Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Back to School

August 14th marked our first day back to homeschooling after our break for Ramadan and Shawwal, masha’Allah. We have a different schedule for Ramadan than the rest of the year, and this year we had some new books to work through. As a pre-Ramadan primer in the month of Sha’baan, we did Book 1: A Short Journey within the Work Al-Ibaanah Al-Sughrah, with Sheikh ‘Abdul-‘Azeez ibn ‘Abdullah Ar-Raajhee. This is from the 30 Days of Guidance Series, available from our dear friends at http://taalib.com.

Over Ramadan, we did Book 2: A Short Journey within the Work Al-Adab Al-Mufrad, with Sheikh Zayd ibn Muhammad ibn Haadee Al-Madkhalee, another in the 30 Days of Guidance Series.

Now, we are in full swing for homeschooling and our schedule is as follows:

Time
Sun
Mon
Tues
Wed
Thurs
Fri
Sat
9:00 – 10:00

Shuayb:
Reading, 
Math, 
Arabic
Shuayb:
Reading,
Math,
Arabic
Shuayb:
Reading,
Math,
Arabic
Shuayb:
Reading,
Math,
Arabic


10:00
Hifdh
Hifdh
Hifdh
Hifdh (test)
Hifdh
Surah 
Al-Kahf
Hifdh
10:30
Quran (Eng)
Tajweed
Qur’an (Eng)
Tajweed
Tafseer


11:00
Hadeeth
Aqeedah
Hadeeth
Aqeedah
Hadeeth


11:30
Prophets
Fiqh
Prophets
Fiqh
Prophets




Break
Break
Break
Break


1:30

Math
Math
Math
Math


2:00

Arabic
Arabic
Arabic
Arabic


2:30

Science
Science
Science
Science


3:00

English
English
English
English


3:30

History
History
History
History



For our Qur’an reading in English, we use The Noble Quran, by Hilali/Khan.

For the Tajweed classes, we use the books by Kareema Carol Czerepinski: Tajweed Rules of the Qur’an Parts One, Two, and Three.

For Tafseer, we use Tafseer Ibn Kathir.

For the Prophets classes, we are learning the stories of the Prophets in the Qur’an and memorizing the du’a they made. This is being developed into a card game to match up du’a with each Prophet, including the meaning in English, the situation they were in when they made that du’a, and the Surah/ayah where it can be found.

For the Hadeeth classes, we are reading Al-Hadeeth Al-Qudsiyah.

The science curriculum is the Permaculture Design Certification course that we took a few years ago.

Of course, this schedule is surrounded by our running of the farm, household, and outside work. After Fajr prayer, the girls go to milk the cow, then they feed the livestock guardian dogs (Snow and Ice) and the chickens. 

Mai puts out the solar lights, tends to the garden – watering and harvesting where appropriate - and prepares breakfast. Dishes, cooking, meals, laundry, evening milking, and egg collection are all slotted into the mid-day break and after school until we all fall in bed after the ‘Ishaa prayer. May our busy days be a pleasure to our Creator and a benefit to our aakhirah – ameen!

3 comments:

  1. May Allah grant you success in this life and the next. Ameen

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  2. As'salaamu alaikum. Alhamdulillah lIvins with purpose. I'm so happy you shared your schedule and how you implement islamic and quaranic studies into your day. I'm not nearly as advance as you guys in knowledge, so I love the idea of taking the du'a of the propets anf memorizing those in both Arabic and English. I have the little short story book series quran. For little hearts and the book talks about qualities of the believers and list out the ayat where these qualities are in the Quran. Insha'allah I plan you have us memorize those ayat to help us in our character development. Jazakallahu khirin for another motivational post.

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  3. As'salaamu alaikum, sorry for all those typos. I was typing from my phone.

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