The snow is back. The kids have been pretty upset this winter because they hadn’t had the chance to get outside and use their toboggans due to the mild weather that we’ve had (they were sick a lot too).

Finally, we had a decent snow and the weather was okay so my husband took them out to a hill that’s at the far end of the field behind our house. I was able to spy on them from the balcony while the baby slept.

When they came back, my son was so excited that I couldn’t get him to focus for anything, lol.

Of course, little sis had to get in on the action. She says she’s serious/mysterious; to us, it sounds like “seewious/mysteewious”.

After everyone settled down, big sis was able to get into her Islamic Studies lesson and really enjoyed herself. We are still using the same books as before but we’re really taking our time with it so that the names and events stick.

We pulled out the atlas so that we could fill in a map as we go along; It was a blank map that I scanned from a book that we have but there are plenty of them online also.

We’ve also covered the continents and oceans but I’ll have to give her a spelling test, InshaALLAH.

Finally, she wrote a summary of the Battle of Badr and added a map and picture that we found online.