Thursday, April 21, 2011

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

Bismillah ,

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

Bismillah ,

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

Bismillah ,

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.

Monday, April 18, 2011

Islam is my life ! ( Islamic Preschool Curriculum)

Bismillah ,

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!

Bismillah ,

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

Saturday, April 9, 2011

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Bismillah ,

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.