שְׁמוֹת / Shemos / Exodus 18: 1-20: 23 Click for printable PDF version . And don’t forget to read last year’s poem ! By the way, I am definitely looking for feedback on these? Are they too hard? Too easy? Better for kids, or adults? Let me know so I Read More »

The lazy speaker’s way to prepare to speak at the Torah Home Education Conference ? Ask her blog readers what to talk about! Specifically, what has worked best for limudei kodesh (Jewish studies) with preschoolers, which I assume is kids between the ages of 3 and 5-ish. Read More »

…Unless they tell you about it by Tu b’Shvat first! Since I had kids, it has always been the OFFICIAL rule of this household that Tu b’Shvat is the date by which you MUST choose your Purim costume. More importantly, it is the date after which, you may not CHANGE your Purim costume. Read More »

Two little books in one take on the great big task of convincing teens and 20-somethings to wait for the “big payoff” of physical intimacy through true stories and gritty details. Read More »

I’m hoping hoping hoping to take at least one big kid with me to the Torah Home Education Conference in Baltimore on May 6th. MegaBus is opening up tickets a day at a time, so I think by Wednesday, we’ll be able to buy our tickets to get down there. If you get them right when they open up, it’s only $5-10 per ticket (each way). Read More »

CURRENT PROGRAMS: Programs that are OPEN (space available) are marked with a symbol for easy reference! Wednesday, February 8, 2012 – Toronto Symphony Orchestra Wall to Wall Percussion 12: 30 pm @ Roy Thomson Hall Click for more info and study guide Read More »

I’m going, God willing… are you??? Yes, that’s right… it’s time again for the annual… Or, if you prefer a slightly more tasteful, button-style logo… Oy, vey… I’d better be going. It looks like they have me listed as a speaker this time around. Read More »

I recently received a free review eBook copy of Gus Dallas’s Proverbs, Reconstructed from BookSneeze.com . Read More »

Naomi stayed home from shul this morning, “sick,” in quote-marks because, honestly, she’s much healthier today than any day since Tuesday. But it’s been a stressful week and she HAS been sick, so no big deal. At one point, she was in the bathroom and I was having breakfast. Read More »

שְׁמוֹת / Shemos / Exodus 13: 17-17: 16 Click for printable PDF version . And don’t forget to read last year’s poem ! Copywork and parsha activities – something for every week of the year! [1] When b’nei Yisrael left Egypt for home, They didn’t Read More »

Written in July 2001. I suspect I’d been reading C.S. Lewis. Something high-falutin’, but I still agree with the sentiments… It probably sounds shallow to say I left the Conservative movement because of floppy, wrinkled, disposable-quality yarmulkes. Read More »

I am sad about my blender. The glass jar broke a while ago and it’s tough to find a replacement here (probably because I bought it online – doh!), plus, these are expensive here. WalMart.com currently offers EXACTLY the unit I need for $9, plus $4. Read More »

One thing we haven’t been consciously focusing on in our homeschool (heck, in our FAMILY) so far is middos – character traits. Read More »

Damp-haired, wiggly-front-tooth little girl on the verge of 7, I love you. Read More »

Dear Self, Thank you for your recent interest in Cheesemaking . I appreciate the time you have taken to order supplies, read blogs and online recipes. Read More »

Wow!  If you are using Story of the World Volume 1 for Ancient History, or are planning to use it at any point in the future, head on over here and download the FREE lapbook this mama put together over the year that she and her kids studied Volume 1. Read More »

Ooops… gotta watch how you use the free papers as dropsheets for art projects.  I do tear out the “pornographic ads” section at the very back (yes, yes, I know most proper parents would be careful not to let this shmutz into the house at all, but my Read More »

Which is more nebbach …?*  * (definition and more fun words over here on Chaviva’s Kvetching Editor blog!) When I was a single mom with 2 little kids and everybody used to invite us for Shabbos meals?  I got so sick of being nomadic, shlepping from Read More »

Gavriel Zev is greatly enjoying our weekly alef-bais “studies.”  I wasn’t originally planning a handwriting component, but his handwriting in English is coming along by leaps and bounds, so I have decided to bring in Hebrew handwriting as well. Read More »

We are just moving into this geography book, A Child’s Geography Book 1: Explore His Earth , by Ann Voscamp (not to be confused with the much older V.M. Read More »