Go to Kids Know It and check it out for yourself. 🙂
Our family received a real blessing recently, in the form of some very patient and giving sisters at a local mosque, AlhamduLILLAH. They have volunteered to teach Qur’an to the older children in the mornings for three hours for free while I give my little ones some extra mommy time.
This means that I can focus on the preschooler for once without feeling like I am just giving her some busy work. With her, I’m looking more towards creative play and gentle learning since she’s only two but she can certainly learn a surah or two and du’a as well. I’m in the process of developing some sort of plan, InshaALLAH, so we’ll see how it goes.
I’m sort of reacquainting myself with the IQRA Preschool Curriculum
There are also many sisters out there that are doing a phenomenal job of developing ideas for implementing Islam into the lives of the younger kids – just take a look at any of the links on the left side of the blog for an exhaustive list.
So, it has been super busy around here lately and I don’t know where to begin.
First off, we found a solution to our desk situation. I was having a hard time finding suitable seating in our classroom and almost spent a little money to solve the problem. Instead, my brother-in-law called us to say that a local school was throwing out old tables. Don’t you know, we snatched up two of them and now we have this table and another one for our listening station. ALLAH provides! Now, we have some tables for seating and we have a table for a listening station, AlhamduLILLAH. We have some books on CD and some audio tapes and headphones for everyone, so that will help me to space out the activities of the kids, InshaALLAH.
At the Eid bazaar, I picked up two new components for the homeschool. There were puzzles for sale ($5 for the whole lot), so I jumped at those right away. They are all unique and I hope that they are a challenge for my daughter because she’s really good with puzzles, mashaALLAH.
There was also a set of Arabic blocks that fit together to form words – with the first, initial and final positions of the letters on either side of the blocks.
May we derive benefit from these (AMEEN).
My oldest is also a bookworm so we have started tracking her progress. I saw this on a blog some time ago and thought it was cute, so I printed a picture of an airplane (can’t remember where) and now when she reads a chapter book, we add a cloud behind the plane. It encourages her to read more and I’m hoping that we make it to at least 50, InshaALLAH before our school year concludes. We started in August and so far, she’s read 11 chapter books. She reads books written for 8-12 year old children, mashaALLAH.
Finally, we are implementing Sue Patrick’s Workbox System into our homeschool agenda.
For me, it just makes things easier and my daughter doesn’t have to constantly wait for me to get things together and she can go on with her assignments while I work with the others, InshaALLAH.
Eid Mubarak everyone! LOL, what a busy time it was for us. We had the usual decorations and ice cream cake for the kids and I think Eid gets better and better for them, AlhamduLILLAH.
There are many items here. I am interested in the Echo microphone because my son tends to mumble a bit and it’s a bit on the annoying side. It irritates him when I say words the way that he says them so I know that he understands how they should sound. If he hears himself enough, I hope that he corrects his speech on his own and with the microphone, he surely will have fun, InshaALLAH. Also, since they are so inexpensive, I had better get some for the others as well, lol.
In the 5th grade, Mr Randolph would have us read these little first aid and cpr booklets if we finished our work early and now that I look back, I’m glad that he did.
Self-guided first aid and cpr and first aid manual.
