been a slowish week and my computer is broken. we've done reviewing, and i think 3 or 4 new pesukim. they weren't tough pesukim. but i like the review thing because i want her to be more fluent. today, instead of reviewing pesukim, i spot reviewed the hard words she's been having trouble with. we'll continue next week with review and more pesukim. i'm easing up on new pesukim. maybe one every couple of days. and sticking with the fluent review.
happy days, she remembered the sh.ch.t shoresh means corrupted :-)
we did the rashi and are still hacking our way slowly through it. it's 3.75 lines and she's making lots of mistakes. fewer in the last 2 (we started backwards and are making our way up).
and so it goes. no major drama this week. a bit of whining when i asked her to do the rashi 2x and she negotiated for once and a review of an old rashi. one day she even giggled a lot. and she keeps remembering it fondly. me, too. giggling is way preferable to kvetching.
Purpose
I am planning to try to blog our daily chumash struggles, triumphs and activities. For grandparents, it will keep you updated on chumash progress. For parents (that's you, Ari) it will facilitate our parent-teacher conferences and give you a chance to input your opinion on how you want things handled. For friends interested in education of elementary school age children for chumash, well, there might be some of that.
How This Began
I am an Orthodox Jew and I've been homeschooling for fourteen years. Teaching chumash is one of the most important subjects, and one of the most challenging. We care so much that our children love Torah. v'shinantam l'vanecha. We want so badly for them to have the skills and the ability. Skills work is a particular challenge for homeschoolers, who have not accepted boredom as a fact of school. Or should I say it is a challenge for the mom/teacher...
My oldest "graduated" homeschool (her choice) and is in high school. When I started, I was teaching chumash to a 3rd grader, with a toddler and an infant for company. We now have one chumash learner, one preschooler, a toddler and an infant.
I largely "unschool" and when I started this blog, I was reading Alfie Kohn. Many of my posts explored this. Although I currently am not brave enough to unschool chumash, I am seriously thinking about it for the boys.
My oldest "graduated" homeschool (her choice) and is in high school. When I started, I was teaching chumash to a 3rd grader, with a toddler and an infant for company. We now have one chumash learner, one preschooler, a toddler and an infant.
I largely "unschool" and when I started this blog, I was reading Alfie Kohn. Many of my posts explored this. Although I currently am not brave enough to unschool chumash, I am seriously thinking about it for the boys.
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