Raising children in love and faith
It’s been so incredibly hard to get in the Hanukkah (and actually, any kind of activity) mindset right now but I do know and understand that the world needs as much light and love as we can pour into it so here is my small contribution for right now, our 2023 Hanukkah Shelfie + Starter …
I brought out the sweet simanim rocks I made for this year’s High Holidays Shelfie and combined them with our brand new Rosh Hashanah Simanim Nomenclature Cards to create a hands-on, meaningful and fun Rosh Hashanah Simanim Match Sensory Bin! What You’ll Need Putting It Together Finished & Loving It! You know me, I love …
I introduced this Rosh Hashanah Challah Raisin Match on our High Holidays Shelfie this year and brought it out again this week for some additional, dedicated play, exploration and fun! What You’ll Need Putting It Together Finished & Loving It! My first grader is super into numbers so he loves any kind of number or …
This super simple 10 Commandments Search & Find Sensory Bin is such a fun way to review the 10 Commandments for the holiday of Shavuot! The sensory filler is inexpensive and quite the change from our normal play and the kids loved it. They also liked the challenge of having to search and find the …
I love how this Where Does It Grow? Seven Species Match activity guides my kids to learning more about the plants that create the delicious foods that we enjoy eating on Tu B’Shevat. I was curious to see if they would be able to correctly identify which foods grew on which plants by either real knowledge …
Today I wanted to teach the kids a little bit about a kibbutz and these special communities in Israel so I set up a Kibbutz Harvest Sensory Bin. It’s another super simple set up and concept but with awesome learning opportunities for Jewish learning + age differential skill development! My daughter read off the short …
This afternoon my preschooler and I had a great time working on our new Hanukkah Pattern Cards. These Hanukkah Pattern Cards are a wonderful way to engage your child in Jewish learning, as well as improving skills and development from working with patterns such as making predictions, making logical connections, using reasoning, making educated guesses, …
Mr. Preschooler and I grabbed another one on one (ok, Baby Brother joined us for some of it too!) moment while the bigs were in school and we used it to enjoy this High Holidays Symbols Pattern Match activity. The activity was a great way to practice matching, following patterns, using fine motor skills, language …
