I need ideas for special subjects

I love all those ideas. Fantastic and agree the girls are so lucky to have such enriching subjects!
I presume it's a jewish school? How about how different jewish communities around the world have different cultures/foods/litergies?

How to take care of pets
Another vote for first aid and babysitting training
Telephone manners
How to improve communication/listening skills
Album making/photo scrapping
Making or decorating ceramics
Time management

op, for history of fashion/style, take out any art book. focus on the portraits. you don't even have to know much. tell them that most styles have been around before, and have them study the portraits to see what similarities their own styles have with the portraits. for instance, I have some shoes that would have been considered men's shoes in the time of the french revolution. I can picture them on a guy with a powdered wig, silk stockings and satin knee-length breeches among other things. it's interesting to see how certain fashions are considered feminine now but were masculine then. you can look up the history of platform shoes. they were originally a status symbol. they were made so tall, the owner had to have a couple of servants to lean on while walking.
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wait until I show them the pictures of women wearing bustles. Rolling Laughter

Other good rounds -- Mah Tovu, Hava Nashira, Hashivenu. I know tons more -- pm me if you want!
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Wow Op all I can say is that I wish u were my teacher Wink

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Mummie dearest, your are a walking encyclopedia!

Now Im interested in the history of fashion!
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OOH! A great PUrim costume idea! THe powdered wig would make a great sheitel!

some renaissance costumes:

http://tudorshoppe.com/Merchan.....5QodCT_ENA

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All I can say didn't people worry about catching their "Death of cold" back then? The nosy old crone would be the more tsnius line of rennaissance casual wear

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Time to go chemise shopping... I think I have a coupon at Macys Laughing

Thanks mummie dearest for the fashion history course! This has been very interesting! and may I say funny too Laughing

Senior Member Joined: May 20 2009 Posts: 189 Location: CT

Thank you, everyone, for the great ideas. I did a mini-unit on Jewish minhagim and liturgies and they were so interested! I'm in middle of preparing a babysitting skills/basic first aid lesson, and this week I did hair and the history of hairstyles. If you think of anything else, post it! Thanks again!

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if you can get computer access, show how to make a powepoint presentation, photo shop a picture, interesting fonts, borders, pictures for newsletters.....

cooking and baking tips

cake decorating tips

fancy friut platters

some basic art tips,like smearing pastels, watercolor paint on diff. fabrics etc.

jewelry making

how to make updo's for simchas(they can make them on their little siblings)

crash course on color palletts, seasons (styles)

personality groupings (as in physcology) (I don't know the word for it)

"secret ingredients"
special things to add to certain recipies to give it an unusual and delicious taste.

basic photagraphy

"how they used to do things"
maybe tell them about things they do today and how they would have been done a century ago. or what the life of a kid their age would have been like on a regular day 300 years ago.

how bees make honey and the social order of the hive
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