Apr. 9, 2008 - Passover Unit Study
I have been preparing a unit study to use for most of this month. We started it this week and so far this is what we have done. 
- Read Exodus 1-15
- Watched Charlton Heston's The Ten Commandments (Netflix has it)
- Went over passover vocabulary words and made flash cards
- Researched the Feast of Unleavened Bread and leaven, how it works, why God uses leaven as a symbol of sin.
- Baked some yeast bread (object lesson for previous) and left out one slice to see what would happen to it
- Watched three short videos about Matzah, Seder, and wine
- Looked at and discussed the Jewish Calendar and how it differs from ours
- Visited several Jewish websites
- Studied the Seder
- Did some notebooking about what we have learned so far
Today we will be continuing our study and I will post again later today about what all we went over today. Hopefully, I will get to add some neat links to this post as well. Tomorrow I will begin a study of the 10 plagues, in the order they occurred. I'll definitely add pictures of that! I have spent a lot of time preparing for this unit study and hope to share as many details on here as possible... although this does seem to be such a busy time of year, doesn't it? Garden prep, outdoor activities, finishing up the school year (so to speak), etc. 
If you are doing any special studies on Passover, or have any tips, ideas, good books, etc., please add them in the comments so we can all share and benefit. Thanks!
Comments
Apr. 10, 2008 - I'm so glad we've *met*
Posted by Sheila@ TimothyMoms.blogspot.com
Rebecca I'm so glad you stopped to comment at my Timothy Moms blog! I love your blog to and have added it to my bloglines feed so I can read it often :-)
I love your bullet points and what you're doing with your kids. This also is turning out to be one of the more fun months since I've begun really purposefully teaching my boys last October. I'm learning how they learn and how best to teach them at this age as we go and really just trying to enjoy this time. Like you said, it's gone so fast!
Happy Passover to you and yours. I'll be posting a refined version of what we're doing with some more details and links later, so check back and share anything you'd like.
Also, do you mind if I post a link to your blog in my "Timothy Moms" contributors section and post a link to your posts on Passover as a contribution to my blog?
Thanks!
Sheila
