SLOWLY COMING BACK...

Wow! It sure has been a while since I last posted here. A number of reasons has kept me away, mainly laziness on my own part. We had our home education visit back in May and since then we have hardly done a thing. I didn't realise how hard it would be to home school with a new baby in the house. Baby I is now almost 7 months maashaaAllaah and if I am honest I am still struggling to find a routine that works for us. To add to that I am pregnant again maashaaAllaah so the tiredness is double! I must keep going though as A and L should not suffer due to 'life' getting in the way. There are always going to be things going on and I have to find a way to somehow juggle it all.

Anyway just a quick post to try and get back into the whole world of blogging again and to try and motivate myself into doing what I once so loved to do.

We visited Hastings for a weekend which was a nice break. The weather was not so great but it was lovely to just spend some time as a family away from the madness of London. Whilst we were there we visited an aquarium and I was amazed at some of the designs and colours of the fish that we saw. Allaah's creations are simply breathtaking. The pictures are a little blurry as I had to use my phone.

We also used the opportunity to do a little research on the Battle of Hastings. We haven't got round to doing much written work on that yet but alhamdulillaah the children and I know more about it than we did before we went so I guess it still counts as learning. 

We have also been doing some Geography work and a mini fact file sheet for different countries. I printed off a 'passport' for each of the children at twinkl and for every country we work on, I stamp their passports as if they have visited that country. We also made boarding passes at Ticket O-Matic which the kids thought was a fantastic idea. 

Obviously A and L wrote their names in the passports but I removed them to show here!

The children have also been working on their animal lapbook and are currently doing some work on Bees. After all the effort that went in to making our solar system lapbook from scratch i opted for the easy option this time and purchased a lapbook about bees from currclick which made my life a lot easier.  

For arts and crafts A and L painted some baby food jars with glass paints which they really enjoyed. We purchased the glass paints from yellow moon.  I personally think they are quite expensive but we have used them a number of times and there is still quite a lot of paint left, so I guess you get what you pay for. 

That is about it really, as I said not much going on at the moment. Children are still learning Qur'aan and Arabic and alhamdulillaah my husband has now found a teacher who will come to our home 2x a week to teach them. 

I hope to get back on top of things now inshaaAllaah and be more active with the children now the morning sickness period has finished. Du'aas greatly appreciated :-D