Tuesday, December 30, 2014

List of Things To Do

Ok, I'm trying to compile a list of fun educational trips in Jerusalem (or within a 30-45 minute bus ride of Jerusalem tachana merkazit) to do with my homeschooled kids. Ideally free museums or tours if there are, or cheap places ($ if they cost money)

So far the things on my list to do:
Knesset tour
Supreme court tour
Givat Hatachmoshet
Sifting project $
Temple Institute $
Rockafeller Museum
Print Workshop
Jerusalem Bird Observatory
Samuel's Tomb
Armenian Museum (currently closed)
Churva shul
David's Tomb
Four Sfardic Synagogues 
National Library of Israel
Broad Wall/Hezekia's Wall
Sanhedrin's Tomb
Cave of Nicanor
Belz Great Synagogue
Ticho House
Chamber of the Holocaust
Shimon Hatzadik's Tomb
Cable Car Museum
Tomb of the Kings

Been so far to:
Kotel
Walls of the old city
Yemin Moshe
David's Citadel $
Old train station
Israel Museum $ (kids free tuesday- want to go back)
Bloomfield Science Center $
Natural History Museum $
Ir David $
Zoo $$$$$ (but we got a pass so we can go back often)
Ramot Forest

I'll try to do a review of these different places as we do them, maybe a short blurb on these things and how I turned them into educational opportunities...

What is Jerusalem Homeschooling?

I'm a mom of 4, homeschooling, unschooling my kiddos. As we're pretty much a one income family (homeschooling does that to you), money is tighter so we do homeschooling frugally.

I wanted to start a resource online for frugal (ideally free) homeschooling activities in and near Jerusalem since I haven't really found any sites for that so far.

My kids are boys 7 and 5, and girls 3 and 1, so for now, things written about will be things that are doable for a family with kids these ages.