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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????
We have our annual family friendly New Year party on New Years Eve! Fun times!!
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