Joy of Homeschooling.

It's been almost 10 months since we started homeschooling. And I have found many developments in them. Especially, the younger one. She couldn't read nor write both English and Arabic(she knew some Japanese letters, though) when we started out, but now she can read some short Quran verses in Arabic, and she is actually reading some easy English sentences, and her handwriting got much better, mashaAllah. And she memorizes suwar quicker than before. I'm actually surprised by her development, subuhanAllah.

The older one, of course, has learned a lot, too. She can read English books more fluently now, and she can read most of the Quran verses in Arabic. I teach her Tajweed rules by color, so she follows that when reciting, and she recites beautifully, mashaAllah. And she has memorized the whole Juz amma, and now working on Juz Tabarak.

So two of them have shown many developments, and I feel very happy to see them like that. Especially when I listen to them reciting Quran, my heart shivers with joy. Alhumdulillah, and subuhanAllah, it's nothing but Allah's work! Of course, it's true that I need much sabr(patience) sometimes when teaching children myself, but the joy and the reward are countless, and I really love homeschooling. I do hope that Allah would let me continue to homeschool our children, inshaAllah. And I always have to remind myself of renewing the niyah of homeschooling. It should be for Allah's sake only, nothing else!! Ya Allah, give our children good knowlege and characters and strong imaan so they can benefit the Islamic society in the future, Ameen...

It's so cute!!

This is from the curricurum we're using, Ad-Duha. You can download the Dua Posters for free, and they're sooo cute!! I know it really works when putting dua posters at home. Children memorize them very quick in this way! I was putting my handmade dua posters till now, but now I want to replace them all. I prefer these much better because not only the designs are good but it includes the meanings as well. So I'm going to print them all and laminate them, inshaAllah. And they have nice e-books we can download for free, too! May Allah reward them for their work.

Alhamudulillah, finally!

Alhamdulillah, it seems like my oldest one has memorized the whole Juz Amma finally! We have started officially from around April, so it took almost 10 months to finish. The younger one is on the half way around, she has memorized 28 suwar for now.

Reading some articles from this site, it seems like the first Juz would take the longest time to finish in most of the cases, and it would get faster as we go along. Well, I don't know if it's true or not, because we're still on the way, but inshaAllah, I hope it would get easier as we carry on... I also hope that our children would benefit from this "golden age" and memorize the whole Quran before they get much older in age, inshaAllah.

Now we've started Juz Tabarak using a CD. I check their hifdh progress independently. As each surah gets much longer in this Juz, I found out that this Quran Memorization Schedules here helps a lot in deviding and scheduling the hifdh process.