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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.
Hi,
ReplyDeleteAs you know, the Torah Homeschooling Conference in Baltimore is scheduled for Memorial Day weekend 2013 (May 24 - 28, after Shavuos).
We are assembling a binder full of information to hand out to attendees, and would like to include some blog postings to inspire the novice as well as veteran homeschool family, and perhaps open up the wide world of blogging to those who may be unfamiliar with it.
Your blog is always chok full of insights and ideas, so we'd like to ask if you might have a favorite something you'd like to submit for inclusion. Any topic would be welcomed , as long as it relates to Jewish homeschooling. Of course, if you know of any Jewish HS bloggers that we may not know of, please forward this message to them as well.
Deadline for submissions is Sunday, May 5th. Please feel free to call with any questions, or simply send your writing to me before that time so I can pass everything to the Binder committee in time to have it included.
Many thanks!
Yael Quittner
(347) 232-9000
www.amothersinstinct.com