Here are a few things we have been doing in connection to Parshas Lech Lecha:
Aside for My First Parshah Reader, we are reading A Little Boy Named Avram by Dina Rosenveld.
We printed some coloring pages from Chinuch.org and Munchkin colored them and stuck on star stickers while we were talking about how Hashem promised Avraham that his children would be as many as the stars in the sky.
Then, using Star cut-outs which I got at Walmart for $1, I cut them up to make little puzzles and stuck a magnet sticker on the back of each piece. We took all the pieces, mixed them up in a basket and the kids used a magnetic cookie pan to put the stars back together again. The nice thing about using the magnets is that the puzzle pieces stay in place once put down.
Here is a math activity using the Montessori beads. Pretty straight forward. You can make your own beads using pipe-cleaners and colored beads.
A great counting activity, stick the correct amount of Star stickers as the number written on each star. My Munchkin (3.5) LOVES stickers, so anything with stickers is an instant winner with her.
Creating a night sky with different types of star stickers, some foam, some glittery and all different sizes. She actually made a pretty awesome sky, overlapping stars, mixing colors. It was very cool:)
Simple beading with star beads.
After working with stars, we moved on to Transportation- "Lech Lecha", Avram and his wife "traveled" to Canaan. So we are learning about all things connected to modes of travel.
Cutting activity with cars using the Kumon Cutting Workbook.
Transportation Sensory Tub, using black rice we picked up from the local Health Food store in bulk. We put in some Lego street signs and Toob Cars. This was SUCH a hit with my 2 year old, he sat there for quite a while burying all the cars then trying to find them.
Then what started as a simple sorting activity, turned into this:
Taking the idea from my little one, we used the sensory box to hide all the cars, planes and boats and the older kids would search for them and once found, place them in the correct section.
Then using big blocks, cars, street signs and little people, they each designed there own roads.
Using chalk, they drew streets on black construction paper and used these transportation stickers to create a whole scene.
This was a kit we got and they made boats, trains, cars and planes.
Here is where you can get some of the products we are working with this week:
Here is a great packet I found on www.chinuch.org - It is a synopsis of the weekly Parshah with questions and answers... I found it to be perfect for asking questions on the Parshah at the Shabbos table-
Their Bereishis curriculum provides you with 26 creative lessons covering the book of Bereishis. Each lesson contains a worksheet as well as numerous activities, discussions, projects and tools to engage the students, drive the lessons home and make the stories come to life.
It says it is appropriate for grades 3 – 6, but it can definitely be tweaked and simplified for younger kids.
It comes with a list of Projects for all year long as well as a complete lesson plan for each Parshah in Sefer Bereishis.
Each lesson plan comes with the following:
G-Goal
P-Project
D-Discussion
W-Worksheet
A-Activity
S-Story
An-Anticipatory Set
X-Extra-Curricular
V-Visual
It is jam packed with info and ideas, and I highly recommend it!
My little guy just loves being read to- so reading about the Parshah is actually such a treat for him, he always asks me to keep reading on to the next Parshah to see what happens next:)
So today we read from Parshas Noach until ParshasChayei Sara in My Parshah Reader which he just loved and then went on to make a cute little project on this cool paper that a friend of ours gave us. It is plastic, multi colored and painted black. He used a tooth pick to make stars in the sky just like Hashem told Avraham that his children and grandchildren would be as many as the stars in the sky... and next thing I knew, the little guy ended up making a bunch of shooting stars and planets and rockets etc all in this cool sky of his:) hey, that's the beauty of Homeschooling, let them make their own creations, let those little imaginations run wild!
Here he is in action:
We also read this fabulous book from Hachai called "A Little Boy Named Avram" all about how Avraham discovered Hashem at the age of 3- it is very sweet, highly recommend it!
Here are 2 songs from 613 Torah Avenue on this weeks Parshah- we have the CD, its adorable:
Then for quiet time (for those in the family who outgrew their naps) we watched MalkaliBereishis, also a wonderful DVD all about the Parshahs. You can get it here. In fact, ALL here DVD's are so great for little ones, we have a bunch of them
And here are just a few great activities my munchkin did today, she's almost 3...
And my luck, my little guy is obsessed with doing Science experiments. Too bad Daddy is a Rabbi and mommy barely passed her way through every Science in high school AND college! But thanks to other mom blogs and websites, we manage to keep him entertained:)
This one was cool:
2 cups of water, blue was cold, red was hot (we used food coloring to color them)
Then using a piece of thin hard card board, we turned the hot water upside down and placed it on top of the cold water. Due to the density of the hot water, the two did not mix! Now even I found that pretty cool:)
Hey, we do what we can to keep those little tykes happy!
