A mix busy days

I was busy, not sure if we are actually achieve much. I had to be on the go these couple of days. There are always things every day need to get sorted outside Post office, groceries, and suddenly printer is 'jem' and need to exchange. And it's all happen in different days. Which left me shattered. Plus variety of cooking one menu after another. One of the things that I had felt so much more now, cooking. Not just PS who eat more
than my portion even hub portion and MS as well. But, now I had S as well eating like an adult portion.

AS always eat a good portion anyway. So, from time to time now I've been cooking for six adult portion. 

Alhamdulillah although PS was busy, she still help me in the kitchen. Although only me doing a lots of cooking now, all of them still help me in between their study. Sometimes I do feel sorry especially for PS as she hard quiet a lots of workload. But, I don't want that as an excuse of not helping around. She still help clean toilet, doing laundry, doing dishes, clean up the kitchen and all other task. So do MS and S. I can see that it seems piles up a lots on them as their study as well, but still they need to learn, life is not that easy. In the near future, if they work, they still had to run and do other things to survive and to fulfil basic needs. Study is not an excuse not helping around.

 With AS I had manage to keep on track with him. With her Maths is on the schedule. We did on topic of TIME. telling time and also elapsed time. I think he find it a bit difficult at first and was asking why he got to learn all this things as he already know how to tell time. I give an example, if we about to take a plane from Newcastle airport at certain time, we need to calculate what time we should be there and what time we should depart from our house and how long will it take to reach there and etc. Alhamdulillah he understand after little bit of explanation. Also after a lecture and warning if he seem to be moody first thing in the morning help to improve the situation. If he felt like moody and angry, he try to pull himself back and get on with his work. He has got to learn a lesson and teach himself that life is not always easy. I for one will not let him get his own way too much now. I think he learn the lesson.

 Now we are on topic of temperature. We had been on this topic since yesterday and will still on temperature topic on Monday before we moved into Money Problem. My worksheet is from variety of website include Enchanted learning, Ed Helper, Primary Resource and Parents in Touch. We also did some Geography lesson last week, we talk about atlas, Me and AS only. Than we talk about latitude and longitude. That latitude and longitude is an imaginary line which help to determine the position anywhere in the world.

As also start doing some science from his workbook. We just going to finish key Stage one workbook as I got couple of them. We also did some lesson about plant which in notebook which I print out some worksheet and get him to draw plant with root, leave, stem and flowers. Just to get him to do some drawing related to science. Like I mention before, my kids had plenty of knowledge in science, but I just need to help them to bring their info and knowledge into writing and how to document what they know.

Quran reading is better. He seems to concentrate more after the lecture. Therefore his Quran reading also improved when he concentrate. I point this out to him, so he recognise the improvement and things get easy because the change that he made. It's depends on him big time to work with me to make our learning easy. For me, there are some of the things that need to enforce , but at the same time I do not want them to learn for the sake of study and me. Certain things they cannot see the benefit it of course. Therefore from time to time I had to explain, motivate and remind them that the purpose of learning is not for me.

AS English is fine. He start write on his own blog. He got three fiction writing now done. But, none of them with punctuation! Anyway, this is for him to kick off with ideas and transfer it into writing. He also did some workbook. Today we learn about poem.

We haven't done much of Islamic Studies formally. On Friday, we all watch video from you tube about The mahdi, lecture by Sheikh Mumtaz Ul Haq, Masya Allah, very resourceful and beneficial talk. Things like this is to remind us about the purpose of life and how life in the near future will not be easy and only the chosen one that will stay to live and keep steadfast.

 MS as usual on his Conquer Maths. He is on C-A level now. He wasn't enjoy much, but I told him he need to finish it and than I can print out all his record and unsubscribe Conquer Maths. I was thinking of using IXL  UK for S and AS just to top up their worksheet. it's just me. I am very fussy and like mix and match! By end of this months, when MS finish his Conquer Maths he will start do revision with Key stage 3 revision workbook and test paper. We will than go over each topic for Key stage 4 with plenty combine worksheet and workbook and test paper.

I had bough couple of books for MS to read. He always borrow book from library. Now I want him to read the book that I choose. Which will be a bit challenge for him. Also he is a slow reader. I determine to tackle his English my own way. Start with improving his reading skill, than transfer ideas into paper before we go deep into different type of writing such as debating and argumentation.

MS Quran Reading also improve a lots. He know went to moved himself or when to keep practise on the same part. I think he will get better reading than PS. With concentration of tajweed as well, Alhamdulillah. He was slow reader as his academic reading, but Insya Allah we make sure it's right. So I don't want to push too much and create a rush type of reading instead of proper pronunciation.

He work with S on Science as before. The different is, before I just get them to do the work with revision guide book without me sitting there with them. I don't really pay much attention as before as I know they understand and have much knowledge and lots of info about science like I said. The only things is they did not know how to transfer their understanding into writing and documentation. This is what I need to work with them. But, as they understand how things work and many of other info and knowledge in science, it won't be hard. So I had sit with them and they got many of question that they skip. They understand but do not know how to explain things in writing which they reason is they not understand at all. When I sit and start to read the revision book and explain, they give me boring face that they already learn about it!! I told them off..oh yes..especially MS. I said that if you already learn and understand you should be able to transfer your understanding into the answer. Therefore I sit and help them on couple of question of how the answer should be for science and how to use our understanding and transfer it into answer and explanation. Alhamdulillah they had go through many topic they left some question unanswer before. Therefore MS and S will be on science for a while as I want them to get rid of key stage 2 workbook. I know, MS is on key stage 4. But, his knowledge in his brain and mind is advance than some topic in key stage 4. Only like I mention, we need to work on transferring the understanding and the knowledge into explanation and scientific evidence in science. Than Insya Allah I will be guide them both for year 7 science workbook and revision book from letts and lonsdale. Therefore now, I can start make plan for their science as I can see what we will be cover and what material we will used. I will mix and match in between with their science notebook as I want them to be able to draw the experiment and other science picture.

S is still with mindsprinting for her Maths. She still on division topic. I had print out with date planned for her worksheet until next month. She will be doing division possibly until end of the year. She find it too much at first, but after many days, she said it's getting better and easy. I had her do two set of worksheet together  a day which mean four worksheet of it.

S also had her own blog which she mostly blog about animal. That is in some way, part of her English. She had done her English on her workbook until I sort something out. All three of them is in need of their English to be planned out. AS is ok at the moment as he got mindsprinting as well to get him going, plus workbook and he also did his spelling twice a week now. I am in need to sort out MS and S, but will probably try to plan them both in the same lesson plan.

So, there one by one subject we try to go through. I haven't touch History yet. I think I want to sort out English and Science first. Than geography, than History. I got new material for Islamic studies. Plus many of books to be finish. I do feel stress out in some way, think that kids are behind in some area and things like that. But than, I think that I shouldn't. We are homeschool. We are easy to cover up the area need to. I just need to calm down, take one things at the same time and plan things that will help in the near future. Rushing will not do any good. Also to see how things go and than take it from there is better than plan, than ditch up the plan altogether.

Lecture

As had been moody and grumpy for couple of days last week.As I had in my mind of three other grown up kids, sometimes I lost the plot with him. Probably as he are mix and socialise with people around who are older than him, sometimes I behave like he is one. But, his not. Of course as eight years old kid, he will have his up and down. He will crave the attention especially being the youngest in the family, for the time being!  (Only Allah know what's gonna come in the future, so I dare to say he is the youngest forever).

He is at some point is spoil. He didn't go to bed as in bed time as little kids as the others. The others will go to bed around 8-8.30 pm. As I was less busy while he is still little, (while with the others, when I start working full time, PS was only five years old), he got to join more with our other activities as the older had to do such as taraweeh prayer and magrib and insya prayer in the summer. Which had lead him to getting used going to bed at the same time as all other family member. Alhamdulillah since age four and a half, he seems had completed nearly three quaters of his insya prayer during that four years. He also had join taraweeh prayer since he is four and half years old with motivation and determination. Almost complete each day with less than one hand been left due to sleep.

Still he is eight years old. Still he will at some point behave like and eight years old. Hub sometimes did tell him off, if  his voice imitated a toddler. None of my kids actually used to talk with baby talk except MS whose still mumble until age three and hard to understand. But, none of them actually sound like half way through a words. All of them will say a complete words each time. Not at all sound babyish. Therefore if As imitate the babyish sound and the words not sound complete, it will be very annoying to us, well hub especially.

At some point , I think we almost forget that he is still younger kid. I do realise from time to time possibly because he live with older people, kid in that kind of environment intend to class as clever than collect more info than the one that not. Sometime we forget that they might gain more knowledge and info, but psychological needs, emotional and maturity is not reach the same knowledge and level of thinking that they had.

I'm always out this into my mind. Which had leave me to be class as spoil him from the my other kids point of view. Especially PS of course. Being the eldest in the family, of course she will be the one who had been brought up with full discipline. Also as the others who had been brought up in the situation that I had to work hard to help our family financially, they used to been in the chat of understand ummi situation and feelings. This is a very less case with AS.

Yesterday I just remind myself how I was always talk about my feeling with AS. Like I used to with the others when they small. AS he was being moody and grumpy these couple of days, which to ensure he getting on with his school work, I had try to be patient with the moody face to get the work done. The thing is, if he start to be moody and we already start with some work, he will determine to finish the work, even I told him to go and just do what he want to. All the time it's not the case of study or learning, but other things. Such wanted something small or someone cannot fulfil or help him getting something or do something. Small things unfortunately had impact his moods sometimes for half of the day.

Well, at some point he is also a mirror of myself. Moody with tiny things, easy to get grumpy and won't leave things easy. The bad mood is hard to throw away! Just like I was when I was small. But, the greatest strength of me that he had was high motivation, know what he want and will stick and continue his aim and target.

Anyway, he weakness that he got is not good at all to him especially and will effect my day through out. Therefore yesterday I think it's about time. To push him away because I just fed up or cannot comprehend or had a patient to argue is no good. The best things is as what I had done with others. Sit and talk and giving some lecture about the whole situation, my feeling, my emotion and my patient. All the others are used to have to think about how I feel first than what they feel when they are at that age and when they small. Because life is not always turn into what they want or what they desire. This nagging will be become a bad habit although at some point it was a small things that easy to fulfil. Kids will always push us to the edge with small thing which we think it's easy to give up than stood up. I had done many giving up with AS which I am always stood up on my feet firm with others.

Well, when the age getting older, we are in some way having more wisdom towards things and others around us. Which is good at some point, but this is one of the reason that the youngest in the family is spoilt as well. I am trying not to let my much wisdom act, controlling somewhat needed firm the kids needs.

Yesterday I decided to pull a chat as AS started to pull moody face. I told him that I cannot keep my patient much anymore. It's not fair with me. I had to keep upset and be patient all the time. How about him? He need to pull his weight as well on pushing his need that some of the time are nonsense but just to pull more attention. Like he didn't get an attention! But, I guess being an eight years old whose parents being surround by two teenager and one pre teenager can be really daunting sometimes which make him getting less attention and the chat that he need. I am almost forget sometimes Probably I had pull so many chat like that when the other three was small. talking about how tired I am after work. How I need their help, how we are tight financially and how we had to pull out weight to help each other and support each other. I used to talk with full feeling and emotion that will create tears in their eyes. Although most of the time I wasn't actually tired or feel bad at all, but I will pull the act to create sorry feeling in them for me in order to make them understand at some point that life is not just play and easy going. This had been my games with the other three which help into create lots of sympathy, responsibility and empathy in them. To be empathy with other, for me is very important.

Alhamdulillah of course the lecture is working with AS. I just realise as soon as we had our little chat with my firm voice, that this is what he need. me to be more firm with him. This is always what below ten years old need. Firmness from the parents, but most of the time we think they need what they show us, attention.

I know that I will have to had many of this conversation from time to time with AS again and again. Usually when he was moody and grumpy, I will just let him off away from my face. He will than be like that for hours and hours although most of the time, the moody is not from me and about me! But, I said to him that I he is the one who will be a looser in his later future. Life is not always as we want. Life is not going to listen to us all the time. Acting and behave hard to ourself will only make us looser, not others. Nobody will care. We will have to act upon how we behave. Neither me will care at the end. He is my son, but I am here to be responsible to him, but if he did not want to help pull himself together, I don't bother to be there for him. Although of course in my heart and mind, I will have to take some part of responsibility and will not let him off letting himself into miserable. As a mother that had been given responsibility by Allah swt, I had in some way find a way and will never give up. I believe there always be a way that sometimes we be blinded of because of our ego as a parents or another problem we had in life. Kids is always in some way a victim of parents problem. We sometimes get so much into our own problem and our ego also had taken much of our decision making.

Which is why I think parents had to be professional in way of thinking and not let their own problem and emotion run down of how we deliver our responsibility towards our kids.

I am still due to a chat with PS alone. She's fine, but I think she is in need having a time off with me alone. Most of the time, I forgot that they do need attention from me only for themselves as having the other sibling all the time around mean the time will be divided almost every time. Especially since she started her online school. I do have some extra time alone with MS who usually help me around or in deed had to come with me even with a small reason such as going to recycling centre. I had in some way got to depends on MS as my mahram and help me around more as a big man, Alhamdulillah. But, PS most of the time stuck with her school and lots of homework.

S is in the middle of tickling my head and nerves. Although I take it easily all the time. She is the one who was the most quiet in the family, now had become someone who are very challenging to confront with. Cheeky probably the suitable word for her at the moment. She will get her own way with the smartest behaviour than all. She is in some way a true British! How she don't actually think she is Malaysian. In subtle way, she get what she want! She also conquer her siblings in her own way! I just cannot imagine, she will be much more challenging than PS, which I don't think will give me too much stress, but just a challenge that I am ready now to confront. Just make me smile inside to see how my four kids , all giving me their own set of challenge!

I remember, elderly people back in home country used to tell story, that when you had hard time with the kids at some point, they will be your heaven at the other point. I saw MS, and think how hard it was when he was small. How it was hard for me to have to stood and firm with him. To have to fight with his anger. But, Subhana Allah.....he is my calmness now, although he did sometimes get on my nerves, but still....Than I look at PS before when she was small. How she is the one that is my hope, my intelligent and brilliant responsible daughter. Not that she is not now, but the challenge came after. Than it was S, who also is the most easiest one to look after when she was small. Imagine, at the age of 4-5 months, she will sit in her walker and fall as sleep in there as I sometimes forgot about her at all! (what happen is all my kids will wake up around 6-7 am when they small, than around 8-9 am, I will give them shower and change them and feed them, than by 10- 10.30 am they will go back to sleep. The same routine continue until they were at least one years old. after they wake up, I will put them on the floor or in the walker is they are four + month old. I will than get on with my routine of getting the other ready to school and cleaning. Sometimes I was busy, that I forget about S until around 10 am, she will fall as sleep on her own in the walker without changing and feeding! that is how good she is, Masya Allah!) She was still quiet until recently when she reach the number 11! Oh, how she change! Even all of us, especially PS notice the change so much. Sometimes it can be amazing topic for us as we (me and kids especially) love to talk about human nature. And how we see change in ourself or in them! I am now expecting some bigger challenge from S looking at how quiet and good she used to.

I even look back at some other stories. How good lots of kids are when they small and even before they get married, than things started to change! I had seen lots of change in people around me after their marriage life. Lots of them who are hard to look after and giving bi challenge to the parents before marriage, had actually come out the best after marriage. Lots of who seems forgotten because they are so easy to look after that nobody notice their existent, had actually giving unexpected challenging that will shock badly! I am preparing myself and trying to rectify this before the time come. I had in some way looking back into people from where we came from, not from the other with different background, culture and language. Because even our kids are brought up in different environment and mentality from back home, we as a parents cannot deny that our mentality and upbringing still playing a big role in our role as parents. Although we had been in foreign land and had change us into different perspective, still we will had that sort of way of thinking which many of the experience will had to be learn from people that come from the same background and culture as us.

Subhana Allah...what an experience of bringing up the kids..and the need of twisting the way and learning new experience from day to day.

More of Geography Lesson 27 September

This time together with MS, S and AS . Usually I print out the map, for the lesson that we had long time ago. This time I think they should learn the skill of drawing map which I used to learn in my primary school by tracing the map. So, I print out the outline of the map from Enchanted Learning and get them to trace in their Geography notebook.

Label the map and than write some simple fact about it and make a Flag, a bit of art and craft I guess.

Other subject yesterday work brilliantly. Every one did their Maths, English and reading quran. We didn't yet did formal Islamic studies. Neither do working project and experiment I hope to get in to. but we get there. At least we increase from two subject a day to three now. Islamic studies is something we do in action , we talk and we sit in halakah. So, I wasn't that desperate in a way. Just to bring it into note formally and learn more in formal setting apart from workbook.

I was please to see where we going now and at this moment I am desperate to get the work in the garden done as weather is nice and warm. So do other things at the same time don't want our routine homeschool interrupted. Alhamdulillah for the blessing that Allah send...Life is hard, but nothing easy at the end. Let alone Jannah...I keep reminding my self!

AS and Geography

 We haven't done geography work for long time. Especially for AS. Therefore I think it's about time now. We had done some long time ago, but than stop as I was concentrating him on Maths, English, Quran reading and Islamic studies. He did science from time to time as well but from workbook only.

Now I wanted to start other subject more into hands on learning. This indeed need to be done.

To get away from distraction and as weather is lovely, I decided to do this work with AS in the library. Therefore I can concentrate with him on his level without any other interruption from others. My kids always find anything interesting! I thought starting with local area where we live is a good idea.

He start with copy my roughly drawing of the area on the white board. We discuss on the area around us while he drawing. I would say that he do know better than me in term of the name of the street.

Than he copy the one he made on piece of white paper onto the piece of white hard card. On this task, he than use his maths skill that he just learn, measurement. I told him that we will have to try to do exact same plan as he made on the piece of paper into the white card. How? By measuring and transfer the measurement on the the card from the plan from the paper. 

I than talk to him about how important that we used measurement to get the same exact things in doing many task around us. I used this type of lesson since small until now. I love to make schedule and plan and boxe by measuring them and divided them to ensure I got perfect and balance on what I made. Estimating sometimes will leave waste on paper and card. Measuring will help us not to waste anything we try to do. 

We start with the road and used black colour. So we know where to go next.  The blue represent church and red represent care home. AS choose the colour. 

Yellow represent our house.

Purple represent terrace house.

Green represent grass

At the end, we had two plan. One is drawing plan on piece of white paper and the other one is 2D plan with colourful card represent building around, road and grass. Unfortunately as we had label all the road in the local area map AS made, I don't like to upload the whole finish project. 

We took one and half hour from start to finish. Alhamdulillah we include art and craft, geography and maths in the task. So  was please. Although later in the day, As manage to finish his Maths worksheet and English worksheet. 

That's the day done for AS. I am looking forward to similar task with other subject with the others as well. I try to find a simple task, not taking too long and also not too much complicated but achieve the target on what I want them to. 

Maths, maths and maths

Now I am talking about maths, again. And whenever maths involved, it will involved MS of course. Today I had to go out first things in the morning, send hubby and go to pick up some boxes. I bring AS with me. PS, MS and S usually know what to do on their own, and I just been out for a quick one. When I came back MS told me he find it hard on Maths and need to do the second attempt on Conquer Maths. He's on Integer topic today. I thought it wasn't bad, so I put him for 3 topic under integer which is addition and subtraction, multiplication, division and Bodmas.

Well, let just says that I do get confuse with this, unless I sit down and study and go through my self for 10 minutes. So, I sit there and had to used my brain after really a tiring morning as I had to send hubby to work at 7.30am. I hate that to be honest, at some point. I love it at some point as I love Maths, but sometimes feel like my brain getting older, I just don't bother. So, I sit with him and go through with him. He seems fed up at first. Think that he should skip the topic. His usual habit and way of thinking had came back for a while there , I reckon. Of course I was a bit annoy and told him off. Well, not too harsh, but I just mention to him that after all that he has been through, he just want to give up. Skip or leaving the topic , won't not bring him anywhere. It will just get worth. As each of Maths topic link to each other. And Maths is also something we used all around us.

So, what I did, I sit there explain to him one question after another and ended up doing nearly 3/4 of it! But, alhamdulillah, it worth the bit of push, only a lil bit of push and not as before. He quickly realise that giving up is not an option, stressing out will just make things worth. The way of thinking which I think needs to give to every child, as life is not always easy. Plus how can we know how to do things if we cannot understand fully and learn. The way to know how to do things is to learn. Nobody know everything, but with the attitude of eager to learn and not going to give up, will help us to go through life. Alhamdulillah it wasn't as horrible as before. He more matured now but of course bad habit is hard to die.

So, after the first lesson, he seems better and manage to get through second lesson on his own and the other two lesson and find himself finishing it earlier than he thought before. But, as when he stress out thinking he got four lesson to finish and the lesson stuck him on the way, he than got another two subject to go through. I told him, do not worry about other subject today and just get on with Maths only. We can catch up others another day. So, he only did his Maths today.

Yesterday was OK for him and he manage to finish what he need to.

S is fine. She already past half of multiplication and division book I just bought on Monday. She will be finish that by next week, I reckon. Probably Monday or Tuesday. As our printer is running now, I wasn't worries much as I can print her multiplication and division exercise.

AS got printing worksheet for Maths yesterday. He got one side page sheet with nearly 100 question to answer from regrouping addition and subtraction of two digit and three digit. Also fill in the blank number and also problem solving for the lesson. He was whine couple of times during that as it's quiet a lots of question. But, alhamdulillah after accompany him on his side and with a little bit motivation, he manage to finish them all. Than we moved to English and still on tense topic. This time more about past, present and future tense. Fill in the word in the story and recognise either it's past, present or future. I talk about how he got to imagine the story when he read it to enable him to find the best possible words for it. Alhamdulillah he manage and also his spelling was very good indeed. This is the mystery that I don't know how it happen. Let's just say that I didn't actually teach them spelling.

Today in the car, only me and him. He bought a Bionicle name Phantoka.

I ask him, " What is that? Pantoka? "

He reply, " No, it's not Pantoka, it's Phantoka. P and H make sound F!".

Dear me, I been told off. I remember than we had learn about this in his Mega English book before. I though study English wasn't fun for him as a boys, but hey, he not just remember but also manage to explain to me.

In our English lesson yesterday, I was asking him about what we learn before which is Pronoun, Noun and verbs. He manage to explain to me what they are with example. Than we talk about what is verbs. Also we had learn about 1st person, singular and plural and 2 nd person, singular and plural and 3rd person , singular and plural. We talk about how important to know all this to ensure we can describe and make a good story and writing. He seems to enjoy the lesson and participate much about it.

Today AS didn't do any lesson apart from his memorization of surah after we back home. He seems tired, and when I went to pick hubby up, he wanted to follow, and he fall asleep in the car although hubby work place is about 10 minutes away. He continue to sleep after he pray magrib when we arrived home.

Tomorrow is Friday and I will be busy again as hubby half day and also my business shipping in two weeks time. At the moment we still manage to stay on our homeschool track. Apart from getting them to do some project is on hold. It wasn't that important actually. May be because our life is more into reality. Example, I didn't actually get kids to do lap book of activity similar and project, but they all had their own scrap book, writing book and notebook to write their idea. MS and AS mostly used most of my old cupboard and manage to design so many things. Recently MS had design helmet which from inside, we can see outside but from outside we cannot see the person face that wear the helmet. This is actually happen in day to day basis. They design and make sword and many other things from time to time using recycling items.

So I guess it's the unschooling bit getting balance with our formal homeschool with worksheet , workbook and formal learning.

25 Jan 2011

Alhamdulillah we manage to do some work despite of we all going out after asr. Just after PS finish school. MS , S and AS manage to do some work before we went out and after we arrived home just after Magrib as we had to pick hubby up at 4.30pm, but he got meeting and finish around 4.45pm.

After Magrib , kids continue their work, alhamdulillah. As I just got new printer two days ago and manage to set it up yesterday, I am not looking at getting kids to do some project. I was thinking a geography project, but for some reason the page I wanted to print out from Ed Helper using pdf file, not printing out anything, although I manage to print other worksheet.

MS on his work schedule on Conquer maths, also do his English from Writing Skills workbook and Science revision of key Stage 2. MS understand and can explain and do practical experiment on science. The only things is he need to learn how to explain and give reason in proper writing of the experiment and conclusion. This is what I need to focus with him and also with S and AS.

S is fine with her new workbook of multiplication and division workbook. Also her new English workbook. AS did his problem Solving workbook on his own and also did his science workbook for Key Stage one which accompany by revision workbook. I wanted to sit with him for that and go through the revision guide, but he want to do it all by himself. Which is reading the revision book and do his workbook according to each topic. He love and got no problem at all of learning independently just like others. Although at some point I like to sit and go through with them to ensure they understand, but I will got a reply which is " It's ok, I understand this or that. I learn this before". Either they learn from reading or watching.

That's all for the day.

Workbook

Yesterday I went out to sort out couple of things for my business. PS stay home with MS as both of them cannot miss their school work. AS and S came with me. I manage to stop by at WH Smith to get couple of books. We quiet rushing anyway because time for prayer is near to each other. I cannot find books I wanted to but manage to grab couple of them.

From top

Reading and Writing Fiction is for S. MS also got similar book before. I like Schofield & Sims series as they got individual topics for English and Maths. S also got Vocabulary before. Among their English topics is:

• Punctuation
• Grammar
• Spelling
• Vocabulary
• Reading and Writing Peotry
• Reading and Writing Non Fiction
• Reading and Writing fiction

I like them so much as kids can concentrate more in each individual topics rather than mix than all in one book. They also got KS 1 and KS 2. Price is £2.95 which I think affordable.

KS 1 Problem Solving 2 for AS.This is another Schofields & Sims series, but paperback. They usually got several level in each Key Stage. For example they got problem solving 1, 2, 3, 4 and etc. Mostly I like Maths because it help kids to concentrate with lots of exercise for individual topic.

Multipliying and Dividing Key Stage 2 for S. As S is now concentrating on Multiplying and Division this is one of the book she will had to finish. It's concentrating Multiplying and Division only from easy to hard.

Toady Times table for AS. I wanted Schofield & Sims book for addition and subtraction, but cannot find one. As AS did start her timetable before form his Math book, a basic one, I though I get him this book to play with while I got a printer , so I can print lots of worksheet for addition and subtraction.

Key Stage One English Advance Practise book for AS. He already start Key Stage 2 workbook, but as this is for him to get into more exercise in English and streghten his Spelling, vocab and grammar. I like CGP book for revision.

Letts Success Learn and Practise English for 10-11 years old for S. S love English. I like Letts publication as well as they publish individual level for each subject such as English, Maths and Science. But they do got different set and style. Just got to go through and see what you want. This is level 5 book as S now is year 6. She need harder and challenge book for her English study.

Writing Skill Builder for MS. I never bought from this publisher. But, English seems good especially for writing and it teach you from one easy work to harder one. In Writing it teach you one by one from start of writing, planning, including making leaflet, poster, and all sort of writing. So, I will see how this one goes.

Yesterday MS finish all his work in Conquer Maths according to his schedule I made. I had copy and paste and send it through message from my account to his account in Conquer Maths. This to ensure he can check what is due for him on the day. He also did his English and Science.

S and AS got a day off as they follow me. When we arrived home, MS and PS already finish their school and it's no way S and AS will start their homeschool, so I just leave it. No rushing by the way and no stress, Alhamdulillah.

AS and S learning

AS got not much worry from me except I need him to do more writing stories and familiar with all sort of writing. He did writing on his own count, from time to time. He make lefleart, map, stories and etc but informally Without me actually sit there with him. But, usually he made better writing without me, it's like if I am there with him, all his idea gone.

Today he finish the whole of his addition and substraction book. He learn some of difficulty topic of addition and substraction. I will need to get him another book for the topic, and also mindsprinting. Probably another 2 months, we will concentrate on this topic. Than we will concentrate times, measurement and graph. He already know all this and learn from time to time before, but I just want to make sure this been strengthen up before we moved deep into multiplication and division. I think we might take between 6 months - 1 year for multiplication and division take into account some unplanned journey and my busy time. So no stress on him and me.

From summer, I will set up some science project with him and also geography. I will get a new printer hopefully tomorrow, so we will get back on enchated learning and my other favourate website for science and geography. Probably a little history. Also IT.

In between now and again , we will do Bahasa Melayu as well. I will need a new Islamic Studies book for him, possibility Iqra book but the futher learning which MS and S using before. He should be able to, Insya Allah.

S is ok. Similar case like AS. I need to put her into some manual curriculum of distance learning for her English. She is very good in writing stories but need some proper checking up. I am so lazy and as it take lots of time to actually concentrate, I just cannot do that.

For Maths, she is on multiplication and division now. She finish one workbook for the particular topic only and I will get her another one. Also with mindprinting, it will be lots of exercise for her in multiplication and division. Probably I would say, I don't mind if she need to spend around 6 months , 5 days a week only for multiplication and division on her Maths. Than it's easy when we move on other topic. She can than be able to concentrate her Conquer Maths along with workboook on particular topic similar with what MS had been through. I reckon she should be able to moved forward and progress according to curriculum. I was planning to put her with First College, probably September 2012.

Also I need to get her some project and worksheet on science, georgraphy and some history. She do her Bahasa Melayu also from time to time. Her Islamic Studies is fine and also quran reading. Not much to worry about her, except need a bit more motivation and get teach her to set target and learn to organise and manage her work through project. She in need of learning how to do research and compile work from research. I will set up a project for her to do as a team with MS.

That's all for now.

Working forward

Alhamdulillah, ourhomeschooling is working forward in the sense of not much stress and pressure. I guess, everybody notice that it's very important time now, in winter and spring for us to gettting on with our work before we had leisure time in summer. I had limit the time that two kids from neighbourhood coming to play with them. This is because if they came, they stay until night. I don't mind to baby sit them, but as we are homeschool, seems that we lost the flexibility of it.

So, alhamdulillah kids had been concentrate in the sense that they getting into the routine happpily. PS as usual, with her online school. The best about it, she seems to concentrate more an dmore, busy day by day and getting on serious learning than before. I am happy, very very happy. I do not want to put much stress, although I do at some of the point, through tarbiyah session. But, I do want kids to realise on their own account as well. Whenever I put stress, I will also give them tarbiyah which is motivate them in the sense that open their eyes from their point of view. Kids need to be help to see things from different and matured perspective.

MS getting on his Conquer Maths as usual. He manage to keep on track which is doing three topic each day. So, I am now concentrate S maths. MS seems flowing higher and higher with his Maths, something I am pretty worried before and much dreaded. So, it's a time now for me to start looking and concentrate into their English lesson. I know it's important and I had put it behind and did not concentrate enough for it. But, I love maths as maths will train kids brain. When they improved and see things through maths step by step, the skill they develop and will develop is much more making sense.

So now, I am looking into their English. Both MS and S. I would love to put MS and S on First colleage. But, I wasn't sure yet. First is financially I wasn't able at the moment , second is I can still cope and would like both of them to stay for me with the teaching and learning. S got not much topic left in Conquer Maths for her year 5 & 6. And she still got until September to finish her year 6 syllybus. I reckon we should be able to make it easily before summer, but would love her to actually start year 7 work way before September in Maths. This is what I try to concentrate now with her. MS should be able to finish all Key Stage 3 before September according to my guess. So, he will be just nice on track and this will make key stage 4 maths easy and he will have plenty of time for excersice for his GCSE. Which make me proud as when I got him he was way way behind, alhamdulillah. Such a big achievement for both of us which is sometimes I do not know how I do it. With my busy schedule and at some point I think kids had waste too much time because of my busy business and they way far behind. Now, looking overall, Masya Allah, how we had catch up on it. This is because maths need plenty of excersice to strenghten basic, otherwise there's no way they can go futher on the topic and curriculum.

I'm also concentrate on AS maths and try to put him futher and see if I manage to get him on Conquer Maths earlier than what he should be. Or we can just lazying around with some fun if we forward. Plus AS seem confident that he need to go to madrasah for his hifz and alim course. So to get him forward in curiculum will give him less pressure on his hifz soon when the time for him to start in Darul Ulom.

Now, I am looking between Oxford Homeschool for English or others curriculum. Which I can go through it with them with manual and monitor them and teaching them according to the curriculum. I just need that for MS and S. Which also mean someone can mark their work as well for English. So I am looking that type of system only for English. I don't think they too way behind, they just need lots of excercise in writing.

Other subject I am looking to set up for three of them; MS , S and AS is for georgraphy and science. Than I would love for them this year to be able to do some skill such as build something with wood and etc with hubby. I will have to proper plan that. With them on track and forward in Maths, than we can spend out time on other subject by doing project. Because doing project is taking time. And for me wasn't as important as Maths. Because age can effect how they doing in their maths. And maths also train and excercise our brain. Project will teach us how to manage and organise. But, first and foremost, is to sharpen our brain, than manage and organise will be easy task. Insya Allah.

Kids are doing other subject although we are concentrating and given more time on Maths. They also doing English, Science, Malay Language and Islamic Studies Monday to Thursday. Also of course Reading Quran. But, more time was given for Maths at the moment.

As MS finishing his Key Stage 3 Conquer Maths concentrating Fraction, Decimal and Percentage, S is concentrating on multiplication and division. I need to get another workbook that concentrate on that topic only. PS already mention we need to go to WWH Smith as soon as possible as she will need some GCSE book. AS is concentrating in addition and subtraction , more into tricky excersice. Hopefully I can get them back into minds printing , to top up their maths excersice.

So, alhamdulillah everything seems improve smooth, forward and easy. Just something that I need, Alhamdulillah before my busy time arrived.

Just another day

Our Homeschool today is as usual.

PS is getting busy with her online school. I can see her more concentrating now as first class before seems too easy for her. Although she seems not confident yet to do her exam, I can see she fit on weel with senior class. Amazing online school! She also busy as there is plenty of homework than before. And the homework also is tough than before. She love the challenge. She well organize and like making her own research. So everything fit her with this.

MS is today on another 3 topic for his Conquer Maths. Before I was planning to put him on Conquer Maths every other day, but decided for him to finish off fraction, decimal and percentage for the whole Key stage three topic. He did 3 topic a day as he had done quiet a lots of work with the topic with workbook, and I think he got another eight days to go to finish off the whole three topic for the whole Key stage three. I think it's better to finish it off before we than moved to the next topic for year 8 in conquear maths, than we will start on workbook for algebra title. I was quiet amaze and release on how MS work on maths. I just cannot help myself thinking of how he is when I first homeschool him on his Maths, Reading and English. I know his teacher before do work hard on him , which is why when we first visit school after we moved, his teacher concern about his reading to me as he heard that we are homeschooling. How much can a teacher do with 20 to 30 pupils in the class. Not much of course. And MS is really so much type of kid who in need of homeschooling. I am glad, although it was hard at first with him, with all the tears and me shouting, it's all worth now, alhamdulillah.

S do exercise on multiplication and division. I think I let her stay on the workbook until she finish it and I might get her on some worksheet or I was thinking to get minsprinting back on track. Mindsprinting now is not free anymore. So I was looking to pay and get the subsription , but before that I will need to get a printer as the old one had broken down now. S also did her english and that's for today for her as I got visitor.

AS also still doing exercise on addition and subtraction. It was harder addition with plenty of tricky and problem. He got on well, alhamdulillah. Today he learn about past tense again and also about past tense of singular and plural such as was, were, had, did and etc. He actually know it from conversation probably and watch t.v I reckon and every single exercise he manage to do it with proper spelling. I wonder how as we rarely do spelling. I bet it's the unschooling learning from t.v., internet and books. His spelling is excellent for his age actually and he now can read our taaklim session of fazail amal fluently.

So, that's all for today. We just concentrate on Maths and English as than I had visitors. Tomorrow as it's Friday we will do little work as the boys will go Friday prayer and hubby fnish home at 12.30pm.

11.1.11

Another day of homeschooling, alhamdulillah....

PS was on her second day of Senior Class. She said it's OK. Like usual, she will be making fuss of things like she cannot even make it or go through it, but when she actually doing it and getting on with it, she will always make it! Oh...should I say silly girl?! That is her. Many of people in her class will be doing their GCSE on November. She said , she didn't feel she's ready for it yet. Nevertheless, her age suppose doing GCSE when they are 16. Another year. But, looks like plenty public school now start making their student doing their GCSE since they are 14 years old. I don't know why. But, one thing that I didn't feel satisfied, is over here you can do GCSE and choose the level according to your ability.

As for me and I knwo for PS as well, we want our target to be the highest level. We will not take GCSE only because we just go through it or because others are doing it now, we we will be. If she did not feel ready, than we see how we can plan it. But, of course she won't feel ready if she not been push as well, as she's exam freak. She had sort of nervous thinking about exam. Because she can't help herself if she cannot achieve highest target she want. But, she need to learn about fail, cannot be perfect and except the result but try her best. Well, the most ever best she can!

MS:

Today MS start doing his Conquer Maths again. Seems that he getting on with Conquer Maths quicker than before. MS got one problem of concentrating on what he was doing. He is much much quicker than before, but still not as much as I would like him to. This is why his best education system is homeschooling. This is why I was keep holding him from going to madrasah or not. Compare to AS which declare himself going to madrasah as soon as he finish primary school.

As he had finish his Decimal, percentage and fraction workbook, which is 2 of them, he will now concentrating on The whole topic of Key Stage three of Algebra. But, before he start the workbook of Algebra, I make him go through his Conquer Maths lesson and finish Key Stage Percentage, Fraction and Decimal topic.

At the moment I am writing this, he still on his Conquer Maths still we start our homeschool today. We start quiet late as usual actually which is after zohr. As when I came down, prepare little lunch for them, eat and than zohr time. They read quran and than we start our homeschool. They now had to stop for asr prayer and continue. I wasn't bother even if I had started late, because in winter time, kids don't play outside. We got plenty time to sit and working on our homeschool at anytime we want.

S:

S is going to finish her fraction workbook today. The whole book of fraction only. I will than moved her into Decimal and Percentage workbook similar as what MS was doing before. I might than after that get some more workbook of fraction, decimal and percentage to make sure she got enough exercise for the topic before I moved her to Algebra. She is now on her test paper for Fraction and after she finish that she will do her English, Science and Islamic Studies.

AS:

AS had finish all his acedemic work today also plus quran reading as we did quran first thing before we start all other subject. At the moment, he's on addition and subraction excersice. He is master in the topic of course but need to do more excersice of different way of addition and subtraction. It might be easy and a bit boring for him, but he just had to get on with it. Which by the way make him finish his work early than others as he getting on easy.

On English, he learn about Verbs since yesterday. Yesterday we talk about what is nouns and verbs. Today he learn mroe about verbs which is past tense, present tense and future tense. he seem sunderstand it easy and getting on with workbook all by himself. He is kind of a boy who pick things up very quickly, do work quickly, therefore finish all his work quickly. The hardest thing is to get him shoo away from the others who not finish their work yet. I can't give him more work, because he feel it's enough and it is more than enough of what he been doing.

So, that's our progress for yesterday and today. I will start to be busy from next week with my business, so hopefully kids will stay on their homeschool track Insya Allah.

Homeschool progress

Alhamdulillah it has been 3 weeks now since we start our homeschool in proper routine. Now I decides our routine homeschool is from Monday to Thursday unless we had guest or going out. We haven't properly homeschool for ages. To be able to actually get back on our routine is actually excellent. My business is also had slow down as for winter with nearly there weeks full of snow, Subhana Allah. And I took this opportunity strongly to keep up with the routine of tidying, cooking , cleaning and of course homeschooling.

Everybody was on their workbook. PS of course on her first college. She was on her last day today and she got holiday until January. Therefore she going to concentrate on Islamic Studies and also doing some Maths exercise. Also she can get more practical cooking lesson in the kitchen hopefully.

MS had finish his 11-14 years old Maths workbook on Percentage topic just in tthis 3 weeks. Today he started 11-14 years old Maths workbook on Fraction and Decimal. Hopefully he will finish that in less than 3 weeks, and I expect middle of January (as we might have guest during Christmas holiday) he can start on Algebra topic. Than he can go back on Conquer Maths and looking forward to hardern the topic deeply for end of Key stage 3. He seems progressing quiqt quickly which although some hurdle in between to get him undertsnad some of workout. He was pretty much low in Maths when he leave school before and his progres in Maths now is excellent for his capability. He knows that he just had to work a bit harder and once he get on with the working out, he will be absolutely fine, alhamdulillah. I had him of Maths, English, Islamic studies, and quran. Also he working hard on his English. He didn't like reading much. So, I had to encourage him bit by bit. He was struggling on his reading when he leave school 4 years a go when he finish year 4 which is quiet sad. He improved a lots when we homeschool and impress himself in that. He is now working hard on his spelling and grammar. If we didn't put him in Madrasah, he probabli will join PS on First college while doing hifz from online as well. But, we didn't make any decision yet, as we also in the middle of thinking of planning other things.

S is progressing herself in Maths. She is now on multipication and division workbook. Until she finish the whole workbook of it , than we will moved to another subject. Although in between it sometimes I get her to do her fraction workbook. I like this individual topic workbook which enable kids to learn the topic proper and indepth before they moved to another topic for Maths. It's very important in Maths for kids to specialist in each topic fully before they moved futher which I think school system in UK had fail on that.

S also on her English workbook. In English I get them to do lots of workbook to imrpoved their verbs, grammar, spelling and writing. I was thinking to get S and MS on project sometimes in English. S also on her science workbook.

All of them concentrate on Islamic studies with workbook and tarbiyah during taaklim session after magrib. AS nearly finish his islamic book and I'm looking for another workbook for him. Iqra workbook is excellent. I am now probably moved into SA workbook I print out long time ago. He did some of them and he will now I think moved on practical fikh in Salat. For other kids also the same. I put stress in their fikh lesson actually. Problem of pure water, taharah, wuduk, and also like PS start futher deeper in masail such as janazah, nikah, and all other issue. Like quran reading , I like this to be slow but firm. Kids are slow in quran reading, but this is because to ensure the pronounciation is correct before they moved futher. It is very important to me unfortunately. Not just by pass it to finish.

So, alhamdulillah it was a good progress. AS had futher moved his Maths into multipication and Division. Also writing stories in English. He learn and done his work quickly and correctly. Subhana Allah, very impressing. Also his Islamic Studies and his quran. He didn't do other subject yet until I can get some more workbooks, textbook and other pratical things from the library as it's still stuck with plenty of my business things to be sorted out.

Now, we sit after magrib quiet long as it was still early, in our taaklim session with reading Fazail Amal, we also read Adab Al Mufrat and also this is the time when I do tarbiyah. As kids are getting big which both my first and second is now teenager, it is very important to sit and do tarbiyah. Tarbiyah for me is not open the book and teach from the book or read from the book, but sitting down and talk about issue. Socialisation issue, infulence issue, feeling and behaviour issue with all four of them , so the other two especially daughter which is with more feeling and emotion won't feel like it's all on her. So, I talk about real live, keep reminding about why we are here in this world. About nobody ever live forever. Everybody will die soon. And to think of gaining worldly things will bring misery later in our life.

At the age of teenager especially girl, they had so many dreams that suddenly come into their mind. What to become, what they want when they big. How their house going to look like and etc. So, it's very important to keep talking and reminding them in some way that we not pushing them away. I am not seem as too strict at some point. My daughter had access to internet, they all watch t.v and etc at some point, I do not puch some of these things which some people might seen as influence and disturb for kids education. Because out side world now , influence is so strong that people can just get what they want especially bad things easily. So, if important for me to let kids explore, experience it as long as it didn't do somethings againts shariah. I might had my daughter do something I didn't like when she start to be concious of her skin, how she wear and etc, but as long as she had her aurat cover properly, she know her limit and boundaries, I don't mind she had couple of different type of bangle although it can put misery into my eyes. I talk about it in a way which make her realise it didn't contradict shariah but doing unnecessary things is a waste and an act of syaitaan.

Issue with teenager had to be handle with care unfortunately. We want to invite them to good things, or otherwise they will get invited. We do not want to puch them away, but we do not want them to be nice and quiet in front of us and rebel later. This is a dangerous situation. And to create balance, and to make it right just for the particular people wasn't easy. You just have to try, not giving it up and play as safe as we can. There are times when I am just quiet when I see something I don't like with my teenager but there are also time where I say something loud, clear, and firm , than walk away to make them think. Live is not hard actually if we know and understand the purpose of it. But, of course everybody including me needed to remind again and again.

If anybody reading that had teengage kids, please share your experience in comments.

Above: PS work. This is just recently this week. This had been done as part of workbook she learning from. She love doing all this type of learning and usually do this on her own account and learning, not from my plan and teaching. She work pretty much independently on her own now. She made her own schedule and lesson plan and know what next and she also know when she need more resource and etc. This way she can see where she's going on her study and learn to make target. I was pretty much motivated when I was homeschool, I got my own target and know where I am going. I got no help at all from my parents accept provided me with resource and it's all up to me. I got no tutor, no teacher and no other who actually think someone can take exam especially in Malaysia at that time by only learning on her own, but Alhadmulillah, I made it all the way with 9 subject I needed to take and acheive the result where allowed me to futher my study to Uni but I ended up married! Allah know best. At the end of the day, this is why for me, at PS age, I don't actually sit an teach her the subject. But, I support her and give her resource and open her mind and give her the choice. At the end of the day, it's her choice. She can think and she got her target, dream and aim. I cannot make it happen in whatever circumstances. She need to stand on her own choice now and this is what we talk about and what I teach her from time to time. Sh reach the time, where she no need my push. She can think and she need to start to motivate her self more than before. And when the time past, we cannot turn back and regret is not a choice for me. It's not worth regret something is we actually been given the choice. She need to stand on her self more like I did except she got plenty support from us , parents. She is very good in finding resource and organising and planning. Her weakness is at the moment, she still need to push a lots and this is when I gone crazy sometimes. But, i deal with it by sit and talk to her face to face. Open her eyes of what I had spend and gave her, all the choice she got and it's up to her to moved it more. At teenage time, I know that sometimes they forgot about others surrounding them and think only their own emotion and feeling. They usually forgot what other had done for them. So, to sit and have a chat from time to time to wake her up is what I did. And of course it's always a change after and tears. But, it's all good. Nothing easy when bringing up teenage. Girl ad boy need to be approach in different way. Sometimes they need to be tell of, whinge, but they also need a space. They still confuse and think they are big and grown up but at the same time they act like small kids.

It is enjoyable in a way to see all this and try to cope. Especially I got one girl and one boy on pre teenage age. They both need totally different approach, Subhana Allah. It was like playing a games sometimes. And as a parents we just have to be quick and observant and to be there at the right time they needed us. Especially at this time of fitnah, we can't keep them and hide from everything we scared off, because life now is too open. We can't open them up too much as well because they not strong enough yet to make their own decision. They not same like us even though we used to be teen once. Even though they had our behaviour. Everything is just different. We had to catch with all the technology and we can't keep things out from their face as one day they will certainly go out and about. They will get married and live their own life. To get the right balance is so important, and I am trying and trying and tyring..

Above: AS work.

Above: One of unplanned and self learning from AS. If I am to ask him to do this, he won't. So, things like this I quickly capture as this is not in my lesson plan. Paper and writing story and document like this been made on his own time most of the time. He write better when I don't ask him to. Lots os Ialamic vocab comes from islamic studies we been doing, alhamdulillah and the understanding is from what we been talking about time to time.

Above: AS maths, he's now advance on three and four digit and mix regroup and not regroup.

Above: S maths. She will stay on this probably for at least two months.

Above and bottom: As favourate reading book borrow from library. He manage to finish the whole set of this from our local library and enjoy it very much.

Above and bottom: One of tings AS make in his break time during our homeschool routine. When he making this, I didn't actually realise what he is making as I was busy on other things and other kids were busy on their work. He like to make something like this but not all the time. so, usually I didn't sit and make things like this with him. It's usually come out when he feel like it and from his own ideas. Unfortunately when I try to sit and ask him to make something like this, he might run miles away!

Above: AS making aquarium him self while I a busy on other things and other kids busy on their works. This is not on my shedule or planner. But, this is what AS sometimes depends on his mood during his break time in our homeschooling. Sometimes I shoo him to go to another room as he keep talking and distrub others. But, he don't want it , so this is how he always ended up. Making something on his own and using whatever he can find himself.

Above and Bottom: S wanted to make cookies her self. This is happening about two months ago actually.

Science Experiment

On Thursday last week we been having some fun with science experiment. AS, MS and S were doing electrical circuit experiment while PS was playing with chemistry. It was a fun Thursday and we also manage to finish work for Maths for Friday as we going out and busy on Friday.

We had been off homeschool routine at the moment, as kids going to play with snow everyday and we also having difficulty with internet connection at the moment. I had to update this in the library with my net book.

We will have more guest by weekend and the rest of the week next week and our homeschool will resume until new year, Insya Allah.

Lesson 16th Dec 2009

AS:

Maths: Adding; to regroup ot not
English: vowel and word search
Islamic studies: A responsible muslim boy
Quran reading

S:

Maths: Multiplication
English: Writing and composition
Science: Circuit
Quran reading


MS:

Maths: Times and calender revisited
English: writing formal and informal letter
Science: Gravity and opposite forces and how we see things
Quran reading

PS:

Maths: Transformation
English: Media text
Geography: Settlement and housing
Islamic studies: History; North Africa
Quran reading

Lesson 15th November 2009

AS:

Maths: Adding with two regrouping. 2 set of worksheet done today. ( He getting quicker in adding with regrouping where in every question, one digit adding will have more than ten and had to regroup with the next digit. He learn the concept very quickly and today manage to do 2 set today in short time, alhamdulillah)
English: Learn about setting in writing. ( I found a good workbook from Morrison design for key stage one writing story. Inside they had made like a writing pad to learn how to write a story. He had learn about character before and how to describe. It's such a fun workbook and AS enjoying it so much and do not want to miss it every day. Just what I need in writing story)
Islamic studies: Still on Iqra workbook, elementary grade two 'we are muslim'. Today topic is about 'our duties to Allah' and 'we obey Prophet Muhammad' He learn about 'Iman mufassal' which he know already and he also learn that hadith is the saying of the Prophet and sunnah is the action of the Prophet s.a.w
Quran reading: Progressing slow and steady.
ICT: Play with ICT games from parents in touch website.


S:

Maths: Multiplying with mroe regrouping tens. More practice with mindsprinting worksheet.
English: Punctuation. Rewrite sentence and put and capital letters and full stop.
Science: Making circuit using plug and play. Also doing workbook with the same topic.
Islamic Studies: Ad Duha
Quran reading. Progressing steadily.

MS:

Maths: Time revisited. Today is about elapsed time. He's getting on pretty well, alhamdulillah. Attitude towards learning change now since he gain confident with maths. No more miserable face and even with other subject if they hard, he had a willingness to work hard.
English: Describin things
Science: Shadow and light
Islamic studies: Ad duha.
Quran reading. Progressing very nicely, alhamdulillah.


PS:

Maths: Transformation 1
English: Analyse poetry 2.
ICT: using online Allison course
Islamic studies: Haid chart
Quran reading. Progressing.


Alhamdulillah another happy homeschool day. Last night, around 10pm, kids was all over MS room and play with plug and play circuit. They making circuit for light bulb, alarm, using switch, using magnet and etc. We had lots of resource and I will use the one that not involved outdoor and mess at the moment. I'm still not finish doing planning yet for January and hopefully it won't be hard to do that, Insya Allah.