Listen to Your K’ilu Kit: Hanukkah Audio Adventure
The track below will guide you through the Hanukkah story. Listen to the story come to life, act out the journey with your students, sing along with the music, and be part of the adventure.
Welcome to your K’ilu Kit: Hanukkah Adventure for Classrooms!
Your Educator K’ilu Kit will provide digital access to the entire kit for your educators to use with classes for Hanukkah! This kit will help you bring the story of Judah the Maccabee to life in your education program or Hebrew School this new year.
Below, you will find all of the components of the K’ilu Kit. You can download the full kit to print below, or access each part individually. You’ll find each of the downloads to print for your students to use. You’ll also find all of the audio tracks of your Hanukkah Audio Adventure to play the story.
Instructions for Educators
Thank you for embarking on the K’ilu Hanukkah Adventure with your classroom! This interactive audio and play-based experience will help you bring the story of Judah Maccabee to life with your students. Before you begin, here is some information to make sure you are ready for the adventure.
The audio experience is divided into 8 episodes, one for each night of Hanukkah. Decide if you want to play a chapter of the story in a few different class periods over the holiday (3-5 minutes each), or play the whole story as one single classroom experience (about 30 minutes).
YOUR KIT COMES WITH:
Audio tracks that will bring the Hanukkah story to life through music and interactive storytelling.
A story map that you’ll use during the audio adventure. Print one for each student.
A Message of Protest to Support Peace and Freedom Sign activity to complete before your adventure begins. Print one for each student.
A Cup of Oil Prop to print, cut out, and assemble (you’ll need scissors and some tape). Print one for the class.
A set of candle decorations to print and hang each night of Hanukkah.
A scavenger hunt list to collect items in advance to use during the audio adventure.
GETTING READY.
Before you start, here are a few things to do with your students to get ready for the adventure:
Set up your Story Space. This should be an open place where you can act out all the parts of the Hanukkah story.
Print out the K’ilu Scavenger Hunt, and collect all of the storytelling props. Put them all together in your Story Space.
Print out your Protest Sign activity sheet, complete it, and attach it to a ruler.
Print out and construct the Cup of Oil prop and Candle images.
Hang up a string near where you are going to play. Each night of Hanukkah, hang up the corresponding Candle from your K’ilu Kit on the string.
Play the audio adventure. Have a device handy to play the audio tracks so that everyone can hear them. The audio experience is divided into 8 episodes, one for each night of Hanukkah. Decide if you want to play a chapter of the story in a few different class periods over the holiday (3-5 minutes each night), or play the whole story as one single classroom experience (about 30 minutes).
Play along with your class. The adventure will require you to play along, act out the story, and use your imagination along with your students. The experience will be even more memorable for them if they create the adventure with you.
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