Kindergarten Curriculum Summary - Week 12

Islaamic Studies

• Features of the Prophet - We read the "Sealed Nectar" and wrote some of the features of the Prophet on the book using stencils and gel pens. Maimoonah drew the shapes and I wrote while she read to me.

• Manners and Characteristics of the Prophet We did the same for the Manners and characteristics as well. We discussed a lot about how we should try to imitate him. And I explained how many people became Muslims seeing the good manners of the Messenger of Allaah sallaahu alaihiwasallam. 

English Language

• Jolly Phonics - She learnt the following letter sounds

• Grammar - We did about Articles.

 

 

• Comprehension - We used the Junior English Book 1 and did this comprehension. She had read and say if the statements below were true or false.

Social Studies

• Continent - North America and  North American Contries - We read about North America in the Encyclopaedia. We read about some north American countries and she choose a few to do in detail. She wanted to study about USA as she said Umm Sara and Umm Suhailah live there : ) and she also wanted to know about Canada because of Aunty Umm An Nu'man!!. So this is what she did.

 

 

 

 

 

Maths

We did not start Year 1 MEP this week as we are going on a break I thought I will start when we come back Insha Allaah! So instead we did some additions with more numbers.

Arabic

We used the Smart Ark Arabic Book which we got as a Give Away gift from A Muslim Child is Born. She started using this some months ago. She wanted to do it this week.

 

Then we also read this Arabic Book. A story about an intelligent Rabbit.

 

 Alhamdulillaah we have finished another 6 weeks of work and time for another break Insha Allaah. Maimoonah is doing well with the Hifdhl masha Allaah and we will be doing more Qur'aan during the break and will be going out doors in the mornings to get play in the sun Insha Allaah. I was initially thinking of a 1 week break but I guess we would have 2 weeks Insha Allaah!

Independent Work!

Since we started learning Seerah, Maimoonah is really in love with our Messenger of Allaah sallaahu alaihi wasallam. She just loves to learn about him, read about him and I keep reminding her the best way to love him is to obey him and follow him Insha Allaah!

So with this she started something on her own. Abi gave her some papers that he does not need. This whole project has no interference from me at all and solely done by her from A- Z. And I am really proud of her masha Allaah on this initiation.

She took the papers, folded them used the stapler and made a kind of a book. Then she wrote "The Story of Muhammad (sallaahu alaihiwasallam)". Then every day she spent time either copy-writing certain sentences from the books that we use to study seerah, or adding her own sentences. She used stencils, gel pens, colour pencils, crayons, glue, finger paints, felt pens and did all what she wanted to do. And she will spend a long time masha Allaah and every day she would go through this book, show us, read to us, and enjoys showing us what she has done. While writing when she remembers the letter sounds from Jolly phonics and some grammar rules she would talk about it and talk about the events from the life of the Prophet. Here are some pics.

  

 

 

I could gauge a lot of things from this Project! I noticed that she has understood how to form a sentence. That it starts with a Capital letter and ends with a full stop. She has understood how to present something. She has learnt how to make words using letter sounds. How to decorate a page. How to make it attractive. And I also got a chance to correct her on something very important, Alhamdulillaah she expressed her love for the Messenger of Allaah saying "O! Muhammad (sallaahu alaihiwasallaam) I love you" (she has written this and pasted on her book). Then she showed it to her Abi and we explained to her that we do not say like this as he is not alive and since he is dead , dead people cannot hear. And we only say that We love our messenger. Then she explained to me that she saw in the book something similar. Then I explained to her that usually it will be written with inverted commas since its a story and this is how it is narrated and in real life we do not say like this. Then she said "Ok, I will meet him in Jannah and hug him and say "I love you", Insha Allaah" .

Also I knew where she would need help so that she can improve her language such as leaving space, formation of certain letters and so on.

So Masha Allaah this is indeed a blessing from Allaah and giving children to do things independently is indeed a great learning experience for them as well as for us. It need not be anything formal, as children are indeed quick learners and this is a real nihmah of home schooling!

Kindergarten Curriculum Lesson Plan - 2011/2012 - Week 12

Islaamic Studies

·         Seerah  - Family of the Prophet

Names of Allaah Messenger - http://alitisaambissunnah.wordpress.com/2011/09/18/names-of-allaahs-messenger-sallallaahu-alaihi-wa-sallam/

Manners of the Prophet especially with his family – The Sealed Nectar

Characteristic of the Prophet – The Sealed Nectar

How to incorporate his manners and morals into our lives

·         Fiqh – Salaah

English Language

·         Jolly Phonics  - ou, io, qu

·         Grammar  - Article

·         Comprehension

·         Review Vocabulary

·         Writing

Social Studies

·         Continents -  North America and

http://ummihomeschoolsme.wordpress.com/2010/10/24/quran-curriculum-surah-naas-project/

http://ummihomeschoolsme.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/k-2-maps-rev-1.pdf

http://ummihomeschoolsme.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/abc-bookofcontinents.pdf

http://www.hslaunch.com/mypage/downloader.php?file=userfiles/0/37447476994.pdf&id=3390

http://www.hslaunch.com/mypage/downloader.php?file=userfiles/0/09114810614.pdf&id=3391

North American Countries

 http://www.crayola.com/free-coloring-pages/Nations-coloring-pages/

http://shared.confessionsofahomeschooler.com/geography/ExpeditionEarthAnimalsLINES.pdf

http://shared.confessionsofahomeschooler.com/geography/ExpeditionEarthAnimals.pdf

(All the links provided above can be used for the whole of the continents and nations study Insha Allah and these links will be repeated in the next few weeks till we finish the Continents and Nations study Insha Allaah)

Maths

·         Maths Work Book and Work Sheet

Arabic

·         Arabic First Book of Countries

·         Madeenah Arabic

·         Conversation

·         Gate way to Arabic

·         Iqra learning to read

Kindergarten Curriculum Summary - Week 11

Islaamic Studies

• Seerah - We learnt the names of the Family Members of the Prophet sallaahu alaihiwasallam. We recorded some names and we made a tree using construction paper and Maimoonah used her stencils and together we made this tree to keep in mind all the names. This was a nice art activity too. Insha Allaah we will continue learning the family members this week too!

 

• We did not do Fiqh this week, Insha Allaah next week we will learn more about Salaah!

English Language

• Jolly Phonics  - She learnt 2 more letter sounds

• Grammar - We learnt Compound Words. We have completed the first 10 books of the Little Grammar Books masha Allaah! 20 more to go!

 

• Comprehension - We did a passage from Junior English this week. I have brought this book for next year, but now I feel she can complete it this year as it is same as the Little Grammar books we are using but the letters are small. So I am thinking of including this book for grammar and comprehension Insha Allaah so that I can get a higher level next year for her! I copied the questions on another paper and she wrote the answers!

 

• Reading and Writing - This week she went back to her Noddy lol! Suddenly she wanted to read all the Noddy books and every day she read a book to her Abi. Taking the opportunity after she read the book I asked her to write something about Noddy saying I will give her a sticker of Noddy to paste after she completes. She got all excited and wrote this very much independently!

 

This is what it says
"Noddy is a boy
Noddy lives in Toy Town.
He drives in a car.
Noddy is good.
Noddy loves to eat caramel Treat."

Social Studies

• Asian Continent and some Asian Countries. This time she wanted to learn more about each country unlike what we did for Africa. So I printed out flags of few countries that she wanted to learn about and included the capital, currency, language and head of state. I had a nice World Fact Book and we read about each country she chose. And she could read the instructions on the flag and colour them accordingly without any help! I told her to colour the letters and keep while I prayed but when I finished praying she has coloured all the flags too, for a moment I thought she has just randomly coloured. Masha Allaah no she said I read and coloured accordingly and that is what she had done! She filled in all the details about each country asking me the spellings where necessary. I think this is a good project which is very much comprehensive for lot of learning.

 

She wanted to paste the one Saudi riyal which was part of the gift given to her by a Mutawwah at the Haram

 

Maths

• MEP - Alhamdulillaah we have completed MEP reception year.

 

 

• This week I tought her some easy equations . Now she got the idea that 10 + 2 = 12 and 20 + 2 = 22 and so on. When I first asked her to write the answer for the equations she wrote like this even though she knew the answer verbally. 

          Then when I asked her to look at the number chart how they are written she understood and re wrote           the answers correctly!

Arabic - We did not do anything new continued with Sun letters and Moon Letters