Kategoria BISAC: Education >> Home Schooling

A New Box of Crayons offers the basis of an effective, affective language arts curriculum. One poem presented daily will do more to create clear, powerful writing than hours of lectures and textbook presentations. This happens because the poems sing songs of truth, immediately understood by students of all ages.

Precision in thought and speech are not, by nature, given. To really see and say things as they are takes courage, practice, and daily revision.

Whether you are a seasoned homeschooler or just curious about this educational option for your children, Fitra Journal offers a community of Muslim homeschoolers' experiences so that we may travel this less-worn path together, in sha Allah. Our diverse contributors hail from both Muslim and nonMuslim-majority countries and have experienced a wide variety of homeschooling styles. The journal publishes personal accounts, methodology explanations, resource reviews and a bounty of general homeschooling information and ideas, always from a deen-centered perspective.

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Fitra Journal is for parents who are homeschooling temporarily, longterm, or are just curious about this educational opportunity. Fitra Journal has brought together an international community of homeschoolers to provide you with the support and how-to for one of the most difficult tasks you will ever undertake. Written by Muslim homeschoolers for Muslim homeschoolers, the Fitra Journal uniquely addresses the issues we are most concerned about - striving to provide our children with both an academic as well as Islamic education, raising well-rounded, and deen-centered people.

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Watching Ants, Commitment, A New Box of Crayons, and Lines from Underground are all collections of poems that offer a solid foundation upon which to build an effective affective language arts curriculum.

Arden G. Thompson developed and taught the New Horizons Gifted/Talented Program in Wiscasset, Maine public schools for 27 years and then went on to teach the Excel Program in Thomaston, Cushing, and Tenants Harbor, Maine. For twelve summers she taught the Microcosmos Strand at the University of Connecticut's Confratute - an intense summer program attended by teachers and...