Homeschooling – Page 4 – This Beautiful Life of Ours

Pattern blocks

“To understand is to perceive patterns.” Isaiah Berlin

Stringing beads promotes a lot of developmental benefits to children including: -fine motor skills: helps grasping -cognitive skills: they have to think about the type and style of necklace/bracelet they will make. -visual perception: remembering and following a pattern -hand/eye coordination: requires the hands and the eyes to work in sync.

School in the Grocery Store

Do you ever wake up and not want to do school? Common question I get from parents wanting to test out this homeschool territory….and the answer is yes, absolutely. So what do you do then? Some days we push through and get it done. Other times I try to accomplish something else I need done…

Completing Reading of the Quran

He emerged, in the dimming afternoon sun, tall and lanky but with a smile plastered across his face. He had just completed reading the entire Quran, our holy book. As his mother, pride is a shallow word yet I cannot think of another that would do justice to explain the way I feel about…

Math Dice

Bought this over the weekend and we have had fun playing it this morning. Helps kids to see numbers in different ways. There is a 12 sided dice which you toss to get a number and there are also 5 six sided dice. The object is to try to find as many combination of numbers…