Planning 15 lessons about Israel

I have to plan 15 lessons about Israel, each about 1 hour long. I want to get some significant headway done today since school starts 9/7. This is for 6th graders.

1st lesson I plan to do a timeline, make a collage, and assign characters from history that they will present later in the semester.

15th lesson will be Israel out of ice cream LOL

in between.... hmmmm...

I have a lesson plan about the bumper sticker song, I'd like to make some Israeli food, do something with poems, art and music about Israel maybe in stations where they rotate. That's three right there... I have something with the outline of Israel done into drawings and I will hang those up and they pick which ones they identify with and we discuss why.... Political cartoons....

OK that's 7. 8 more to go.

:)

Ack!

I was reminded by a friend that I hadn't posted on my blog in a while.... I didn't realize the last post was from Passover!

And here I am getting ready for Rosh Hashannah LOL

OK really just getting ready for a new school year to start, day after tomorrow the boys go back to school!!

I am also thinking about my RH menu. LOL

new imix - for Passover

Yes We Can - Barack Obama Music Video

This gives me chills. The speech is amazing and insipiring.

"It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation.

Yes we can.

It was whispered by slaves and abolitionists as they blazed a trail toward freedom.

Yes we can.

It was sung by immigrants as they struck out from distant shores and pioneers who pushed westward against an unforgiving wilderness.

Yes we can.

It was the call of workers who organized; women who reached for the ballots; a President who chose the moon as our new frontier; and a King who took us to the mountaintop and pointed the way to the Promised Land.

Yes we can to justice and equality.

Yes we can to opportunity and prosperity.

Yes we can heal this nation.

Yes we can repair this world.

Yes we can.

We know the battle ahead will be long, but always remember that no matter what obstacles stand in our way, nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.

We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics...they will only grow louder and more dissonant ........... We've been asked to pause for a reality check. We've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope.

But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.

Now the hopes of the little girl who goes to a crumbling school in Dillon are the same as the dreams of the boy who learns on the streets of LA; we will remember that there is something happening in America; that we are not as divided as our politics suggests; that we are one people; we are one nation; and together, we will begin the next great chapter in the American story with three words that will ring from coast to coast; from sea to shining sea --

Yes. We. Can."

February meal plan

All side dishes depend on what we get in the produce co-op

1st - LLL potluck - I think I am bringing eggplant salad and pita bread
2nd - Fish Sticks
3rd - French Toast (we love the recipe in Deceptively Delicious
4th - Tortilini Soup
5th - Tacos - I make refried beans for these
6th - Spagetti with meat sauce & possibly meat balls too. I have frozen meat sauce. I'll make meatballs if I have time
7th - Lasagna Rolls from the freezer
8th - Chicken Nuggets or Roast Chicken
9th - Make your own Sushi
10th - Pancakes
11th - Meatball Soup
12th - Tortilini with Alfredo Sauce
13th - Stew
14th - The boys asked for a Valentine's surprise. I have no idea what to make.
15th - It will probably be friends & family night for the new Bonefish
16th - Tilapia
17th - Eggs in a Basket
18th - Matzah Ball Soup
19th - Nachos
20th - Lamb Chops
21st - Pizza
22nd - Roast Chicken
23rd - Salmon
24th - Eggs and Cheese on English Muffins
25th - Pumpkin Soup
26th - Tacos
27th - Meatloaf
28th - Exploding Pasta Night. I have no idea what this means or what to make. It's what the boys wrote for that night.
29th - Chicken Cutlets

Flat Stanley tours the Treasure Coast

We recieved a Flat Stanley in the mail and had so much fun taking him on a tour of the treasure coast!

We went to the beach, The Indian River, parks, and a shell shop.

He saw aligators, manatees, sandhill cranes, a loggerhead turtle, and a giant conch shell.

He went treasure hunting, climbed a palm tree for a coconut, and of course had ice cream (gator tracks, natch)


Here's a slideshow

January meal plan

1st - 7 layer dip with blue corn tortilla chips
2nd - maybe stew if I get meat. I have a 1/2 pound right now in the freezer so maybe I can make an itty bitty stew LOL
3rd - pizza
4th - roast chicken
5th - roll your own sushi
6th - scrambled eggs with english muffins (I've been putting cauliflower puree in the eggs ala deceptively delicious. I put a lot more than she says. very very yummy)
7th - meatball soup - Jacob requested this. I think he means Italian wedding soup. or I can try like a hamburger soup?
8th - enchiladas
9th - sausage and roasted veggies
10th - homemade ravioli
11th - chicken tenders (again using the deceptively delicious meathod of pureeing veggies and dipping in those before the breadcrumbs)
12th - tilapia (I have some Kate's style in the freezer from work)
13th - pumpkin pancakes
14th - tomato soup with wild rice
15th - tacos
16th - spagetti with meat sauce
17th - eggplant parm
18th - roast chicken
19th - salmon
20th - french toast
21st - mushroom, beef & barley soup
22nd - enchilada pie
23rd - penne with kale and sausage
24th - falafel
25th - chicken nuggets
26th - roll your own sushi
27th - pancakes
28th - tortilla soup
29th - tostadas
30th - hamburgers & hotdogs
31st - lasagna rollups I have in the freezer

now I need to plan a trip down to the butcher