Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
Our main thema for days 21-25 of Ramadan was Al Asma Al Husna.
(Our plan can find again from Our Ramadan Study Plan.) We listened the names from
ArabAcademy. It was nice, but some slower version would be better :). For the thema I made a thermometer with the most beautiful names. The idea is that kids try to repeat the names and then mark the place where they manage to repeat without mistakes. It can color, but in this time we used a sticker instead. By printing the names and using a colorful cardboard could prepare a beautiful thermometer, ours is again fast-and-without-a-printer-made :). And if have printer, it is easy to make an own thermometer for each child inshaaAllaah. We had this time only one.
After a short time our sticker moved to Al-Jabbar. And we continued to learn... In five days kids were not able to learn them all, but they learnt quite many of them alhamdulillaah. And these can study after too, ofcourse! In that way kids were motivated to learn :). (After taking a photo I noticed that I forgot one name. I added it and also Allah.)
We also learned the meanings of the names in Finnish.
I read stories for my kids about this thema too from Salam - islamin polku serie. When I was small my dad read for me a lot - also books which were meant for adults. Now it`s my turn to read for my children and I enjoy it Alhamdulillaah! S and K can ofcourse read by themselfes too and for some themes they`ve read alone too, but the feeling when all three kids are around me on the sofa and I read aloud is totally different! I like also discuss about important themes with my kids, because then I know, if they have understood or not.
On 26. day of Ramadan our main thema was Laylatul Qadr. I read for kids a beautiful story about Laylatul Qadr from book Salam - islamin polku 3-4. This book is meant for school for classes 3-4. In Finland children start school at age 7, so Salam - islamin polku 1-2 is meant for children about 7-8 years and Salam - islamin polku 3-4 for children about 9-10 years. But because there are not a lots of children`s books about Islam in Finnish, I`ve read both of them also for Z. Sometimes I`ve shortened the stories for Z, if I`ve read only for him, but when I read for K, S and Z in the same time, Z likes to listen the whole stories too. (Z took the picture :)! )
We listened
Surat Al-Qadr from Quran audio and I read the explanation of the Surat in Finnish from Koraani (Z.I. Ahsen Böre) - Finnish explanation of the meaning of Qur`an - for the kids:
"Siunattu yö
Aloitan Jumalan, laupiaan Armahtajan, nimeen.
1. Totisesti olemme ilmaissut sen (Koraanin) siunattuna yönä.
2. Siunattu yö on arvokkaampi kuin tuhat kuukautta.
3. Silloin laskeutuvat enkelit ja suuri henki Herransa käskyn mukaan kaikenlaisiin tehtäviin.
4. Silloin vallitsee rauha ja kestää aamunkoittoon saakka."
I think that it`s also important to understand the meaning of the verses! I`ve heard that some kids can recite Qur`an, but don`t understand the meaning at all.
I liked a lot sister Ummu Abdillaah`s idea about home made Qur`an holder! I made a miniature one for S´s doll. I used foil paper and tape, which I found from home. I made also a small "book" for the doll. Really small ones could be made for dollhouse too, but S has not a dollhouse any more.
For thema muslimcountries and mosques (our main thema on 27. day of Ramadan) I prepared two puzzles from ice cream sticks and two pictures of famous mosques (The Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem and The Prophet Muhammad`s (SAAS) Mosque in Madinah.
I found the idea for the puzzles from here. Please, be aware, that this blog is not "an islamic" one and it`s not written by a sister. I only wanted to introduce the idea, how can make simply puzzles from re-cycled materials. There are a good tutorial too! I`ve linked this kind of blogs before too, but I`ve wanted to introduce only a spesific idea, which I felt, would be useful. In this interval I have to add that also in some sisters` blogs, where I`ve linked, there can be some opinions which I don`t agree - I mean to link only the ideas which I feel useful, but it doesn`t always mean that I agree the whole contents of the blog!
On the backround I added the name of the mosque.
We discussed with the kids about muslim countries which we`ve been able to travel and mosques we`ve been visited. Kids favorites were Istanbul in Turkey and Algeria of course :).
We read again Salam - islamin polku serie!
We discovered again baby I`s earth ball too. In this time we tried to put note papers with the names of countries to right places, like that.
I draw about this thema with Z for a big paper. When I was child, me and my brother taped many normal papers from back side as a one really big one and draw together. We choosed a thema and then both of us draw about it for the same paper. It was so nice especially outside in our garden in sunny days :). I got chance to discuss about our learned subjects with Z while drawing. The result is not so important in these kind of works :).
For days 28-29 of Ramadan our main study thema was Basic information about Qur`an. Again we used Salam - islamin polku serie. If there is some Finnis speaking readers - I don`t know if we have any? - I can recommend this serie also for home! I ordered Salam - islamin polku 1-2 for my kids from
Oph`s internet shop. Salam - islamin polku 3-4 I found from library.
We studied for example how many suras there are in Qu`ran, how Qur`an was sent for prophet Muhammed (SAAS), what was the first surat given for prophet Muhammed (SAAS) and what we should do before reading Qur`an. I read also the meanings of the surat:
Al Alag (only ayyat 1-5)
Al Fatiha
Al Ikhlas
Al Falaq
Al Nas
Al Fil
Al Fatiha
Al Nasr
Al Kawthar
Al Quraish
We learned words like
basmala and
tafsir.
We learnt that Surat al Fatiha has another names too like fatihat ul kitab, Umm al Qur`an, suurat salat and saban min al mathani. I read for them also stories about Quraish and the people of the elephant.
I`ve read aloud for the kids during Ramadan about 200-250 pages. Alhamdulillaah Z is also nowdays able to listen longer stories than before. He concentrates much more better than before alhamdulillaah! I know that he has not understood all we`ve studied during this Ramadan, but because K and S have also been at home for summer holiday I choosed this studying method this time. I think that Z has learnt too a lot inshaaAllaah. Of course some of our subjects have been too easy for S and K, but I think that revision is not a bag thing either. Some easiest activities I`ve done only with Z and older kids have also read alone by themselves. I`ve tried to give something for everyone.
During Ramadan my husband has kept both Arabic and Qur`an lessons for the kids alhamdulillaah!
For Z`s Arabic lessons I found from library Usborne`s book First hundred words in Arabic. This is easier than The Usborne`s book First thousand words in Arabic, which I ordered for Z (and by the way it was too in the library!).
At first I liked the colorful pictures a lot!
But in Islamic point of view I didn`t like that in some pictures a dog was for example in the kitchen and even at the table! Children should be explained that we can use this book for learning Arabic, but not for learnig manners etc. K told for me that the drawer only wanted to make pictures look funny, but for smaller children without understanding about Islamic manners, the pictures should be explained. And by the way in Finnish non-muslim families dogs are often able to come to home and even to kitchen and bed! So it`s important to explain for small children that as muslims we don`t let dogs to go everywhere! In many children`s books which are written by non-muslims there can be pictures or text which is opposite to our believings, so please watch out!
Z got his 5th Teddy bear`s preschool book. In this book there is a nice thema: farm and forest animals. I like especially the cards where are animals and their babies! Them can be used for example for a memory game. Z started the book already: directly when he saw the book, he ran to take his pencils :)!
Baby I was born in last Ramadan and he has started to walk by the help of sofa, bed, table or something like that some time ago Alhamdulillaah. He also likes to drive by a car like that. It`s Z`s one and his favorite too, but alhamdulillaah he lets baby I to drive too!
Nowdays baby I is really active maaschaAllaah and I was SO happy when found Manduca from second hand couple of weeks ago with nice price Alhamdulillaah :). And he likes it! Now I can put him sometimes to Manduca while working at home, because I have not always time to supervise him. It`s also useful in some places where can`t go with strollers. Sometimes I`ve used it also when go to shopping. I can carry even Z by Manduca! He wanted to try too when saw baby I there and yes I can carry him too :)! When K was about 2,5 years old I sometimes carried him by a long sling.
SubhaanAllaah it`s already Eid-time soon! Again I feel like time has flied! I tell for you about our Eid preparations and Eid later inshaaAllaah. Here are some printable Eid cards which I found and liked, but can`t use by myself this time. Maybe some of our readers can benefit from them inshaaAllaah!
I hope happy Eid for you all!
