Homeschool Diary #8: 7 Teves, 5771 – post-Chanukah Edition

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Again, I missed a week … oy, vey.  It’s tough enough keeping up with the homeschooling!

Monday

• Hebrew reading/writing:  Kriyah v’Od
• Monday math:  Clocks & Miquon
• Playdate

Tuesday

• My last aerobics class
• NEW!  All About Me:  post-Chanukah Lapbook in progress
• Began Vayechi parsha narrative
• Parsha craft - Switching Hands, see below
• Reading:  One old, one new BOB Book (last one from Set 2!)
• Reading:  Dick & Jane, 2 “chapters”
• Chapter book:  On the Banks of Plum Creek

Wednesday:

• Handwriting without Tears w/ rice writing & sensory cards
• Phonics:  Explode the Code
• Starfall book/site as a reward (GZ is loving it these days!)
• Parsha copywork:  HaMalach HaGoel
• All About Me:  post-Chanukah Lapbook in progress (continue)
• Toboggan Playdate (ick, I hate the outdoors right now)
• Chapter book:  On the Banks of Plum Creek

Thursday

• Thursday math:  Rods/Miquon Math – introduce concept (what?)
• Naomi chooses a worksheet
• Parsha sequencing (see below)
• Reading:  One old, one new BOB Book (let GZ choose one for Naomi to read to him!)
• Reading:  Dick & Jane, 2 “chapters”
• Chapter book:  On the Banks of Plum Creek
• This looks like a “light” day – I may try to cram in more… :-)

Friday

• Final Parsha review
• Parsha Narration & illustration
• Gdcast parsha video (reward for the narration)

Parsha Craft and Activities:

Found on chinuch.org – download the picture of the boys there or just draw your own.  So many of our crafts are 2-dimensional these days… I really must get a bit more creative.  But this was a pretty quick and easy one that demonstrates how Yaakov switched his hands when he was blessing Ephraim and Menashe.

I mounted everything on cereal-box cardboard to give it a bit more heft so the kids can actually play with it.  Naomi loved this because she adores any craft that uses what I call “brads” – our golden “butterfly”-style paper fasteners.  I bought one box last year and I predict that unless I let her at it, it will last forever.

If I were doing this over again, I’d position the pictures of the boys a bit lower so Naomi Rivka’s giant hands didn’t cover them up quite so much.

While we’re looking at parsha activities, I also made up a set of sequencing cards for Bereishis (Genesis) – the entire book, one card for each of the 12 parshiyos.  Find it on this page.

So what’s your Jewish homeschool family doing to shake up the “no-more-holidays ‘till Tu b’Shvat” blahs????