Summary - Week 7 - Allaah Wakes me up each day!

Trust this finds all of you in the best of eemaan and good health! Qadarallaah masha Allaah we have had a long break due to unavoidable circumstances. I have not been blogging mainly because I have no internet connection since Eid. But Alhamdulillaah we are back on schedule but unfortunately we still have problems with internet and I will try to post occasionally as and when I can Insha Allaah. Here is one long post, hope you will not be bored… smile.

Allaah wakes me up each day!

Masha Allaah we enjoyed learning about different things on this topic. First I explained to her that Allaah Created day and night. And we studied how the day and night happens. Showed her the earth and the sun and explained a bit about the sun going around the earth and the formation of day and night.

“The Big Book of Space Discovery” came handy and we did this small experiment to show the sun going around the earth and how the alteration of the day and night happens. (Please check this link http://rivercityhomeschoolers.wordpress.com/earth-science-curriculum/ to know more about the Islamic position on the sun going around the earth contrary to what is norm which is the earth goes around the sun. My sincere advice to sisters is to please take extra care to teach our kids the correct theory according to the Qur’aan and the sunnah in all aspects Insha Allaah).

So after going through the book I gave her two balls and showed her how the two balls(The Sun and the earth) move. Here she goes…

Then we learnt the Aayah:

““It is out of His Mercy that He has put for you night and day, that you may rest therein (i.e. during the night) and that you may seek of His Bounty (i.e. during the day), and in order that you may be grateful. (Al-Qasas 28:73).

She was so thrilled to see sis Umm An Nu’man’s mini work book on her table and almost finished the whole book in just one session. She enjoyed reading it as she was able to read independently masha Allaah and she coloured and did the cutting and pasting independently too. I could really relax this time masha Allaah and I can see her confidence has increased within a couple of months.

Now that she knows the “Night and the Day”, I made two labels “Night” and “Day” and gave her some action cards that I had bought sometime back to teach her actions/verbs. Then asked her to categorize them according to actions done during the day and night. She did well masha Allaah.

After she completed this is how it looked.

Then I asked her which has the most amount of cards, “The Night or the Day”? Obviously she said Day, then I explained to her the aayah again saying Allaah is so merciful that he created the Night to rest and the day to seek his bounties. This led us to learn more about sleep.

So we went through this is website and learnt a whole heap of things about sleep. Masha Allaah this a very concise website for kids to learn about sleep, I learnt a lot too. After going through this I thought its best to put them on to one folder and keep it so that I can use this in the future when she grows up Insha Allaah to study this in detail. So we took a big board folded into two and made this small folder with details of “Sleep”. All contents are available on the same site.

Here are the details of it. This is how it looks.

She learnt about Why we sleep, the sleep cycle, dreams, (Here I explained to her that if she sees a bad or scary dream she should seek refuge with Allaah from Shaytaan spit and turn the other side and sleep), Why we cannot sleep sometimes etc etc… Interestingly we learnt about Sleep apnea and insomnia and we figured out why sometimes her Abi snores too much, smile! All of this could be found at http://www.sleepforkids.org/

We also did this sleep card matching game, found at the same website. She enjoyed this game.

Aqeedah

We continued with Usooluth Thalaathah and we started reading The Basic Principles on the subjects of Tawheed, Fiqh and Aqeedah by Shaikh Aboo Abdur Rahmaan Yahya bin Ali Al Hajoori Hafidhahullaah.

Masha Allaah this is a good book and I can see Maimoonah is able to understand many things now and memorizing the Quraanic aayahs are easy for her masha Allaah at this age and I hope to continue reading to her until she fully understands the principles Insha Allaah. We are reading the first 6 points now.

Qura’an Memorization

Masha Allaah she has memorized Soorah Zilzalah, Aadhiyaat . She memorized Takaathur this week. We have been reading the interpretation of the meanings too.

Islamic Studies

We went through the etiquettes of sleeping and waking up. She has already memorized the duas, but we still went through again and talked about how Allaah protects us through out the night when we say the dua before sleeping also when we recite aayathul kurs.

As usual at this age she kept asking “Why does the sun go down everyday Ummi?” So I explained to her the following hadeeth

Narrated Abu Dhar:- The Prophet [SALLAL LAAHU ALAIHIWASALLAM ] asked me at sunset:- "Do you know where the sun goes at the time of sunset?" I replied, "Allah and His Apostle know better."

He said, "It goes (i.e. travels) till it prostrates Itself underneath the Throne and takes the permission to rise again, and it is permitted and then (a time will come when) it will be about to prostrate itself but its prostration will not be accepted, and it will ask permission to go on its course but it will not be permitted, but it will be ordered to return whence it has come and so it will rise in the west.

And that is the interpretation of the Statement of Allah:- "And the sun Runs its fixed course For a term decreed, that is The Decree of (Allah) The Exalted in Might, The All-Knowing. " {'Quran Surah 'YâSîn 36.38}

I am not sure if she understood this but she was satisfied with the answer and the “Why Why” stopped for the time being I guess! Smile!

Asmaaul Husnah

We learnt few more names of Allaah , Al Hafeedh, Al Haafidh, Al Mawla. She cut and pasted and we learnt the meanings too.

Montessori activities

Maimoonah got a flag while travelling and I used it to teach her how to roll.

Reading, Maths, Language, Writing

We read the book “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” many times and used it to learn and revise the Days of the Week. Insha Allaah you can see all the activities we did on this on the next post as that will be our participation in “Together We Read” after a long time.

Also she has been trying to read this book on her own, masha Allaah. She has picked up many words in another few days she should be reading the whole book independently Insha Allaah.

Added to that I showed her the pages of the Calendar and taught her the numbers from 1-31 and the names of the Months.

She did the tracing too…

We have a daily calendar. She changes the date every day on it and this time she understood what was happening better as she now knows the days, months and the date. She has learnt the names of the days and and all 12 months masha Allaah.

Arabic

We have been learning new Arabic vocabulary lately with Madeenah Books. I got a list of Arabic Words and meanings mentioned on these books, so I read to her and she has picked up masha Allaah.

This week we learnt to ask questions Maa Haadha? What is this?, Man Hadhaa? Who is this? And Ahadha? Is this? She really liked this way of learning as I see she is so eager to learn to speak Arabic so that she could converse at the play area with Arab kids downstairs.

Also we learnt the Arabic Numbers from 1-30 and the Names of the Islamic months and days of the week. We used arabicfirst for this.

Masha Allaah she has memorized the days of the week and months. She traced this too..

So that was the end of week 7 Alhamdulillaah! I am very eager to know if any other sisters are using this curriculum. If so please leave a comment or email me at binthun@yahoo.com and share your adventurous learning too sisters, this will always help all of us Insha Allaah.

Summary - Week 6 - Creations of Allaah - Nature

This is the summary for Week 6

Creations of Allaah - Nature

Masha Allaah the mini work book was so wonderful and a good read too! Maimoonah completed the work book and tried reading the new words. She would not let me read as she wanted to read the book herself, so the new words I helped her and she finished reading the book. Hope to practice reading during our break Insha Allaah.

She loves pasting exactly inside the box, removes many times and pastes trying to be accurate masha Allaah!

I asked her her favorite soorah etc and and held her hand and wrote little about her on the work book. This is the first time I have asked her about favorite things and she was taking her time to answer. She is maturing masha Allaah.

She did well in the consonants too. As we are following the Glenn Doman method for reading I do not teach her phonics but masha Allaah she has picked it up well. She starts listening to the sounds and identifies the letter. Also she remembers the reading words I guess and thinks what the beginning letters are Allaahu A'lam.

Then we had fun with our Little Muslimah's Field Trip and Notebook.

We read a lot from the Encylopedia regarding rivers, trees, mountains, rocks, oceans etc etc. I learnt a lot too.

Asmaaul Husna

We learnt the Names and attributes "Ar Rahmaan, Ar Raheem and Ar Raoof"

Qur'aan Memorization

Masha Allaah she finished Soorah Inshirah and Soorah Qaariyah. We read the Tafsir and masha Allaah now she is keeping in mind the meanings of the aayaah too. We have started At Teen.

Islaamic Studies

Taught her the names of the 10 sahabahs promised jannaah - Asharathul Mubashshrah. I want her to be familar with the names of our salafus saalih. I have already taught her the names of the Ummahaathul Mu'mineen and the names of the Prophets. This is was on my list for some time and finally did it masha Allaah. Next I intend to teach her the name of at least 10 well known scholars Insha Allaah. As she grows it will be easier to learn much deeper about all of them Insha Allaah!

Reading

We have enjoyed reading the mini work book. Also she has been trying to read this book on her own and masha Allaah succeeded.

I have been reading to her The Learn About Series "Story of Hajj"

Writing

She practiced letters "U,R,r,E,e, Baa"

Making words

This time she was typing words on Yahoo the whole week, she has got the mouse control too masha Allaah now. Words she typed "Nature, mountain, sun, moon etc etc. She also did the word recognition matching activity.

Maths

We have completed MEP maths first 20 chapters for Reception Year. Insha Allaah will start the next 20 chapters from Week 7.

Montessori Activity

Cleaning the table

Alhamdulillaah, this ends our first 6 weeks of the "Islaam is My Life - Pre School Curriculum". I sincerely thank all the sisters who left comments and Jazzakumullaah Khayr for your encouragement and motivation.

The Best Days of the Year

The Best Days of the Year - Ten Days of Dhul Hijah

Good deeds are more beloved to Allah

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‏ النَّبِيِّ ‏ ‏صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ ‏ ‏أَنَّهُ قَالَ ‏ ‏مَا الْعَمَلُ فِي أَيَّامٍ أَفْضَلَ مِنْهَا فِي هَذِهِ قَالُوا وَلَا الْجِهَادُ قَالَ وَلَا الْجِهَادُ إِلَّا رَجُلٌ خَرَجَ يُخَاطِرُ بِنَفْسِهِ وَمَالِهِ فَلَمْ يَرْجِعْ بِشَيْءٍ ‏

"There are no days during which good deeds are more beloved by Allaah than these (ten) days." The Prophet, sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam, was then asked: "Not even Jihaad in Allaah’s way?" He replied: "Not even Jihaad in Allaah’s way; except for a person who went out (for Jihaad) with his self and wealth and came back with none (i.e. lost all for Allaah)."[Bukhari 969]

Ibn Rajab Al-Hanbali (may Allah have mercy on him) said,” It appears and Allah knows best that good deeds practiced during these ten days are superior to any other ten days during any other month” La’taif al Ma’rif

It's recommended to be involved in a lot Thikr.

وَيَذْكُرُوا اسْمَ اللَّهِ فِي أَيَّامٍ مَعْلُومَاتٍ

And mention the Name of Allah on appointed days [ Hajj 28]

Ibn Rajab Al-Hanbali (may Allah have mercy on him) said, “The majority of the scholars view the appointed days as the ten days of Dhul Hijah.”

3. They are included in the days Allah appointed for Musa (peace and blessings be upon him)

وَوَاعَدْنَا مُوسَىٰ ثَلَاثِينَ لَيْلَةً وَأَتْمَمْنَاهَا بِعَشْرٍ فَتَمَّ مِيقَاتُ رَبِّهِ أَرْبَعِينَ لَيْلَةً ۚ

And We appointed for Musa (Moses) thirty nights and added (to the period) ten (more), and he completed the term, appointed by his Lord, of forty nights [Al-A’raf142]

4. Allah completed His religion on the 9^th

الْيَوْمَ أَكْمَلْتُ لَكُمْ دِينَكُمْ وَأَتْمَمْتُ عَلَيْكُمْ نِعْمَتِي وَرَضِيتُ لَكُمُ الْإِسْلَامَ دِينًا ۚ

This day, I have perfected your religion for you, completed My Favor upon you, and

have chosen for you Islam as your religion.[ Al-Ma’idah 3]5.

The sacrifice is done on the Eid and this is the Sunnah of Ibraheem

6. Allah frees slaves from the fire on Arafah more than any other day

نَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ‏ ‏صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ ‏ ‏قَالَ ‏ ‏مَا مِنْ يَوْمٍ أَكْثَرَ مِنْ أَنْ يُعْتِقَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ فِيهِ عَبْدًا أَوْ أَمَةً مِنْ النَّارِ مِنْ يَوْمِ ‏ ‏عَرَفَةَ ‏ ‏وَإِنَّهُ ‏ ‏لَيَدْنُو ثُمَّ ‏ ‏ يُبَاهِي بِهِمْ الْمَلَائِكَةَ وَيَقُولُ مَا أَرَادَ هَؤُلَاءِ

The Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) said, “There is no day on which Allah frees more of His slaves from Fire than the Day of Arafah, and He verily draws near, then boasts of them before the angles, saying: ‘What do they seek?’” (Sahih Muslim1348)

· There is great virtue in Fasting on the 9^th.

سئل رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم عن صوم يوم عرفة فقال: "أحتسب على الله أن يكفر السنة التي قبله والسنة التي بعده”،

The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was asked about fasting on the Day of of Arafah. He said,” Fasting the day of `Arafah expiates the [minor] sins of two years: a past one and a coming one”. [Muslim 1162]

7. Eid Al-Adha is the 10^th

8. These are the days for Hajj

لْحَجُّ أَشْهُرٌ مَعْلُومَاتٌ ۚ

The Hajj (pilgrimage) is (in) the well-known (lunar year) months [ Al-Baqarah 197]* the other days are Shawwal and Dhul Qa’idah

9 Allah swears by these days.

وَالْفَجْرِوَلَيَالٍ عَشْروَالشَّفْعِ وَالْوَتْرٍِ

1By the dawn;

2. By the ten nights (i.e. the first ten days of the month of Dhul-Hijjah),

3. And by the even and the odd . [ Fajr 1-3 ]

The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said, “ The ten are the ten days of Dhul- Hijjah and the odd is the Day of Arafah and the even is the Eid [ Ahmed 3/ 327 and Bazzar 2286] Ibn Rajab graded the isnad of this hadeeth as being Hasan.

Taken from La’taif al Ma’rif and Tafseer ibn Katheer

Translated and compiled by Abu Aaliyah Abdullah ibn Dwight Battle

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