Time flies!

Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.

SubhaanAllaah this week ends soon! I feel like time flies subhaanAllaah! For this week I didn`t plan a lot for kids, because I wanted to prepare myself too for Ramadan. I`ve already started to read my planned resources for Ramadan, for example Ibn Hisham`s book Sirat Rasul Allah. I`ve tried to turn my mind more for religious things. Also my parents game to visit us alhamdulillaah! They were in our home from Saturday to Sunday and kids enjoyed that time! They doesn`t live in Helsinki, so they could not visit us often.

Still we did with kids some things I wanted to add here too.

We tried to make some decorations for Ramadan cakes and desserts with kids. At first from marcipan. It feels little like play doh and some people can do really beautiful ornaments from it. S and Z tried it first time, so we did only really simple ones.

 

This is clitter planned for cake ornaments, but it`s not recommendable to eat, so it should remove before eating. I`ve getting it with one baking magazine, I maybe would not buy like that by myself. Kids wanted to try it for our marcipan moon and star :).

 

After that we made chokolade letter decorations by this cilicon model which is from Tiger store. I simply smelted baking chokolade and filled the model with it. Then putted to freezer for a while, removed gently and putted to refrigerator to wait for use.

 

 

 

*Edit after* Here is our cake fating for iftaar. A sacher cake is one of our kids`favorite one and now decorated with their own ornaments :). It would be nicer, if we had write by letters for example "Ramadan mubarak", but since there was only one A etc. in my modell it would have taken too much time to make all the letters. In this time I didn`t want to use too much time for it. But alhamdulillaah Z liked when he saw a place named for him by a letter Z :).

 

 

 

With same model we made ice cubes too! In the picture can`t see letters well, but kids liked to check, which ones they had in their drinks :).

 

 

Z got his 4. Teddy bear`s pre school packet this week. Alhamdulillaah it game just when I didn`t have lots of plans for him :). This time the subjects are for example good self-esteem and feelings.

 

 

 

Z made for example this exercise. For a while he added the clothes for the kids, we learnt too which of the hands and legs are right ones and which of them are left ones etc. (I don`t know why Z wanted to color the boy pink :)?)

 

 

We didn`t have glue any more, so I made stickers from the clothes. I used plastic book cover. When I was child, we made for us stickers in that way. We cutted pictures for example from magazines.

 

 

 

 

I found idea for this craft from here. We used stickers which I found from Tiimari -70% :).

There is one easy decoration proposal for iftaar table (which I used when my parents visited us.). I like these simple napkin flowers for dinner table! These are really easy to make and S likes to make them too! At first fold a napkin like an envelope.

 

 

 

Then turn it and fold again like an envelope.

 

Then simply lift edges from underside. Keep your finger in the middle of flower, so that it doens`t open.

 

It can be used for example under the glass or

under the dessert bowl.

 

I found from Tiger store a nice small earth ball for kids only for 1€. Baby I loves it and with older kids we`ve already checked many countries.

 

We haven`t forgot our wooden letters either :).

 

S went to Suomenlinna with my parents and her dad. K didn`t want to go because he has been there so many times and he wanted to help me with some Ramadan preparations. Then Z too wanted to stay with K :).  S went there by a small ferry and she took for me some pictures by her phone.

 

 

 

 

Suomenlinna is an old fortress on the small island. These dark tunnels can be quite scary :).

 

 S visited a submarine.

 

 

And saw old cannons

 

 

and beautiful nature.

 

They found from there an old tree`s stub and tried to calculate how old it is by annual rings, but it was a really difficult task! So it`s really old!

 

In Suomenlinna I advice to supervise kids really carefully - there are some high places where kids can fall!

 

 

 

 

 

Today we made a simple date palm with Z and S.

 

 

 

We made a frame from pudding pots. I nearly throw them away, but just when I stacked them to clean them away from the table I got an idea for a date palm. I like to use recycled materials for crafts when possible!

 

 

Our simply Ramadan calendar and good deeds mosque are waiting for starting of Ramadan. Especially S waits already, when she can open her first bottle.

 

 

 

 

I hope blessed Ramadan for all of you and for us inshaaAllaah!

 

 

 

Learning Arabic numbers, home made Arabic alphabet blocks and some small plans for Ramadan

 

Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.


For math we tried this time to mix these Montessori pearls and Arabic numbers in that way. (Work sheets for numbers are from blog A Muslim Child is Born.)







After putted pearls in their places, it was easy for Z to check, if he had done correct or not.





It was already little too easy for Z, because the numbers were in numerical order, so after I cut them separate and also hide Finnish numbers. Now there was more challenge! It would be better to print in the first place pictures to card board to make them stronger!

It`s easy to check the answers!

 

Also can check Finnish numbers if needed.

For "Finnish" numbers I made apples. Kids helped me to color them. Idea is same than before, but now I said for Z that there are caterpillars who come to eat the apples and the caterpillar is so long than the number on the apple tells :).

 

In this time I also color coded the answers, so Z sees direct if the answer is correct or not - from the color.

Z can basic numbers already quite well, but makes sometimes mistakes, so I think it`s good to practise them too sometimes.

I found a nice idea for home made Arabic alphabet blocks from here. These can print, but again I made them by hand like that. I haven`t done them all yet, but wanted already to show the idea. These can use for practising letters.

 

 

 

For Ramadan I prepared with S a simple poster. I found materials from Tiimari -70% :).

 

 

 

Our mosques :). Today Z and S have build them again and again and played with muslim paper dolls. Z wants to make adhan etc. :). (Only removed sticks before play!)

 

 

 

I`ve seen in many blogs different kinds of good deed cards. I decided to make a good deed mosque instead. We prepared this mosque with Z and S. My idea is that kids try to do good deeds every day in Ramadan inshaaAllaah. But I didn`t want to give the ideas of good deeds for them as ready as in the idea of good deed cards. I`ll hope they start to think by themselfes, what kind of deeds are good ones and what kind of good deeds they can do by themselfes. I hope that K and S help Z in the beginning. I hope that we`ll discuss about these good deeds every day in Ramadan inshaaAllaah and on the day kids have done some good deeds, they can put a sticker, where is the first letter of their name on the picture. I`ll promise a small present for many stickers inshaaAllaah!

 

 

 

 

We`ve planned Quraan lessons for kids and for me in Ramadan inshaaAllaah. My husband is responsible for this :). We found this Quraan for K from Istanbul and it`s easy to read.

 

 

 

I went again to library and find second part of the book Salam - islamin polku 3-4. This is meant for classes 3-4, so it`s quite difficult for Z, but I thought I could again shorten stories inshaaAllaah and use the book also with K and S. I found there good resources for our Ramadan themes.

I ordered for Z two Arabic books from Amazon.com and them arrived today. I like a lot the first one: First thousand words in Arabic!

 

 

 

The second one: My Marvelous Arabic Alphabet is little different than I thought. I thought that there are work sheets for letters, but maybe I didn`t check the introduce of the book proberly. It`s nice, but not exatly what I thought.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I started these books with Z.

 

 

 

 

I found also one Finnish book about Islam for children. It`s called Lasten kirja islamista. It`s quite basic one, but I think that I could use it with my kids inshaaAllaah.

 

And for theme waiting Ramadan moon, we made a telescope. It`s made from toilet paper roll and a cup and covered with foil and some adornments. Simple, but Z liked it :). Now he`s waiting a Ramadan moon :).

 

Z was so interested about the moon that I decided to go with kids to  the observatory. Z wanted to take his telescope with him :).  I forgot my camera to home, so S took pictures by her phone. That`s why I had to cover faces from some pictures :).

The place was quite small, but interesting. There was for example some history of astronomy.

 

And information about astronomy in monitors. We learnt for example that our weight and age would be different in other planets if there could live.

 

And nice posters.

 

And a library.

 

We went to the high obserwatory tower. It`s historical and really old.

 

It moves. The guide told for us that Finland was one of the first countries in where was this kind of tower.

 

I had to carry baby I, because there were lots of stairs.

 

Some experience about sun, earth and moon.

 

SubhaanAllaah!

 

 

I also buyed presents for Ramadan calendar and now bottles are ready alhamdulillaah. Z and S helped me to wash windows on Monday etc., but I still feel that we have lots to do before Ramadan.

In this week some days have been really warm, so we brought kids to swim and picnic. My husband found from Vuosaari nice place, where was no other swimmers. We`ve been before in another place, which I liked more, but yesterday water didn`t seem good there, so we went to Vuosaari. In this kind of places which are not real swim beaches, should be carefully and check the water before let kids go to swim, because in some places it can become deep suddenly!

Me and baby I relaxed for a while. I read the book Salam - islamin polku 3-4. 

 

Z loved to ride by this kind of hammerhead shark.

 

I`ve promised to introduce our summer lotion for Ummu Abdullaah, so here You are :). For kids I prefer 50 cover. In K`s football turnee and S`s gardening these are really needed and supervisors say for parents that kids should use these. For small kids I think that the best cover are long clothes and a hat.

 

S founded a clam.

 

 

 

 

In the next day it was really warm too and kids went to swim again!