Back to School

August 14^th 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!