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Welcome to your K’ilu Kit: High Holiday Adventure!

Your Educator K’ilu Kit will provide digital access to the entire kit for your educators to use with classes in live or virtual classrooms for the High Holidays! This kit will help you bring the story of Jonah and the Whale 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 High Holiday Audio Adventure to play the story.

Audio Adventure Tracks
Instructions for Educators
Kit Items to Print

Listen to Your K’ilu Kit: High Holiday Audio Adventure

The tracks below will guide you and your classroom through the Jonah and the Whale story. Listen to the story come to life, act out the journey, sing along with the music, and be part of the adventure. The Single Track version offers the full story as a 20 minute experience.

HIGH HOLIDAY ADVENTURE (WITH TIME MACHINE INTRO)

This version of the full adventure track includes an introduction that helps students imagine getting inside a time machine to experience the ancient story.

We’ve also included a longer 7 track version that breaks up the story into individual chapters.

Instructions for Educators

Thank you for embarking on the K’ilu High Holiday Adventure with your classroom! This interactive audio and play-based experience will help you bring the story of Jonah and the Whale to life with your students. Before you begin, here is some information to make sure you are ready for the adventure.

YOUR KIT COMES WITH:

Audio tracks that will bring the Jonah story to life through music and interactive storytelling.
A story map for each student that you’ll use during the audio adventure.
A Message of Hope activity to complete with your students before your adventure begins.
A whale and boat basket paper puppet to print and cut out for each student (you’ll need popsicle sticks or straws and some tape).
A sailing telescope to print and construct for each student.
A scavenger hunt list to collect items to use during the audio adventure.

GETTING READY.

Before you begin, here are a few things to do with your classroom 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 Jonah 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 and construct the whale puppet, boat puppet, and telescope for each student.
Print out your Message of Hope activity sheet, complete it with your students, and put it inside a bottle or jar.
Play the audio adventure. Have a device handy to play the audio tracks so that everyone can hear them. The audio adventure runs about 30 minutes long.

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.