Humor While Learning

Don't you just love this answer?







This is from the Pathway Readers phonics program. I am teaching my daughter the concept of respect and love for her brothers and sisters, so that they in turn will practice it.



As Muslims, our "Golden Rule" is perfected in An-Nawawi's 40 Hadith, specifically number 13:






"None of you truly believes (in Allah and in His religion) until he loves for his brother what he loves for himself"

[Al-Bukhari & Muslim] Read More...

Sneaky Eid

Gifts, that is. We were fortunate enough, AlhamduLILLAH that my husband got us a few homeschool items that we didn't expect.

Remember these? And these?

I hope that the readers will make us stronger in our Arabic, InshaALLAH. A word of caution: one of the books is called The Magic Bunny. We will omit it.




The other books look like they will be perfect for our Islamic social studies, InshaALLAH.



P.S. I know that there have been some blurry photos lately. I have a hard time holding still with this belly in the way sometimes and I am using manual focus most of the time, lol. Read More...

Islamic Social History

I am planning to go a different route with the social studies/history curriculum in the coming school year, InshaALLAH. I used a U.S. based social studies book and workbook last year and I would rather they learn about other cultures and parts of the world right now since we live here in Canada and are exposed to the Western world every day.

I am thinking of doing small unit studies with countries that have significant Muslim populations(and not so significant in a few cases).

Here is my possible list:

1.Saudi Arabia
2.Iraq
3.Somalia
4.India
5.Egypt
6.Morocco
7.Turkey
8.Afghanistan
9.Nigeria
10.Libya
11.Syria
12.Indonesia/Malaysia
13.Mali
14.The Gambia
15.Kenya
16.Bosnia
17.Yemen
18.Kurdistan
19.Chechnya
20.Pakistan
21.Palestine
22.Bangladesh
23.Sudan
24.West Indies
25.Mauritania
26.Algeria
27.Kazakhstan
28.Uganda
29.Tanzania
30.Philippines
31.Lebanon
32.Oman
33.U.A.E.
34.Peru
35.Spain
36.China (Uighur)
37.Australia
38.U.k.
39.Canada
40.U.S.


We will try to get to as many as possible, InshaALLAH.

Here are some of the books that may help us along the way. Read More...

The Books are Here

I got the Islamic Social Studies books from Noor Art and Islamic Bookstore. I am very happy with them.




The box for them is flimsy so I had to take them out but otherwise everything is all right. I like the supplementary book as well. I bought the first grade binder for now because these are pricey.



This one came with a world map and a poster of different Muslim cultures celebrating Eid.






InshaALLAH this will be of great benefit to us. It was very tough finding Islamic Social Studies books and fortunately these are for K-6. I want the kids to learn about the strides of Muslims and most books don't cover these things. For a moment, I was tempted to purchase from this publisher and adapt their social studies curriculum (Christian based?) to suit our needs.

I visit a few non-Muslim homeschool blogs and they seem to have the advantage of established Christian-based homeschool products to teach their children about Christian explorers and founding fathers, so why not us? Read More...