read this book every year of my life (practically) and I have cried my eyes out every single time. This is a book to be read throughout the month in installments on Rosh haShaná, Yom Kipur, Sucot in class. Or it can be read by the parents to the children especially during Sucot. I have read this book to little groups of 6-year olds and they have been spell-bound. * Sam McBratney. Guess how much I love you? A single parent and his/her infant. The illustrations by Anita Jeram slay me. I read this book out loud to my kitties. How big is big? What are the limits to love? * Jonathan Emmett. The best gift of all. I use this book as an introduction to Bikat Holim: Visiting the ill in hospital. A series of woodland animals (that follow no scientifically known form of animal behaviour, but so what, it's a cute fluffy story) are concerned about a friend they have not seen in a while and decide to visit (a bit of a road trip) only to find that the poor critter is abed with a horrid cold. They go out of their way to make the friend comfortable and give him/her a positive push towards recovery * Jack Kent. There's no such thing as a dragon. This one can be interpreted in a manner of ways. Everybody refuses to acknowledge the existence of the dragon until it grows so fast and so large that its tail is out the back door and its head out the front. This could be akin to when we refuse to acknowledge a tiff between ourselves and our friends that grows totally out of proportion. Or, this could be an untapped talent of a member of a group that no one has taken the time develop, recognize or tap into leaving the member very very frustrated. Or, maybe someone feels left out and just wants a little attention. A rather open-ended story. The dragon is Cute and the interpretation Full of Possibilities. * Michelle Knudsen. Library Lion. TBSanhedrin78. When a life is in danger, all bets are off. Everyone here loves this story to death! A lion comes to a library out of the blue one fine day for story time. The head librarian permits the lion to stay but only if it makes itself useful and obeys the rules. One day the librarian falls and breaks her arm. The lion breaks all the rules, i.e., runs, roars, etc., then leaves mortified for having broken all the rules. Things happen. The lion comes back. Happy ending. We have all of these books in Spanish translation from the original English. We also have the Hebrew version of these books. I would have to say that for adults as well as children the infant/young reader section of the La Javurá library is the most perused and checked out section. The adults love these children's books and are willing to plow through the hebrew/spanish dictionary to look up the words to connect with the Hebrew. Now for something an eensty-weensty different (but not really, because I do the beg-a-thon on AJL every year....) Calendars 5776: I know that they are getting scarcer and scarcer and harder and harder to find in these economically trying times BUT if anyone happens to run into any free-bee calendars, please think of me kindly. I have split the ones I've received so far into 3 groups of 10 and have sent packets to the teeny synagogues in Sevilla and Oviedo. As recompense to all who send, I am calling this year 5776: The Year of the Scarf. Send calendar(s) and get a handmade scarf by moi, you choose the colour. Hugz and besos de Valencia Alba ************************* Alba Toscano, presª Sinagoga conservador La Javurá calle Uruguay 59, pta 13, 46007 Valencia SKYPE: albatoscanovalencia UStream : http://www.ustream.tv/channel/la-javura-on-line email [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> página web: http://www.lajavura.org 96 380 2129 658 721 769
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