On Friday it was Sabbath preparation day. We did do a little bit of academics: Math, book basket, and memory verse review (verses I am having them memorize until AWANA starts). The boys helped make the bread. We didn't make the official challah from the book. I made my usual Italian bread, and we braided it to look like challah.
The boys also made a spice box. The Book of Jewish Holidays said most spice boxes were made like a castle, and they had a craft you could do to make a castle-like spice box. I had also saved our tin Altoids box from the last time we did CTG. We never did the closing of Sabbath last time, so we never used it. The boys chose the option to decorate the Altoids box. They kept it simple:
Once the had the paper glued on and it dried, I took a small nail and a hammer and punched the holes. It was really easy. Then we just put in some cloves and a couple of broken-up cinnamon sticks.
It was a pretty intense afternoon y of cleaning, shopping, and meal preparation. The boys helped a little, but not much. And Rabbit had a dance class in the late afternoon that I had to run her over to. And Dad got home later than usual. But, the table was ready when he got home:
So once Dad was here, we grilled fish (we don't like to bake fish as it smells up the house), had a salad, and also sweet potato fries and waffle fries. Not very traditional, but a meal we all enjoyed.
It was different doing the Sabbath with older children this time. The last time there were a little more "oh's" and "ah's." This time it was a bit lighter. We didn't do everything in the book, but we did the essentials. But it was special. We talked about the good from the week. We laughed and enjoyed each other's company.
Saturday evening we concluded the Sabbath. We went out for dinner (I know, not the recommended course of action). When we got home it was pretty close to the end of the day, so we lit the Havdalah candle (just a regular candle), said the prayers, and then the boys dipped the candle in the overflow of the grape juice. Rabbit was in charge of the spice box (she is just a little pyrophobic).
I think, if we were to do a Sabbath again, I would do it Saturday night through Sunday night. It seems to me that fits better with what we already do. From reading in our Jewish Holidays books, we learn that the Jewish people usually go to synagogue on Saturday mornings, and then spend the day with family, friends and God. That sounds just like our Sunday.
Overall, I think the first week of "full" school went really well. Next week we add in Foreign Language and the Read Aloud...
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As far as AHL with Rabbit goes. . . She finished up her Exploring World History project. She wrote about how life would be different if we were nomads. I really like how she concluded with reminding us that God says we should live as if this earth is not our home.
We finally finished up her Math lesson and did the next test. She got a B on her test. There is one thing she struggles on that I need to go back and review with her. It has to do with exponents on variables when you have a substitution for the variable. She'll get it eventually, but we need to go back and review.
I finally figured out what was bothering her about The Fallacy Detective and Exploring World History with regards to checking her own answers: she doesn't like having to figure out why she was wrong. She doesn't mind discussing her answers with me, but I think she just doesn't like doing it by herself. That's fine. We'll continue meeting daily, anyway, for Math, so I can check those other things too.
Rabbit is doing great with Rosetta Stone. She's been working through a verb workbook I got from Barnes and Noble in order to get more time in. We haven't figured out our "real life" activities. But, we got an e-mail that the Spanish version of the You Version Kid's Bible app is available. So maybe we'll do something with that - listen to it and try to use it.
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