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#1 PEST CONTROL SERVICE play for hours and hours. Most days we get up between 7 and
8 a.m., and the girls play for about two hours. After that, we
410-764-7500E2x5peYreieanrsce daven, have breakfast, and go down to our school room for
• Ticks • Squirrels an hour or two. In the afternoon, we usually go out to an
activity. There are many activities for home schooled children
• Waterbugs • Termites all over town. This year we are going to science programs at
• Bed Bugs • Mice the science center. We have also gone to programs at the zoo
• Bees and the aquarium.”
• Roaches • Rats • Ants On Mondays, we attend the home schooling co-op, where
they take interesting classes with other home schoolers. On
• Fleas • Bats • Spiders Tuesdays the girls take gymnastics at Bas Melech, and on
Wednesdays, during the winter, they take an ice skating class.
Fast Professional Exterminating Specialist Thursdays are still open, but I am sure they will be filled up
Lowest Rates • Satisfaction Guaranteed soon. We also go on lots of trips to playgrounds, farms, and
parks around Baltimore.
Boredom doesn’t seem to be a problem for the Masinters,
either. Rebecca runs a much more scheduled school then
Tsippy. She teaches her children most of the school day. For
example, she learns the parsha with all her children almost
every week. She uses workbooks and other educational tools.
She feels very strongly that when a child is ready, he will want
to learn. She doesn’t pressure her children to learn to read
or to learn Chumash at a certain age. Instead, her attitude is
“I know that when you are ready you will love to learn to read
or to learn mishnayos.” If the mother has the patience to
wait, the child will sometimes approach her and ask to learn
a certain subject.
“My daughter is a big reader,” says Mrs. Pinter, so she
learns a lot by just reading. She is very curious and is inter-
ested in finding out about things that intrigue her. I let her
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#1 PEST CONTROL SERVICE play for hours and hours. Most days we get up between 7 and
8 a.m., and the girls play for about two hours. After that, we
410-764-7500E2x5peYreieanrsce daven, have breakfast, and go down to our school room for
• Ticks • Squirrels an hour or two. In the afternoon, we usually go out to an
activity. There are many activities for home schooled children
• Waterbugs • Termites all over town. This year we are going to science programs at
• Bed Bugs • Mice the science center. We have also gone to programs at the zoo
• Bees and the aquarium.”
• Roaches • Rats • Ants On Mondays, we attend the home schooling co-op, where
they take interesting classes with other home schoolers. On
• Fleas • Bats • Spiders Tuesdays the girls take gymnastics at Bas Melech, and on
Wednesdays, during the winter, they take an ice skating class.
Fast Professional Exterminating Specialist Thursdays are still open, but I am sure they will be filled up
Lowest Rates • Satisfaction Guaranteed soon. We also go on lots of trips to playgrounds, farms, and
parks around Baltimore.
Boredom doesn’t seem to be a problem for the Masinters,
either. Rebecca runs a much more scheduled school then
Tsippy. She teaches her children most of the school day. For
example, she learns the parsha with all her children almost
every week. She uses workbooks and other educational tools.
She feels very strongly that when a child is ready, he will want
to learn. She doesn’t pressure her children to learn to read
or to learn Chumash at a certain age. Instead, her attitude is
“I know that when you are ready you will love to learn to read
or to learn mishnayos.” If the mother has the patience to
wait, the child will sometimes approach her and ask to learn
a certain subject.
“My daughter is a big reader,” says Mrs. Pinter, so she
learns a lot by just reading. She is very curious and is inter-
ested in finding out about things that intrigue her. I let her
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