portaportal

Welcome to TAY Religious School's Portaportal!

Teacher Resources

Akhla
Babaganewz
Book Builder
Create a digital book to show what your class has learned
Crafts and More
Judaic craft kits, cool mezuzah kit!
Hebrew Review Games
30 games to practice Hebrew and prayers
Jeopardy Labs
Create online Jeopardy games for your class
Jewcology.com
Jewish Environmental lessons, source sheets and networking
Media Midrash
Videos for classroom use, some have lesson plans attached
Parsha Activities
Quizlet
Create flash cards, the site will create games and review activities.
Tagxedo
Make different shaped word clouds
Using Technology to Teach Pesach (or any other subject)
Blabberize
Make comics of talking objects
Pro Profs
Create quizzes, flash cards or worksheets
Iaza
Edit, morph or animate your pictures

General Education

Dabble Board
Project this white board on a big screen and its almost a Smart Board!
Go Animate
Create cartoons to show what your students have learned
Toon Doo
Easily create comics about any topic
Casa Notes
Customizable certificates for reminders, behavior contracts, homework charts
Certificate Maker

Bible

G-d Cast
5 minute videos of the weekly parsha and holidays with lesson plans. Intended for grades 6+, but most are app for all ages
Bible Raps
Raps about Bible Stories and Jewish Holidays
Bill Cosby's
Bill Cosby's Noah Routine
classic!
Bill Cosby's Noah Routine II
Parsha Projects
by my friend Emily Shapiro Katz
Parsha Activities
for ages 3-10+

Hebrew

Hebrew Aleph Bet
Learn the aleph bet and make your own flash cards
Ot L'Baot Workbook
Listen to a short Hebrew lesson and print out an activity page.
Aleph Bet Chart
printable
Aleph Bet Rock Video
From the Sarah and David Interactive
Behrman House
Create an account and then practice Hebrew reading or prayers
Hebrew Through Movement
Help your students learn Hebrew with their bodies!
Dah Bear
Hebrew vocabulary flash cards, games and quizzes

Adult Hebrew

Prayer

Siddur Audio
Recordings of prayers with text from New Sim Shalom
Friday evening kiddush
Video from Chizuk Amuno synagogue in Baltimore
How to recite Friday evening kiddush
Text with translation and transliteration from Chizuk Amuno
Shalom Aleichem
Blessing for the Shabbat Candles
HaMotzi
How to light Shabbat candles
Significance of HaMotzi

Holidays

High Holidays

If Not Higher, by Y.L. Peretz
One of my favorite stories
Rosh HaShannah 101
My Jewish Learning
Rosh HaShannah Quiz
My Jewish Learning
High Holiday Jewpardy
High Holiday Jewpardy

High Holiday Videos

Dip Your Apple
Rosh HaShannah version of Shakira's Waka Waka including lyrics
Shofar Blowing 101
Learn how to blow the shofar and the sounds of the blasts
Shofar Calling by G-d Cast
Rosh HaShannah Magic Trick
Forever Young
A Hebrew cover of "Forever Young"
How to dip your apple in honey
Book of Good Life
Another Maccabeats hit. Parody of Good Life by Old Republic
Kol Nidre on the Electric Saz
Unetaneh Tokef 5771
NOT for children - but a moving recap of 5771

Purim

Recycled cup graggers
Beautiful graggers using plastic cups and colored duct tape
Easy Mordechia or King Achashverosh Costume
Hamantashen Recipe
We use chocolate chips, apricot and strawberry jam for filling when we make these in RS!
Purim Crafts
Include some awesome ideas for recycled mishloach manot containers
Purim 101
Purim customs, observances and a fun quiz

Purim Videos

Maccabeats Purim Video
Haman Rap
For lyrics go to www.bibleraps.com
Shalom Sesame: Purim Story
G-d Cast's Purim Story
The Purim Story for Kids and Other Double Dutch Jumping Hipsters
Groggers Up
Raise Your Mask
A capella Purim story with beautiful Israel scenery

Tu B'Shvat

Tu B'Shvat General Info
from My Jewish Learning
Tu B'Shvat Quiz
I got 6 out of 7 right - let me know if you beat me!
Tu B'Shvat Seder
Nice one for kids
Tu B'Shvat activities from Babaganewz
Cherry blossom tree and other crafts
Creative Jewish Mom
Eco Campus

Jewish Ecology Activities from Noam Dolgin

Build a Tree
Human Bingo
Shrinking Habitat
Adamah V'Shamayim Song
lyrics and youtube video
Communal Tree Jigsaw
Introduction to Jewish Environmental Education
43 page document

Tu B'Shvat Videos

JNF Tu B'Shvat Rap
Nice Jewish Time Traveler Tu B'Shvat
Pack Rats Celebrate Tu B'Shvat
Adamah Ve Shamayim
Israeli dance of our Green Symposium theme song
Honi Comes Full Circle
Two Honi stories in one video from g-dcast.com. Website has teacher's guide.

Passover

Dayenu Children's Passover Hagaddah
Beautiful illustrations and catchy songs for ages 2-8
The Passover Seder through Music by Ray Charles, Nina Simon and The Carters
You've never heard anything like this!
The Jewish Theological Seminary Celebrates Passover
Unique Passover Haggadot, essays and information to enrich Passover
Passover at My Jewish Learning
Historical and practical background information, a quiz, how to conduct a seder
Chizuk Amuno Online Library
Videos, PDFs and sound files relating to Passover and other holidays
Passover Through Archaeology and Rare Documents
Awesome pics of some of the oldest haggadot in the world as well as the mummy of Ramses II (Pharoah).
Siddur Audio Passover
Hear each part of the seder chanted--includes Hebrew text, transliteration and translation
Jewish Freeware
Many haggadot, readings and a Passover songbook. You can personalize many of these for your seder
iMah Nishtanah

Passover Videos

Echad Mi Yodeah
Lyrics, translation, and illustrations set to funky hard rock music
20 Things To Do With Matzah by Michelle Citrin
The Passover Story of the Four Sons
Great g-dcast video with teacher's guide
Google Exodus
What would it be like if Moses had facebook?
Les Matzarables
Les Miz meets Shalom Sesame
Best Seder in the USA
Six13 Passover Video
Silent Hagaddah
The Passover story beatifully told through shadow theater
Apple on the Seder Plate

Big Ideas to Enrich Your Seder

Is there Non-Seder in the Seder
Abraham Twerski asks: How can we appreciate freedom while we are stuck in a slave mentality?
Believing the Exodus Story

Hanukkah

Easy frugal Hanukkah Crafts
From "A Mother in Israel" blog
Babanewz Hanukkah Trivia
Akhla Hanukkah Quiz
Hanukkah from Judaism 101
overview of Hanukkah story and customs
Hanukkah Blessings
Hanukkah Crafts
from "Challah Crumbs" blog, many include templates
Hanukkah Word Puzzle
Awesome Latke Recipe

Hanukkah Videos

Sesame Street Hanukkah
Elmo learns about Hanukkah from Veronica Monica
G-d Cast Spins Hanukkah
also has teacher's guide
Matisyahu's Hanukkah Song, "Miracle"
Banu Choshech Legaresh
The Israeli rapper Subliminal's take on this Hannukah classic set to striking images of the IDF.
Maccabeats Candlelight
By popular demand!
Light is in the Air from My Jewish Learning
older students / adult, press cc for the lyrics
I am Just Fine (G-dcast Chanukah Song)
save the song to listen
Jewish Rock of Ages
Sam Glaser and Kol Zimra's Hanukkah Anthem
Pella A Capella Mashup

Yom Hashoah

Coming of Age Now
Yad Vashem
Holocaust Museum Houston Butterfly Project
effort to collect 1.5 million butterflies representing the children who perished in the Holocaust, incl lesson plan and activiti
Butterfly template

Yom HaShoah Videos

A Million Butterflies
Beautiful Sam Glasser song inspired by the Houston Holocaust Museum's Million Butterfly exhibit

Shabbat

Recipes from Mishpacha Erev Shabbat
Challah, matza balls, sweet kugel and pareve chocolate chip cookies!
Shabbat Blessings
Check out the prayer section above
How to Braid a Round Challah
thanks to Sharon Aber

Sukkot

Wind sock kite
decorate your sukkah

Israel

Kotel Cam
Watch a live stream of what is happening at the Kotel now. I saw a swearing in ceremony for a new group of army recruits.
Jerusalem Activities
Twenty activities to help you get to know the capital of Israel. Many have lesson plans.
Video Retrospective of Israeli History
Make Isreal out of ice cream!
Map of Israel
Eye on Israel
Israeli Ministry of Tourism

Temple Adath Religious School

Temple Adath Yeshurun
Jewish Community Calendar
PJ Library
FREE Jewish books in the mail each month for children up to age 5 1/2

Games

Do you know your Brachot?
Pick the picture that matches each blessing from Babaganewz
Two Truths and Lie - Jewish Supreme Cout Edition
How much do you know about Jews in the Supreme Court? from Babaganewz
Aleph Bet Go
Put letters of the Aleph Bet in the correct order, by ZigZag
Hebrew For Me
Practice Hebrew vocabulary by dragging images onto a background.
Jewpardy
Choose from twenty different versions
Jewpardy
Choose from twenty different versions