Summary about letters Alif-Daad

Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.

We`ve now studied first 15 letters Alhamdulillaah. Some of them we`ve studied more and some of them less. Me and my dear sister Ummu Abdillaah have written about our studying progress mostly like reporting about our weeks. That`s why there can be in one post about many themes - for example about the letters we`ve learnt, but also about places we`ve visited and things we`ve done with the kids and also about math, learning about nature etc. That`s why I think that it`s little difficult for a reader to find fast the most important links and ideas for the letters. From now on I try to write more theme oriented, like I`ve already tried in some of my posts, inshaaAllaah. But we also thought with sister Ummu Abdillaah that it would be usefull to put some important links and ideas to one post. That`s why I`ve tried to choose usefull links and best crafts from my and sister Ummu Abdillaah`s posts. For this post it`s also easy to add ideas and links if have them after inshaaAllaah!

I think also about myself - maybe I can use this ideas after with baby I inshaaAllaah! When K and S were small there were not a lots of digital machines like iPhones and digicameras. We had a camera for which had to buy a film first and then send the film to the shop for to prepare the photos. That`s why I have not pictures of  K`s and S`s crafts from their early age and I`ve already forgot some of ideas we used.



(A picture is from http://www.transaralingo.com/Lesson_One.html)



Work sheets for letters can find from these links:


 My Arabic coloring pages from here http://www.yemenlinks.com/contentdisplay/displaydoc.aspx?name=alphabet_coloring

Learn to write the arabic letters from here https://www.box.com/s/5jvfkqoaqv7uu8mdy9zw

Arabic writing practice sheet from here http://www.yemenlinks.com/contentdisplay/displaydoc.aspx?name=writing_sheet1 (we need only 1th page of each letters)

Lawwaniy wa uktubiy alhuruhul hijaiyyati from http://www.almiftaah.net/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=91&Itemid=61

Almiftahul likitabatil arabiyyat booklet - 3 from here http://www.almiftaah.net/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=186&Itemid=11



Alphabet Strip and Train


Cartoon about letters with bubbles: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Uc7Qad6iRE&playnext=1&list=PL0D14C77BF158C3C8&feature=results_main


A game to learn letters:

http://learning4az.blogspot.fi/2013/06/alphabet-bug-spray.html


Home made letter blocks.







Letter Alif


download arabic vocabulary worksheets




Thema "windy - asif".



Flash cards for weather can find from here and for seasons from here.




Home made Mini Luko game



Letters by straws.



Different formation of letter alif. This idea can be used for every letter! We also added hands for the letters, so that kids could better understand, how to mix letters.





Thema Uzbekistan and



Algeria.



A flag made by window colors.



http://www.edupics.com/coloring-page-flag-algeria-i6177.html


Home made puzzle.




Alif by window colors.

  Letter and picture game from baby wood bottle
covers.

Thema "colors".

Sorting.



Colors mixing.








 Painted by marbles.

Colors and shapes.









Letter Ba:

Play doh letters.



Thema "Bismillah".

Salam Islamin polku 1-2



Playing with soft woods.



Blinde kuh.





Felt letters.



Thema "The house"

Arabic house to teach Arabic words and for a house for paper dolls.
Islamic paper dolls: http://amuslimchildisborn.blogspot.fi/2010/06/our-muslim-paper-dolls.html (For example word girl.)



Same sheet as a poster with letters and pictures made by window colors.



A house from cartoon.



Ba by Lego blocks.


 





Letter Ta:

Thema tawheed:


"What is tawheed?" from  sister Talibiddeen JR blog and found more interesting things there

Tawheed Ar-Ruboobiyah Pre-School Lesson Plan

Man Rabbuk? Man Nabiyyuk? wa Ma dinuk?

http://islaam4kids.wordpress.com from sister UmmMaimoonah's blog. And there are tawheed for small kids too mashaAllah.

Learning to write letters.



Thema "apple and apple tree".




sister Umm an-Numan Islamic Apple Activities for Fall











Seasons trees.



button practice on felt apple tree. http://coolnessofeyes.blogspot.fi/2012/10/fine-motor-skills-buttoning.html



Thema "crocodile".







Thema "date and date palm".















Crown.








Homework sheets can be download from here.





Letter Tha:

Vocabulary sheet: https://www.box.com/s/1nu88lif15wceglg20pb

Tha post card coloring pages from http://amuslimchildisborn.blogspot.fi/
We played a post with cards and letters.



Tha made from tissue paper.



Practising the formations of tha.



Thema "snake".





http://pdf.mrprintables.com/mrprintables-snake-finger-puppets-blank.pdf





For thema snake: www.kidzone.ws.

Nice place to visit:
Tropicario http://www.tropicario.com/

Thema "fox".







Tangram fox.



For thema fox: http://www.colormountain.com/print/index.php?id=515

Nice place to visit: Animal Museum http://www.luomus.fi/museo/










Letter Jeem:

Thema Camel:

http://miracle-of-islam.blogspot.fi/2009/12/camel-in-quran.html
http://requestaquran.com/category/scientific-miracle-in-animals/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bv6bkGr3I9g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPdA6XYhKVI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWK5CYe5reo
http://www.kidskonnect.com/subjectindex/13-categories/animals/19-camels.html
http://www.findfast.org/facts-about-camels.htm
http://thewellreadmuslim.blogspot.fi/2010/07/preschool-lesson-planning-for-muslim_12.html
http://amuslimchildisborn.blogspot.fi/2010/06/creating-print-rich-environment-camels.html

Thema Paradise:

http://www.muslimkids.8m.net/jannah.html






Letter Ha:

Thema "animals".



Life cycle of the butterfly

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B-Jp2xvcHjp4N2VkZGI0MDktZWIxNS00ZDQ0LWExNWQtNjU1ZTIyYTZlNTg5/edit











Horse`s bones.



A word book made by Papunet resources.

 

Practising to write by wooden letters and play doh.



Papunet picture tool





Stories about prophets Nuh, Muhammad, Sulaiman and Yunus (In Finnish for example Salam -islamin polku 1-2)

A story about Prophet Sulaiman and ants.

http://quran.com/27



http://opettajatv.yle.fi/teemat/aine/931/917/m15589/Hy%C3%B6nteiset+ja+muut+selk%C3%A4rangattomat

http://www.arabicfirst.co.uk/index_files/animated_series.htm

http://amuslimchildisborn.blogspot.fi/2010/10/animals-arabic-vocabulary-activities.html

A honey theme pack from A Muslim Child Is Born



Nice places to visit:
Hemböle ((For more information, please klik here!)
Animal Museum http://www.luomus.fi/museo/
Fallkulla
Haltiala
A zoo: http://www.korkeasaari.fi/ I recommend a free Korkeasaaripäivä!






Letter Kha:

By play doh.




By tiny pearls.



Thema "al Khaliq".

http://www.montessoriforeveryone.com/assets/PDF/Where_Things_Come_From.pdf







Letter Daal:

For theme "Dawlah"  http://www.crayola.com/

http://www.crayola.com/free-coloring-pages/print/somalia-coloring-page/

http://www.crayola.com/free-coloring-pages/print/algeria-coloring-page/

http://www.crayola.com/free-coloring-pages/print/uzbekistan-coloring-page/

And thema "religion"!

Letter Zaal:










Letter Ra:

"Raqam" Arqaam) numbre(s).









Nice games to learn numbers and time!










Letter Za:

Thema "flower"



This kind of tulip can find from here.



A butterfly and a flower made from coffee filters (it would be better to paint by water colors!).



Work sheets decorated by small flower stickers.



Thema "Zakat"









Letter Siin:

Thema "a fish".

A body of the first fish is made from three hearts, second one is made from hama pearls.

 

Hand painted fish and a lap book.

 

"Aquarium" from a box.

 

A nice place to visit:

http://www.visitsealife.com/Helsinki/


Thema "a car".



http://www.firstpalette.com/Craft_themes/World/Vehicle_Puppets/Vehicle_Puppets.html

http://www.arabicplayground.com/letter-roads/



For thema " A car" a nice place to visit:
Childrens` traffic city






Letter Shiin:

Thema "A sun".








Letter Saad:

Thema " a friend".



http://www.firstpalette.com/Craft_themes/People/Crown_of_Friends/Crown_of_Friends.html






Letter Daad:

Thema "a frog"  ضفدع.

This idea can find from here. There are also a nice fish and many other nice ideas. These can print somehow, but I tried to draw the frog by myself.

Draw by a help of puzzle pieces.

 here a really nice idea for a frog theme sensory sink

Some other activities for thema Frog can find from

here

here

and

here.

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!