Aesa123 Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 Hello everybody I'm new here and also new to homeschooling. My first "official" year of homeschooling my first grader is approaching and I've spent a long time trying to figure out what curriculum to use. I'm looking for an Islamic centered classical curriculum that focuses on middle eastern literature and poetry and memorization of the Quran in a way that aligns with WTM. I cannot find this type of curriculum ANYWHERE. I know I can use my own chosen material and I don't necessarily need a curriculum but I feel I need that structure especially for our first year. Any advice or resources are appreciated! Thanks! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mergath Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 Have you checked out Youtube? I know there are a few Muslim homeschoolers with their own youtube channels who could probably point you in the right direction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 I'm of no help, but wanted to say welcome to the forums! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 Welcome. There used to be a curriculum an named Kinsa. But evidently it's changed. It's run by Sr. Elizabeth Hanson, Hamsa Yusef's (biological) sister. http://www.elizabethyhanson.com/lost-tools-curriculum/ It is just a plan of materials that could be pulled together. I don't think there's anything else. If you're familiar with classical education though, you can apply those principles to any body of work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aesa123 Posted March 27, 2017 Author Share Posted March 27, 2017 yeah I think my best bet is to watch YouTube and probably just create my own curriculum. It's a shame there's such a lack of Islamic curriculum because i know there are tons of Muslims who choose to homeschool. Anyways thanks you guys! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 There's little Deen explorers workbooks. http://www.readlittlemuslims.com/free-resources/little-deen-explorers/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 My IRL Muslim homeschool buddies are all unschoolers! Same, with a notable exception 😎 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 Welcome. There used to be a curriculum an named Kinsa... Say whaaat??? (Lol) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 Oh, and welcome to the forum, Aesa123! 😆 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ausmumof3 Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 yeah I think my best bet is to watch YouTube and probably just create my own curriculum. It's a shame there's such a lack of Islamic curriculum because i know there are tons of Muslims who choose to homeschool. Anyways thanks you guys! Maybe you can sell yours when you've designed it! Welcome to the forum. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joules Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 You may have already done this, but have you looked at private Islamic schools (either here or abroad)? When I was starting I found it helpful to look and see what curriculum/books the private schools were using in their classes. Sometimes they have information on their websites, or you could express interest and get more information via mail/e-mail. I still ended up re-inventing the wheel in some cases, but I've got to imagine there is already a literature/history program in existence. It may not be as rigorous as TWTM, but it would give you a place to start. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wintermom Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 Do you happen to have a private Islamic school in your area? They may have curriculum, or have developed something they would be willing to share. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umsami Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 Shaykh Hamza Yusuf used to have some interesting stuff regarding homeschooling. He started Kinsaa Academy, but no idea if that's still in operation. Here's a lecture he did Old thread too http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/97809-islamic-homeschoolers/ At one time, he had a copywork book of I want to say translated ahadith, things from the Qur'an, etc. You could totally incorporate something like that into your planning, and even have both Arabic and English copywork. The 1001 Muslim Inventions site has a lot of good stuff for science and the book is fab. I've added in some Demi books for the younger ages. There's one on Prophet Muhammad, Rumi, Ibn Battuta, etc. I love the book "Stars in the Prophet's Orbit" for Companions for older kids (high school) as it includes female companions. TJ had a great Islamic homeschooling site at one time. Alhamdullilah, these days there are Muslim co-ops even. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petrichor Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 I found Iqra seerah texts to be helpful, and ad-duha institute texts. History is still somewhat of a challenge. I end up heavily censoring/modifying some chapters of SOTW, but so far, we are still using it. With the Iqra seerah texts, I found that I have to use the 5th-6th grade books to read the lessons to my 1st-2nd grader. Their 1st grade book wasn't cutting it for me. Not enough information. And the best thing has been for me to learn. If I already learned the info from a reliable teacher/s, I can go ahead and teach my kids with confidence, even if I am using some other book as a spine in our islamic subjects. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petrichor Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 Say whaaat??? (Lol) I while back, when the curriculum was trying to gain interest, I thought your account was their company's presence on this forum. Then I read more of your posts and realized you were totally unrelated to them :D 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visitor Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 Welcome to the forum.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aesa123 Posted March 29, 2017 Author Share Posted March 29, 2017 Wow thanks you guys, so many great resources and ideas! I'm leaning towards using the ad-duha Islamic curriculum and using those Demi children's storybooks. I'll still use SOTW but just skip certain parts as one of you had said. Thanks for the help Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosie_0801 Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 I'm not Muslim, but I skipped parts of SOTW too and bolstered it with some Islamic history books. We liked Luqman Nagy's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlene Posted April 9, 2017 Share Posted April 9, 2017 I also plan to use SOTW with Islamic stories of the prophets in place of those chapters in the book. There is a website called stories of light which has really nice high quality books and audio books about the stories of the prophets, and the year of the elephant etc. The author's name is Mehded Maryam Sinclair. (Www.stories-of-light.com) The Kinza academy info seems to have been moved to sister Elizabeth Hanson's website.(www.elizabethyhanson.com) There is also www.al-qalam.org/Childrens_Books.htm The author of these books is Elma Harder. She homeschooled her own children. She has a book called Concentric Circles, which is about early childhood education with an Islamic worldview. There are also books about prophets, Ramadan, and Islam in general, for children. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlene Posted April 9, 2017 Share Posted April 9, 2017 I just noticed that okbud already posted the Kinza link. I also had a book back when I started homeschooling about teaching history from an Islamic perspective. I forget what it was called, and I can't define it now, but the author is Susan Douglass. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 9, 2017 Share Posted April 9, 2017 I just noticed that okbud already posted the Kinza link. I also had a book back when I started homeschooling about teaching history from an Islamic perspective. I forget what it was called, and I can't define it now, but the author is Susan Douglass. To that same ends, there is Destiny Disrupted (teens/adults) and the Stories of the World series. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aesa123 Posted April 9, 2017 Author Share Posted April 9, 2017 To that same ends, there is Destiny Disrupted (teens/adults) and the Stories of the World series. Is there a way I could somehow use that book with a first grader? Or is the language too difficult for her to understand? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 9, 2017 Share Posted April 9, 2017 Is there a way I could somehow use that book with a first grader? Or is the language too difficult for her to understand? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk The first stories of the world is fine for a first grader! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idnib Posted April 9, 2017 Share Posted April 9, 2017 Salaam! I think memorizing the Quran in the standard way many Muslims do absolutely aligns with the WTM classical philosophy of the poll parrot stage. :) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlene Posted April 9, 2017 Share Posted April 9, 2017 (edited) What is Stories of the World like? Is it similar to SOTW but from an Islamic perspective? Is it high quality? Is it written more like a text book or more like stories? Edited April 9, 2017 by Charlene Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted April 9, 2017 Share Posted April 9, 2017 (edited) The TEACHER MANUAL for WWE Complete Writer can be applied to making up your own lessons based on a reading from a holy book. https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Writer-Writing-Ease-Fundamentals/dp/1933339772/ref=mt_hardcover?_encoding=UTF8&me= Beechick's The Three R's language arts ideas will work with any Holy Book. https://www.amazon.com/Three-Rs-Ruth-Beechick/dp/0880620749/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1491774811&sr=1-1&keywords=The+3+rs Waldorf's first grade ideas for using Grimm's Fairy Tales can be converted to holy book lessons. Ella Frances Lynch ideas for memorizing Hiawatha to then use a primer work for any holy book. https://books.google.com/books?id=9JBJAAAAIAAJ&dq=ella+frances+lynch&source=gbs_navlinks_s Edited April 9, 2017 by Hunter 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 10, 2017 Share Posted April 10, 2017 What is Stories of the World like? Is it similar to SOTW but from an Islamic perspective? Is it high quality? Is it written more like a text book or more like stories? No. No. No and No :laugh: It bills itself as social studies mixed with environmental science. The series "confirms with the syllabus of the CBSE and NCERT," and is published in Dubai. It's not in narrative form like SOTW is. The chapters are strictly informational and they are followed by review questions, with space to write in the answers. There are a lot of pictures, but all in black and white. Parts of it are just egregiously, unforgivably wrong. For example, in book 2 they show a doctored picture of the moon with a **humongous** crack in it and say that it proof that Muhammad pbuh split the moon in half. It is "old earth." There are some typos and mistakes like huge blocks of text without proper paragraph breaks. Islam is highlighted throughout by just presenting AQ as fact (sometimes overly didactically so, as above). For example: Early men also began making houses of worship. the first and oldest house of worship is the Kabah in Makkah. It is more than four thousand years old. It was builts by the Prophet Adam and rebuilt by the Prophet Ibrahim. My take-away it is cheap enough to have around, easy to read and just glance over the comprehension questions to talk about with the kids. But you have to have a certain tolerance for incorrectness and an eye for the agenda of the author/publisher!! Never in a hundred million years would I say it's sufficient as a stand-alone resource and I don't think it should be handed to children to consume as if it is unmitigated fact. Also, it does not fit in anywhere in a classical education paradigm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlene Posted April 10, 2017 Share Posted April 10, 2017 Ok, well nevermind then! Lol. It sounds like it would drive me crazy. I think I will stick with SoTW with added Islamic sources then. Thank you, that was very helpful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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