Monday, December 14, 2009

Funnest Math Project EVER!


I love to incorporate math into baking. Lola barely realizes that she is having a math lesson.
Today we baked gluten-free gingerbread men. Lola loves to bake and is very good at measuring out the fractions for the ingredients.
It was originally going to be a gingerbread house but we ran out of time! Either way, the kids had fun. They also got to decorate their cookies and they were very excited about that.

Friday, December 11, 2009

Happy Hunukkah!





I haven't blogged our homeschooling experiences in a long time, mostly because I've been without a digital camera for a while (ours broke in Hawaii)...it's hard to post without photos!

To mark the beginning of Hanukkah this year, we decided to get together with a couple of other independent study families and teach the kids a bit about the history and reasons why certain foods are eaten during the Hanukkah holiday. The kids ate latkes, fried in oil to represent the scant amount of oil recovered by the Maccabees and how it miraculously lasted eight nights...enough time to find new oil. The kids learned about the menorah and how it is customary to light a candle on the menorah and exchange a small gift each of the eight nights.

Afterward, they played the dreidel game with their "gelt", which was the traditional foil covered chocolate coins! They had so much fun!