Salaah Positions!

As part of this week’s topic on “Remembering Allaah through our Day”, Maimoonah learnt the positions of salaah.

We did this activity from The Muslim Child is Born.

Also I had these pictures of illustration based on Shaikh Naasiruddeen Al Albaani’s (rahimahullaah) book “Sifatus Salaatun nabi”. We printed and pasted on a board.

We spoke about salaah in general, the times of salaah and the names for each of them. Then I explained that salaah is a great way to remember Allaah and it should be done calmly and with full concentration.

We went through each position from standing to tasleem. Then I placed the prayer rug behind the sutra. Explained to her about the sutra and it's importance.

She unrolled the prayer mat..

Then looking at the board where we pasted each position, I demonstrated to her each one and asked her to name the position and show me “The way our Messenger of Allaah prayed”. Masha Allaah it was indeed a delight to watch her trying to perfect each position and how much calm and quiet she was through out this activity, subhanallaah.

So here are the different positions….

Takbir..

Rukoo

Sajda

Sitting in between

Tashahhud

Tasleem

Finally rolling prayer mat..

She really enjoyed this activity and next day was Jummah. Abi was well pleased with her when he saw the photographs and wanted to take her for Jummaah. She was absolutely thrilled. And masha Allaah she listened to the Khutbah and prayed with me exactly the way I taught her the each position masha Allaah. And she was also happy that the Imaam recited the soorahs she knows now masha Allaah.

We are almost done with this week’s curriculum. Will post the summary soon Insha Allaah.

Kindergarten Curriculum Summary - Week 6

Islaamic Studies

• Eeamaan - We learnt the definition of eemaan and exampples for the actions and speech of the heart, tongue and limbs. We learnt that Eemaan increases with obedience to Allaah and it decreases with disobedience to Allaah. Maimoonah is taking in Islaamic Studies well Alhamdulillaah and I feel this is a right time for her to know these basics as I can see her applying in her daily life and this is what Islaamic Studies is all about. She is concious of things and she is careful and learns that it is very practical masha Allaah.

• Pillars of Eemaan - We used the TJ poster and learnt the 6 Pillars of Eemaan while revising the Hadeeth of Jibreel alaihissalaam.

• Belief in Allaah - I asked her which part of eemaan will "Believing in Allaah" fall into. She could quickly tell that it is the speech of the heart, Allaahu baarik lahaa. Then I asked her tell me how we believe in Allaah. Alhamdulillaah she could recollect all what she had learnt about the three categories of Tawheed and came out with the answers and I wrote them on the Book.

• Belief in the Angels - This was a very interesting topic and she just loved it. We used the Daarul Kitaab Learn About Series Angels are Real. Subhanallaah such a comprehensive book that saves so much of time. And Maimoonah could read it herself. And when I explained she just loved it. We learnt most of the things about the Angels. I added the story of Haaroot and Maaroot and we also discussed the Angels sent to punish different nations. I could see a big difference in her after learning about Angels, subhanallaah. She was very concious about pictures being in the house and was very happy that Angels are sent to protect her and that Angels take up her good deeds and make dua and thus Allaah sends blessings. She was very content that she is secure subhanallaah. May Allaah continue to give our kids this sincerity and Taqwa. Aameen. She did this wroksheet on the Angels.

 

English Language

• Jolly Phonics - We learnt these letter sounds.

• Grammar - We learnt Singular and Plural this week. I did not have the Little Grammar reader on this. Explained to her and she completed the Activity book. Concept was understood well.

 

 

 

• Comprehension - This week I used the Haydn Richards Junior English Book 1 and asked her to read a comprehension passage and answer the questions. She was really good and was able to answer all Alhamdulillaah!

Social Studies/Science

• Food Groups, Nutrients - Since we have already covered this topic last year, this was a good revision with a better understanding. We reviewed the Food Pyramid, The Nutrients and Food Groups.  We used the Encyclopaedia and learnt what certain nutrients do and why we should be eating a well balanced meal. She used the magazines and pasted some food items according to the groups.

 

We printed out the Food Trackers for Breakfast, lunch and Dinner along with the Balanced diet Tracker and recorded all what she eat for a week. This was a really good activity even for me to know what is it that we really do not eat so often. We spoke every day while recording and discussed the nutrients and food groups each food belonged to. End of the week we realized we do not eat enough fruits which is very essential, this is mainly due to getting fruits these days as we are facing some issue travelling. 

 

 

She did the Smart Start Science book worksheets.

 

• Water - We learnt about Water and how important it is for all the living creatures. We also learnt the sources of water, the use of water and also how we should not waste water. I explained how important it is for a muslim for cleanliness is part of eemaan and we need water to clean ourselves as well as for wudoo but at the same time the Messenger of Allaah has informed us that even while we are taking wudhoo we should take great care in not wasting water. 

 

We learnt how to measure water. I asked her to measure the water using this Jug and explained to her ml. 

Gave her a funnel and a bottle and a bucket of water and asked her to fill the bottle. She measured 100ml and 200 ml and filled the bottle as she wished again and again. She just loved it.

 

Then we also learnt a bit about water current. Filled a bucket of water. Stirred hard with a spoon and showed her how the water whirls and we put the spoon in to it and it was going around she was thrilled. And I explained how people can die getting caught to current in the water.

She completed the water worksheet of the Smart Start Science

Maths

• Subtraction - We learnt subtraction this week with beads and solving problems. Now she understood the connection between equations and real happenings. With the use of the baskets she found the answers for these.

• MEP - We did one chapter on MEP which was also subtraction.

Arabic

• Madeenah Arabic - Revised the last week's lessons. 
• Gateway to Arabic - She wrote Letter ت

• Conversation - We have started using Arabic in our conversations now. Not fully but very little. With a help of a sweet sister and also this wonderful site we could learn some day to day words and sentences to be used.
• Iqra - We are continuing to learn to read with Iqra and Maimoonah is catching up but sometimes gets confused with different forms of letters. So to make things easy this week we used the flash cards and started circling certain letters to identify them. This is giving her confidence. We will continue do some activities like this Insha Allaah!

 

Alhamdulillaah we have completed the first 6 weeks of the Kindergarten Curriculum and its time to take a break. We will be doing Revision next week and since it will be Dhul Hijjah by then we would do Hajj activities till Eidul Adhaa along with other learning activities Insha Allaah. We will be back with our Curriculum after Eid Insha Allaah.

Summary - Week 22 - Outside My World!

Outside My World!

We spoke about the Qur'aanic Aayahs in which Allaah talks about the Heavens and the earth, sun, moon,stars and the Universe and the fact that He has created them floating in their orbits.

Explained and taught the names of the planets discovered by man. I emphasized the point that these names are given by men to these planets and Allaah does not talk about any names. ( Also at this moment of time I did not wanted to tell her that these names are derived from the so called gods and godesses of the ancient greek myths, aoothubillaah for the only reason that she would refused to study this whole subject if she knows that Shirk is involved. My husband advised me not to say this right now but after she is familair with the subject to explain to her Insha Allaah!)

We used this big book that we had to learn about, Planets, Constellations, comets, space shuttles, astronauts etc etc. There are were some simple experiments on this book, we just tried few of them but hope to continue next year Insha Allaah!

She drew this and showed me after some time. She was explaining to me the orbit : )

When talking about constellations I explained to her that these are man made theories and Allaah created stars only for 3 purposes. We discussed how the stars are created to chase away the Jinns and how the stars help the travelers and how they look so beautiful in the sky blinking. Subhanallaah!

Then we pasted a diagram of the solar system on the Environmental Studies book. And did these worksheets and pasted them on the book as well.

She put this puzzle together and learnt the planets.

She also did this activity from the Pre School Pack. Sorting the planets and not planets. (we could not do the whole pack due to having some printer problems)

We made a small Outer space book taken from the above pack.

We did the wonderful mini work book almost at the end due to printer problems. Masha Allaah I could print it out in grey scale. We avioded the Planet mobile this time. Insha Allaah we will do it next year bi idhnillaah.

The book was so wonderful. She did the cutting and pasting activities. Beginning sounds, learnt about the space shuttle, pasted the parts of it and enjoyed reading the book too.

We also did some activities on Astronauts which we got from here. She did this tracing.

She had real fun with this 5 little astronauts having a galactic fun in the moon. I used straws to make them and we did the poem along with this.

She also made this Toilet paper roll astronaut craft interdependently.

Asmaaul Husnah

We learnt Al Hayy and Al Qayyum

Qur'aan Memorization

We are Continuing with Soorah Al A'la

Reading, Writing, Language

She has been reading all of these books masha Allaah!

She traced these and wrote some of them.

Maths

We did not do MEP this week instead she completed this maths workbook.

Arabic

We completed all the Arabic letters.

Montessori Activities

Taking Care of the plants. Her Abi has taught her how to water the plants and how to wipe the leaves to take out all the dust

Also she was waiting for her father to come to do this "SPLASH", at the beach. The next day after he arrived he took her to the beach for few minutes and they learnt to "SPLASH" : )

Alhamdulillaah this ends our Islaam is My Life Preschool Curriculum. All praise is indeed due to Allaah for enabling us to complete this and we ask Allaah to make this a beneficial ilm for us as well as for all of you.

I sincerely thank sister Umm Ibraheem at Talibiddeenjr for this wonderful Curriculum outline and I also thank my dear sister Umm An Nu'man for putting out all 22 books for each week for this complete curriculum. Barakallaah Feekum dear sisters, may Allaah grant you the best in this world and the next for this extraordinary help that you have done to help me and all those who follow this curriculum. Aameen.

Please note I have created a label on the right hand side with " Pre school Curriculum - Summary" and you will find there only 22 post which are the 22 weeks of summary Insha Allaah!. For some reason the search this blog feature is not working for me. So I hope this label would help you to see each week without having to search and waste time Insha Allaah!

Alhamdulillaah this year has come to end and Insha Allaah I will post the Next Year's Curriculum outline soon.