Hannah spent some time researching ideas and techniques for her nature journal today. We pulled out the oil pastels that a dear sister sent us all the way from the UK, maashaa Allah.
Jamilah also experimented with using oil pastels as a medium in addition to spending some time researching her latest creature find, a Eastern newt. She found it in the woods while out on a frisbee golf excursion with her father. I printed this coloring page and information and this website about the creature for her and she pasted it into her nature journal.
I really get excited when we can weave art, science, nature, and Islamic studies (the story of Prophet Ibrahim(peace be upon him) and the salamander) into our daily curriculum. We love to relate it all back to what the children have discovered on their own. Learning seems so much more meaningful this way.
Islamic Homeschooling in the River City 
It was easy.