More small steps and Ramadan plans

Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.

In this week I`ve been really busy for many reasons, so our studies have going on step by step. I´ve been also unable to print material, so we`ve tried to use another ways to learn letters etc.

For letters the book Z got from sister Ummu Abdillaahi and her kids is really usefull. Only Z has already written by some colors which didn`t go away proberly, but the book is still so usefull and Z likes it a lot! Thank You again Sister!

 

 

 

Kids love this small toy we found from Istanbul! By it can draw many different kind of shapes, in this time flowers.

 

Z colored them and practised to write his name and letters in Arabic by the help of dots.

 

Z`s work - quite same than which we missed on Monday.

  Practising letters.

 

S`s work for thema "flowers".

 

Letters by play doh.

 

Today we went to one park where can do some sport and play. It was fun, but I didn`t take camera with me. I took only one picture by my phone :).

 

S brought for me again some rhubarbs and I made dessert from them.

 

 

Rhubarb should be eaten with milk products, so we added cream. Like in my childhood :)!

 

 

We continued this S`s Arabic book with Z.

 

And this one. This is meant for older kids, not for Z`s age, and because there are no pictures it`s little boring for small children, but we only checked some letters. And I wanted to introduce this book too, because for older kids it`s good!

 

 

 

Z took one picture by my camera and when I opened the pictures I thought "What is this?!". But it`s taken from the book`s cover. And so beautiful I added also here :).

 

 

Our experience by Montessori toys.

 

 

I had to buy already new street chalks, because kids have used them a lot! These are good idea in the summer and can be used for educational way. From Saiturinpörssi can find cheap price.

 

 

 

 

 

For Ramadan I`ve started to plan a calendar for kids. I decided to do a really simply one, bacause of my rush. I used 30 baby food bottles. Inside them I just putted small piece of magazine paper. After I add numbers on the covers inshaaAllaah.

 

I think they come quite cute, even I made them really fast. At least they were easy to make and cheap or even free :)!

 

 

 

I wanted to do an own calendar for K, S and Z, but then I should have 90 presents, so I think, I`ll do only this one and let them open the bottle on their turn. I added the first letter of child`s name, whose turn it`s open the bottle under the bottle: For example 1 Z, 2 S, 3 K, 4 Z, 5 S etc. Then it`s easier to remember whose turn it is and also to plan a proper present!

 

 

My idea is to put inside the bottles small presents (like small toy, stickers, candy, coins etc.) and islamic questions or tasks for every day. I hope that in this way kids learn something in nice way! I made one time a really simple ramadan calendar for my kids and they loved that and already asked me, do you make like that for us in this year too. Here are my questions. They are about the five pillars of Islam, about our deen, about al asma al husna and of course about Ramadan. Questions are also like our subjects of each day.

 

 

 

Hope they`ll like it!

 

For Ramadan I found a nice book for Z from here . And here is another one, which I`ve used before with kids.

 

Today Z had fun time: he practised to drive by scooter alhamdulillaah.

 

Now he studies Quraan with his dad :). InshaaAllaah tomorrow we`ll meet in the park with sisters and kids!

 

 

 

 

Our small steps

Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.

This week didn`t start as I`ve planned. I wanted to go to the sister`s meeting to the park on Monday, but S was sick on that morning and her dad was abroad. S has little funny teeth: for her permanent teeth tries to come out before milk teeth are going away! SubhaanAllaah! And this time it made infection for her. Alhamdulillaah we had on that morning appointment for a doctor for another reason and in the same time I asked her, should that tooth take away directly and she said that it should, because it`s infected. So we had to go direct to the dentist and she took two milk teeth away. Alhamdulillaah now it`s ok! But on that day S was really tired, because they gave for her medicine and local anesthesia etc.

Now we have started our studies by small steps... Here are some of our activities of this week...

For math... This is a nice toy for learning 1/2, 1/3, 1/4 etc.

 

and this for numbers and shape triangle.

 

For thema "deen" I found again good material from book "Salam - islamin polku 1-2". So in this week, we continued some themes from last week and also started some new ones.

 

About Ramadan from same book.

 

And for our thema "Dawlah" too! This story is nice, because it tells about muslim children who are from different countries! Just like in our club :)!

 

We also spoke about "Zakat" with kids, but I didn`t make a really big thema about that on this time, because we`ve planned to take "Five pillars of islam" as our thema on Ramadan inshaaAllaah.

 

Our experipent of this week: volcano! This volcano could be done for example from clay, but this time we didn`t have lots of time for that and my main target on this time was to demonstrate volcanic eruption. Our volcano is a big baby food bottle covered by black tape and foil. I put inside the volcano water, washing-up liquid and soda. Then I put the volcano to the bath room and Z added vinegar inside the volcano.

 

 Volcanic eruption started...

 

again and again until we didn`t have vinegar anymore :).

 

I told for Z that from real volcano there comes hot lava from the volcano. I think that now he remembers that better than if he only read that from the book.

 

 

For thema flowers I remembered one idea we saw in France. S was able to go to French kindergarten with her cousin as a visit for one day. There kids made flowers from coffee filter bags and straws. They colored filter bags with water colors and attached to straws. They were really beutiful. I`ve already packed or gived away lots of our colors etc., so we couldn`t color by water colors, but used inks. We didn`t have straws either, so we used sticks. S made also a butterfly and today kids made theater with them for me :).

 

 

Today it was K`s turn to help me to do Italian style pizza

 

 

  and S`s turn to help to do a mud cake. We ate it with custard.

 

Z went to mosque to pray with his dad. They drove there by bicycles.

 

InshaaAllaah we`ll continue our studies...

 

 

 

 

New week for Letter Ra and Za

                                   
                 Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.

Alhamdulillah we started our new week with more ummis. We met in the Park ( Leikipuisto Mustapuro) .

This time sister Ummu Kareem could not join  us for some reasons and sister Ummu Maryam from Somalia also couldn't come, becouse she has now new baby Ritaj, May  Allah help them all ameen.

We ( sister Ummu Anisa , sister Ummu Maryam from Serb and me) spent  our time nice learning with kids new letter RA and Za, alhamdulillah.

Here some pictures from that day.

For letter Za we chose "Zahra" in this day. Kids using stikers to make the letter ZA.

Za with alif and ba belong to small M(about 2y.o) and next with name to big M(4y.o)

A's and Anisa's letters.

A and big M's works.

Anisa's(about 3y.o) first writing mashaAllah! This time small M was tired and didn't finished.

For letter Ra we chose new words "Raqam" Arqaam) numbre(s).

Anisa making flower with her mum.

A's flower.)

For this week we want to learn about "Ramadan" and "Zakat" inshaAllah.