zakat box

Today we've made a zakat box using milk cartons. We used three milk cartons. Cut and sticked them together, and decorated with paper mosaics.

BOX DAY!!

We've just received the box of Calvert first grade curricurum today, and it looks much more interesting than K last year. I'm getting very excited,and so are the children!!

Calvert is really a school in a box and it has everything in it!! I loved all the colorful textbooks, especially the Science book which seemed pretty much exciting with all those experiments!

I can't wait to start. But as the last year, I might stop Calvert lessons during Ramadan for I'd like to concentrate on more Islamic studies on this special month.

There are some Social Study topics on American history in this curricurum, but I guess I'll just skip them since we're living in Japan, and will spend more time on other stuff, inshaAllah.

Salat Timetable

My daughter will turn 7 next month, inshaAllah, so I guess this Ramadan would be a good time for her to start praying regularly.

I made this Salat Timetable that shows the starting time and the number of raka't of each salat.

Islamic Social Studies

Ramadan is approaching again. Time really flies fast!!

This is our second Ramadan as a homeschooler, and I've been thinking of what kind of activities to do for this season. The ideas that I came up with at this point include making Zakat boxes using milk cartons, making the Ramadan tree posters as the last year, and making Eid greeting cards.

And I found this book,"Eid Mubarak" from Islamic School Book, a series of Social Studies programs helpful for studying about Islamic celebrations, and how the muslims celebrate their Eid in different countries. I think this is a good time to cover this topic, so we'll start using this soon, inshaAllah.

Magnet Cards

I made these magnet cards a few days ago. I just laminated them and sticked the magnets on their back. Kids loved them, especially the weather ones.

Japanese study.

Since we're not using Calvert right now, we're concentrating on Japanese education these days. We use the textbooks which we got free form the local school, and the workbooks from local bookstores.

My life got busy after the new baby has joined, and in addition to that, we have moved to a new place(countryside) recently, but alhumudulillah somehow it's going on.

Two girls are now working on the hifz of Juz Tabarak, mashaAllah. We still use Ad-Duha for Islamic Studies.

What I need now... is more time! Well..., maybe I need to get better at time management. The good thing is the daytime is getting longer everyday:)