Parshat Lech-Lecha

Today, we learned all about the Ten Tests of Avraham. Ask one of our Students to show you how well they memorized all ten, in order!!! Wow!
To celebrate this wonderful Parshah, we created coloured sand vases that display the passuk in which Hashem promises Avraham that his children will be as numerous as the sand of the earth. (Later in the Parshah he also compares the Jewish people to the stars in the sky).

Parshat Noach

Using the exact materials as Noach (well Noach probably used actual wood and not popsicle sticks and real tar rather than clay) we recreated, to scale, the Teiva. Then we took the Mabul Challenge to see if our scale Arks would float. Some students used their own novel design in the construction of their Teiva. In the end, Ezra was the only Ark builder I would trust...for a few minutes!


 Noah with his "To Scale Teiva"

 Chaim with his "SS-Jose BOATista"

Ezra with his "SS-FlatBottom"

Arielle with her "HMS-All About That Bass"

Shira and Jonah's ships shared the same fate, they sunk, and they refused the embarrassment of posting the pictures of this on the blog :)

Compost Box Project

At the Traurig Homeschool, the Students and I made a compost box for green and food materials. We want to lessen the amount of garbage we throw out, so we will be taking all compostable food stuffs, leaves and other materials and composting them over the year in our homemade compost box. The box was made out of 100% recyclable and recycled materials we found in the trash and on the side of the road by peoples houses.

We hope to use the future compost soil to grow some goodies to eat. Stay tuned for spring to see how we are doing.

Sustainable Sukkah Project

For the past two weeks at the CLC and Traurig Homeschool the Students learned about sustainability. This  term which we must always be aware of, always thinking about the environment and how we can protect its limited resources. 

To bring this subject to practicality, and to connect it with a Jewish lesson/value/mitzvah we applied what we learned about sustainability to building a Sukkah. We made sure our Sukkot were made from 100% recyclable and recycled materials and used only manual labour. Below are some pictures from both schools and a report written by the Traurig boys.

Enjoy, and have a happy and joyous Sukkot!

CLC:

Traurig:

By K. T.

 
I Used For My Sukkah by M. T.                B"H

1. Ping Pong Table
2. Extra wood pieces
3. Cereal Box
4. Milk Carton
5. Vacuum Bag
6. Kettle Box
7. Freezies Box
8. Shopping Bag
9. Tissue Box
10. Nail Box
11. Cream Cheese container
12. old bamboo pieces
13. old wood
14. reused nails
15. water bottle