AlhamduLILLAH, now that my four-year-old is participating in our daily school activities, I’ve had to take a step back and remember to go back to basics. We used to have a daily calendar on the wall and then it was moved to the hallway to accommodate a new bookshelf. Well, that didn’t work for us, so I moved one of the room dividers that I used to have in the classroom to the back of the room. We have the Hijri calendar on the left side of the board, the season (in Arabic) with a photo is in the middle, and the Gregorian calendar is next to that.

The Hijri calendar came from Umm An-Nu’man‘s page, MashaALLAH.

A few years ago, I printed numbers from Enchanted Learning, laminated them and added Velcro to the back. I pulled those out to help my son and younger daughter, he needs reminders for spelling the numbers and she needs to recognize the numbers.

She is also learning to spell her name, so she takes a set of index cards with Velcro on the back and matches them to the ones at the top of the board.There is also a set of laminated continent cards that I printed long ago from www.montessorimaterials.org. The divider is also nice for our felt sets. When my daughter finishes her work, she is free to play with them and they stick right onto the board.

Last year, we learned 45 of the 99 Names and Attributes of ALLAH and this year, we are reviewing and continuing, InshaALLAH. I bought a plain pocket chart and hung it up on our classroom door. There used to be a curtain there, so I simply hung the pocket chart onto the curtain rod.