Skip to main content

Starting the Rosh Hashanah lapbook…

writing 003 We’ve done a few more bits and pieces on the big Rosh Hashanah Lapbook since I took these yesterday, but I haven’t taken pictures yet. 

I thought it was fun to demonstrate the symbolism of the scales (in Hebrew, moznayim, the zodiac symbol for the month of Tishrei) with the ACTUAL trusty bucket balance, while we had it out for math.

  writing 004

This scale one of the first homeschool “accessories” I bought, and it has served us well for many purposes, but this was the first time it has helped transmit a SPIRITUAL message.

I used Cuisenaire green rods (I like green!), and had the kids name mitzvos and aveiros to stack them up on both sides of the balance.  They could say whatever they wanted, but if it started to tip too far to the “bad” side, we’d have to think up mitzvos to balance it out and tip it the other way.

I tied this in, somewhat, lightly, with the idea that we all make mistakes from time to time, and Hashem doesn’t condemn us (luckily!) for making them.  On Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, he looks at how we live our lives ON BALANCE.

Gavriel Zev helped think up some pretty silly examples, but I tried to write them down as long as they were appropriate.  Like, “helping Mickey Mouse.”  Sure, that’s a mitzvah!  Why not???  And… um… “eating the parsha.” 

Well, I was feeling generous, and he was feeling sniffly, so again, why not?  Maybe he’s seen the Parsha Cakes blog…!

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

לימודי קודש/Limudei Kodesh Copywork & Activity Printables

Welcome to my Limudei Kodesh / Jewish Studies copywork and activity printables page.  As of June 2013, I am slowly but surely moving all my printables over to 4shared because Google Docs / Drive is just too flaky for me. What you’ll find here: Weekly Parsha Copywork More Parsha Activities More Chumash / Tanach Activities Yom Tov Copywork & Activities Tefillah Copywork Pirkei Avos / Pirkei Avot Jewish Preschool Resources Other printables! For General Studies printables and activities, including Hebrew-English science resources and more, click here . For Miscellaneous homeschool helps and printables, click here . If you use any of my worksheets, activities or printables, please leave a comment or email me at Jay3fer “at” gmail “dot” com, to link to your blog, to tell me what you’re doing with it, or just to say hi!  If you want to use them in a school, camp or co-op setting, please email me (remove the X’s) for rates. If you just want to say Thank You, here’s a

Hebrew/ עברית & English General Studies Printables

For Jewish Studies, including weekly parsha resources and copywork, click here . If you use any of my worksheets, activities or printables, please leave a comment or email me at Jay3fer “at” gmail “dot” com, to link to your blog, to tell me what you’re doing with it, or just to say hi!  If you want to use them in a school, camp or co-op setting, please email me (remove the X’s) for rates. If you enjoy these resources, please consider buying my weekly parsha book, The Family Torah :  the story of the Torah, written to be read aloud – or any of my other wonderful Jewish books for kids and families . English Worksheets & Printables: (For Hebrew, click here ) Science :  Plants, Animals, Human Body Math   Ambleside :  Composers, Artists History Geography Language & Literature     Science General Poems for Elemental Science .  Original Poems written by ME, because the ones that came with Elemental Science were so awful.  Three pages are included:  one page with two po

It's Heart Month: 3 days left to save lives!

Dear Friends & Family: Hi, everybody! Sorry I can’t stop by in person... you're a bit out of my area.  :-) We’re out walking up and down on our street on this beautiful afternoon to raise money for Heart & Stroke.  This cause is important to me (I won't say it's close to my heart , because that would be tacky!).  I hope you'll join me by donating online. Growing up, I watched as every single one of my grandparents' lives were shortened by heart disease and strokes, and my father had a defibrillator that saved his life on more than one occasion.  Heart disease and stroke kill 1 in 3 Canadians and are the #1 killer of women. Please click this link to be redirected to my main page at the Heart & Stroke website: http://tinyurl.com/AtlasHeart Thus ends my personal appeal.  Official information follows.  :-))) ----- Heart disease and stroke is the #1 killer of women - taking more women's lives than all forms of cancer combined. But no one is immune. Th