I sat with the artscroll rashi book open today. But that wasn't nearly enough. I'm google imaging right and left.
http://www.utom.org/library/pictures/tabernacle/copperalter2.jpg
That's the picture that I found most useful. My favorite is that it labeled all the different weird Hebrew words like border and netting. I did this with Sarah and I don't recall a lattice netting. (google "lattice" for Chana, but then I ended up pointing to our radiator cover that also has a metal lattice.) Guess I learn something new each time.
I did peruse rashi in English to discover what it means to put something under from the bottom. Superfluous and saying the same thing twice. Chana wanted to know why.
PS. Chana had her bas mitzva and we still haven't finished all the meanings of the brachos in shemona esrei (though she can fulfil her technical chiyuv of tefila without it).
PPS. I had been wanting Chana to work on writing Ivrit and I told her to come up with an idea for a story but so far that's all we did.
PPPS. I'm not impressed with Sfasenu 4. It's getting that I pretty much need to sit next to her when she reads it and I'm not sure she's actually improving in her Hebrew.
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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