Category: Homeschooling

Jewish Homeschooling: Third (3rd) Grade (Secular subjects)

Maybe you’ve been reading along as I wrote about our kodesh choices for my 3rd grade son and kindergarten son for 2012-2013? Choosing secular curriculum is yet another adventure (here’s our K plan). One way to go is to order a complete curriculum, such as these from Timberdoodle (an awesome homeschooling curriculum company!) Timberdoodle lets you customize your order to fit …

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Jewish Homeschooling: Kindergarten (Secular subjects)

Maybe you’ve been reading along as I wrote about our kodesh choices for my 3rd grade son and kindergarten son for 2012-2013? Choosing secular curriculum is yet another adventure. One way to go is to order a complete curriculum, such as these from Timberdoodle (an awesome homeschooling curriculum company!) Timberdoodle lets you customize your order to …

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Ki Tavo: Resources and Ideas

We’re still in the book of Devarim / Deuteronomy, so Moshe is giving his last speech. In this week’s parsha, we get the laws of the bikkurim (first ripe fruits), tithes for the Leviim and poor, and details on the blessing/curse from Mount Gerizim and Mount Eival. There is a short outline of blessings for obeying …

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Jewish Homeschooling: Kindergarten overview (Kodesh)

To continue with our homeschooling week… I’ve received several questions about what we’re using this year, and I’m really excited about our choices. So I’m going to share them with you! (This is one of several upcoming homeschooling posts, so I apologize in advance to those aren’t interested – just click on through. Although I’m …

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Jewish Homeschooling: 3rd grade overview (Kodesh)

As you may have heard, we are not back to school this year. That’s right, we’re homeschooling! Here is the first of a series of posts on our homeschool plans for this year. We’ll see how things go, but here is the plan! I’ve received several questions about what we’re using this year, and I’m …

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Homeschool closeup to come…

As many people have been asking, I have decided to go into detail on our homeschooling plans. I have a two sons officially in school this year; one entering 3rd grade and one into Kindergarten. This week, I intend to share our plans with you! Update: Here they are so far: Kindergarten (Secular and Kodesh) 3rd …

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Ki Teitzei: Resources and Ideas

This week’s parsha is all about mitzvot: 74 mitzvot altogether. These include the laws of a beautiful captive, shiluah haken (sending away the mother bird), returning a lost object, who can/cannot marry, the laws of an escaped slave, divorce and marriage, allowing workers to eat on the job, and more. It closes with a command …

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Not back to school – yippee!

After writing about lunch stations and routines to make the school mornings easier – here is the link if you missed it – I thought I should  put together something about our back to school plans for this year. Or rather, our NOT back to school plans. Actually, that’s a misnomer. We are totally getting …

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Shoftim: Resources and Ideas

“Justice, justice, you shall pursue.” Moshe dictates, and so institutes a system of judges, investigators, witnesses, and law enforcement. Each generation will be given leaders to follow. We are also given laws about idolatry, sorcery, cities of refuge for inadvertent murderers, and a list of who should stay home from war. We learn about trying …

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Re’eh / Re’ay: Resources and ideas

In this week’s parsha, Moshe continues his speech to Bnei Yisrael. Again, there is a blessing and a curse offered depending on observance of mitzvot. The Temple is identified as the only place for offerings, and a lot of the laws of kashrut are given or reviewed here: which birds and fish are kosher, how …

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