Summary - Week 14 - Allaah gives me Sickness and Cure!

Allaah gives me sickness and cure!

This was a very interesting topic masha Allaah!. I am pretty sure I had the Darul Kitab book on "When we are sick" but I guess I have left it back at home as I looked everywhere and its missing, qadarallaah Masha Allaah. So any way we spoke about sickness and how it is only Allaah who gives us sickness and only He can cure us. And doctors medicines are only means and ways but Allaah is the controller.

The Mini Work book for this week Insha Allaah will be ready sooner or later as Sis Umm An Nu'man is busy and I have asked her to take her time. When we do it we will update this post Insha Allaah!

I asked her when we say we are sick what do we mean by it? Then she said "stomoache, headache, fever, cold, sore throat and any pain". Masha Allaah she knows it now. So I asked her why do you think that Allaah is giving you this pain? She thought for a long time and said "That's the way"!!! So I explained to her this hadeeth “Any Muslim who is afflicted with the harm of a thorn prick or more will have,as a result of it ,some of his sins expiated the way a tree sheds it's leaves." So I said Allaah is so Merciful to the beleivers that he rewards you when you are sick and when you are patient. I asked her how she could be patient when she is sick. She was saying by resting and lying down. smile! Then I aexplained that being patient is coping the pain and asking Allaah to cure you and going through the hardship without complaining and only praising Allaah for all His Mercy and Kindness.

Then We spoke about Allaah's Attribute Ash Shaafee The Curer and that only He can cure.

We learnt the Dua to be said while in pain and the dua to be said to the one who is sick.

We learnt the that it is an obligation upon a Muslim to visit the sick Muslim and angels send prayers upon you when you visist the sick.

We also read this nice digital book "Sajjaad is Sick"

We learnt that most of the time it is germs that make us sick by the permission of Allaah. So the best way to avoid germs coming on to us is to wash our hands before and after we do certain things. We used this for learning and doing some activities. Masha Allaah she is very particular about washing hands and does it at right times. But as a study I just showed her how she could improve on this by rubbing the hands and washing properly so that the germs go away. She loves playing with water just like all the other kids!!!

We spoke about germs and also good germs like fungi in mashroom, bread and yogurt. Then we took a piece of old bread and wiped our hand on that before washing our hands and put it in a bag and observed every day waiting for the germs to form.

Then we discussed when we should wash our hands.

Then came the most intersting thing for Maimoonah. We spoke about Hospitals and the people who help us there to get well when we are sick. We went through this Picture and Word book where it has all the pictures and words related to the Hospital.

She coloured these.

Then I had bought a small doctor playing lit sometime back and this week I opened up and gave it to her. She was overjoyed masha Allaah. So taugh her the names of the instruments that were there and also taught her to read them. Then gave her to do this matching game.

She enjoyed this the whole day and now she could read these words if I put them into sentences.

Then we did a pretend play. She was the doctor and I was the patient. She wrote down my name and illness on the medical record. Tested me with her stethoscope and gave me some pills and put some nose drops too... This whole week she was playing with it and her stuffed toys.

Then we did this activity. Gave her 10 small bags and beads and marker.

Asked her to write the numbers 1 - 10 on each bag.

And then I asked her to fill the bag with the pills (beads) with the corresponding number on the bag. Here are filled bags.

She really enjoyed the counting and packing and giving medicine to the patients.

Asmaaul Husnah

We learnt Ash Shafee and Al Afuww. Ash Shafee we could not get the writing to paste, but will so soon Insha Allaah. But we learnt the meaning.

Aqeedah

Continueing with "Muhammadur Rasoolullaah" She knows the full name of the Prophet masha Allaah.

Maths

We did MEP and this workbook throughout the week. This is the first time I have asked her to draw certain things according to the MEP instruction book. She drew a duck, fish, bird etc ... They really do not look like them but for her age it does smile! She was so happy of this acheievement masha Allaah! And loved the worksheets too. Matching and cordination of the hands have improved masha Allaah!

Reading, writing, Language

Masha Allaah this week she wanted to write more and asked me to put dots for two pages. (We have moved and arranged our settings to suite her learning masha Allaah, will post more in detail on that later Insha Allaah, so we can see a big difference in her enthusiasm and productivity masha Allaah. Environment for kids really matters subhanallaah). She writes letters and keeps writing "Abi, Maimoonah, Ummi, Allaah". I could not take a pic of that as she writes and over writes. Will try to get one soon one of these days Insha Allaah!

She has been reading these two books this week to me and I have been reading to her Ayyoob alaihissalaam to go along with the topic that Allaah gave him sickness and he was patient.

Her reading is masha Allaah good and she also reads the TJ powerpoint presentations now. She could read this.

Arabic

We wrote pasted and learnt these letters. Also I did not introduce new words from the word flow this week as we were busy with shifting.

Montessori Activities

Spooling

Prophets Sent by Allaah - Puzzle time!

As you all know I purchased few Learning Roots products recently. Giant Journey Floor puzzle is one of them. This is indeed a very beneficial neat item. We used this for the introduction study of "The Prophets Sent by Allaah". We revised all the names of the Prophets in English and Arabic. And spoke about all of them.

Illustration is beautiful, colourful and attractive. With each Prophet's name there is a relevant picture. This helps kids to remember the story of that particular Prophet. Also you have the names of the Prophets in both Arabic and English as puzzle pieces. Insha Allaah this is great for reading in Maimoonah's case. I hope to mix them and ask her to put the names correctly after she learns to read in Arabic and English the names of the Prophets Insha Allaah.

Puzzle pieces are big and easy to handle with little hands and it is also thick masha Allaah. Maimoonah loves puzzles and like all kids her age she is thrilled when she completes. This puzzle has 30 pieces and at the moment takes a little more time for doing it and I like this as she tries and tries until she completes masha Allaah.

Here she is trying to find the pieces.

Here she is almost done!

Completed the puzzle! Masha Allaah!

After completing I asked her to point some of the names of the Prophet. I also asked her why is it that there is a picture of the Ark near Nooh's aliahissalaam name? and similar questions. This makes them think and comprehend. This product is a great hands on materiel to use for our study on "Prophets sent by Allaah". I am sure we can use this for many different things for a long period of time and Insha Allaah we will share as we go on. It is indeed a wonderful Giant Journey!

I hope to do this as and when we finish learning about each Prophet Insha Allaah.

And it comes with a hardy box for better and easy storage masha Allaah! You can check www.learningroots.com for all details and if you are in the Gulf please contact their Saudi Agent and she will send you the items masha Allaah!

Prophets Sent by Allaah - Aadam Alaihissalaam

Alhamdulillaah finallay we started our study on the Prophets. Insha Allaah from now onwards we will be having a series of activities on "Prophets sent by Allaah"(These posts will be posted under the Label "Prophets Sent By Allaah") in which we will try to cover all 25 Prophets mentioned in the Quraan. For this we will use the Darus Salaam Prophets Sent by Allaah series of books along with Ibn Katheer's "Stories of the Prophet" Insha Allaah!

Also we will use a botany book where we will use the "Prophet Facts Sheet" from Talibiddeenjr and record important facts about that particular Prophet, then paste pictures relevant to the study, have some worksheets and questions written or pasted for oral use and later for writing purpose Insha Allaah! I want this book to be used by Maimoonah even in her later years when she develops more understanding and comprehension and also writing skills. First I thought I will just make a scrap book but later as always I wanted this to be a resource that could be used for many years therefore I decided to make this a pre school/middle, elementary school friendly resource Insha Allaah. We will be also doing some hands on activities Insha Allaah.

So to start with we learnt "Aadam Alaihissalaam" this week. Unfortunately Qadarallaah Masha Allaah we could not get the copy of the Darus Salam on Aadam Alaihissalaam. So we used the Darul Kitab Book on Aadam alaihissalaam and My First Qur'aan Stories and Stories of the Prophets of Ibn Katheer.

We read and spoke about Aadam and Hawwa and Iblees and all what happened to them. Just explained to her that Aadam alaihissalaam was 60 cubits tall. I enjoyed reading Ibn Katheer's book as it tells little little explanations and incidents like how Shaitaan use to pass by Aadam tapping him and going through him before the spirit was blown into him, the hadeeth about the snake etc, etc.

Our First page has the picture of the tree with all 25 names of the Prophet from easel and ink.Then we pasted this fact sheet and wrote down some points: Name, father, mother, children. We spoke a little about Haabil and Qaabil too.

I typed out some questions and pasted on one side so that we can check her comprehension orally every now and then. This helps children to keep things in mind. I have heard one of the scholars saying something to the effect that asking questions after learning is the best way of learning and revising masha Allaah! She could answer all of these questions masha Allaah at the end of the study.

Also I pasted a worksheet that I got from salafyink but right now I cannot get connected to their website. So in case any of you need the pdf of this worksheet please email me I will send you insha Allaah. This worksheet I intend to keep it for Maimoonah Insha Allaah for later use. But I used this for oral use for now. Also I pasted this wonderful set of questions that I got from here. I liked this kind of approach and this will be really useful for older children Insha Allaah!

Then Maimoonah traced this.

We learnt Allaah created Aadam alaihissalaam by taking different kind of soil from all over the earth and that is one reason that each one of us are different in colour. So just to make her interested we did this different color matching activity from yemenilinks. This was totally her effort. She coloured, cut, pasted independently.

Also we revised the "Allaah created all of us" mini book and the little book on "Allaah created countries and people" we made sometime back. Talked about people who are all children of Aadam.

Finally we got this story sequencing cards from here and together we read and Maimoonah put them in order. This was a great reading practice too. Masha Allaah her reading was good I hope she continues with this bi idhnillaah!

Summary - Week 13 - Allaah Hears All!

Allaah Hears All!

We discussed about the Attribute of Allaah As Samee - The All Hearing. I explained to her that Allaah hears every little thing and He hears everything at the same time without any confusion. We also learnt that Allaah hears our speech public and private and He hears our dua, He hears when we recite the Qur'aan and He rewards for all of this. Also we have to take care of our speech so that we do not talk anything bad and earn the anger of Allaah, as He hears everything.

Sis Umm Nu'man's mini book has the story of Khaula bint Tha'labah and the fact that Allaah heard her. So Masha Allaah this was a nice comprehension activity as well as a point to make her understand that Allaah hears everything even the distress and disputes of the creation.

Our Ears

Then we learnt that Allaah blessed us with ears to hear. We learnt about the ear. Parts of the ear and how ears work. We used all the resources from this site for our study.

We pasted the diagram of the ear in the Environmental studies book and watched a presentation on how our ears work.

She did this decibel activity on the mini book

We also learnt about taking care of our ears and that there are some people who are deaf and they do not have the sight of hearing. We reminded ourselves that we should always be thankful to Allaah for this blessing and use it to please Him alone. With this we discussed what kind of things we would like to hear and what kind of sounds we would not like to hear. She asked her Abi what he would like to hear and not hear. This was a family discussion Masha Allaah.

Sense of Hearing Activities:

Sound Bingo

This was something very interesting. I got this from here. We used the shells that Maimoonah had collected from the beach for this. I played the sounds and asked her to identify them and place the shell on the correct picture. We avoided all the musical instrument sounds.

Identifying Different Sounds

I took few bottles and containers and filled them up with different things like rice, plastic bottles, paper clips, liquid, coffee beans etc etc. Blind folded Maimoonah and ask her to shake the containers and identify the sounds. Masha Allaah she identified all the sounds correctly except for the paper clips! She thought that was m and m chocolates!!!

Whisper Game

I wrote little words and sentences in pieces of paper folded them and put into a basket. Each one has to take a one slip and read and whisper that to the other person. The whole session is conducted without making any sound except for the whisper. This was a nice quiet game masha Allaah as well as good reading practice.

Sound from a glass of water

This would be very successful if you do it with a glass which resembles the shape of a wine glass. Pour some water and with your finger go around the surface of the glass for some time and you will hear a sound. It is exciting when the sound keeps increasing..

What sound do you hear?

We went to corniche (Corniche is what you see on my blog now and before, the background pictures) the other day. while sitting there I asked her to tell me all what she can hear. This was her list:

• I can hear the cars
• I can hear some people talking
• I can hear the Adhaan
• I can hear the footsteps of some people walking and some running
• I can hear the boat going far a way.
• I can hear a Taa'irah (air plane) flying up
• I can hear a baby crying
• I can hear the sound of the bicycle
• I can hear the birds chirping
• I can hear the sound of the water etc etc

Masha Allaah this was a very good thing as I realize now she wants to be descriptive and these questions make her think and relate well.

Sense of Hearing Worksheet

She was supposed to circle the pictures that she thinks would make some sounds.

Loud and soft sounds

We spoke about sounds that are loud and soft and did this activity on the mini book. Also reminded her that girls should speak softly .

Asmaaul Husna

We learnt As Samee - The All Hearing and Al Khabeer - The Well Aware

Qur'aan Memorization

Masha Allaah she memorized Soorah Humazah. Her cough is much better and now and we are back to normal with Hifidh by the grace of Allaah

Aqeedah

Continued to read Usooluth Thalaathah and The Basic Principles. This week learnt the meaning of "Muhammadur Rasoolullaah".

Maths

We are on Ordinal Numbers now on MEP. She is beginning to understand this concept a bit now and I think with practice she will do more Insha Allaah.

She did this counting and colouring activity on the number book.

Writing, Reading and Language

She traced these

Also did this activity with "ear" sound on the mini book.

Masha Allaah her reading is progressing well. She wants to read more books now even though she still wants me to be next to her to prompt the words she does not know. But I am pleased with her reading for her age so far masha Allaah. We read books she likes and Insha Allaah we hope to re arrange our reading place and theme related books along with a circle time soon Insha Allaah. Got inspired by our dearest sis Umm Sara. Have a look at her circle time here Insha Allaah you would love it.

Arabic

We learnt these letters. She coloured, pasted and traced.

That's it for this week Insha Allaah!

Ana Wa Akhee - Together we Read!

This time we read Ana Wa Akhee masha Allaah Maimoonah always loved Saeed and Waleed. And sis Umm Nu'man really made it all easy with her cute activities!

So after reading the book I gave her the story sequence cards and asked her to put in order.

Then we learnt about time. This is the first instance that I officailly taught Maimoonah how to tell the time. Masha Allaah am glad I had these cards to teach her and masha Allaah I had to only explain to her once and she was done. Now she can tell all the " o' clocks" masha Allaah. I put all the time cards in to a basket and I asked her to pick the correct card and lay them out.

She is a bit confused with the Arabic time cards (meaning the Arabic Terms). But Masha Allaah I think with time she will catch it. So to make it easy for her. I asked her to pick any Arabic time card and together we told the time in Arabic and kept the cards in order. Jazzakillaah Khayr sis Umm Nu'man I learnt to tell all the "Tamaamun" in Arabic now. Before this I had no idea how tell in Arabic!! smile!

We also had this little book on time and we read this book and revised the time too!

She did this worksheet circling the picture that does not belong!

Then I pasted the popsicle sticks and Maimoonah did all the pasting and here is her comb and the toothbrush. Masha Allaah she has become a little expert in pasting precisely !

Finally she said Saeed and Waleed forgot to pray Fajr early in the morning Ummi so we make a prayer mat for them, lol! Masha Allaah she made this prayer rug (she took a piece of paper folded and glued it and took the scissors and cut the edges, she had seen me doing this sometime back when I did this with remaining papers) and the rest of the day she was playing with it saying her imaginary brother Talha was praying next to her in this little prayer rug she made for him! I thought this was so sweet of her masha Allaah and she made it all by herself!