Archive for October, 2009

Duaa Lessons..finally

Posted on October 29, 2009. Filed under: Duaas | Tags: , , |

Earlier this month I mentioned that we had worked on a lesson for duaa. This was an informal lesson for us where I just read from an article and came up with the activities as we went along.
After the lesson, I put together some ideas for a more formal unit on duaas, but didn’t get [...]

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What is a Jinn? Lessons on Jinns

Posted on October 23, 2009. Filed under: Creations of Allah-Jinns | Tags: , , , , , , |

Several weeks ago, we did an impromptu lesson on Jinns.  Through one of my homeschooling groups, I learned about a great site with authentic articles and treatises which I think is perfect to use as source material for your homemade homeschooling lessons: http://abdurrahman.org/character/index-shytaan.html (this is the main page for works regarding Jinns/Shayateen.
As I said, this [...]

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Building Better Grooming Habits

Posted on October 20, 2009. Filed under: Hygiene | Tags: , |

The teaching/reviewing of grooming habits is one of the things I really need to work on.  I find that I place so much emphasis on homeschooling that I kind of just brush over some of the more basic daily things. But, masha Allah, I can see that I am getting better at [...]

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TJ How To Articles – Digest 1

Posted on October 8, 2009. Filed under: Homeschool/Education | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

You may have noticed I’ve caught the bug for writing E How articles.  I am a process oriented person and am always writing processes for my kids to follow from  morning routines to how to do an algebra problem. So I guess I am just naturally a “How To” person, so E How fits in [...]

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First Grade Grammar Review

Posted on October 6, 2009. Filed under: Grade 01, Grammar | Tags: , |

In a previous post from two years ago, I wrote about the dilemma of whether or not to teach grammar in 1st grade.
I’m still up in the air, but some of my kids were ready for grammar in first grade and some were not.  So with the last one that was, we did grammar. [...]

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