Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Mishpacha! - FTL #2




MISHPACHA!
FAMILY TIME LEARNING 
SESSION #2
Use the following steps to guide you through some on-your-own Family Time Learning.

Part I

1) Graffiti Time!
Print out these sheets and hang them up in a room in the house (one where you will be able to write on the sheets of paper.) Take a few minutes to go around the room and have each family member write or draw what each Graffiti sheet asks. Turn on Kosher Bacon by Dan Nichols (or from the Mishpacha! playlist) and listen to it while you write your graffiti.. Compare what you wrote on each Grafitti sheet.

2) Hello From Rabbi Mo


3) Our Family’s Food Audit
Take some time to test and see how FIT your family is when it comes to choosing, preparing and eating food. 
  • Together - look over these Jewish values, that I am calling: Jewish Food Metrics. (Metrics are things that help us measure things, like in this case the FITNESS of our food.) Read through them - saying out loud the Hebrew terms and making sure everyone understands what they mean and the questions that each value asks of your food.
  • Once you have looked at these five Jewish Food Metrics you can begin your self-test or audit. Print out these audit sheets. You can make notes on the back of your sheets and tally up your scores, too.
    • First take some time to examine the food you have in your house. You do not need to look at ALL of it, but take some food out of the pantry and the fridge use each Jewish Food Metric to assess its FITNESS. 
    • Second, do the same for your average family meal. Think of one this past week and ask the same questions about how you chose, made and ate the meal.
  • Some questions to think about:
    • Which ones of the Jewish Food Metrics are the HARDEST to follow? Which ones are the EASIEST to follow?
    • Which of these Jewish Food Metrics is MOST important to you? Which is LEAST important to you?
    • Which results from your self-test or audit do you want to change? Why? What would that change look like?
4) The Food FITNESS Challenge
Talk more about what food FITNESS would like for your family.
  • What would it look like if you choose, prepared and ate food that:
    • Is better for the earth?
    • Follows the Jewish Dietary laws?
    • Promoted fairness in the people and companies who grew and made the food?
    • Was good for the body?
    • Gave the family a chance to connect with one another (or people in our lives)?
  • As a family, take the Food FITNESS challenge. 
  • Once you have completed your Food Fitness Challenge, you will be ready to complete Part II of this month’s FLT.

Part II

1) Storytime with Rabbi Mo

2) Food FITNESS Challenge - Review
As a family discuss the experience of the Food FITNESS Challenge
  • What was the best part about the Food FITNESS Challenge?
  • What was the hardest part about the Food FITNESS Challenge?
  • What feelings did you have when you were doing some of the challenges you set?
  • What were the things (if any) that you did not try that you would want to do?
  • What things that you did would you want to try and continue?
3) Something to Remember
Choose one or more of the following projects (or think of your own) to make as a family to create a reminder of the values you have been discussing, learning and doing:
  • Write a blessing/bracha that your family could say before a meal. 
  • Make placemats - begin on blank sheets of paper. Put on them a blessing - that you wrote, the Jewish Food Metrics that are meaningful to your family or anything that reminds you about food FITNESS. Have the sheets laminated and use them as placemats.
  • Make place cards for each member of the family. The place cards can have names, blessings (from tradition) or one you write, or anything that reminds you about food FITNESS.
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