For our Hebrew lesson this week, we worked on the letters aleph (no sound), bet/vet (b/v), gimmel (g), dalet (d), hey (h), vav (v), zayin (z), chet (ch as in ba ch ) and tet (t) and the sounds they make. We also learned two new vowel points /ay/ and /e/ as…

Ever since reading The Toothpaste Millionaire with the boys, I have wanted to make toothpaste! The story is about a 12 year old boy named Rufus, who decides to make his own toothpaste after seeing how much it costs for a tube of the stuff. After all, how ha…

For Lifeskills, we made yogurt, kefir and kefir cheese. To make the yogurt, Nathan is adding 1 cup of Mountain High Yogurt (a yogurt with live and active cultures) to 2 1/2 cups of milk in a quart jar. The jar is then placed in a warm oven (turned on to 170 d…

~Eliana is currently 24 months old~ "Picture me!" she says. "You want me to take a picture of you?" "Yes! Do school." She is so funny! She is coloring in Malachi's Get Ready for the Code book in the top pictures and you ca…