T.O.B.Y. Homes-Cool Week 24

This week passed so quickly! It has been quit nice, temps in the high 70's.
Not wintery like at all... however, I think it is going to be getting cold again over the weekend.
I do enjoy schooling by the fireplace, though we haven't been able to do that much this winter.

Here is what we have been up to...

Torah

This week we are in the parsha, "Bo", translated as "Go" or "Come".
In this portion we read about the last three plagues on Egypt and the first Pesach.

Both the parsha and the haftarah describe Yah’s judgment against Egypt. The parsha reports that Yah told Moshe to go (bo’) to Pharaoh (Exodus 10:1); the haftarah reports Yah’s word that Nebuchadrezzar would come (la-vo’) to Pharaoh. (Jeremiah 46:13.) Both the parshah and the haftarah report a plague of locusts — literal in the parsha, figurative in the haftarah. (Exodus 10:3–20; Jeremiah 46:23.) Both the parsha and the haftarah report Yah's punishment of Egypt’s gods. (Exodus 12:12; Jeremiah 46:25.) And both the parshah and the haftarah report Yah’s ultimate deliverance of the Israelites from their captivity. Oh, what a blessed promise!

One of the activties the children did this week was this little puzzle of plagues in Hebrew...

Heartful Links:

Bo Printables {both notebooking and Hebrew Copywork}

Hebrew

Our Hebrew verse this week comes from Shemot/ Exo. 10:12...

YHWH said to Moses, 'Extend your hand over Egypt [to bring] the locusts, and they will emerge on Egypt. They will eat all the foliage in the land that was spared by the hail.'
Vayomer Adonay el-Moshe neteh yadecha al-erets Mitsrayim ba'arbeh veya'al al-erets Mitsrayim veyochal et-kol-esev ha'arets et kol-asher hish'ir habarad.

We continued work on our Hebrew Alef-bet Lapbook =)

Heartful Links:

Hear it in Hebrew: Shemot 10:12
Shemot / Exodus 10:12 Break down the Hebrew
Hebrew Alef-bet Lapbook
Adon Olam printable

History of Medicine

This week Halea learned about William Morton and Charles Jackson. Jackson actually tutored Morton. Fighting over the rights to who actually invented anesthetic, both met a tragic end to their lives. This was actually quit sad, as these two men rivaled against each other until their anger led to death. As the account goes, Morton was riding in a carriage one day, and happened upon a newspaper article, favoring Jackson.

In a fit of rage, he fell unconscious, suffered a stroke and never recovered. He died a few days later. Morton is credited as the inventor of anesthetic inhalation. He also coined the phrase, "Your patient is ready, doctor." The statement made after the anesthetic has taken effect, and the patient is asleep.
Filled with jealousy, at the sight of Morton's tombstone, Jackson's jealousy drove him to insanity! He spent the rest of his life in an insane asylum.

Heartful Links:

Morton Defeats the Pain of Surgery

Craft Time

This week our art came in the form of SHARKS! oh my... =)

The children made a mobile of sharks.

First I printed out the sharks, then they researched what each shark looks like. After carefully coloring them, we cut them out, and stuffed with cotton balls to give them depth. Then I attached them to two crossed kebobs, and it was ready for hanging.

P.E.

Our CO-OP just started a new P.E. class. As a part of the homework, the children are to keep track of their efforts to exercise for at least 15 minutes a day. They have done well, and Halea especially has peaked interest in working out, on purpose =)

If you are looking for new or useful resources on nutrition and exercise for your young ones, click the button below for more info =)

Heartful Links:

Nourish Interactive

In Other Subjects

Jacob worked on suffixes and prefixes,

as well as contractions this week... Noah got in on it too...

He also continued work on multiplication. Check the links below for all the FREE resources I found =)

Heartful Links:

Match the Contractions
Free: Hot Air Contractions FFG
Apple Contractions
Free: Multiplication Songs
Free: Multiplication Four in A Row
Free: Multiplication Wheels
Free: Monster Multiplication
Knock it Off: Multiplication Practice Game
Online Games, another, and yet another =)
LOTS of Multiplication Teaching activities and Ideas
Prefixes and Suffixes
Notebooking Prefixes and Suffixes

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Noah immensely enjoyed these FREE Lego Printables! You can find them here from 1+1+1=1.

Creation Study

This week Jacob had a writing prompt about sharks. More specifically, he had to write a story from a sharks point of view. This opened up to us a Creation Study, based on his desire to learn more about sharks.

This also was a good opportunity to practice researching skills. Out of his desire, the other children became interested as well. This is usually how a "unit study" is birthed in our home =)

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It was another busy and productive week! We also had CO-OP and a dentist appointment... I am sooo ready for Shabbat =) Hallelu Yah!

Learn for Life!

We are learning for life, not for school!
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. ~Will Durant
"He is educated who can find out what he does not know." ~George Simmel (1875)
"Let My teaching fall like rain and my words descend like dew like showers on new grass, like abundant rain on tender plants." ~Deut. 32:2
“Listen to Me, you who know righteousness, you people in whose heart is My law: Do not fear the reproach of men, nor be afraid of their insults. For the moth will eat them up like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool; but My righteousness will be forever, and My salvation from generation to generation.” ~Isa 51:7-8

Simple Faith

The entire Word of YHWH, both “Old” and “Renewed” Covenants, is the instruction of a loving and gracious Father to His children. It is the perfect and unchanging law that gives us liberty (Ps. 119:44-45; James 2:24-26). Nothing will pass from the whole word of YHWH, until everything that will happen, has happened. (Matt 5:17-20). YHWH’s people delight in His instruction (Ps. 1:2). The Torah was not given for salvation. It is the loving instruction of how a redeemed people should live. Yeshua kept His Fathers commandments and lived in His love. We are instructed to walk as He walked (1 Jn. 2:3-6). We are to obey YHWH’s commandments and to hold to the testimony of Yeshua (Rev. 12:17).