Kids Class: Months in Islam and revision of Story of Adam A.S.

In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful

Quran Time

The Class began with revision of Surah Fatiha, Surah Ikhlas, Surah Falaq and Surah Naas. Each student recited the surahs individually.

Dua Time

The duas for sleeping and waking up in the morning and the etiquettes of drinking water and the dua for travelling were revised.

Lesson Time

The day’s lesson was about the Months in Islam. The students were introduced to the Islamic calendar and the names of the months as well as some important dates in the Islamic calendar.

Then the Story of Adam AS was told again as a revision of one of the earlier classes.

Arabic Time

The Arabic conversation from previous lessons and the names of colors in Arabic were revised.

Gifts and Snack Time

 Each student received a wonderful gift for saying the Salam over the past two weeks and then everyone enjoyed yummy cupcakes and chips.

 

Toddlers’ Class: Right and Left Hand

Quran Time
The class began with recitation of Surah Fatiha, Surah Ikhlas and Surah Naas.  The toddlers were encouraged to recite with their mothers.

Arabic Time

The kids learned the Arabic alphabet Alif to Haa and listened to their favorite Arabic Letters Song. Then they learned the numbers from 1 to 6 and sang along the numbers song. They were given an activity to match Arabic number cutouts and a coloring sheet for the number 6.

Lesson Time

The first part was revision of previous lesson about Masjid. The lesson of the day was about right and left hand. The kids identified their right and left hand and learned the specific actions for each. They were also given an activity sheet where they traced their right and left hands and colored the respective actions to do with each hand.

Duas Time

The students were reminded to say Bismillah and Alhamdulillah, before and after eating and drinking. They were taught to say Alhamdulillah after they sneezed.

Kids Class: Assalamoalaikum

 Quran Time

The Class began with revision of Surah Fatiha, Surah Ikhlas, Surah Falaq and Surah Nass.

Dua Time

The duas for sleeping and waking up in the morning and the etiquettes of drinking water were revised and the dua for travelling was introduced. Each student was given a laminated dua card to hang in their family car to remind them of saying the dua when they travelled.

 Lesson Time

The day’s lesson was about saying Salam. The students were introduced to the meaning of Salam, its Aadaab (etiquettes) and Thawab (reward). Each student received a Salam Checklist. The mothers were asked to keep track of when the kids said Salam and check the appropriate boxes.

Arabic Time

The Arabic conversation from previous lessons and the names of colors in Arabic were revised.

Prayer Time

At Maghrib time, everyone made Wudu and prayed in Jamaa’ led by one of the students. 

Eid Party

 We celebrated Eid with a big party with games, arts and crafts, henna and face painting and lots of yummy food.

Kids Class: Pillars of Islam

In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful

The last kids class before summer break focused on the 5 Pillars of Islam.

Quran Time

The students revised Surah Fatiha, Surah Naas, Surah Falq and Surah Ikhlas by repeating after the audio recitation.

Duas Time

Then they revised the duas for going to bed and waking up in the morning. The dua for travelling was introduced in this class.

Lesson Time

The lesson discussed the 5 Pillars of Islam: Shahadah, Salah, Zakat, Sawm and Hajj. Each pillar was discussed and related to what the children had learnt before. They were then asked questions about the Pillars of Islam to reinforce the learning. After the lesson they did a word search puzzle related to the lesson.

Arabic Time

In Arabic Time, the students revised Arabic conversation and learnt colors in Arabic. After that they completed a worksheet about colors. 

Summer Homework

 As this was the last class before summer break, the students were asked to revise the previous lessons through this blog. They were also given a Pillars of Islam Book with small descriptions of each pillar. They were asked to find and paste pictures related to each pillar in the book. 

Kids' Class: Story of Yousuf AS

After revision of Surahs and Duas, the story of Yousuf AS was introduced with the following presentation. The kids took turns to read the story from the slides as the teacher explained it. 

Kids' Class: The Story of Nuh (AS)

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In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful

The Story of Nuh (AS) was introduced to kids between the age of 4-10 with the following presentation.

Kids' Class: Wudu

In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful

The Islamic education class for kids (4-10 years) began with greeting the kids with Assalamoalaikum and the kids greeted back with Walaikumusalam.

Quran Time

They revised Surah Fatiha, Surah Naas and Surah Falq by repeating after the audio recitation.

Duas Time

The students were introduced to the duas for going to bed and waking up in the morning. The students repeated the duas after the teacher and were given a dua card to post on their beds as a reminder for them to recite the duas every day.

Lesson Time

Next the children were introduced to Salah as a means of talking to Allah as everyone likes talking to people close to them and Allah is closest and most special to us. They were told about the five daily prayers and their names and times. The main lesson of the day was about Wudu. The students were told about the importance of Wudu as a means to clean themselves before prayer. All the steps of wudu were described and demonstrated to the students. Then every student demonstrated the steps of wudu with some help from the teacher.

To appreciate their effort, they all received a copy of My Wudu Book by Darusalam Publishers.

Arabic time

The students learned the Arabic numbers from 0 to 10.

Toddlers' Class: Masjid

In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful

The Islamic education class for toddlers (1-4 years) began with greeting the kids with Assalamoalaikum and the kids greeted back with Walaikumusalam or their own version of the greeting.

Quran Time

The toddlers revised Surah Fatiha, Surah Naas and Surah Ikhlas by reciting themselves or, in the case of younger ones, listening to their mothers repeating after the audio recitation.

Arabic Time

The kids revised the first 3 Arabic letters (Alif, Baa, Taa) and were introduced to the fourth letter Thaa. Then they danced to their favorite Arabic Letters Song, “again” and “again”.

Next they revised the Arabic numbers from 1 to 5 and listened to the number song in Arabic.

Lesson Time

The main lesson of the day was about Masjid, the house of Allah. The children were shown pictures of the most important Masjids in Islam and were told about the etiquette of entering a Masjid and what to do there. This lesson was further reinforced with the Upsy Daisy song by Yusuf Islam and friends. The mothers had been given copies of the lyrics to sing along with the kids.

Duas Time

The toddlers were reminded of saying Bismillah before eating and drinking and saying Alhamdulillah when finished. They when introduced to the Islamic etiquette of drinking water and were given a handout with colorful illustrations of a child drinking water sitting down, with his right hand, saying Bismillah and drinking in three sips. Everyone was given a cup of water to practice with in class.

Worksheets

The children were given a coloring worksheet for letter Tha and a connect the dots Arabic numbers worksheet.

The class concluded with some delicious snacks which everyone enjoyed very much

The class presentation can be found below:

Kids' Class: The Story of Ismail AS

In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful

The Islamic education class for kids (4-10 years) began with greeting the kids with Assalamoalaikum and the kids greeted back with Walaikumusalam.

Quran Time:

They revised Surah Fatiha, Surah Naas, Surah Falq and Surah Ikhlas by repeating after the audio recitation.

Duas Time:

Next each student was asked to recite the duas, that they had already learnt, to say before going to bed and after waking up.

They were introduced to the Islamic etiquettes of drinking water and were given a handout to post by the water dispenser in their homes so they can remember the etiquettes when drinking water.

Story Time:

The main lesson was a continuation of last week’s lesson about the story of Ibrahim AS. The students listened to the Nasheed ‘Story of Ibrahim’ by Dawud Wharnsby to remind them of the last lesson. Then Ismail’s AS story was introduced and his mother’s search for water and the Zamzam spring were described. The children were told about how Ibrahim AS and Ismail AS constructed the Kaaba and about the Black Stone that angel Jibrail brought from heaven to place on the Kaaba.

Many of the students had been to Mecca and were familiar with the Kaaba, Zamzam Spring and the hills of Safa and Marwa. These landmarks were presented to them in the form a model, which also included the other sacred sites that Muslims visit when performing the Hajj i.e. Mina, Arafat and Muzdalifa.

Using a small toy bus, the journey of Hajj was explained and then each student traced the journey by him/herself using the toy bus and markings on the model.

Arabic Time:

In the Arabic Language learning section of the lesson, the students revised the Arabic numbers from 1 to 20 and learned the tens till one hundred. The were given a handout with all the numbers and a worksheet in which they were asked to count some items and write their number in Arabic.

And lastly they learned the colors in Arabic and gave examples of things that were those color e.g. Red Apple.

The lesson concluded with a beautiful and healthy snack of fruit

The presentation for the lesson is posted below: