I got a little compass a few weeks ago so that we can learn about directions and how to find our way.
This led us to discussing the Qibla and where it is in our home.
My daughter and I posted index cards with the cardinal directions and of course I realized that I forgot to put the Arabic directions up before taking a picture.
My mind is not what it used to be and fasting is hard this time! It somehow escaped me that Eid is coming InshaALLAH!
I kept thinking it was at the end of next week, lol. After panicking for a few minutes, lol, I made a checklist of a few things and things were okay, alhamduLILLAH.
This year, I’ve decided to make my daughter’s play kitchen new again by making some play food for my two year old and getting her some new pots and pans.
My dad bought the play kitchen for my oldest when she was about two (you can see how small she and my son were in the photo, lol).
I got the crochet patterns from ravelry and etsy if you are interested.
We’ve been working hard this week and accomplished most of what I planned.
I’ve really been using Starfall a lot this week, as well as Rosetta Stone. The Rosetta Stone is really helping, MashaALLAH, we’re using more Arabic all the time and my daughter has naturally picked up sentence structure and verb conjugation through the program, AlhamduLILLAH.
It seems to be easier to rotate the older two to the computer for language lessons so that I can give them individual attention without interruption.
I might set up other stations as well if I can stop procrastinating, InshaALLAH. An Arabic station would be nice. I keep coming across such helpful things like this Arabic letter position flip book at Talibiddeen Jr.
I printed it on green cardstock and then laminated it and punched two holes in the top (ouch, my hand – the three hole punch wouldn’t line up correctly, so I used the hand-held one). I used 1″loose leaf rings (100 for $7.99 on EBay) and I didn’t cut between the individual letters (to keep it simple).
I also printed out the Arabic Numbers Practice Book from YemenLinks.
This page is from Talibiddeen Jr.
Instead of letting my daughter color the pages and forget all about them, I borrowed the idea from Chasing Cheerios to print the pages and put them in protective sheets. We added them to her binder and now she can write on them with the dry erase markers.
Reusable workbooks, MashaALLAH. It saves paper, she can do them again as needed, and when she’s done, her brother can use them, InshaALLAH.
We’ve been going strong in our Islamic Studies, starting with the family tree of the Prophet Muhammad salallahu,alayhi wa salaam.I read a bit from our new books and added some of the more vibrant details from the Sealed Nectar as well as Stories of the World by Safia Iqbal.
We finally put a few names on the tree and in our notebooks.
Instead of doing traditional coloring pages, we colored the most vital elements and added them to our notebooks.
My daughter is doing well with her vocabulary and spelling, but we really need to work on spacing! The words run together quite a bit but I think daily copywork will fix this problem, InshaALLAH.
I find notebooking fun and less stressful than lapbooking. MashaALLAH, there are some beautiful lapbooks out there but I think I need a tutorial, lol. Not about how a lapbook is put together, I know how they look, but who does most of the work and how many days does it take?
Here is are some pages from our notebook. We were learning about the dangers of idol worship and also about the Prophet Adam (AS), Habeel and Qabeel, and how the community grew.
The opportunities to study geography are abundant, so we started with Makkah and Medina and Jeddah.
I’ve been wanting to do this for a while and I would like to continue with some key elements of geography (continents, bodies of water and land forms, ie peninsula, island, etc) as well. I have all the necessary items for this but I would love to get a large world map, InshaALLAH.
I removed the last post concerning the women of hell because I didn’t see and could not find a reference for it. I could have written about it in the comments but I know that not everyone reads the comments. Forgive my haste and naivete – I should never have linked to something with no reference – the mistake is mine.
AlhamduLILLAH, Umm Rashid found the link for me! Take a look here.
JazakILLAH Khairin for your du’a sisters, I’m getting better, AlhamduLILLAH.
The kids needed a reminder of their table manners so we did a quick paint craft.
I can’t remember which sister’s blog I got this from! I am searching for it so let me know. It’s a lovely idea and the original was much better than this one and I’d like to link to it.
My daughter’s second cousin went back to Saudi Arabia a few weeks ago and before leaving,she gave her the Story of Muhammad in Madinah(Peace be upon Him).
I decided to purchased the others from IslamicBookstore.com to supplement our Islamic Studies, InshaALLAH.
Make du’a for me please! It just keeps coming back. Ramadan Mubarak and may those of you starting school this week have productive weeks and lots of patience during your fasts (AMEEN).
She has so many free resources listed in one place, just go over there and get what you need.
