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!
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