Asalamu’alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatu ladies, how are you? Over the years, I’ve shared a few things we’ve done in our homeschool that I hoped may benefit another sister reading these posts. But today I thought I’d share three things we no longer do in our Muslim homeschool because letting go of things that you feel you no longer need or that simply could be replaced with something better, is equally as important to keep your homeschool focused on what matters. And my homeschool doesn’t look the same now as it did when I first started, or even a few years in. Sure, some things are still t ..read more

Asalamu’alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatu ladies, How was your E’id? I hope you had a super joyous time with your loved ones. We had a beautiful time with close friends and delicious food from around the globe, Alhamdulillah (Malaysian food is SO yum!). This post is a little late but I thought it would be still useful for mothers out there still transitioning back to homeschooling ( which is also the reason this blog post is a little late to get published!) I know that post E’id feeling where everyones feeling tired (especially us mothers), still adjusting to routine after Ramadan and overal ..read more

Asalamu’alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatu ladies, how are you? Things have been busy around here which is why I haven’t managed to publish a blog post for some time; my older kids fell a little behind with some academic work, so we’ve had a short-term routine in place the last couple of weeks to get back on track; Alhamdulillah, we’re almost there! And that leads me in today’s topic, connect first, the learning will come. Because in the past, these types of adjustments would have been a lot harder for me to cope with; and I don’t mean the organising part of things. Because printing off a che ..read more

Asalamu’alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatu ladies, I hope you’re well.   After recently holding the free ‘5 Steps to Simplify Your Homeschool’ workshop, I’ve had many messages from sisters who want to homeschool but don’t know where to start.  So I thought I’d put this post together to help you get started in sha Allah.  This was an old post which I’ve added more to, and republished to make it more comprehensive and hopefully useful to sisters out there who are yet to start or are new in their homeschool journey, and need direction in how to start homeschooling.   ..read more

Asalamu’alaykum was rahmatullahi was barakatu ladies. How are you? It’s already November, and I’m enjoying the cool winter weather, Alhamdulillah. So today, I thought I would touch upon something very relevant for us all, no matter where we are, how many children we have, and how long we have homeschooled our children for. And that is being present in our homeschool. Now you might be thinking ‘Umm Saleh, I’m at home with my children, I homeschool them, of course, I’m present with them!‘ But the reality is that even though we might be physically present, we aren’t always emotionally present. Th ..read more

Asalamu’alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatu, I hope you’re having a wonderful week so far. It’s been a busy week so far for us, but I’m enjoying the cooler mornings and colder nights. Winter is my favourite season of the year, Alhamdulillah, and I look forward to it, as do the kids. But, before we get into the tips, let’s stop for a moment and think about what is a ‘knowledge gap’ anyway. Well, a knowledge gap is basically discovering that your child doesn’t know about something you feel they should. Notice I said, ‘feel they should‘. And the reason I say this is because that is all it is. Fo ..read more

Asalamu’alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatu ladies. Alhamdulillah, I’m ready to share my ten-year homeschool reflection with you all. Today’s post is a deeply personal one. In fact, it’s made me pretty emotional and quite teary. As I think back and reflect on how my children were so young, small, fragile, our steps into homeschooling without even the ‘label’, the assortment of things we’ve done together, the books we’ve read, discussed, taken something away from and still talk about to this day, the learning we pushed to get done even when we were tired; the hours I have spent with my children ..read more

Asalamu’alaykum ladies, how are you? Personally, I look forward to Tuesday’s because it’s mid-week for us, meaning things get a little less intense from Wednesday onwards, Alhamdulillah. Onto today’s topic, staying close to our home in our muslim homeschool. Well – all I mean is making our home, our circumstances, our children, our family structure, at the forefront of any decisions we make in our muslim homeschools. Now, you would think that must be an obvious thing to do, because it is homeschool at the end of the day, we are with our children most of the day, we teach them largely at home ..read more

Asalamu’alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatu you heard right sis, batch scheduling for your muslim homeschool this time, not batch cooking. Last week’s blog post about time not being the measure of a successful homeschool seemed to have resonated with a lot of you, Alhamdulillah. With so much to do, lots to fit in, and even after having simplified, there can be a lot we need to get through in our Muslim homeschool. So I thought I’d follow up that post with a practical tip on how to manage things, without compromising the time we spend on things, using batch scheduling. And like many mothers, I ..read more

Asalamu’alaykum was rahmatullahi was barakatu ladies. It’s been a while since I’ve written up a blog post. With full on homeschooling, and launching The MHSM Membership, things have been busy. But today, I want to touch upon what I believe is something that when many of us begin to simplify our homeschools. And that is using time as the measure of our progress. And specifically, there is an overwhelming belief that simplifying our Muslim homeschool means that everything will just take less time. Less time planning. Less time teaching. Less time overall homeschooling. Right? We associate simpli ..read more