This years back to school looks nothing like other years. Some children will be distance learning, some will be learning in person. Some schools have already gone back to school. Others are about to start. Locally most schools start September 1, with Yeshivas, already back since Rosh Chodesh Elul. Where we are its hard to know who will be distancin ...
Cookie Falafel for Yom HaAtzmaut
The cookie falafel are based on tacos using vanilla oreos. When I saw the tacos I thought that they could easily convert to falafels, which are a popular food for Yom Haatzmaut. While I have never seen vanilla oreos where I live, I have seen vanilla sandwich cookies and figured that I would use those when I got around to making them. Shopping W ...
A Quiet Megilla Bingo Game
This quiet Megilla bingo game is for children who find Megilla reading a little too long, despite all the fun in making noise when hearing the name, Haman. I usually bring Purim related stickers and games to our local synagogue. Smaller children can use them during the megilla reading so that they do not disturb everyone else. Clearly disturbing others ...
Building Swing Chesed Project
What makes a great Bnai Mitzvah chesed project? While there is no one answer, I think Gilad's swing building is a special project. Gilad chose to build swings in Oz VeGaon reserve. Gilad's building swings chesed project is an active, physical chesed project. Where? Gilad and a group of his friends built swings for Oz VeGaon. Oz VeGaon ...
Local Hanukkah Projects
I enjoy checking out the Hanukkah projects that students at our local schools make each year. This year I got to see projects from gan through 6th grade at three different public schools, both religious and secular. Greek urn inspired student mini urns This is a cute assignment that mixes Greek history class with Art. You may note that the teach ...
Lunch Box Taste Testing
Have your children already returned to school? Here school starts September 1st and pretty much everyone is on vacation the last two weeks of August. The following lunch box taste testing project is good for those still with kids at home that last weekday and those whose children have already returned to school. Razelle and Dov W’s lunch taste testing ...
First Aid for First Class Teachers: Teachers Gifts at the end of the road
What do you do when you want to thank all your teen's teachers for their help and support along your child's educational journey? Homemade first aid creams! This idea is courtesy of Noga Hullman from Upside Down Parenting who made these amazing first aid creams for her daughter's teachers. We are sharing this today in honor of the end of the high schoo ...
Omer CD case calendar for Older Kids
This is a take on the Omer CD case calendar for older kids. You may or may not recall that I posted an Omer calendar project to help kids count towards Shavuot, for pre-school aged kids that used recycled cd cases. I also provided a template for that calendar as well as for another type of Omer calendar. A while back my daughter was celebrating her b ...
Sketchnotes for Education
Sketchnotes for Education Experiments Around Hanukkah I posted some drawn notes that my son did, on his own, to record what he had learned about the laws of Hanukkah. At the time I loved the idea of sketchnotes for Jewish education, but I did not know there was a concept of sketchnotes at all. Since then I discovered The Sketchnote Handbook by M ...
A fruity use for socks, use those spares!
We love sock projects and this fruity use for socks is an easy one. Recently a friend posted on facebook about a business that made "avocado socks". That is, socks made out of shetland wool in order to ripen avocados. I thought that was a cute idea but also thought, lets try that ourselves! How this Works Apparently, avocados release the gas eth ...