Birkat Chaverim
As part of the Mitzvot Unplugged series we are pleased to have Dov Weinstein, director of Tiny Ninja Theater, talk about a creative way of teaching gemara with Tiny Ninja Theater's M'amati. "Tiny Ninja Theater presents M'amati (From when?)" is an educational performance piece based around the opening Mishna in (tractate) Berachot. It uses everyd ...
As part of the Mitzvot Unplugged Series, we are happy to have a guest post by Ilana Masri from JewishHomeschoolNYC.blogspot.com. As a homeschooling family, we feel privileged that we have a seemingly endless amount of hours each day to focus on our children's character development. We address Jewish values in a twofold manner. We use the weekly par ...
As part of the Mitzvot Unplugged series, we are happy to welcome Danit from A Jewish Homeschool Blog. Danit dealt with the question of what was a successful way to teach a Jewish concept/value. She is dealing with Hachnasat Orchim (or Hachnosos Orchim.) "Hachnosos Orchim- Welcoming Guests" My kids love learning about the weekly Parshah. We all s ...
Last Sukkot I had the opportunity to discuss with my daughter the concept of Rosh Chodesh, lighting of the beacons and the beginning of the month in the Jewish calendar. We got to the topic in a round about way- we had several young women from the US and UK who are learning in seminary for the year, staying with us for the first day(s) of sukkot. They w ...
Noach seems to get alot of food play on this blog. Here's a picture reminder: These were sugar cubes. We've lately made chocolates using these same molds. Thought I'd pass along Themed Thinking's take on rainbow cupcakes. So simple and pretty. Noach is rather popular as a decorative element for kids. I always wondered about that as the story se ...
I have lately been thinking about teaching values or rather the how of teaching values. Values are obviously relayed through actions but sometimes the nitty-gritty of every day life, the stresses of clothing, feeding and paying bills, extreme exhaustion which comes with family life, makes taking the time to talk about values difficult. It is true that v ...
Did I ever mention our round robin art class? My 4 year old and a few of her friends meet up once a week to do art projects. The idea is to expose them to a bunch of different types of techniques and projects and they have done a wide variety of things. I got to go first and it happened to be that my daughter's friend came over and brought this apron: ...
I know this may look like a ginger bread man and candy cane to some of you but in our home this is Moshe and staff and sometimes Achashverosh, Mordechai, Haman and even Esther (although the last three without the rod.) We like to make rolls for school and rolls for children to say hamotzei and sometimes we make them in different shapes. I will admit ...
I know that I briefly mentioned the project that we did for Parshat Chayei Sara. As a tie in to the two bracelets that Rivka/Rebecca received from Eliezer we decided to do two types of bracelets, I chose one and my daughter chose the other. We did not decide to do a nose ring (my daughter was not into that although she did take the opportunity to ask so ...
WARNING: This post is likely to cause general head itchyness. Sorry! Please read anyway. My daughter's gan is up to the Hebrew letter Kaf this week. I had suggested that it might be a great time to talk with them about KINIM, or Lice. My thought was: 1. Lice tend to be a problem in settings with lots of children 2. Children are naturally curious abo ...