week 1 of preschool curriculum

Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.

Alhamdulillah bi'iznillahi wa ta'aala We finished our first week. Here you can see all pictures.

This week letter A and Alif week.

A is for Acorn.

I don't like to do Israf, acons are food for animals, so we used only shells of them.

We have not dot marker, M is using alphabet stamps. You can found worksheets from here.

I made this work sheets for more practice letter A, Upper case and lower case. Can be download from here.

M's work

A's work.

This one from dear Umm an-Nu'man's Preschool Morning book.

Art time, I drow very simple picture in blackboard;  Sun, clouds, apple tree grasses and ants (with dots) running top to the tree. And said them A is for apple and ant, and let them to drow like this.

M's 

A's. He add rainbow with rain drops too.

This arabic work sheets from Tarbiyahhomeschool.com

M's work.

M's work.

A's work.

Islamic study with A. Idea from dear sister Umm Ibrahim's Islamic preschool week 1.

Math time, M is counting acorns 1-5.

A is counting from 5 to 10.

Mep. They have done more but I haven't took picturies all.

M's.

A's.

New book for M. I found it little bit easy for A.

I made them Acorn Ant!)

Finally I have done first step of My Asmaul Husna craft, alhamdulillah.

Foam paper. Kids play puzzle from letter pieces.

With helping foam paper outline, we glued inside the word and kids fill it with golden glitter. 

M helped me with numbers.)

There are 10 numbers, for each number we'll add 10 Beautiful Names of Allah inshaAllah.(for last one 9 Names.) 

Back side, we wrote with foam letters but we had only one letter "A", then we made lower case "a" by letter "C" and "L".))

This is my first sewing letters so lower case not looks like nice.(

M's "A".

Here A's last year works!

Who is Allah? mini book.

A's Asma ul Husna book.

Alphabet Books from mrprintables.com

With A we learned how to answer to the question "Who is ...?". And say : "Abdullah is a boy.", "Maryam is a girl". "Daddy is a man."" Mommy is a woman."

I ask him "Who is Allah?" His answer "Allah is my Lord." Then my question "Who is your Lord?" His answer "Allah!"

In arabic we practiced words; Ina, Abi, Ummi, Akhi and Ukhti. 

Sorry for late updating, Alhamdulillah a'la kulli khaall.

Back to homeschooling Alhamdulillah!

Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.

Alhamdulillah Rabbil A'lamin who gave me chance again to start my normal homeshooling!

I'd like to tell a little story of my homeschooling inshaAllah. When A was baby I saw Montessori video activities (from 8 month -3 years old) in Russian. Then I started to interesting for early learning. 

One day I found sister Ummu Sara's blog.That kind of thing was new for me. I was soo happy to finding such as great work in Uzbek-English languages mashaAllah. From her blogs I found other Muslimah homscholing sisters's blogs (sister Umm-an Nu'man's blog,sister Umm Ibrahim's blog, sister Ummu Maimoonah's blog and other wonderful bloggers) subhanaAllah.

I hadn't more info about homschool. Even now I have not so more idea. I'm only following those sisters way who already tested by themselves and sharing their practices. But I know, I'm mom who knows her child better and spend all time together. I think all mothers are first teachers for their kids in the World, even they don't teach them for some reasons wa Allahu A'alam.

A was about 1 year when he showed his interesting to the letters and everythings , especially to animals and their sounds! He asked (by special babies way not with words) every single letters with pointing his finger. I answered without laziness each his questions. First I answered inattention but after some time I saw he remembered every my answers. When he was about 1 and half he had learned all vowels and some English-Arabic letters and numbers not so much. That time I had not more time to spend with him and learn. Then M was born, I was busy with my new baby. One day (when he was near 2) A wrote on magnetic board somithing and said " look mom this is arabic letter ..."(i didn't remember well it looked like JIM or other) subhanaAllah it was similar.
After that I feel sorry and thought it is time to start for him HOMESCOOLING!

Bi'iznillahi wa ta'alaa I started my homeschooling in spring time in 2012 y , when A was 2 years and 2 month old! That time it was hard for me how to start. Alhamdulillah there are (in the internet) a lot resources and wonderfull homeschooling sisters!

I prefered dear sisters UmmMaimoonah's curriculum and  UmmSara's curriculums and tried to use them. Jazahuma Allah khair fee ad dunya wa al akhira wa baarakAllahu fee awladuhhuma!
I made my own "Islam is my life"curriculum which  basically belongs to dear sister Umm Ibraheem TJ's Islamic prescool curriculum outline. Jazaki Allah khair dear sister feed dunya wa al akhira!
My curriculum was simple, weekly arabic english letters and isamic ilm. A was small thats I did not do more. We finished marked weeks only. Then I stoped my weekly curriculum and started to prepare him for Ramadan and teach him about 5 Pillars of Islam. After Ramadan we learned about Hajj and did a lot activities from sister Umm an Nu'man's Hajj theme. And her "All about me" theme pack and Seasons and little bit weathers. And other Weather pack form here.Then from this year(2013) how you know, we started with sister Ummu Karim our weekly Arabic club.

Now time to start again for him normal homeschooling inshaAllah. First time I cann't know from where to start my homeschooling and asked some advice from dear Sister Umm an Numan's . Alhamdulillah after her replying I decided to continue my PRESCHOOL CURRICULUM with some addition inshaAllah, bi'iznillahi wa ta'ala.

A is now 3 years and 8 month old. M is 2 years and 1 month old. My preschool curriculum little bit different for both of them.

This year I'll use UmmMaimoonah's preschool curriculum inshaAllah with some my own way inshaAllah. Barakallahu feehum all they did great job,and this time I really need ready plan, alhamdulillah and thank you to all you sisters again!!!

Kids are different ...I mostly gave my attention to teach A then M. A was calm boy and it was easy explain him things and he understands well. M little bit fast , she was little bit difficult for me. Now Alhamdulillah she is big girl, loves to study, not any more putting thing in her mouth like crayons etc.

When I was teaching my son I feel little sorry for M. But alhamdulillah it was good, if you start from elder others will follow them inshaAllah. M likes to copy  all things from her bro. Now days A helping me with M's study alhamdulillah.

M's islamic prescool curriculum like this inshaAllah.

1.     Aqida ;

Aqida book from Bolajonlarim in Uzbek.

2.     Arabic;

Letters(28),  numbers(0-10),  colors(basic),  shapes(basic)…etc.

     3.  English;

All letters,  numbers(0-10), colors (she knows some), shapes …etc.

3.     Math;

Reception lessons of Mep Maths.

   

4.     Islamic studies mini books.

5.      ( Qur’an and dayli duas. If she’ll understand then story of Prophets (Adam a.s, Nuh a.s Ibrahim a.s and Siyrah life of Makkah). But I’m not sure she’ll give her attention or not.)

 A’s  Islamic prescool curriculum for this year inshaAllah.

1.     Complete Islamic Studies mini books.

2.     Review Aqida for kids in uzbek .

3.     Tawheed book. And other tawheed for kids inshaAllah.

4.     Stories of Prophets and Siyrah life of Madinah .

5.     Qur’an hifz and little step by step tajweed.

6.     Daily dua and Hadith (as possible inshaAllah).

7.     Arabic language: Writing and Reading letters. New vocabularies.

8.     English language: Wriring and Reading phonics. New vocabularies.

9.     Math Mep year1 with practice book.

10. Finnish language:  numbers, colors …etc.(as much as he can)

Time table- subhanallah it is difficult for me to plan. If my kids want we’ll do our study any time.

This time I have my own studies 2 days in the week. In the weekend my kids mostly spend their time with their dad. So 3 full days left. But I’ll try to do something  in the weekend or other days.

Alhamdulillah we already finished 1-week and started next week.

Soon I’ll update our last weeks job inshaAllah.

Little M and her Bro's progress!

                           
       Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.

Alhamdulillah M is now 2 years old. I wished to start homeschooling for her in this age. But she already joined to her bro time by time mashaAllah.

She likes a lot "dars" then A.
 Tracing work sheest are from here.

They are wanting the same things subhanaAllah!

She knows some Arabic and English letters. She can count (1-10 ) well in uzbek and not so well in english.

After Ramadan I litlle bit start teaching phonics to A. We ordered this kind of letters from amazon.co.uk.

For more handy using I made them places insde this normal box.

Only for last 2 letters there aren't enough rooms!(

But alhamdulillah it was easy to use!

This idea from Islomiy oila.

A took picture from his work sheets .

We also used sister Umm-an Nu'man's at Family Word Book.

We are keeping to read from Iqra book every Friday bi'znillahi wa ta'laa.

Alhamdulillah now M is also starting to read!

M is practising to write Arabic letters.

A is writing.

In the begining of september we were in Heureka (science center).

And we read books from Library.

News and changes!

                          
                           Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.

Dear sisters, after Ramadan we have news. I can not say it is good or bad, it is only qadaral Allaha wa Ta'laa.

My dear sister Ummu Karim and my son's friend Z are now faaar away from us! They are moved!!!

 Sister Ummu Karim are my first friend in Finland. She was only one which I can speak in English, I practiced my English only with her! We met each other in Lampopuisto. I still remember that day...).
She was pregnant and I was pregnant. SubhanaAllah, our problems were same, our thought were the same and etc...then we became good friend, alhamdulillah.;

Then baby Z was born after 1 month baby A was born, alhamdulillah. Z and A are friends from that time mashaAllahu wa tabarak.

For their company we planed with sister our weekly Arabic club. Alhamdulillah They are finished 15 Arabic letters with some more and less success.

I don't know can we continue again our Arabic Letters week as before. But I know we'll try to share our ideas here again inshaAllah.

Dear sister Ummu Karim thank you for all! May Allah bless you in your new Home!

 InshaAllah I'm plannig to continue our blog with my other homeschool program. Like that way I'd like to finish Arabic letters and continue to study Arabic bi'iznillahi wa ta'ala.