Practical Life Skills - Activity 1

Bismillah ,

Assalam u alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh,

We did another activity related to practical life skills.

I provided two containers ( once closed with a slit - i used roasted honey peanuts can - RECYCLED ) and the glass contains pasta of flower shape. I gave a demo to Subhana that how she has to insert this flower pasta in a can.

AlhamdulAllah she followed me and loved to repeat it again and again. I also asked her to do counting too.

Clothes Theme - Arabic Counting Activity

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Assalam u alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh,



This weekend we continued our arabic numbers activity with clothes theme. Again , Umm Nauman has shared  beautiful file folder games to us. In all , there are two file folders :

1. Shirts with buttons ( a child needs to count the numnber of buttons and then place another numbered shirt on it )
2. Numbered Hangers ( a child places the corresponding blue shirts to it) , mashAllah she has provided variety of shirts.
3. Mini Book - Clothes , A gift from Allah ( in this book , we both ( yes , me too :)) have learned the arabic names of clothes we wear. AlhamdulAllah , Umm Nauman had already listed the arabic names which are given below.

Qamees - shirt

- Sirwal - pants

- Fustaan - dress

- Jawaarib - Socks

- Hidha' - Shoes

- Mi'taf - Coat/Jacket

Subhana colored the shirts with a great interest when i was cutting them

counting buttons and shirts placement

final required result

demonstration :)

numbered hangers.....between i love them

specially these :)

Clothes - A gift from Allah

subhana pasting clothes in the book.

applying UHU stick on pants - she enjoys it

we also learned dua of wearing clothes which was in the end of the mini book

This activity is under going . inshAllah , I will be posting more about it in the coming posts. Need to introduce Hijab , Abaya and Niqab , Khimar ( dupatta) , Shalwar Kameez etc as our part of clothes too.

Ladybugs Counting Activity

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Assalam u alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh,

We did a ladybug activity on the base of counting in both arabic and english . Subhana took interest in this activity and was eager to do it again . This activity is quite handy for the toddlers for their motor and sensory skills. AlhamdulAllah. JazakAllah Khaira to sister Umm Nauman who has provided a number of activities , themes and file folder games for the sake of Allah SWT.





these are the numbered ladybugs are to be placed on the basis of dots counting




in action



closeup

these are the dotted ladybugs  placed on counting dots

Phonics Lapbook

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Assalam u alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh,

 

Last month , I saw this lapbook related to phonics on a sister's blog . The plus point of this lapbook is that it has flash cards related to Islam with other normal cards. For example : A for Allah , K for Kaaba , Q  for Quran , H for Hijab etc. Each alphabet has 6 cards or less . A child is asked where to put that respective card on the basis of sound. AlhamdulAllah , Subhana enjoys it and her practice of phonics is refining as well along with the three letter words reading.

Phonics Lapbook - I have joint 2 file folders 

close up

sorry for the inverted pic , my option is disabled to rotate the pic. But just for an idea i have put it here.

Islam is my life ! ( Islamic Preschool Curriculum)

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Assalam u alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh

Finally , we have started Islamic Preschool Curriculum . Idea taken from Umm Nauman and Umm Maimoonah. JazakAllah khair to these sisters who has conceived such a master piece in the sense of today's toddlers.

First Week : Where is Allah ?



Montessori Activities!

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Assalam ualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh!

Last week , Subhana did some montessori activities which are given below:

Use of a tweezer by placing pom pom balls in a vacant fishes! This activity helps a child to have fine motor skills through little fingers.

Subhana pretended as she is giving food to fishes.

Marble painting through shaking

Colors ready to get mix mix

marble are ready to get a shake shake

here subhana starts shaking and laughing out loudly mashALLAH at the same time :)

the end result .....the splash of colors mixed

two more artistic posters on the canvas

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

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Recently , we borrowed an ever famous book for toddlers and that is "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" . Subhana really enjoyed the way the caterpillar is coming out of every fruit and going to another. From this book , she got new words and concepts "cocoon" , "life cycle of a butterfly" and " when we eat a lot , we become fat " and whenever she sees someone fat , she says " mama , look he/ she is fat because they have eaten a lot of food" . Smile. After reading this book , we did some arts and crafts related to caterpillar. 

caterpillar made of egg carton ,cheerios for eyes , and straws for antenna.

caterpillar made of construction paper.

Reading three letter words!

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MashAllah , subhana has learnt the sounds of alphabets. Because of that , she has also learnt how to read three letter words. For sounds , we used Jolly phonics video on YouTube. For Jolly Phonics Handbook which is unbelievably online for free download . And for jolly phonics workbooks can be found here.

Well , those were the details for learning sounds through actions. But just to check subhana that ow she blends the sounds , I am using progressive phonics. AlhamdulAllah she is really doing well. She can reads words along with pronounciation of sounds like c-a-t implies to cat. Bat , rat , sat , pat , mat , pan , ran , can , fan etc. You can downlaod free resources from here .

Moreover , we borrowed a book from a library and it's " I can spell " book with a beautiful catchy cover for kids. This book is really helping us a lot in improving our reading of three letter words.

I also bought a book of phonics which has an interesting aspect of revolving the circular round shaped cards words corresponding to the correct picture. When you will see the close up of the picrue , you will get an idea inshAllah.

Well that's the update on literacy for now!

Farm Animals Tot Book !

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Last month , I made a Tot Bok based on Farm Animals . I saw this activity from a Christian blog , where she has shared the pages to download . It was indeed a nice effort by her to get familiar a toddler with farm animals . This Tot book includes matching , puzzle , ABCs of the farm , sequencing , heads and tails matching and counting animals. At first , when I thought to make it , I didn't had a file folder. So I thought to cut out the cheerios box and to recycle in a sort of a file folder. Well , now I have finally got the the file folders . They are indeed play an important role in homeschooling. Well , I come back to the farm Tot book pictures which are given below:

sorry for the pictures taken so oddly , next time , i ll take pictures in an appealing way.

Signs of Sense of Responsibility !

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Today , when we returned home , I just took off my shoes and went to my room to hang my abaya. When I came back , I saw Subhana putting her shoes back in the shoe rack . At that instant , I thought I did something . I felt again a sense of achievement , alhamdulAllah. I gave her a big huggie and kissed her . I appreciated her effort ( yes that's an effort by a toddler , as far as I think ) . Smile. She is getting to know her minor responsibilities ( like , throwing a wrapper in a dustbin , even if we are in the car, asked mama to when it's time to goto washroom, putting the glass back on the slab after drinking water or cleaning toys or anything), we usually read a rhyme together when we clean up things together and that is given below :

Clean up , clean up ,everybody , everywhere .

Clean up , clean up ,everybody , do you share.

I think it's good for a child to know from the early age so that he / she can remember in entire life , not to forget the important element with it , and that is , consistency.

Asma ul Husna - Allah's Beautiful Names

Bismillah,

In evening , alhamdulAllah Subhana learnt a series of Allah's names in a rhyme with me. She has been repeating from a small booklet till about 20 or 25 names without any disruption. I was so glad to see her . SubhanAllah , I was thinking she also made me to learn Allah 99 names . Look ! This is another benefit of homeschooling a child because the parents learn too at the same time, whatever it is! I have a plan to introduce her one name of Allah in a week so that we can do activities to understand His characteristics and Greatness , InshAllah. But for now , she is just memorizing them. There is more to come on Ramadan and Hajj and u just keep visiting our blog inshAllah.

Happy homeschooling! :)

The Three Questions Game !

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I had always a dream to let my child know about her deen from the very early age. People might think that would be too much . But I have a firm belief that " Madrassah begins at home". And yes , I got something from A Muslim Child is Born about three questions game which every Muslim child must be taught from his or her very early age. I took a print out of these as instructed in this page . We revise these questions both in Arabic and English daily and subhanAllah , Subhana loves to answer them with actions. Moreover , she looks more cute when she says Muhammad ( sallalahu alahi waalihi wassalam) . She also heard these peaceful greetings from videos of " Hurray for Baba Ali ". For that , u may check a series in here inshAllah :
Hurray For Baba Ali