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January 15, 2020

Arabic Seeds Review & Interview

Are you looking to teach your children Arabic at home as non-native Arabic speakers and not sure what to purchase or where to start? I’ve had the same trouble myself. That’s when I discovered Arabic Seeds!
Now luckily for me I WON a year’s subscription to Arabic Seeds membership in an online giveaway – it was the best prize ever! It was only then that I got to see first hand what Arabic Seeds is all about. The membership gave me access to so many Arabic Resources perfect for my children! With unit studies, fun activities and even videos to hear the language, I could feel this business started with a real sense of passion and love for the Arabic Language. But rather than just  hearing my thoughts on the membership, I wanted the founder herself to show you her passion for the Arabic Language which encouraged her to start her journey to creating Arabic Seeds, so I interviewed her! Here’s what she had to say:
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Tell us about yourself and how you got started with Arabic Seeds. 

Assalamu 3alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu! 

I am Emilie, founder of Arabic Seeds, a French mom currently homeschooling and living in British Columbia, Canada. 

I started to learn Arabic by myself at home around 2010, starting with reading, writing, and then grammar with the first Madina book. Since I was not practicing the language in my daily life, I started to feel the difficulties coming more and more, forgetting my lists of vocabulary, not really acquiring the grammar rules… 
But then two experiences boosted my learning and moved me towards more fluency alhamdulillah: I discovered the Arabic teaching book “Arabic between your hands” (“al arabiyyatu bayna yadayk”) using audios and real-life dialogues and I started to raise my baby in Arabic (along with French). Her father was speaking to her in Arabic but since he was away at work during the day and we were in a French-speaking environment, I decided to emphasize on Arabic with her: reading aloud to her everyday, talking to her in Arabic as much as I could (I started with words and simple sentences, and then was able to use more complex sentences and speak more fluently as I was practicing), playing in Arabic. 
She could understand it and then speak it from toddler age like any other children can do with their native language. She had acquired Arabic grammar rules without us having to teach her, but by just being exposed to the whole language in her daily life. 
When she was 5/6 years old she was able to read and write in Arabic and I truly believe that the fact that she was already used to the sounds of the language and what she was reading/writing was making sense to her eased her learning. She also can read Qur’an and basically understand various verses and ahadeeth (of course a more advanced knowledge is necessary when reading religious sources). We now homeschool in order to better balance her 3 languages (Arabic, French, English) and protect her Arabic in particular (and it’s not without challenges but we don’t give up, with the permission of Allah)
I would like to add that at the beginning, I particularly struggled to find quality, suitable Arabic children resources adapted to non-native speaking parents, like books with harakat and easy-to-read clear Arabic fonts, and no mistakes in the harakat (now even my daughter can spot them but at the beginning as a non native parent I needed more quality!) These experiences inspired me to start Arabic Seeds in order to help other families.

Tell me more about Arabic Seeds. What does it feature? What makes it so unique?

The goal of Arabic Seeds is to provide adapted Arabic resources to non-native speakers so that they can use the language in real life and really acquire it, and to promote the use of Arabic as a living language (not a dead-language that is only written and read and kept in textbooks. I studied some Latin and Ancient Greek during my Education in France and I don’t want Arabic to get classified in this category in the future). I strongly believe that the struggles experienced by a large part for Arabic learners in the West comes from the approach used to learn/teach it and by the lack of daily life exposure and practice. I don’t like to say that Arabic is a difficult language because that idea actually holds back learners instead of having them persevering and looking for the right approach to learn it.

 
The uniqueness of our resources may also come from how we create our resources. Based on my experience as a non native speaker, we create them following our own criteria to ensure the best/right quality for our customers:
  • carefully proofread resources (my husband is my trustworthy Arabic proofreader, and my daughter now also helps me spot the first typos)
  • English translation included. 
  • We purposely don’t provide transliterations as it can hold back and mislead learners, instead we now provide read aloud videos and audios to help non native speakers (members advantage)
  • vowels (“harakaat”) in the Arabic text, more space between letters to ease beginning readers, clear Arabic font for beginners.
  • meaningful topics inspired by kids & daily life and resources including full sentences so that learners can re-use what they learn in their own life and acquire the language! What you read or listen from our resources can be re-used when speaking.
  • resources designed with a professional software, illustrated with our own hand-drawn illustrations.
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What’s on offer at Arabic Seeds? Can you tell me more about the membership?

Arabic Seeds started in 2015 with an online digital shop and a blog to share tips with parents and teachers. Since 2018, I have started a new exciting adventure by offering an affordable membership subscription that give members access to all our resources as well as exclusive perks: read-aloud and “listen and repeat” videos of our stories and flashcards, tutorial videos and short texts with audios written by our daughter, exclusive printables, and resources organized into themed units. We are currently at 100+ resources alhamdulillah, adding more every month and planning to add online educational games in the future (I plan to outsource some content creation as soon as I can afford it in order to provide more and more to our members inshaaAllah).
The goal of Arabic Seeds‘ Membership is to offer a “feast” (to use a concept I discovered through the Charlotte Mason approach while homeschooling) of Arabic resources in order to expose learners to the whole language and make them listen, speak, read, write and connect with Arabic. Seeing the great response our membership has received alhamdulillah, it seems that this is what parents, teachers and homeschoolers were looking for. As a homeschooler myself, I absolutely love the convenience of being able to choose resources from a wide range of topics and formats in order to integrate them in my weekly plans and daily routines.   

What are your most popular resources and why?

I think that one of our most popular content are our themed units (offered in our membership). The themes we currently offer are: “Greetings and Introducing myself”, “Daily actions and routines”, “Fall’s treasures”, “Animals and little stories”, “At the park”, “Five senses at the beach”, “Winter joy’s”, Space, “I love Spring”, “Around the house”. 
Each unit is deliberately based on a printable book/story to give learners a meaningful context and engage them into learning. We then create the other unit’s resources (worksheets, flashcards, crosswords and colouring pages, rhymes, read-aloud videos etc.) to make the learners practice vocabulary/structures/sentences introduced by the book, and make them practice the 4 language skills (listen, speak, read and write).
We also recently started to release an engaging Arabic Alphabet series for preschoolers featuring our 2 kittens (Nashoot and Bannoon who are the main characters of several of our stories) and we have already received good feedback about these resources.
 
Our Seasons & Weather wall display includes full sentences to avoid a dry list of vocabulary.
The Arabic commands freebie and free Spring bundle are also very popular.

What advice would you give to parents teaching their children Arabic as a second language?

First, I would say that it is never too early or to late to start alhamdulillah! 
 
Then, my experience in raising my child in Arabic, as well as recommendations from bi/multilingualism experts (I particularly love to read the website multilingualparenting.com to debunk myths and concerns and to learn about strategies and tips) show that the best way to pass on Arabic to our kids is to regularly expose them to the fluent language (avoiding dry lists of vocabulary or grammar rules and cookie-cut language) and to integrate it into our life as much as we can.
 
I know this approach sounds overwhelming for non-native speakers so I recommend to start small but with regularity (10 minutes of “Arabic time” per day and then increase as much as you can). You can read more practical tips by age range in our Parents Guide. And if you have Arabic speakers around you, ask them to speak Arabic to your children even though they might feel it’s “weird” to speak in Arabic and not in a dialect, and they might have to search some words in the dictionary and refresh their memory and speaking fluency at the beginning. All the common efforts are so worth it! Make it a family/community affair! (By the way, our daughter uses Arabic when we visit her father’s family in North Africa – which delights them – and she also quickly picked up their local dialect. I am glad that we chose to put Arabic first alhamdulillah!)
 
Also, know that you won’t probably see results quickly, this is a long term journey, brain mechanisms are developing and making connections, don’t give up! With the appropriate resources, regular exposure, commitment, patience and perseverance, it is possible to acquire Arabic and to make it a language we use in our families bi’idhnillAh.

If you want to check out Arabic Seeds Resources before hopping on to sign up to the membership programme – check out the FREE RESOURCES on offer!

 

Arabic Seeds are also offering 10% OFF for our readers on a monthly or annual membership. Use code mamateachesarabic at checkout!

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by Eva Georgieva on January 15, 2020

What an incredible interview . Emilie is such an inspiration Masha Allah . We have used her resources in the past and my eldest two have loved it . Need to get back . Lovely review ….xxx

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by hafsah on January 15, 2020

Yes mA I love the ideas that stem from her resources and unit studies too 🙂

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by Nichole on January 16, 2020

What a thorough review! Very inspiring. I’m excited to see what Emilie and her family provides in the future with Arabic Seeds for those seriously seeking to learn Arabic.

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by hafsah on January 16, 2020

Yes me too! Thank you!

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by Islam - The Ultimate Truth on January 17, 2020

Jazak Allah Khayr for the review! There is also a website called duolingo that you may like!

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by hafsah on January 18, 2020

Thank you! Will have a look

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So for some time we’ve avoided mental maths on p So for some time we’ve avoided mental maths on purpose - working out in our heads causes us a little worry before we even see the questions. 
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So we did it slowly - with small addition and easy multiplication along the years when we felt like it . But was it consistent? Not really! And then this summer came where the girls were happy to dig into these @cgpbooks.uk and I thought Cool time to bring some Mental Maths back. And wow what an emotional rollercoaster it has been. But alhamdulillah alhamdulillah we are getting there. You know that saying it’s never the child who’s a bad student but the teacher (I don’t know if that’s how the saying goes, but making a point here) so ye bad teacher 👋- I forgot to teach and work on the strategies for mental maths - I focussed on ‘But you’re great at maths what’s the issue here?!’ 🙈🙈
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So we’ve nailed a few good strategies that are working alhamdulillah - definitely hoping to share more as we work more on this soon. 
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There’s something beautiful about planting a see There’s something beautiful about planting a seed. We follow the instructions, with the knowledge we have about planting seeds - but the results - only Allah knows!
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Same concept can be applied to all things in life - raising and nurturing your child for example but it’s Allah that determines their future. Just like the seed we can give them our utmost attention and care at the beginning and watch them grow. But at some point, like that plant will grow into a tree standing firmly on its roots - the foundation - same applies to our children as they grow up to be their own person standing up independently - we are but gardeners and nurturers ☺️
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Swipe to see some of the wonderful fruit and veg growing in our garden this summer alhamdulillah- really excited to see 14 apples on our apple tree 🍎 in sha Allah they grow fully for us to try at the end of summer. 
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In my journey with Mama Teaches Me Resources - One In my journey with Mama Teaches Me Resources - One of the first series I created was the MTM Hajj Series. It was such an important one for my children to understand especially as it was so close to home in Makkah alhdmdulillah. 

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It’s been quite some time since I took a book ou It’s been quite some time since I took a book out of the library for myself since motherhood (ok minus all the years I’ve been in Saudi) but still, I’ve only ever bought on kindle or from Amazon or bookshops. But borrowing from the library this time took me back to my weekly library trips with my siblings and mum. And just like those times I’d have read half or flicked through most of the books within a few days! 
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Living up-to my childhood tradition I was determined to get stuck into this book immediately- I’ve seen it recommended enough. 
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At 5am this morning I woke up to my youngest feeling a little poorly since last night, and then I remembered the half finished book. I’ve literally just finished it and cried like a baby at the end. 
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Follow up activities since our trip to Kew Gardens Follow up activities since our trip to Kew Gardens. 
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The girls used the Picture This app (swipe for more) to label the pictures of the plants and flowers we took photos of (thanks @homeschoolingmands for your pics too) 
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It was a lovely way to find out more about the flowers and plants and find out which climate they grew in by remembering where we saw them at Kew too. 
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Since the girls have become wildlife watchers with their new books - they’ve spotted a bunch of birds and insects in the garden and are determined to carry on (all because I gave them wildlife watcher badges from @thewildlifetrusts 😄) 
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In the mean time we’ve also kept some of our learning to cpg works books which means I get a break from preparing it all and it’s a great recap of what they already learnt or completely forgotten! 
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*Food Forever Exhibition at Kew Gardens* . At our *Food Forever Exhibition at Kew Gardens*
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At our recent visit to Kew Gardens we were fortunate to see the wonderful yet eye opening recycled trolls sculptures highlighting eating together, food waste and eating a more plant based diet - swipe to read more. It certainly inspired us to be more mindful about food waste - Art like this speaks volumes creates the impact and reminder we need to make the small changes we can! 
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The Forever Food Exhibition at @kewgardens is definitely worth the visit. For us, it was a great follow up to our food topic (which finally came to an end after 3 weeks of cooking with the kids full on 😅), thinking about food waste was huge. Over the years the girls and I have had discussions about eating all the barakah on our plates, giving left overs to the birds etc. We are yet to get into composting though! Starting mid June we have finally started our #30dayswildchallenge with @thewildlifetrusts - although I think we’ll be extending our nature studies all the way through summer ☀️ iA
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Swipe to read some of what we saw at the exhibition- the lab grown meat was definitely eye opening and makes you think lots of about the guidance we get in our Islamic Faith about what’s halal and tayyib (permissible and pure/ organic) 
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Are you thinking about recycling and food waste? How are you tackling it in your homes? Please share below to encourage us all - thanks 💚 
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Recipe Writing ✍️ . So whilst making spaghett Recipe Writing ✍️ 
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So whilst making spaghetti 🍝 and creating the video for the reel, we also had some recipe writing going on! It was a lot of work and spaghetti making felt like a chore all of a sudden! 🙈
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The kitchen, which was once my place to be away with my thoughts, listen to lectures and enjoy some alone time, was taken over by the kids- it doesn’t help that isn’t so big either- but somehow we managed it in the end alhamdulillah 😅
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There was however an interesting discussion on the instructions for recipe writing and why certain instructions are said a certain way and of course the detail you need to understand what to do in each process. At times it became frustrating for the eldest too - I’d recommend doing this a day later (which is how I’ve written it up in the plan - and this is why I only write up the topic plans and resources AFTER we’ve completed it so I can work around what actually worked and what we should have done instead for ease!) 
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Swipe for the full recipe and SAVE if you’d like to try it with your kids too! 
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How often do you have kids in the kitchen cooking or doing chores? 
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One of the absolute perks of homeschooling is havi One of the absolute perks of homeschooling is having family days out on weekdays - avoiding the holiday rush and busy weekends! 
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The girls are absolutely obsessed with Lego and of course don’t remember their first trip to Legoland when they were both under 5 so they were super excited to be finally going again!
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Although they were overwhelmed by the new VR ride Mythica (they had the eyes closed throughout the ride 😅) they haven’t stopped talking about the mythical fantasy beasts and animals that we saw! 
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They conquered their fears of the pirate ship and were totally shocked with how wet they got on the log flume 😂 (worse than Thorpe Park) lots of memories and fun alhamdulillah. The park closed at 4pm, however everyone spent another hour at the Legoland gift shop deciding what to buy. 
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Definitely worth going, look out for their early booking offers so you’re paying £34 per ticket instead of £64 each - swipe to see some of our fave snaps 📷 
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Are you children obsessed with Lego too?? What’s your number 1 perk for Homeschooling? 
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Our food topic has been full of practical learning Our food topic has been full of practical learning and so in order for things to work well we needed to plan out our big fun practical days like our Outdoor Cooking Experience 🍗 
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Swipe to see what how we planned it all - resource pack and planning coming soon iA 😅
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How planned or spontaneous are your homeed adventures? Sometimes I prefer the spontaneity but when it comes to the kids lessons I need to ensure we have everything we need 😄
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We LOVED looking through this book to look back at We LOVED looking through this book to look back at some of the origins of our favourite foods. Whilst doing so the girls got fixated on the cacao pod and so began our journey to try making chocolate from bean to bar - more on that soon! 
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Quite a thorough book - swipe to see more of the inside - the book covers lots of staple foods, their origins, their history and how they’ve developed through cultures and modernity- a handy book if you plan to do this topic! 
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SAVE this post and look out for our chocolate making post coming really soon iA 
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☀️ Things that make me happy ☀️ Tagged b ☀️ Things that make me happy ☀️ 

Tagged by my friend @asma_scribendi I’m sharing #littlethingsthatmakemehappy 😃 (other than time with friends and family) here’s my list: 

🌟 flowers 💐 love receiving flowers as much as I like sending them
🌟 travelling ✈️ 🛥 🚂 all kinds
🌟 trying new foods 
🌟 nature of all kinds - from 🌳 to 🏖 to 🏜 to 🏔 
🌟 Art 🖼 and creativity
🌟 walking / Hiking 
🌟 books 
🌟 being out in the sunshine 
🌟 perfume and scents and oud 
🌟 love iced coffee 
🌟 sunsets 
🌟 meeting new people 😊
🌟 reciting Quran out loud
🌟 coming back home to a tidy house 
🌟 organised kitchen and drawers 😅
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Alhamdulillah enjoyed writing that and feel quite blessed and grateful for the opportunities and blessings from Allah. Especially after my realisation that I need to schedule more me time in the month! Truly Allah knows what makes us happy and subhanAllah he paves the way for us in the most amazing of ways! 
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📸 snaps are from my day out without the kids on the weekend 
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I’m tagging @nurturing.learners @ourlivinghomeschool @rainbows_of_learning next! 
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Making sushi 🍣 🍱 . Another double firsts fo Making sushi 🍣 🍱 
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Another double firsts for the girls - making sushi and trying it - they literally gave the taste test 1/10 😂🙈 they are not fans of sushi at all ( I’m the fan) but they enjoyed the process of making it, they were exposed to new methods, new tastes and smells. 
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I, on the other hand am super happy I can now make my own home made sushi and experiment with my niece who actually LOVES sushi like me 😄 ( I did say our homeschool was about my interests too didn’t I 😅) I LOVED the taste test and can’t wait to make some more. All ingredients were found on Amazon - here’s what you’ll need: 
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🍣 bamboo mat (for rolling) 
🍣 white/brown sushi rice 
🍣 nori (roasted seaweed sheets) 
🍣 veg/fish of choice for filling 
🍣 pickled ginger 
🍣 wasabi (optional) 
🍣 soy sauce 
🍣 rice vinegar (I just used apple cider vinegar)
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Are you a sushi fan? Have you tried making your own? It’s actually not has difficult as it looks 🍣 
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A lot of the time our homeschool is about my learn A lot of the time our homeschool is about my learning as much as the kids. It’s my curiosity to see or do as much as theirs. So comes out my real excitement (like a big kid 😅) and theirs too. 
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Many decades ago I remember learning and later teaching fair trade and chocolate and looking a little at how chocolate was made and always thought it would be fascinating to make it from scratch with an actual cacao pod! From something we eat so regularly why have we barely accessed the fruit, the beans, the pod?!
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So spent some time online searching for a fresh cacao pod within a reasonable price (this was under £20) this one’s from the Caribbean and bought on eBay 😅 
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The girls’s reaction to the cacao fruit was priceless - little one ran out of the room thinking she was expected to eat it 😂 we did taste the fruit - it’s a little like lychee and tastes really good - a little sour and sweet too. We had a little read of cacao pods in our new book too - Swipe to see pics 📸 
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We will be back to share more on the chocolate soon - in the mean time we still have fresh home made yogurt to make, sushi to roll and an experience of cooking outdoors - all quite flexible but need the good weather for the latter experience ☀️
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Have you attempted to make chocolate at home? Do you ensure your homeschool is full of ways for you to learn and be curious too?  I was telling the girls isn’t it fascinating to have been able to invent chocolate 🍫 
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One of our fave features of homeschooling is the l One of our fave features of homeschooling is the lifestyle we create that works for us. It’s in our time, great weather, making memories and connections and of course flexibility etc.
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We love taking advantage of the weekdays for our days out to avoid the rush! The girls had their first proper dose of rock climbing today Alhamdulillah-  loved their enthusiasm to try something new.  Swipe to see the snaps 📸 
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We talk a lot about trying something new - whether it’s a new challenge or trying new foods. There are always different emotions attached - fear, nervousness, even anxiety due to a judgement or a perception that was made. Much of the time we realise we feel that way because it’s different and an unknown. 
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The lesson is really for us all - if we can look past our thoughts and have faith in ourselves to overcome the challenges by allowing ourselves to decide whether it’s for us or not with grace. If we can tell ourselves “we can” we have more opportunities in actually giving it a try!
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Have you ever come across a time you’ve had to encourage your child to see past a judgement they made through fear or anxiousness - or a challenge they find overwhelming? How have you consoled them? Would love to hear more
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🍍 EXOTIC FRUIT DAY 🍍 . The girls and I plan 🍍 EXOTIC FRUIT DAY 🍍 
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The girls and I planned an Exotic Fruit Day yesterday. We went out to our local markets in search of fruits we have never tried before! We wanted to guess how they’d look on the inside, how they would taste and more. 
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The girls were intrigued by the dragon fruit, papaya, passion fruit, apricot, golden kiwi, grapefruit and fig. They didn’t like the look of the custard apple at all - inside or out 🙈
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It was a fantastic way to get the girls to try new fruits and marvel at Allahs magnificent creation subhanAllah. They learnt about taste buds and the tongue. Hands on practical learning - super easy and fun 🤩 
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So share with us- which of these fruits do you like the most and which are you yet to try? Comment below 👇 we’d love to know 😊
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