Raising children in love and faith
With Hanukkah just over five weeks away, we are so incredibly looking forward to bringing in as much light and love as we can this holiday season, starting with our 2024 Hanukkah Shelfie + Starter Activities! I set up this Shelfie for my kids Sunday afternoon and I loved watching them explore, play, learn, laugh, …
Check out this fun way to practice counting, number recognition and review the 10 commandments: Roll, Count and Match 10 Commandments! We enjoyed this activity as part of our Torah story unit, focusing on the story Mount Sinai & The Ten Commandments. Check out our Mount Sinai & The Ten Commandments 3 Part Cards for …
If you’re looking for a simple sensory bin that encourages conversations about Purim and practices some math skills, this Find and Count Queen Esther’s Gems Sensory Bin is for you! We love including sensory invitations for all kinds of themes so of course it makes sense to add one (just kidding, we did multiple this …
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 …
My kindergartner is very much interested in counting right now so I knew he’d love this Hanukkah twist on a spindle box, our Hanukkah Candle Counting Box! It’s super simple to make and so fun to use Hanukkah candles as our counting manipulatives! What You’ll Need Putting It Together Finished & Loving It! We made …
My kindergartner is all about counting whenever he can so I knew he’d love this simple Roll and Count the Dreidels activity for some Hanukkah math fun! The idea is the same as the Roll and Count the Lulav and Etrog activity we did for Sukkot, it just uses different manipulatives. And dreidels are such …
My kindergartener is super into math and counting right now so I was so excited to put a Sukkot spin on a fun activity we’ve been trying and created this Roll & Count the Lulav and Etrog for some Sukkot math fun! The lulav and etrog are super fast and easy to make and can …
My kindergartner (and the toddler too!) has been loving transfer activities so this simple Pomegranate Seed Count & Transfer was such an easy and fun way to let them practice this skill while learning about another symbol of Rosh Hashanah. And of course practicing counting too! We’ve been working a lot with these tongs because …
This year we created another super simple Rosh Hashahanh set up with this Apple Picking Sensory Bin, but added a fun extension twist by including apple counting cards to practice those math and counting skills. Learn about the Rosh Hashanah tradition of picking apples and practice math in a fun way? Always a cause for …
Today I set up this simple Coin Transfer activity to supplement our Jacob’s Family is Reunited Torah story learning for the week. This was such an easy way to review the part of the story where Joseph instructs his servant to return the money the brothers brought back into their bags, as well as help …
