How to Celebrate Hanukkah Social Story

This 2020 English social story presents Hanukkah through a Jewish family's religious perspective. It introduces the oil-miracle narrative, the hanukiah and Shamash, blessings in Hebrew, gifts and dreidel, with a sentence for telling parents about fear around candle lighting.

Available from: Special Learning.

Material context: The story includes calendar and candle-use wording from its 2020 edition.

The opening pages describe ancestors, the Maccabees and oil lasting eight days as part of the holiday's miracle narrative. Candle passages introduce the hanukiah and Shamash and include the phrase “I feel scared” for speaking to parents.

Other passages discuss listening during Hebrew blessings, saying thank you for a present and the letters named on a dreidel. The story closes with spending the holiday with family and friends.

What is inside this resource?

• Ancestors and the oil-miracle narrative.
• Hanukiah candles and the Shamash.
• Saying “I feel scared” to parents around candle lighting.
• Hebrew blessings and thanking someone for a gift.
• Dreidel and the letters Nun, Gimmel, Hay and Shin.

Material details: 2 PDF files, containing 28 pages in total including front matter. This is a digital download; purchase does not include printed copies.

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