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Teaching and Learning Materials-Year One

V'Shinantam Teacher Guide, Year One
English Edition

Teacher guide for the first year of the program, the teacher guide is divided into three sections:
1. Introductory lessons on the Oral Torah, including skills acquisition for Mishnah study.
2. Selected mishnayot on the holy days
3. Mishnah in textual sequence: lessons on Tractate Berachot
The guide specifies for the teacher how to teach each lesson, including the opening, the body, and the summary of each lesson, with suggested division of lesson time. The guide also contains all activities from the student workbook, with relevant answers, and ideas for additional student activity.



Please click on the following links to see pages for examples from the teacher guide in English:

Teacher Guide Lesson sample 1 - English Edition

 

V'Shinantam Teacher Guide, Year One
Hebrew Edition

Teacher guide for the first year of the program, the teacher guide is divided into three sections:
1. Introductory lessons on the Oral Torah, including skills acquisition for Mishnah study.
2. Selected mishnayot on the holy days
3. Mishnah in textual sequence: lessons on Tractate Berachot
The guide specifies for the teacher how to teach each lesson, including the opening, the body, and the summary of each lesson, with suggested division of lesson time. The guide also contains all activities from the student workbook, with relevant answers, and ideas for additional student activity.

Please click on the following links to see pages for examples from the teacher guide in Hebrew:
Teacher Guide Lesson sample 1 - Hebrew Edition

 

V'Shinantam Student Activity Book,
Year One
English Coed Edition

The Student Workbook for the first year of the program, in full color and extremely attractive, is interesting and enjoyable for children.
The activities of the Student Workbook are intended for enrichment of the child in each Mishnah after learning the Mishnah with melody from the audio disk.
Activities include summary of Mishnah content, additional questions for thought and internalization of values and concepts, games, puzzles and other activities. Children are guided to individual and group activities as part of the lessons, and for additional study at home.

Please click on the following links to see pages for examples from the Student Booklet in English:
Student Booklet Lesson sample - English Coed Edition


V'Shinantam Student Activity Book,
Year One
English "Yeshivati" Edition

The Student Workbook for the first year of the program, in full color and extremely attractive, is interesting and enjoyable for children.
The activities of the Student Workbook are intended for enrichment of the child in each Mishnah after learning the Mishnah with melody from the audio disk.
Activities include summary of Mishnah content, additional questions for thought and internalization of values and concepts, games, puzzles and other activities. Children are guided to individual and group activities as part of the lessons, and for additional study at home.

Please click on the following links to see pages for examples from the Student Booklet in English:
Student Booklet Lesson sample - English "Yeshivati" Edition



V'Shinantam Student Activity Book,
Year One
Easy Hebrew Coed Edition

The Student Workbook for the first year of the program, in full color and extremely attractive, is interesting and enjoyable for children.
The activities of the Student Workbook are intended for enrichment of the child in each Mishnah after learning the Mishnah with melody from the audio disk.
Activities include summary of Mishnah content, additional questions for thought and internalization of values and concepts, games, puzzles and other activities. Children are guided to individual and group activities as part of the lessons, and for additional study at home.

Please click on the following links to see pages for examples from the Student Booklet in Hebrew:
Student Booklet Lesson sample - Easy Hebrew Coed Edition



V'Shinantam Student Activity Book,
Year One
Easy Hebrew "Yeshivati" Edition

The Student Workbook for the first year of the program, in full color and extremely attractive, is interesting and enjoyable for children.
The activities of the Student Workbook are intended for enrichment of the child in each Mishnah after learning the Mishnah with melody from the audio disk.
Activities include summary of Mishnah content, additional questions for thought and internalization of values and concepts, games, puzzles and other activities. Children are guided to individual and group activities as part of the lessons, and for additional study at home.

Please click on the following links to see pages for examples from the Student Booklet in Hebrew:
Student Booklet Lesson sample - Easy Hebrew "Yeshivati" Edition

 

 

V´Shinantam Audio disk
 

Mishnayot were intended and edited for oral learning. The chanting of the mishnayot on the disk is available in both modern Israeli pronunciation and Ashkenozis pronunciation.
The disk includes most of Tractate Berachot (with the exception of chapters 4 and 5 which are learned in the second year of the program), selected mishnayot on the holy days, and the famous V'Shinantam Theme Song for Mishnah study.



Please click on the following links to hear:
V'Shinantam Theme Song.
Example of a Mishnah in the traditional melody.



V´Shinantam Teacher Kit
English Edition

In addition to the Teacher Guide and Student Workbook, the teacher enriches the study of Mishnah with the TEACHING KIT which includes all posters for the year of study, games and activities for heterogeneous classroom work.

Please click on the following links to see:
Picture of aids from the the Teacher Kit - English Edition



V´Shinantam Teacher Kit
Hebrew Edition

In addition to the Teacher Guide and Student Workbook, the teacher enriches the study of Mishnah with the TEACHING KIT which includes all posters for the year of study, games and activities for heterogeneous classroom work.

Please click on the following links to see:
Picture of aids from the the Teacher Kit - Hebrew Edition



Mishnah Search Cards
Enrichment Center
Available in English and Hebrew Editions
 

The Mishnah Search Cards Enrichment Center is an independent learning station for the advanced, self-motivated student, and is part of the teacher kit. Click here to see a sample of one of the 63 cards included in its own box.
Picture of aids from Mishnah Search Cards - Sample front of card
Picture of aids from Mishnah Search Cards - Sample back of card



V´Shinantam Posters

The poster set accompanies the teaching kit, and includes posters on Torah Shebichtav and Torah Sheb´al Peh, the structure of the Mishnah, the generations of the Nesi´im and Tannaim, and other posters as described below.



Tannaim Poster Set

Five posters of the generations of the Tannaim. Each poster includes the location of the Sanhedrin during that generation, the name of the Nasi of the generation, and the names of leading Tannaim:
Sanhedrin in the Bet HaMikdash — Hillel the Elder
Sanhedrin in the city of Jerusalem — Rabban Gamaliel HaZaken and Rabban Shimon
Sanhedrin in Yavneh — Rabban Gamaliel of Yavneh
Sanhedrin in Usha (and Shefaram and Bet She´arim)— Rabban Shimon ben Gamaliel
Sanhedrin in Zippori — Rabbi Yehudah HaNasi



Halachah Poster

Large color poster which explains the levels of the halachah and the process of halachic decision-making



Temporal Hours Poster

Large color poster which explains the concept of temporal hours in terms a child can understand.



Mishnah Orders' Poster

Large color poster which displays the six orders and sixty-three tractates of the Mishnah.



Cycle Of The Year Poster

Large color poster which depicts the months and seasons of the year for teaching calendrics and the holy days.



Written and Oral Torah Poster Set

Three posters which explain the structure of the Written and Oral Torahs:
poster 1, poster 2 and poster 3.

 

The Masorah poster

Large color poster which depicts the passing on of the tradition from generation to generation.