Lisa Aremband Title: Dayenu Grade Level: First grade Number of Students: 17 Time Needed: 45 minutes Big Idea:

Dayenu is a song we sing in the Seder that reminds us to be grateful for all the amazing things God has done for us and given us. Learning Goals: - Students will know the meaning of the word dayenu. - Students will know why we sing Dayenu and be able to generate things from the song that we are grateful for. - Students will be able to explain in depth why we are grateful for one verse of Dayenu. - Students will be able to generate things from their own lives that they are grateful for. Materials: - Chart paper and markers - Sentence strips with the 5 verses written in Hebrew - Construction paper cut into many small squares in several different colors - 6 large pieces of white paper - glue sticks - pencils Procedure: Preparation: - Cut construction paper into squares and put it in shallow dishes at the tables. - Set up 5 stations with a large piece of white paper and access to the squares at each station. - Write verses on sentence strips. - Sort students into groups of 3 or 4 that are heterogeneous in reading level and interest in art - Gather students on the rug with their chairs. Hook: - Write Dayenu on the chart paper in Hebrew and have someone read it. - Ask students what they know about Dayenu- when we sing it, what its about, etc. Activities: - Explain that Dayenu is a song that describes all the amazing and miraculous things that Hashem has done for us, and that we sing the song to remember to be grateful for all of those things. - When we are going about our every day lives, we dont always think about how Hashem took us out of Egypt and took care of us in the desert and gave

us the Torah. Pesach is a time to remember all those things, and Dayenu reminds us to be grateful and thankful for them. - Take out the sentence strip for If He had brought us out of Egypt. Read it slowly. Ask if anyone recognizes any words. Write the English below the Hebrew words, adding your own help with giving roots or more familiar versions of words or filling in words until you have the whole translation of the verse. Read it out loud and ask, Why would it have been enough if wed been brought out of Egypt? Why are we grateful for that? - Repeat with the other four sentence strips, providing more translations of the Hebrew words if students seem to tire. - Explain that you are now going to split them up into groups to make mosaic pictures (this class has done work with mosaic art lately using different materials) of each of the verses on the sentence strips. May be 3 or 4 students in a group, so you need to make a plan and work together. Think about how you want to show that verse. What things will you make? Who will make what? Where will they be on the paper? Give students the sentence strip of their verse to keep near them as they work. - Explain that while they are working you will call them up to you one at a time to tell you something that they are grateful for in their lives, something that since they have it, dayenu, it is enough. Give a personal example to help them understand. Write down each childs to be typed up and inserted into the Haggadah. Wrap-Up: - Give a five minute warning, a one minute warning, then have them stop and clean up a few minutes before the end of the time. Integration: - Having students create mosaic pictures integrates art. Evidence/Evaluation/Assessment: - Students responses in the group discussion - Accuracy of the mosaic to the verse. - Students responses of what they are grateful for in their own lives. Differentiation: - Having students make mosaics allows those who are kinesthetic or artistic learners to express what they understand. - Having students tell about something they are grateful for in their own lives incorporates intrapersonal learning. 5 Groups of 3 or 4: 3 If He had brought us out of Egypt. 3 If He had split the sea for us. 3 If He had fed us manna. 4 If He had given us Shabbat. 4 If He had given us the Torah.