We are EXCITED to announce:

The 4th Torah Home Education Conference is on its way!

Please reserve Sunday May 6 on your calendar and plan to attend this marvelous event in Baltimore MD. The conference is a fabulous source of support, inspiration and camaraderie for all. Look out for more posts regarding this special event as the program develops.

Make the Torah Home Education Conference a "must" on your homeschooling agenda.

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Thanks and looking forward to seeing you in May.

Have you ever read the book "The Shabbat Box" by Leslie Simpson?  Granted, it's not a "frum" book, but there is nothing halachically unacceptable in it (aside from the mixed class -- which could be 4-5 year olds).  Their teacher has a special box decorated and filled with a grape juice and challah, candlesticks etc to celebrate Shabbos.  The main character loses the box on Friday afternoon and then spends motzaei Shabbos making a new one.  When he returns to school on Monday, he shows the class what he made and then the teacher shows he she found the original.  Now the class has two Shabbat boxes to share.

I plan to use this book as a springboard for a Jewish children's story hour I will be starting soon.

Yael Aldrich