Refocusing Behavior
Stretches in life can easily be difficult. That may sound like an oxymoron, but it is a true one. Life takes many turns, and different things may bother us at different times. What happens to us affects our attitude, and sometimes, our attitude slips up. When this happens, it’s a good idea to refocus our behavior. [...]
Great Homeschooling Resource Books for Your Personal Library
The Video Another video coming at you this week with some great homeschooling resources for you to add to your personal library. It’s a thorough list Ponn put together of her favorites that she has been using for many years! The Books Big Book of Everything Practice with Purpose The Complete Home Learning Source Book [...]
Video: Personalizing a Sentence Structure Chart
Here’s another quick video of one of our homeschooling tools! In this video Ponn explains her and her girls’ personalized sentence structure chart. It breaks down all the parts of a sentence and is decorated with bright colors and designs. Though the girls already know this basic grammar, it’s a reference that has been saved [...]
U.S. Geography Lesson with Maps
Here’s an inside look at Ponn and her girls’ well-loved maps of the United States! It’s our cool, fun, and personal way to learn the geography of the U.S. What is your approach to teaching geography? Please share in the comments!
Homeschooling While Pregnant- Islamic Energy Boosters
If you have not already done so, read the first article on homeschooling while pregnant. I Need Energy! When pregnant, sometimes you have to muster up the energy just to get out of bed. The days feel long and you feel like you can barely keep up! So, I decided to look up some natural, energy-boosting foods that [...]
Playground Physics Phun! (Fun) ;-)
Hope the title caught your attention! Here’s some great Family Fun Physics Projects You CAN play together at the Playground. But, PLEASE don’t tell your kids you’re going to have a “Physics Lesson” at the playground, unless you’re confident in your ability to make it sound Fun before you actually start playing! Now, it’s rare [...]
TILT – New Logic Game by ThinkFun Review & Giveaway Contest
Check out our detailed video review and tutorial how we play this awesome new Logic and Spatial Reasoning game, Tilt by ThinkFun. [We have a video review & giveaway of ThinkFun's new SWiSH game here too!] It has a great travel bag to bring along with you on daily or extended family trips. Watch how [...]
Arabic Flashcards by Smart Ark
Learning some Arabic vocabulary is definitely in the best interest of you and your child. Being Muslim, no matter which country you come from or what language you speak, connects and binds you with the language of the Qur’an–Arabic. Here’s a review of a set of fun and colorful Arabic flashcards by Smart Ark. Please [...]
The Very First Scientist & The Scientific Method
The girls share their “Scientific Method, Experimentation, Astronomy & More with Al-Hazen” presntation they gave years ago in our Scientist & Inventors homeschool coop. The video below shows how used the study of Al-Haytham (aka al-Hazen) as a Science, Inventor, Math, History, Home Economics (cooking), Art & Astronomy, culture & religion (Islam to our non-Muslim [...]
2011-2012 National Engineers Week Future City (R) Competition Facts
This cool competition is open for registration until October 31, 2011, depending upon your region. Some are in the next couple of weeks, so if you have kids in Grades 6, 7, or 8; you can look up your regions here, learn how to get started here, and you can find everything at-a-glance with a [...]
