Raising children in love and faith
Last Hanukkah we started making Reading Bingo Challenges for each of our holidays as a fun way to engage more deeply with holiday reading and help identify holiday symbols and today we enjoyed using our High Holidays Reading Bingo Challenge! What You’ll Need Putting It Together Print out the High Holidays Reading Bingo Challenge free printable. Start …
Oftentimes welcoming guests appropriately can take lots of practice and can sometimes feel overwhelming which is why I created the How to Welcome Guests Social Story to walk my younger kids through how to do this (and give my older kids a refresher course!). With Covid we have gotten very little practice welcoming guests into …
A few weeks ago I set up a super easy Adam and Eve Pom Pom Posting Tree activity for the youngest two to do while the bigs were in distance learning. This is part of our summer theme of diving deeper into learning the Torah stories. For this activity we focused on the part of …
Catching up from a few weeks ago when we learned about the Creation Story by exploring a Creation Story Sequencing Sensory Bin. This set up is the opposite of how I usually set up my bins as I usually have everything inside the bin first and then sometimes invite kids to take elements out to …
What better way to celebrate Shabbat during the week we are covering the story of Noah’s Ark than with a rainbow challah hack?! Bonus points: it’s also pride month!! Rainbow challot are gorgeous and fun anytime of year but this Shabbat it has extra meaning since June is pride month and my kids and I …
Starting with the Torah story of Cain and Abel, sheep and shepherds feature throughout the Torah which is why it was fun to focus on learning a little bit more about these connections with this Sheep and Shepherds in the Torah Transfer Activity. This is a super easy activity to set up, it practices fine …
A family peace table is a wonderful conflict resolution process and location. It is also a safe space for calming down and regulating oneself. My daughter’s kindergarten teacher introduced the idea of a peace table in their classroom last year and my daughter was super excited to bring it home into our house. It’s made …
Today I made Shavuot playdough mats and let the kids explore some sensory fun while being exposed to more Shavuot symbols. I also laid out our Shavuot 3 part cards and read off the summaries again while the kids explored just as a gentle review of the customs and traditions. My nature lovers gathered some …
Since we are heading down the last two weeks of Counting the Omer, which leads us to the holiday of Shavuot, I decided to review the holiday with my kiddos by playing with our Shavuot Montessori-Style 3 Part Cards. This year Shavuot starts the evening of May 16th. It celebrates the receiving of the 10 …
To continue learning about Israel this week in honor of Yom Ha’atzmaut, today we read the PJ Library book 3 Falafels in my Pita and did a fun and easy 3 Falafels in My Pita supplemental activity 🥙 What You’ll Need 3 Falafels in My Pita printable 3 Falafels in my Pita book Sensory bin …
