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Religion Lesson - What Jews Believe: G-d

I have started using courses on  www.chabad.org  for our home religious school for our middle schoolers.  We just finished their most recent course on prayer taught by Rabbi Shmuel Kaplan. ( Discover the Heart of Prayer )  It was such a successful educational experiment, I decided to use the course by Rabbi Manis Friedman, What Jews Believe , for our second unit.  Chabad has an app called Jewish.tv that will stream the videos, but there is some benefit from going to the website, cause there are handouts, discussion questions, and quizzes. I thought I would share some of our discussion topics for these lessons in the event someone comes upon this blog and would like to use these lessons in their Jewish home school.  The first lesson is What Jews Believe: G-d. To prepare the kids for this lesson, we talked about the human brain.  We talked about how a baby learns to talk.  We start by playing naming games with our babies - mama, d...

Symphony Orchestra Examples

Britten: Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra Haydn, Symphony No. 94 in G Major (Surprise) Second Movement: Andante Dvořák’s “New World” Symphony

Woodwind Instrument Example Videos

BBC - Meet the Orchestra - Woodwinds How do woodwind instruments make a sound Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 Stars and Stripes Piccolo Solo The Flight of the Bumble Bee - Flute, James Galway Kenny G - The Moment (Official Video)  (Soprano Sax)    

Brass Instument Videos

BBC - Meet the Orchestra - Brass How do brass instruments make a sound    Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture Empire Brass, Virgen de la Macarena Vaughan Williams Concerto in F minor for Bass Tuba and Orchestra Purdue Trumpets Duke Ellington - Trumpet

Percussion Instrument Examples

BBC Meet the Orchestra - Percussion Timpani Purdue Bells - Off the Table Shaker Chimes Purdue Bells - Double Choir (Just watch "Carol of the Bells") Steel Drums Drum Solo Purdue Drumline (Just watch some of it.) Wash Board

String Instrumet Examples

Britten's The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra - Strings How do string instruments make a sound Canon in D by Pachelbel Barber's Adagio for Strings Bach Cello Suite No 1 in G Beethoven's Violin Concerto Op. 61 in D Major

Videos from Jamestown Settlement

Jamestown was the first permanent English settlement in America.  Watch the following videos to learn more: Quadricentennial Minutes Jamestown Chronicles: James I, KIng of Great Britain Jamestown Chronicles: Tomocomo, Indian Councilor Jamestown Chronicles: Ann Burras , Colonial Maid Jamestown Chronicles: Angela, African The Story of the Sea Venture The Economics of Jamestown Holiday Traditions of the 17th and 18th Centuries in Virginia