yesterday we did chumash for about 1.5 hours over the course of the day. this is one of the benefits of homeschooling: when your kid is in the zone, you can go where the attention span and energy is. no bell stopping us after 45 min.
today we started with new pesukim. i did this because she runs out of steam when we do chazara. then we had a break, and then did chazara. she remembered more of it than i thought she would.
then for rashi, she said she wanted to do it with ari. i think this is because i ask her to isolate shorashim, and i know what she knows and what she doesn't know. whereas he just tells her. yesterday and tonight i don't think she really has been improving in the rashis as i would like. i think this is because she feels that there are too many of them. maybe tomorrow i'll take a look at how many rashis she has to do and break it down so there are fewer of them or work it out somehow so she feels it is more manageable.
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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.
Question: do you prepare/look over Rashis before doing them with her? Or do you decide on the go which Rashis to do?
ReplyDeletei prepare on the go. i'll take a couple of minutes after the pesukim to scan the rashis and see which ones are suited for her. or right before. or often, questions come up and rashi answers them.
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