Muslim Homeschoolers
By teaching, you will LEARN. By learning, they will TEACH.
Muslim Homeschoolers Cooperative is an important part of the infrastructure of our community and plays a critical role in supporting the whole child, not just their academic achievement. Our focus is to protect the health, safety, and wellbeing of our families,
and prepare a fun educating environment for our children.
Muslim Homeschoolers
Muslim Homeschoolers Co-op is a homeschool group with the desire to build relationships and community among homeschool families in the South Jersey area and beyond. We offer an inexpensive social, as well as an educational experience, for both the students and the parents through our workshops and activities. Our co-op is a family affair, not a drop-off program. Parents work together to lead workshops in the subjects and age groups they feel most equipped. We also bring in professional instructors to teach exciting workshops our children would not otherwise have access to. Classes are taught from the Muslim perspective and are geared to enhance what the students are learning at home. We want you to come to find your place with us. Words can only describe our homeschooling network but so much. A visit will let you experience it. Learn about our families, community impact, and how we support our children here at Muslim Homeschoolers.
Welcome to Our 11th Fall Semester!
ROOTED & READY
Rooted in Faith. Ready to Learn. Prepared to Lead.
Bismillah! Muslim Homeschoolers Cooperative is excited to welcome new and returning families to our 11th Fall Co-op Semester!
As we begin this new chapter, we hold tight to our mission:
“By teaching, you will LEARN. By learning, they will TEACH.”
For more than a decade, our co-op has created a space where Muslim homeschool families can learn, explore, build friendships, and grow together. This Fall, we return with renewed intention and another exciting semester of hands-on workshops, special guests, field trips, Islamic enrichment, creativity, movement, exploration, and community.
Our theme, Rooted & Ready, reflects what we hope to cultivate in our children. We want them firmly rooted in their Islamic identity and character, curious and confident in their pursuit of knowledge, and prepared to carry those values into the world around them.
At Muslim Homeschoolers, we believe education extends far Beyond the Books. Our multi-age workshops encourage children to ask questions, discover new interests, create, collaborate, problem-solve, and learn from talented parents, passionate professionals, and members of our community.
Whether homeschooling is a short season for your family or a journey through graduation, we encourage our families to be intentional with this precious time. Together, we are building foundations, nurturing inquisitive minds, strengthening character, and creating meaningful experiences our children can carry with them long after their homeschool years.
Here's to another semester of dreaming, challenging ourselves, learning, and growing together.
Welcome to Fall at Muslim Homeschoolers.
Let's get Rooted & Ready!
Knowledge for Every Level
Muslim Homeschoolers tries to always bring unique and exciting workshops to our families for all levels. Over the years, we have helped students of all ages boost their creativity and surpass their academic goals. Scroll below to review our Summer workshops.
Early Childhood: Littles —led by Sister Kie & Sister Sajwa
Our Little Gems will explore a weekly theme through movement, arts and crafts, stories, and engaging activities. Each day we will circle time. Practice the skills that will help them grow into better Muslims. Cleanliness, empathy, cooperation, and trustworthiness while practicing essential reading, math, and handwork skills.
Littles Ages 0-3: Discovering Allah’s Beautiful Creation
A playful, sensory-filled journey through Allah’s beautiful creation! Little ones will explore animals, nature, colors, water, and more through movement, stories, and hands-on play designed for curious little minds.
Week 1- Allah Made Little Me!
Week 2- Peep, Moo, Baa!
Week 3- Rainbow, Rainbow, What Do You See?
Week 4- Smell, Touch, & Grow!
Week 5- Buzz, Wiggle, Flutter!
Week 6- Splish, Splash, Allah Made Water!
Week 7- Swim, Little Fishy, Swim!
Week 8- Good Morning Sun, Good Morning Moon!
Week 9- Who Left Those Foodprints?
Week 10- SubhanAllah, What a Wonderful World!
Playschool —led by Sister Angie and Sister Nadyah
Playschool Ages 3-5: Discovering Allah’s Beautiful Creation
A fun, hands-on journey through the wonders of Allah’s creation! Each week, children will explore a new part of our amazing world through simple experiments, nature discoveries, art, sensory play, stories, and movement while building curiosity and a love for learning.
Week 1- Allah Made Amazing Me!
Week 2- A World Full of Color!
Week 3- Drip, Drop, Whoosh!
Week 4- Tiny Seeds, Big Wonders!
Week 5- Crawl, Wiggle, & Flutter!
Week 6- Roar, Stomp, & and Hop!
Week 7- Dive into Allah’s Oceans!
Week 8- Moon, Stars, & the Great Big Sky!
Week 9- One Big Wonderful World!
Week 10- Alhamdulillah for Our Amazing World!
Early Childhood: Primary—led by Sister LuLu, &
Primary: First-Third Grade or at least 6+
Our Primary learners are in for an exciting Fall! Students will explore the world of coding through fun, age-appropriate activities that encourage creativity, problem-solving, and critical thinking. They’ll also enjoy a cozy Fall trip to the public library, discovering seasonal books and exploring the children’s collection. To keep growing minds and bodies active, Healthy Movement will encourage coordination, confidence, teamwork, and the joy of staying active. A Fall filled with thinking, exploring, and moving!
CODING - Sister LuLu
Get ready for a fun, hands-on robotics adventure! Students will explore the basics of line-following robots through interactive challenges, creative problem-solving, teamwork, and plenty of experimentation.
Along the way, we’ll connect our learning to Islamic values, such as curiosity, responsibility, cooperation, perseverance, and reflecting on the amazing creations of Allah
Primary Boys & Girls - LOCAL PUBLIC LIBRARY
Our Primary Class will enjoy a cozy autumn adventure at the library! Students will tour the children’s section with a librarian, listen to a fall-themed book, and create a related craft. They’ll have free time afterwards to explore the floor and delight in stories that bring the season to life.
Outdoor Adventures
Grab your sneakers and get ready to explore! Outdoor Adventures is an active, nature-school-inspired workshop that gets our Primary learners outside to move, investigate, observe, create, and discover.
Through nature walks, scavenger hunts, movement games, outdoor challenges, experiments, and team activities, children will experience the natural world as a living classroom. Along the way, students will be encouraged to recognize the beautiful signs of Allah found throughout His creation and practice gratitude, curiosity, responsibility, cooperation, and care for the Earth.
Elementary Girls & Boys 8-11
Islamic Studies 101 Faith In Action-
Ustadh Michael
Our Elementary students will strengthen their Islamic foundation through engaging lessons on Taharah (purification), Salah (prayer), and the lives of the Prophets. Students will explore the stories and lessons of Prophets Adam, Nuh, Saleh, and Yunus (peace be upon them), connecting their experiences to faith, character, obedience, patience, and everyday life. Each unit will conclude with a comprehension quiz to reinforce key concepts and encourage students to retain and apply what they have learned.
Girls - Crocheting Sister Amal Khayata
From fun, beginner-friendly projects, to the more advanced, among budding crocheting enthusiasts, this workshop will take you on a colorful journey of yarn.
Sr. Amal will teach you the steps you need to get started; what kinds of yarn and hooks to use, how to hold your hook and yarn, how to make a slip knot, chains and single crochets.
If you have never crocheted or if you are just getting started and want to practice with Sr. Amal, this class has it all!
Boys - Survival Skills: Ready, Responsible & Resilient
Ustadh Adil Ismaaeel
This active, hands-on workshop introduces our Elementary boys to basic survival, outdoor, preparedness, and leadership skills. Each week, boys will complete a new Survival Mission while connecting the experience to an Islamic character or leadership principle.
The goal is to build boys who are increasingly capable, prepared, resourceful, responsible, cooperative, and ready to serve others.
Farm to Table - Dr. Sharon
In this hands-on workshop, children will explore where our food comes from and discover how crops make their way from the farm to our tables. They’ll learn about the different fruits, vegetables, and crops grown in New Jersey and which crops thrive during each season. Through engaging, age-appropriate activities, students will explore farming, growing, harvesting, and food preparation. The workshop will encourage children to connect with the land and develop a greater appreciation for the farmers who grow our food. Most importantly, they’ll have fun learning about the journey from seed to table!
Secondary Girls & Boys Middleschool & Highscool Ages or 12+
Secondary Girls- Ustda Asmaa:
Becoming Her: Faith, Womanhood & Self-Care
*Becoming Her* is a thoughtful and empowering workshop designed to help our Secondary girls navigate the transition into young womanhood with knowledge, confidence, and faith.
Girls will explore what it means to become mukallaf and how maturity brings new responsibilities, while learning practical ways to live within their faith as young Muslim women. Discussions will include understanding puberty and body changes, menstrual health, cycle tracking, creating more peaceful periods, feminine hygiene, skin care, beautification, emotional wellness, self-care, and physical fitness.
The workshop will also reach beyond personal care to introduce meaningful aspects of homemaking, responsibility, organization, and creating relaxing spaces and routines.
Our goal is to provide girls with a safe, age-appropriate environment where questions are welcomed and growing into womanhood is approached with care, knowledge, confidence, and gratitude, helping each girl understand that caring for herself, her faith, and her environment are all part of becoming the young woman she is meant to be.
Secondary Boys- Ustadh Adil Ismaaeel:
The Muslim Man Cave
Faith • Discipline • Brotherhood • Leadership
Welcome to The Muslim Man Cave is a safe, brother-centered space where our young men can have real conversations about growing up becoming responsible Muslim men. This workshop goes beyond puberty to cover becoming mukallaf, fitrah and grooming, personal hygiene, ghusl, lowering the gaze, avoiding inappropriate content, controlling desires, voluntary fasting, self-discipline, and taking pride in being clean and well-groomed.
But becoming a man is about much more than taking care of yourself. Boys will explore leadership, accountability, brotherhood, work ethic, money and business, preparing for marriage and family life, and what it means to become a dependable Muslim man.
Through honest conversations, practical skills, challenges, and mentorship from Muslim men, we're creating a space where boys can ask questions, build confidence, and prepare for the responsibilities ahead.
Because before you can lead others, you have to learn to lead yourself.
NRA Basic Pistol Course
Sergeant Jelani Nyahuma
This 8-week course covers firearm safety, handling, maintenance, and marksmanship. Participants will develop their skills through structured lessons and a live session at the range, where participants can practice what they’ve learned. They will build confidence with safely handling and shooting a pistol for protection and survival.
Secondary Boys : Video Editing
with Joel Nazario
This 11-week hands-on program introduces participants to the creative and technical process of Video Editing.
Get behind the lens and jump into the fundamentals of creating and editing your own videos.
Students will learn how to shoot, direct, edit, and create their very own professional style videos, ending with a real-life commercial project.
This workshop has all the bells and whistles. Engaging storytelling and polished cinematic footage will teach students all about videography, while they have a blast with Mr J.
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Muslim Homeschoolers Cooperative
Dream. Challenge. Succeed.
Muslim Homeschoolers provides an integrated workshop schedule of learning through exploration, vigor, and self-reflection. In every workshop, our Leads emphasize the strategies and processes involved in learning and self-growth, creating a unique opportunity to prepare our students to live thoughtful, creative, and fulfilling lives in a rapidly changing society. Register for our hands-on, innovative workshops and allow your children to take part in a unique, challenging learning experience.
Muslim Homeschoolers is here to creatively nurture children in all aspects of personal growth: Cognitive, physical, social, and emotional. Each child shall have the opportunity to achieve the objectives set out for them and their own personal learning goals. Each workshop is multi-aged, multi-grade level with a heterogeneous grouping of children.
Littles —led by Sister Hannah & Nadyah
Babies & Toddlers or
Ages up-2.5/3
Little ones will learn through child-centered educational play geared toward Montessori style learning and character development. Students will explore nature themes, build practical life skills, and explore Islamic ethics in meaningful and engaging ways. Learners in this workshop can look forward to being engaged through sensory activities, song, movement, puppet theater and more. Rather than a classroom, it is a nurturing community where very young children experience their first structured contact with other children. After they begin to walk, children join their toddler peers in learning motor coordination, independence and language are cultivated.
Playschool —
Preschoolers & Kindergarten Level or
Ages 3/3.5-5 (Potty Trained)
Playschool's main focus is on developing the building blocks for learning. The well rounded program strengthens the child’s intellectual, cognitive, social, creative and emotional skill set and prepares the students for education. The playschool workshop will explore Language, Mathematics, Science and Islamic Studies through play-based learning. They will foster their fine and gross motor skills with fun and stimulating hands-on activities. This workshop will also encourage creativity and participation through Arts and Crafts, Rhythm and Movement.
At this stage of development your child should be able to grasp the following concepts:
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Learning basic self hygiene care (Can be taken to the bathroom with minor assistance).
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toileting
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bathing
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dressing
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Acquire positive self concept
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Develop social skills
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Establish expressive and receptive language
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Enhance physical development and perceptual motor skills
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Explore creative expression and appreciation for the arts
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Partake in discovery, exploration, and experimentation
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Develop a respect for cultural diversity
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Learn basic concepts as they gain critical thinking and problem solving skills
You shall have an awareness of how your child is maturing and developing. The Lead will actively observe children and provide progressive lessons that are appropriate for each child’s enrichment and development.
Primary —
First to Third Grade Level or
Ages 6-9
The Primary's enriched classroom environment allows the child to work independently and cooperatively, building upon concrete ideas with more abstract principals. The product of this creative, child-centered community is individuals who are self-motivated, confident and academically accelerated. Developmentally the Primary workshop will have learning activities that will reflect each child’s individuality & creativity. Children will explore learning concepts in reading, writing, math, spirituality & artistic expression for critical growth in all cognitive areas.
At this stage of development your child should be able to grasp the following concepts:
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Established self hygiene care
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toileting
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bathing
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dressing
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Established the concept of sharing and cooperation
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Develops independence and self-responsibility
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Acquire positive friendship skills
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Establish self and emotional control
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Permits younger children to learn by observing older children
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Demonstrates care of people & the environment
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Enhance love of learning
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Explore creative expression and appreciation for the arts
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Partake in discovery, exploration, and experimentation
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Develop a respect for cultural diversity
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Learn basic concepts as they gain critical thinking and problem solving skills
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Provides leadership experience at each age level
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Develop mathematical concepts
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Develop reading & writing concepts
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Develop language skills including intro to Arabic & Spanish words.
You shall have an awareness of how your child is maturing and developing.
The Lead will actively observe children and provide progressive lessons that are appropriate for each child’s enrichment and development.
Elementary —An Array of Workshops & Instructors
Third - Sixth Grade Level
Learning to become independent thinkers and self-directed are two developmental goals of the elementary program. We strive to understand and then challenge each child according to his or her developmental needs and capabilities. Children learn to become responsible for their own learning as they make daily decisions and choices in our hands-on workshops. Becoming mindful of the consequences of choice is an essential habit for success in life. Most of the workshops for Elementary are taught by Passionate Professionals who come to our co-op to teach an interactive course.
At this stage of development your child should be able to grasp the following concepts:
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Established Reading & Writing Fluency
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Established Active Listening and Speaking
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Established Math Operations
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Addition & Subtraction Fluency
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Learning Multiplication & so on
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Explore creative expression and appreciation for the arts
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Partake in discovery, exploration, and experimentation
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Demonstrates self and emotional control
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Permits younger children to learn by observing older children
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Demonstrates care of people & the environment
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Enhance love of learning
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Explore creative expression
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Ability to think critically and practice problem-solving skills
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Provides leadership experience at each age level
You shall have an awareness of how your child is maturing and developing.
Secondary —An Array of Workshops & Instructors
Middle & Highschool Grade Level
We strive to understand and then challenge each child according to his or her developmental needs and capabilities. Children learn to become responsible for their own learning as they make daily decisions and choices in our hands-on workshops. Becoming mindful of the consequences of choice is an essential habit for success in life. Most of the workshops for Secondary are taught by Passionate Professionals who come to our co-op to teach an interactive course.
At this stage of development your child should be able to grasp the following concepts:
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Formal reports, essays, and descriptive writing.
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Literary and Socratic discussions provide many opportunities to discover new insights from listening to different points of view and from discussing complex and elusive ideas.
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Math Operations
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Effort and class time are focused on the mastery of common and decimal fractions, the key prerequisite for success in algebra, geometry, and statistics introduced in Middle School.
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Problem-solving that integrates the different areas of mathematics is presented for creating outcomes based on multidisciplinary strategies through peer collaboration.
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Explore creative expression and appreciation for the arts
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Partake in discovery, exploration, and experimentation
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Demonstrates self and emotional control
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Permits younger children to learn by observing older children
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Demonstrates care of people & the environment
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Enhance love of learning
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Explore creative expression
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Ability to think critically and practice problem-solving skills
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Provides leadership experience at each age level
You shall have an awareness of how your child is maturing and developing.
For more information on our courses, rates and availability, feel free to contact us.
Our Values
At South Jersey Muslim Homeschoolers we understand that each of our children has individual wants and needs. We believe that learning can only be fostered from a feeling of mutual respect, guidance, and direction. We do our very best to maintain these values. Our unique approach supplies our children with the proper support system that will help lead them down the path to success.
Project Lead Workshops
Enroll in our hands-on, innovative workshops and take part in a unique, challenging learning experience. Our mothers serve as facilitators in the course, guiding children through exploring and individual learning. Give us a call if you want to learn more.
Consistent Encouragement
Workshop Leads at Muslim Homeschoolers will go out of their way to engage the children and inspire them to inquire and learn. This method gives our children a chance to apply their unique skills and expand their horizons by learning something new.
Email us today if you want to learn more.