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During our preschool year both of my kids really enjoyed doing circle time. You can see our preschool circle time set up and the activities we did here inshaAllah.During circle time we learned the concept of passage of time, days of the week (both in English and Arabic), months, hijriy months, seasons, weather words, practiced numbers and ABC's ( both in Arabic and English), read books, read

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Last month we worked with MEP math lessons 5-10. Most of the activities were all about comparison sets and more activities on this topic are coming in the following lessons this month.I really liked some of the activities because they invite and encourage kids to think carefully before answering a particular question or finishing the entire activity. So we will be focusing more this concept

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Themes: My Body and 5 senses, Animals and their babies, Desert animals, Honeybees.Monthy Library: Me and My Amazing Body by Joan SweeneyMe and my senses by Joan SweeneyKeeping ourselves Clean by darulkitab publicationsA Day in A Day in the life: Desert Animals- MeerkatA Day in A Day in the life: Desert Animals- Arabian OryxA Day in A Day in the life: Desert Animals- RoadrunnerWorld of Insects:

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This month we were supposed to learn about silent letters. Both of the kids are very much familiar with silent vowels (especially silent e and when two vowels come walking the first one does the talking rules) but we have not learned much about silent consonants.I tried to come up with something interesting since my kids enjoy learning from different interactive materials.So couple weeks ago

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Here is our monthly summary for January/Safar. It includes some of the activities we did along with other activities from our science workbook.The topics we covered are:Digging (Science and Technology) –machines make work easier.Shadows (Physical Science) - Light travels in a straight line until it strikes an object.Does it Change? (Physical Science)- When some substances are placed in liquid,

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This is a project we did a while ago during our social studies and geography sessions. Lately my computer is acting strange so I'm not using it much.As I have stated in my previous posts here and here, our social studies and geography themes are related to each other so some of our projects cover both subjects.Kids are learning their home addresses, important phone numbers, relatives with their

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For the last 1,5 months we have been learning the following topics as planned in our Social Studies curriculum.All about me (practicing address, phone number, age/ birthdays)My familyFriendshipMe on the map (will make another post on this topic inshaAllah)Reading Readiness.Some of the books we read:The Rainbow fish by Marcus PfisterMe and My family tree by Joan SweeneyThe Family book by Todd

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We have been studying Beginning Geography (Grades K-2) by Evan Moor.The book has 4 sections:1)Map Skills; 2)Landforms and Bodies of Water; 3) Continents and Oceans and 4)Around the World with Animals.So far we have finished the Map Skills section with Ibrahim (Sarah also joined us most of the time but we'll study everything again with her next year inshaAlla). Ibrahim really loves his geography

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One of our monthly theme is learning about Igloos so we read couple of books related to our subject.The inside story: Igloo is a beginner book, the text is simple to read and it explains how Inuits build their Igloo homes.Then we tried to do an Igloo craft using coconut shell halves and paper towel rolls.We covered the coconut shell and the paper towel with white paper cuts.then colored them

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I forgot to write monthly summary for math last month. So, I'll just go through briefly what we have been doing.Both kids have been doing math worksheets from their Big kindergarten workbook. Ibrahim has finished the book I have mentioned here and Sarah is going according to our monthly plans.Apart from doing general number/math worksheets, throughout the transition math section these are the

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Fridays we only do Islamic studies so all day long we try to engage in different activities that cover our montyly topics. Last friday I saw new Quran centre worksheets by sister Umm An-Nu'man for surah An-Nas I decided to print out and do them with kids. They liked the previous Quran Centre worksheets for Surah Al Ikhlas.In the morning we started with our regular Qu'ran revision then kids took

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Just before we started our kindergarten year kids began working with their Big Kindergarten workbooks. It has 320 pages of different activities and covers several subjects. Ibrahim finished the book now alhamdulillah and now I'm thinking about getting another supplementary workbook just like this one but little advanced. According to reviews Big 1st Grade book (continuation of this series) is not

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Reading readiness/Writing.One of our January month topic is winter sports, so we are reading books about different activities done outdoors in the snow/ice. Some of books we checked out from the library are: Snowball Fight by Jimmy Fallon, Learning to Ski with Mr. Magee by Chris Van Dusen and Callie Cat Ice skater by Eileen Spinelli.After reading the stories we did winter and summer sports sort

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Kids are still practicing reading with Arabic comes first vocabulary worksheets. Some of the basic vocabulary they have learned during our preschool year, but I keep printing out the worksheets because they like to read the words in them. As I have said before words are written in big font and all the letters are very clear to read alhamdulillah.While we were learning about the cake vocabulary

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This is one of my late posts from December.One of our selected books for December was Soup Day by Melissa Iwai. This is mashaAllah a very good book and kids really like it.After reading this book several times we also prepared soup with kids. I usually cook soups and stews a lot, especially in winter.With Ibrahim we cooked vegetable soup with macaroni. Sarah and Daddy went to get some milk and

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During our first month of kindergarten year(Muharram/December) I introduced couple of phonics rules for both kids. We practiced short and long vowels from our phonics workbook and learned about vowel diphthongs and R-controlled vowels through some activities.Before starting kindergarten year Sarah was good with short vowels, consonant blends and Montessori pink cards. When I introduced

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Monthly themes: My family, Quilts, Winter sports, Igloo and Opposites.Monthly library:The family book by Parr, Todd.The quilt story by Johnston, Tony,Learning to ski with Mr. Magee by Van Dusen, Chris.Snowball fight! by Fallon, Jimmy.Callie Cat, ice skater by Spinelli, Eileen.Kate skates by O''Connor, Jane.Quiet loud by Patricelli, Leslie. Big little by Patricelli, Leslie. Yummy yucky by

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As I have mentioned in my previous post last week we started setting up some Montessori inspired activities for kids especially Sarah. First we used clothespins and numbers then incorporated Arabic, shapes, felt mini clothes, math and colors. Alhamdulillah it was a fun experience.The activities are suitable for toddlers, preschoolers and kindergartners : )Clothespins and counting dots

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Last week I set up Montessori inspired activities center for basically 2 reasons.1. As I have said both Sarah and Ibrahim are studying the same workbooks now in their kindergarten year. Ibrahim is pretty good with all the workbooks and he can do the activities by himself, but Sarah needs my attention and is little slow to finish her job( after all she is only 3,5 : )Anyways, I was thinking of

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In my previous post I wrote about our Multipurpose Train Board and how we used it to discuss the animals we saw at the zoo. We used this same train board to practice R-controlled vowels too!I made labels and example words for each r-controlled vowel family.Then I put all the ir, air, ur, or, ar, er labels in the train cars and kids are invited to pick a word, read and place it in the appropriate

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In my previous post about observing animals and plants in winter I mentioned that we recently visited the zoo. After visiting the zoo we made this Animal Train Board to help us discuss the animals we saw there.I have some step by step pictures to share!You can see all the instructions and step by step pictures for this activity here as well.First we cut out different shapes to make the engine,

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We have been reading story books about how animals live during the cold days of winter. As weather gets cold and snow covers the ground people live in warm houses and wear warm coats outside. We get food from grocery stores, but what happens to animals? Throughout the month we tried to read, learn and observe some animals and plants to understand how they live in winter.Recently we visited

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We have been reading books from our December monthly library and doing some related activities alhamdulillah. We got more books about winter and snow!One of the them is an ice picture activity we did last week.We learned about this activity from sis Umm An-Numan's blog and did our own ice picture.Kids found some leaves, wild berries, tree twigs, rocks etc. They also got some snow.Inside the snow

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My garden of vowel Diphthongs.As I have mentioned we have started learning about vowel diphthongs now. So far we have covered:initial and final consonants and blend consonantsshort and long vowelsconsonant digraphsvowel digraphsI think vowel diphthongs are little hard for kids at kindergarten level since they might confuse them with vowel digraphs where the basic rule is the first vowel does the

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We have been reviewing lunar calendar months and learning about the importance of the month of Muharram. We used TJ's Muharram Unit Study.We talked about the sacredness of this month (as well as other sacred months mentioned in the Quran) and things that are prohibited during these sacred months.Ibrahim made monthly calendar for Muharrah and when we talked about Ashura we marked the tenth day.We

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This is weekly summary for our Arabic studies.I have been trying to find a good workbooks to practice handwriting as well as vocabulary development for both kids. At the end we decided to buy Goodword Arabic writing workbooks.Book 1 is for Sarah, she will be practicing individual letters with this book, but she can also practice writing small words as she sometimes wants with his brother.Book

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Reading readiness.We are reading books from our monthly library, most of them are about snow, plants and animals in winter and winter activities. InshaAllah we will be sharing our activities too.Literacy and PhonicsAccording to our plan we are supposed to review consonants and short vowels this month.Kids started working with the Phonics workbook on short and long vowels early and they have

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This week we learned "Will it Float" topic from our Science workbook.We studied that some objects will sink in water and other will float.We did topic related activities for comprehension, vocabulary, writing, science and language enrichment.Kids learned float and sink. They also practiced with -oat family group and made words such as boat, coat, throat, float etc.Afterwards we did science

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Monthly themes: All about me, Snow, Animals and Plants in winter (Hibernation and Migration)Monthly Library books:Soup day by Iwai, MelissaThe snowy day by Keats, Ezra JackKitten's winter by Fernandes, Eugenie,The mitten by Aylesworth, Jim.The first snowfall by Rockwell, Anne F.The Jacket I wear in the snow by Neitzel, Shirley.Who''s been here? : a tale in tracks by Hodgkins, Fran, 1964-Over and

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I planned to start kindergarten curriculum from new hijriy year 1433 but kids already started doing some unstructured homeschooling by themselves. So, unofficially our kindergarten has began mashaAllah.During the kindergarten year we will try to learn the following subjects inshaAllah:Language and Literacy: (Reading, Phonics, Grammar and Writing )Math Problem Solving Science Social Studies

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Now that we have completed our preschool curriculum I'll write a little about kids progress and will also share my own thoughts at the end.Alhamdulillah we had a great year of homeschooling and we are grateful for all the moms, friends and everyone who supported and helped us throughout our journey.When we covered the topic about Recycling/Reusing I reused some shoe boxes as a storage for

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As I have mentioned in my previous post alhamdulillah we have finished our preschool curriculum and been doing revision lessons.SubhanAllah what a journey we had since last year!Math.We completed Reception year MEP maths alhamdulillah. I put all other math related worksheets in one place too so it is easier to go back and see what we did during preschool year.Literacy.We are still learning

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We have been learning about Outer Space for about two weeks now. This is the last topic from our Preschool curriculum.We are also revising most of our Literacy, Math, Arabic language and Islamic studies materials as a general revision of our Preschool program.We read space related story books and visual encyclopedia. Kids really like "Comets, Stars, the Moon and Mars" and "Space boy."We also

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Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi,Eid Mubarak to you all!

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Assalaamu Alaikum Ya Akhawaat Jazzakumullaah Khayr for all those who sent us emails and confirmed your contribution towards this appreciation for a dear sister. We also received some mails from some sisters that they would like to contribute anything they could afford towards this Insha Allaah. So we withdraw that the minimum amount should be of US $ 15 - 20 and request you to mail us at

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Hajj Day by Day bulletin board from last year.InshaAllah Dhulhijjah is almost here so as usual we stopped our preschool curriculum to learn more about Hajj, Dhulhijjah, Eid al Adha and do related activities in the upcoming days.I have divided our program into three parts.1. Learn about the virtues of ten days of Dhulhijjah.Read surah al Fajr by heart (at least the beginning ayat)And the

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This is our 2 weekly summary and with this we will stop our regular activities until after Eid Ul Adha inshaAllah. We'll be learning about Dhulhijjah, Hajj and Eid al Adha and will be doing some activities in the coming days biiznillah.Week 27. Character Education and Manners.Week 28 Friendship.Character education.We learned different fables from First school.Some of them are:The Ants and the

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I'm going to combine 2 weeks into one post inshaAllah and try to go some of the activities we have been doing very briefly.1st week's topic is I'm sick and 2nd week's topic is Safety and first Aid.We read these books during circle time. We learned about Asthma triggers and did the activities. fAnd I made some math related worksheets.Ibrahim's worksheets. Color by number addition and

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Assalaamu Alaikum warahmathullaah Ya Akhwaat,There is one person very well known to all the home schooling Muslim Ummis all over the world. And no matter what I am sure bi idhnillaah all of us will find something or the other that would save us time and give us information from this person. She is a Muslimah with a generous heart who has done and is still doing a wonderful job to help us.We do

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This post was meant to be written couple weeks ago when we were covering Nutrition and healthy food topic. Since the pictures were ready I decided to make a quick post : )In between the meals (or when we go out) my kids usually ask for something light to eat and we try to give them healthy snacks as much as we can. Here are our kids favorite snacks:Fruitsand Vegetables (especially carrots)or

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I'm trying to prepare kindergarten curriculum to use after we finish our preschool curriculum inshaAllah. On top of our home page I have created a new "Kindergarten curriculum" page and there I'll be collecting resources and organizing the curriculum and hope to have it ready by Eid Ul Adha biiznillah. Probably there will be lot's of editing until then...I would love to hear advice from all

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This week we are taking a week off of home ed. We had a busy weekend with our relatives and now grandma and grandpa are here for a week. It has been about 3-4 months since kids saw them last, so they are spending most of their time with their grandparents.Last week we learned about personal hygiene and sports as a continuation of our healthy lifestyle theme.During circle time we talked about

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Last week we started a new topic of healthy lifestyle and covered subtopics Nutrition and Food safety. InshaAllah next week we will be talking about personal hygiene and sports as a continuation of our theme.Books we read during circle time:Give me Half by Stuart Murphy, Johnny Appleseed by Jodie Shepherd and Eating and Drinking by Darulkitab Publications. In the past we did learn about

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This week we read the story of Musa alayhissalam and did some follow up activities.Letter mim activity, mavzun starts with mim as well just like Musa starts with mim.Map of Egypt activity Water well making Watering animals (sheep)Story of Musa alahissalam and Al khidr part. InshaAllah we'll talk more about this story this week.

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We had another fun topic to study last week alhamdulillah. We did lot's of transportation activities which both kids love : ) (who does not? )To start up the topic I used the ideas and activities given in this wonderful article.Introducing the Vacation Theme at Circle TimeAs it is instructed in the article I started the Travel and Vacation theme by introducing the topic during the circle time

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Last week's topic was Time. We revised the seasons, days of the week and months in lunar calendar during our circle time as usual. We added the names of the months in Gregorian calendar.There are some wonderful articles written about teaching time to preschoolers and we basically did whatever is recommended in them. You can read the articles here, here and here.We read two books related to our

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This is our daily schedule for 2011.Our original circle time set up can be seen here, now we added a little more according kids interests.We added moon phase and seasons cards.Kids putting X on each passed day of the month.We started putting name of the current month as well.Now we also added months in Islamic lunar calender section!Teaching the passage of time by placing Today, Yesterday and

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Starting from this week we have started our regular weekly lessons from our preschool curriculum. We are planning to cover weeks 21 to 30 until Eid ul Adha or by the end of Dhulhijjah biiznillah.This is the summary for the 20th week of our preschool curriculum. Everything was done back in May before we moved to our new place. I just came across these pictures and decided to post them as the

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Taqabbala Allaahu minnaa wa minkum! Alhamdulillah we had a wonderful Eid ul Fitr and We hope you all had a wonderful Eid too! During the last days of Ramadan we made some Eid Greeting cards and did some writing and coloring. First two cards Inside Another card inside Eid presents for kids For this Eid we got several Learning Roots products for the kids. We ordered them from Al Basheer and

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assalamu alaikum, These are some of our activities from week 3. As usual this is our weekly report for Umm Suhailah. We learned more about: the last ten day (especially the odd nights)Laylatul QadrThe first Revelation in Cave HiraE'tikaf and the importance of night time worship during the last ten daysand the following hadith"Every action of the son of Adam is given manifold reward, each good

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Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi, Today is officially the end of Day 15 of Ramadan (in the US). Please check out the Ramadan Giveaway Entries here inshaAllah. All of you did wonderful job mashaAllah. May Allah reward you all abundantly. We wrote all the participants names and folded them and they all looked similar. My daughter did the drawing and the first name she chose was the winner

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These are some of the activities we did according to our Preschool Program for the month of Ramadan. Since we are participating in Umm Suhailah's Ramadan Arts and Crafts challenge this post is our second weekly report for her : ) Both kids were sick for couple of days, so we just read some books. and did simple Ramadan collage and writing exercise Project 1. Qur’anic verse (meaning):

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I'll be posting Ramadan Giveaway participants projects here inshaAllah. Please remember that you need to submit a picture or a short report in order to be eligible for giveaway prize. The giveaway is open until the 15th day of Ramadan. At the end of 15th day we'll do the drawing and inshaAllah we'll announce the winner immediately. May Allah reward you all with khayr! Participants and

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MashaAllah we had a very busy week and it is hard to believe that the first week of Ramadan is already gone SubhanAllah.These are some of the activities we did according to our Preschool Program for the month of Ramadan. Since we are participating in Umm Suhailah's Ramadan Arts and Crafts challenge this post is our weekly report for her : )Activities we did at homeProject 1HadithSalman ibn

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This is our last pre-Ramadan activity and inshaAllah I'll slow down on posting since Ramadan is almost here.If you have not yet entered the Ramadan giveaway, please do so here inshaAllah.We did Taraweeh Box Mosaic craft activity as mentioned in our Preschool Program for the month of Ramadan. InshaAllah kids will be taking their boxes to taraweeh prayers and use what's inside when they get bored

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We are pleased to announce our first giveaway and we encourage you all to participate inshaAllah. This giveaway is open until the 15th of Ramadan (1432-2011) and we hope that the winner gets his/her prize for Eid inshaAllah.You can read about the rules and giveaway prize choices below inshaAllah and if you have any questions please feel free to leave a comment or contact me via email(

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After the Maghrib prayer we usually have some kind of soup. Soups are easy to make, tasty, healthy, wholesome and filling. Here are some of the soups I usually make and during Ramadan I'll be making them very often inshaAllah.Chicken soup with homemade egg noodles.Soup with butternut squash, milk and rice.We usually make this for breakfast, but during Ramadan it is good for iftar as well. And

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We break our fast with dates and water as this is Sunnah. Then we usually have fruits and raw vegetables (or veggie salad). Sometimes if I have time I make a salad to start the Iftar. Salads are usually made with raw vegetables and whole grains, thus very nutritious.raw veggiesVeggie saladBulgur salad (made with bulgur and lentils) Hummus.You can see the hummus recipe here.KisirYou can see the

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Today we did Ramadan Center Piece activity as mentioned in our Preschool Program for the month of Ramadan. The main reason for doing several pre-Ramadan activities is to help kids understand that Ramadan is indeed a special month for us Muslims. Through out the activities it is very important to talk about different merits if this blessed month, rewards for fasting, rules of fasting etc in a

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Ramadan Lantern.While doing Ramadan Calender chain activity we wanted to make couple of lanterns and here they are. Nothing fancy but kids loved them. They pretended that they were real lights and carried the lanterns all day long.In the process we talked about the importance of late night worshiping during the month of Ramadan. After a while they said they would help us by holding these

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Today we did Ramadan Calendar activity as mentioned in our Preschool Program for the month of Ramadan. We cut colored construction paper into long strips and glued the ends to make chains. We made 30 chains. I explained that the number of the days of Ramadan will be determined by observing the appearance of new moon of Shawwal inshaAllah.When Ramadan starts inshaAllah, kids will tear off one

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Today we did Charity decorated Jars activity as mentioned in our Preschool Program for the month of Ramadan.Ramadan is that time of the year to remember most the poor and the needy.As I mentioned earlier as a part of our preparation for Ramadan we decorated two sadaqah jars.We’ll be collecting coins/cash during Ramadan. On last days of Ramadan will be counting money and will take whatever we

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Here is our Program for the month of Ramadan for preschool age kids.It can be modified or changed to suit any kid’s age.You can see our Ramadan related activities from previous years here . We'll be reviewing them as well inshaAllah.I have divided the activities into 3 parts.1. Pre– Ramadan. We’ll be doing several activates that can help us to start Ramadan preparation.2. During the first 20

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More than a month ago we got A to Z of Akhlaaq book and I have to say that this is one of kid's favorite mashaAllah. The illustrations are fun and easy to understand the message it carries.I wanted to do some activities for each manner mostly by doing real life activities. This way it would be easier and more practical for kids to understand each attribute and mashaAllah it works.We also had Box

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Last week studied lesson 28 from MEP maths and kids practiced drawing tulips as shown on the material.They drew one and said that one is Mommy and there should be a baby tulip as well. They also drew brown soil saying that otherwise tulips will not live.Ibrahim wrote his name when his paper was upside down : ) and he was kind enough to write her sister's name on her paper too.Then kids wanted to

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Last weekend we went to a local orchard to pick some fruits. They had sour/sweet cherries, strawberries, gooseberries etc that were ripe and available for picking.It had been years since I ate sour and sweet cherries right from the tree and alhamdulillah I felt like picking and eating them back at home.It was a nice experience for the kids too. They could not stop eating the whole time.Sour

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InshaAllah, Sha'ban is almost here...A'ishah (may Allah be pleased with her) said: "The Messenger (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him - PBUH) used to fast until we thought he would never break his fast, and not fast until we thought he would never fast. I never saw the Messenger of Allah fasting for an entire month except in Ramadan, and I never saw him fast more than he did in Sha'ban." (

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Here is our recipe for crepe. Crepes are mostly eaten for breakfast. They can be eaten for lunch or anytime of the day as a desert too.Because they are prepared using white flour and milk it should be eaten occasionally in moderation.You can use different fillings for crepes (for ones without sugar) : cheese, spinach, eggs, ground beef etc.When you add some sugar crepes can be eaten as a desert.

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We got this "BIG BOOK of first words in English and Arabic" as a gift last month. It makes my job much more easier to find the appropriate vocabulary when studying certain themes with kids.The book does not give the words in alphabetic listings, rather they are sorted into categories that include the following:HomeAnimalsBirdsFoodWeatherNoisesShoppingCountingColors and so on.Weather and Seasons

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Post updated!I promised my kids that we would try to learn more about turtles after we settle down in a new place as they were really interested in turtles back in our old place.During spring we had a chance to see lot's of turtles big ones, small ones and some really old ones (they seemed to be really old to us!). We used come to the lake to feed the fish only, but this year there were so many

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Assalamu alaikum,Finally, after a long break we are back alhamdulillah.We were not at home most of the days in May and at the end of the month we moved to another place (which is pretty far from our previous location).Since then we have been trying to settle down in our new home.I had to catch up with my Arabic lessons and Qur'an revision myself (I was out of schedule for sometime) and recently

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During the 19th week of our preschool curriculum we learned about the weather.Throughout the week we had strong storms, lots of rain, hail, tornado warnings, thunder and lightning. We talked about how each type of weather is formed and did some activities.This is a weatherwizkids website where they give plenty of information on weather.We also follow weather.com they have latest videos on the

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We have have been learning about Yunus a.s to continue with our Lives of Prophets theme. Here are some of the activities we did to go along with the story.We usually reread the Prophets Sent by Allah stories, most of them are very familiar to the kids.This time we tried to set up a scene before reading the story.We built a small town with it's gate showing where someone leaves or enters the city

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This week we learned (reviewed) transportation theme.This topic has been my kids favorite alhamdulillah. Both my son and my daughter love cars, trucks, boats and play with them all the time.We had bunch of ready activities from the past, so we just redid them and practiced the vocabulary in Arabic.You can see the activities here and here inshaAllah.We added couple of new games such as wheels on

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We have been learning about Ayyub a.s during the past few weeks.While reading the story we tried to use different crops and did short activities. I could not take pictures but it was fun alhamdulillah. We used nearby pens and pencils to compare "a few" with "many" (Ayyub a.s had many children) and also used them to count up to 18 (number 18 was mentioned in the story too)Also the story

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During the last two weeks we talked about neighborhood and people of different occupations.We read "My little People Busy Town". Both of the kids really like this lift the flap playbook, there are different activities too.We redid the following activities on the topic and talked about the role of muazzin and imam too.Then we started doing activities on occupations.To learn the new words (both

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We finally started doing official “Circle time” before starting our day (in the morning or in the afternoon) and I have to say that it is wonderful alhamdulillah.In the mornings we always started the day by practicing Qur’an followed by other activities but we did not really have any type of circle time. At the beginning of this week I thought I’d give it a try and started our afternoon session

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This week we tried to cover the topic " My Family" by doing some activities and reading books related to this topic alhamdulillah.1.We talked about what makes up a family, different family members and importance of being a part of a family.These are two mini books on the subject.You can download the My Mummy mini book here inshaAllah and My Daddy mini book here.Then we read and did the activities

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We actually read and did the activities a while ago, but somehow I cannot find enough time to sit and write a post on the blog. For the last two weeks we have covering the "My family" topic and this was a nice addition mashaAllah. I will try to write another post about "My Family"week soon inshaAllah.Anyways here is what we did:For the month of March we read Ana wa Akhi.All the activities can be

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Ibrahim loves gardening mashaAllah. As a child growing up in an agricultural region we did lot's of farming and gardening. He has never seen that much of gardening but he sure has lots fun working outside in the yard.When we visited grandparent's last weekend he spent most of his time outside gardening with grandpa.He likes using all kinds of gardening tools: hoes, spades, scoops, shovels, forks

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This is week we continued our houses theme. We learned about the different rooms and the furniture that are found in these rooms.We started off with reading "Home sweet home". This is Sarah's favorite.Sister and Brother bear invite their friends and give them a tour around the house. After reading the book kids did the same, they went to each room and briefly showed what is where.Then we did

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Almost everyday in the afternoon kids get about an hour to use the computer. During the first half of their time they do different phonics, math and coloring activities. Below I'll show some of their favorite math activities. These activities/games do not have any music in the background except one, but there is an option of turning off the sound at the beginning of the activity.1. Islamweb.net

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We have been studying about houses for almost 3 week now mashaAllah.Initially we planned to take about 2-3 week, now it seems like it is going to take more a month: ).Anyways, we learned about different types of houses around the world (for people), different houses for animals and non living objects, how their are built and how they can be destroyed, what to say before leaving the house and

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We have been studying about houses as a part of our preschool curriculum. This month's Together We Read book selection and the activities were related to our general theme, so we combined Together We Read activities with week 13.We read A House is A House for Me and couple other books (Cabin, Home Sweet Home, and Corny Cornpicker Finds a Home).Here are some of the activities we did:Homes have

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Each week we try to do some literacy activities related to the subject we study. Ibrahim is trying to read and write by himself and I thought I should look and find some activities to help him make this process more interesting and easier. Couple months ago kids got a ABC learning board as a present from their grandma. It has several activities, one of which is spelling the names of objects.

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Allah gave us clothes to wear!Here are some of the activities we managed to do alhamdulillah.We found seasons and Clothing Matching Activity from Montessori for Everyone.At this age my kids don't use mittens/gloves, scarves or rubber boots, so while doing the activity they were trying to imagine how it would be like wearing them. It was really fun.Seasons_and_Clothing_MatchingDressed for Winter

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We have been learning about Food a lot for the past few weeks, so I tried to make some felt food for the kids. I have to say they both like the felt food very much alhamdulillah.I also like the idea of making different felt food, but for me it seems little time consuming (maybe because I'm new to this). So, I decided to make a few at a time inshaAllah. I hope to make more felt food in the near

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We continued with Allah Gave us Food theme and redid our food groups activity from week 2.We learned about the foods mentioned in the Qur'an.1.A muslim picnic by Tablibiddeen Jr.I found this presentation long time ago, kids like it, it is a nice presentation to learn the food names mentioned in the Qur'an.I could not find this particular presentation from Talibiddeen Jr's website to show the

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This is the week 10 of our preschool curriculum.Food theme.We read "Allah Gives me Food to Eat" mini book by Umm An-Nu'man. All the activities are wonderful mashaAllah.While we were reading the part where ayat from surah Abasa mentioned, Ibrahim was excited to know that he already knew those ayat. He read the ayat for us himself.Then we did food related activities.1.Where does it come from (in

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Daddy took some break from his school/work and so did we : )We did not do anything from our preschool curriculum except practicing Qur'aan. Since we did not have anything preplanned we tried to find some fun activities to keep ourselves busy and learn something new and useful.1. We bought "It is time to pray with Zaky" DVD and I must say that kids really enjoyed it.Before buying the DVD I thought

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During the winter break kids are visiting their grandparents. Meanwhile I'm going to write a short post about ourTogether We Read program activities for the month of December.We read several books about snow and did some of the activities of Umm An-Nu'man. All the activities can be found here.We did a snowflake matching activity.Then we did an activity about sizes (i.e. small, medium, and large):

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You can read Week 9, part 1 here.Prophets.There is a separate post about Ibrahim alayhissalam here. Arabic.For the vocabulary we practiced part 8 opposite words as mentioned above. And we also learned about letter Khaa and its different forms from the book.Postcard for letter Khaa. The postcard can be found here.Literacy and Math.While I was searching for different materials over at Easel and Ink

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Last week we started learning about Ibrahim alayhissalam. InshaAllah we will be learning and doing more activities in coming weeks too.We practiced Arabic letters that appear in Ibrahim alayhissalam's name.We also did our usual spelling book for English letters Ii, Bb, Rr, Oo, Hh, Ii, Mm.The story uses different opposites throughout the story so I thought it would be a good idea to start

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This is the 9th week of our preschool curriculum.This week we learned about plants.We learned basic information about the plants. We talked about how plants grow, how seeds sprout and main parts of the plants (specifically parts of a tree and a flower plant). We also talked about the flowers attracting bees and making seeds, the leaves soaking up the sunlight and turning it into food, the

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This is the 8th week of our preschool curriculum.During the 8th week of our preschool curriculum we studied about nature as our main topic.We studied and did the activities from the Allah Created the Nature mini book by Umm An-Nu'man. The book was easy to read and full of very nice activities alhamdulillah. You can download the Mini book here inshaAllah.Kids had a good time coloring, tracing,

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We learned about People of Samud and Prophet Salih alayhissalam.We watched the presentation which can be found here. Pdf version can be found here inshaAllah.Some of the activities we did are:Arabic letter recognition activity as usual:English letter accordion mini booksCamel number cards by Umm An-Nu'man. Kids cut out the camel cards, glued them on cardboard and correctly lined them up to make

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Here is a recipe for pirojki (piroshki) I have mentioned in one of my previous posts. I thought I had step by step pictures but it seems like I only have a few pictures.Filling:3 med. onions, chopped1 lbs. ground beef2 medium potatoes1 cup cooked rice (optional)Salt & pepper to tasteDough:3 cups flour1/2 tsp. salt1 teaspoon active yeast1/2 cup warm water1 egg1/3 cup vegetable oilPreparing the

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assalamu alaikum,This is the 7th week of our preschool curriculum.During the week 7 of our curriculum we studied about the wild animals. We learned some of the basic things about animals such as where they live, what they eat, why they don't leave with people, how they spend their winter (it is already winter time here).We used books, puzzles and materials from sister Umm An'Nu'man.On week 6 we

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assalamu alaikum,I hope everyone had great Eid.Unfortunately, I have not been able to write anything for the last 3 weeks now.I was sick with the flu for a week, then kids got sick. We got better alhamdulillah, and did some activities on Hajj theme from the last year. Alhamdulillah we had those ready activities. As usual kids love the hajj bulletin board along with other activities.During Eid

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Assalamu alaikum,This is the 6th week of our preschool curriculum.Another busy week has gone subhanAllah.This week our general topic was Domestic Animals. Kids are more familiar with this subject alhamdulillah. Here are the activities we have done so far:We studied the Allah created the animals and birds mini book by Umm An-Nu'man. It is a wonderful book mashaAllah, kids really enjoyed doing all

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