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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.
someone asked why i left out no tashmish (sex). when the child knows what sex is, in my experience after age 10, then i teach it.
ReplyDeleteDr. Emily Amie Witty writes:
ReplyDeleteLove it!!! I wonder why we can't teach tashmish as "mommies and daddies don't give hugs or kisses to eachother or something like that. It really annoys me that we separate eating and drinking and then magically one day we attempt to undo that...thoughts?
i've seen some "watered down" versions of teaching preschoolers things they can relate to such as "don't hurt each other" instead of "don't murder" in the 10 commandments (more to the point, i can't remember what was taught instead of "don't commit adultery"--maybe "mommies and daddies should love each other" or something like that, which is not a commandment per se and is distorting the 10 commandments, though well-intentioned). in the case you are describing, it IS actually assur to hug and kiss on yom kippur, but that's a harchaka and not one of the 5 inuyim. that's why i didn't write "5 inuyim" on the sheet. because eating and drinking is one, not 2. i think in this particular case, when a child gets old enough to understand about sex and learn about no tashmish on yom kippur, they simultaneously understand why they weren't taught it in lower grades and integrate the information quickly.
DeleteFor ten commandments, I tell my kids that it is don't get married to people who are already married. True, and close enough.
ReplyDeleteHere is a page of someone else Yom Kippur coloring pages. http://jewishhomeschool.blogspot.com/2013/09/yom-kippur-mini-book-and-coloring-page.html
I think Aish had one, too. ( That tells you how much yom kippur prepr I did with my kids... we attempted to make paper slippers, but two kids dissolved into tears: one could not trace his shoe perfectly enough, and another wanted paper-padded slippers, like her brother. Mommy was afflicted indeed.)
I know this is a tangent, but it is starting to come up since my wife is pregnant and my son is 5. How do you answer a 5 year old who asks "how did the baby get there?"
ReplyDeletemy rule of thumb is to answer the exact question in one sentence or less.
Deletethat's a bit of a tough one. my husband suggested "the fertilized egg travels to the belly (womb) and grows into the baby." which is a little complicated.
but actually, i would probably pull out a book i have with pictures of the developing baby in the womb and just look at it with him. it does have pictures of the egg and the sperm, and i would say the egg is in the mommy and the sperm is from the daddy. in my experience they don't ask how the daddy gets the sperm to the mommy til about 10+
do you then explain it at 10? Its hard to say exactly what is the right age...isn't it?
ReplyDeletei don't end up really explaining it at length. i always just answer exactly the question they asked in one sentence. then a few weeks later they come up with another question, after they've been pondering that and its ramifications.
DeleteAlso, what if they do ask way before 10, how would you handle that one.
ReplyDeletei just answer exactly the question they ask. in my experience, if they ask way before 10, they aren't asking about sex, they are asking about the biology of how babies grow inside and how they get out.
DeleteDo you think its ok to tell them that they come out of the vagina? Not sure there is anything wrong with this per say....maybe its just our society's bend to shun kids from sex that is effecting my thinking...what are your thoughts?
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