Lots going on now. Testing is finished. I'm in the middle of a massive psychoeducational diagnosis situation with Chen, which I'll write all about when we get the results. It's taking months and I look forward to having it all wrapped up tidily with a bow. Hahaha.
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Elazar handled a customer chat situation (he was the customer) this morning about a t-shirt he tried to design and buy, but it turned out that he wanted to use a character from Undertale which is trademarked. So apparently he is capable of reading, comprehending, and responding on a fairly adult level. Basic competence in society--check.
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Elazar asked my husband to learn mishna at 10:50pm last night. Despite us trying to have a stern policy of our doors closing at 10:30pm, my husband couldn't find it in his heart to refuse him.
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The other day, Chen was on the couch and she asked me what an isosceles triangle is. I told her it's a triangle with 2 equal sides. Then I asked if she was watching the Crazy Ex-Girlfriend's Triangle Song because unschoolers frequently look up things because they come across them. And that's how they learn.
"No," she told me. "I'm studying for the ACTs." 😆
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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