Tagged: Islamic Homeschool

Exercise with the Homeschooled Child

Asalaam ‘Alaikum: While what you feed yourself and your family is very important for a healthy life – we should never overlook the importance of exercise. This is especially difficult sometimes if you are educating more than one child at a time and are trying to get through the day’s lessons. However, we should always...

Arabic Letter Forms

Asalaam ‘Alaikum, Quite a while ago I made this practice mat for the girls to practice Arabic Letter Forms. Essentially, you print everything – laminate it and then cut out the letter forms. You can do this two ways – pick out a letter set (all of the forms of alif – for example). Then,...

PBS Parents Blog – Why Parents Don’t Need to Have All the Answers

Asalaam ‘Alaikum, I recently read the following blog post on PBS Parents. I really liked what it said – and it fits our homeschool environment pretty well. I can’t tell you the number of times we have looked things up in Wikipedia – in Encyclopedias online or did extensive searches in the library for more...

Jewel of Muscat

Jewel of Muscat

Asalaam ‘Alaikum, A while ago I received a request to share the following link: The Jewel of Muscat This is an amazing website – and an amazing endeavor. The website has videos, photos and information on the reconstruction of a 9th-century Arab ship, and its historic voyage from Oman to Singapore. The neat thing is...

Let the Games Begin!

Asalaam ‘Alaikum: I’ve been looking into educational games lately for the kids. Not games that you purchase necessarily – but even games you make yourself. I’m actually looking into this topic for all of their curricular needs – not just Arabic. We have started looking more at games at local resale shops and have had...

Why I Homeschool

Asalaam ‘Alaikum, I was recently asked to answer some questions about why we homeschool for someone working on an assignment for Journalism. Essentially, they wanted to understand the rights of a homeschooled child with a focus on the right to be heard and the right to individuality. Sometimes a question just spurs you on to...