This week we started a 2-week study of Israel. Here’s a little peek into what we’ve been talking about:
- Locate and map Israel
- Talked about the geography/terrain of Israel
- Learn new geography song {Middle East} using Geography Songs
- Read Children Just Like Me pages and completed the notebooking page
- Learned about Israel’s flag and colored it
- Talked about prayer shawls (since the design of Israel’s flagis based on a prayer shawl). The prayer shawl (or tallis/tallit) is a religious symbol, a garment – a sacred and important part of the Jewish life.
- Learned about the currency of Israel {click on thumbnail below to download the pdf file}
Books We Used
Sites we visited
- Coloring Castle – blank flag of Israel to color
- Children Like Me notebooking page – notebooking page designed for kids to fill in with their answers after reading Children Just Like Me
- 100 Ideas for Teaching Israel – some great ideas on this page. We are going to be using several of these in the next week when we continue our study of Israel
- Ahklah: Jewish Children’s Learning Network – some great information here. Facts about Israel, all about Jewish holidays, Jewish heroes and traditions.
- Hope of Israel – information about the prayer shawl and other customs
- Recommended books for kids about life in Israel (grades K-12)
The dough took a few days to dry, so on Wednesday we were able to paint it together. I outlined a few areas for the girls and they worked together to paint it to make it look more like a scene/cutaway of a volcano. When they were done with the base painting, they let Mommy drip red paint around the ledge of the volcano to make it look like lava was dripping down the sides of the mountain.
