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.

Summary - Week 21 - Weather

Weather

Masha Allaah most of the activities we did this week was from the Weather Unit Study which was generously gifted to us by sis Umm Tafari. Masha Allaah she made it very easy for me this week! May Allaah reward you sister Umm Tafari. Also the minibook is on the way Insha Allaah, we will use it when it is ready.

We watched few power point presentations about Weather and Weather definitions.

Then we learnt about the Qur'aan aayahs that were mentioned in the Unit Study and discussed that weather is controlled my Allaah alone. Then we discussed about different seasons and how the weather changes accordingly.

We discussed and learnt about how the messenger of Allaah asked for rain and asked for clear skies. We learnt the Dua pertaining to thunder, and rain.

Also we discussed how fearful and upset the Messenger of Allaah sallaahu alaihiwasallam used to be when he saw dark clouds. And here she knew and told me "like Aad and Thamud Ummi". And we discussed about the punishment that were sent to them by wind, blast and rain, and storm and thunder.

We started a weather journal and recorded the weather for the whole week. Since the weather here was only sunny and hot the whole week so it was easy for her to just draw the sun everyday : )

She also did this bar graph activity from the unit study. Masah Allaah she was very interested in this and identified the correct answers for the questions based on the graph.

She also did the maths worksheets, word matching worksheets.

We did more worksheets on choosing the correct things to take to the beach, identifying what does not belong and matching the right type of clothes to be worn according to the weather.

We did this experiment to see the evaporation. She poured water into two glasses and we kept it in the sun light after marking the levels of water and few days and later checked the glasses out. She was like Ummi sun has taken a lot of water, it has evaporated!! She was observing everyday masha Allaah!

We spoke about the rain and how its so important for the plants to grow. Sis Umm Tafari's Unit study had some nice easy food stuff to make with the kids, unfortunately I did not have all the ingredients so we just settled with dates and she ate some Ajwa dates while I was relating the hadeeth to her.

We studied the Arabic weather words using our weather wheel!

She also did this weather words matching activity. She was able to read and match Independently.

Then we did this finger paints and sprinkling water art. Actually we were supposed to do it with paper plates and we did not have. So we used a thick paper and it did not come out that well, still she had fun.

Finally we made this paper fan and she loved it so much even goes to sleep with it these days.

Qur'aan Memorization

We have started memorizing Soorah Al A'laa, masha Allaah.

Asmaaul Husna

We learnt, Al Haleem and Al Hakeem

Aqeedah

We learnt about the definition of Ibaadah, worship. But we will continue on it next week too till she memorizes the definition Insha Allaah! And will do a bit more explanation on that.

Language, Reading and Writing

We read a few emergent reader books and she loved all of them. This is indeed a great way to motivate children to read. Since its small and nice she liked it very much and read all of them interdependently.

Then we read this book which goes along with the topic. It has more new words and it was a good opportunity to introduce new words. So we read this together and she is waiting for her father to be back to go to the beach and throw stones and "SPLASH", Insha Allaah. She learnt that through this book : )

Masha Allaah her writing skills have increased now. I found her writing sentences like "This is Abi", "My Abi is...." "This is Abi, Ummi and baby" I could not get any pics because she was writing on her white board and erasing them. But masha Allaah she wrote all of this without any spelling errors.

She traced this.

And she was fully occupied with these books by sis Umm An Nu'man. I could leave her with it and do my cooking.

Maths

We did few more chapters on MEP

Arabic

We learnt two more letters. Kaaf and Laam. I am unable to upload these two pics for some reason!

Montessori Activities

Making Patterns

This is a gift Maimoonah received from a dear sister from another part of the world, masha Allaah. It meant a lot for her dear sister and you really made her happy. Jazzakumullaah Khayr. She made this taking her time and she said she is trying to make the continents : )