Kindergarten Curriculum Summary - Week 31

Islaamic Studies

• Scholars of Islaam - Ulama - We used this and learnt about the Scholars. We learnt the characteristics of the Scholars and what they do for us and also learnt about few scholars from the early generation and the current scholars who adhere to them. We wrote down some points on the Islaamic Studies book. We also spoke about Taabieen and the At baaut Taabieen.

English

• Grammar - Quantifiers. 

 

 

 

• Reading and Writing - We finished reading aloud the Treasure Island. Maimoonah was also busy reading the new set of books that we got recently. Abi bought her some notebooks and she was busy writing all by herself and all what she wants. 
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These are the few things that I found she has written. She says I am writing my journal and writes on and off. I was amazed to see her written the story of goldilocks and the bears. I have never taught her this. its starfall. She has remembered it and written in her own way with her own spelling. I only saw it after few days. : )

 

 

We also started doing this work book which turned out to be a good revision. 

 

Maths 

We continued with subtractions.

 

Science/ Social Studies

We learnt about Outer Space, Sun, Moon, Day and Night, stars, and Planets. We have covered this last year so we did some worksheets and read a lot from the books we have. Emphasised again that the earth does NOT go around the sun, rather it is the sun that goes around the earth. We learnt the hadeeth of the sun seeking permission to go down thus the day and night happens and also discussed about the fact that when Allaah does not give permission for the sun to set, that is a sign for the day of Judgement and no repentance will be accepted after that. 

 

We learnt about the Sun and the phases of the Moon.

  

We did the Scavenger hunt for the study of the Planets. Explained to her that the most planets are named after Greek so called gods and goddesses aoothubillaah, and Allaah did not name any planets and we only refer to them for studying purpose and we do not believe in those names as they are full of shirk. 

We did a home made kind of a magnifying glass: ) using cardboard, tape and drop of water!

 

Arabic

Alhamdulillaah Maimoonah's reading in Arabic is improving even though she does not like to put too much effort. This week she wanted to read the names of the Prophets in Arabic. Since this was her own initiation I was happy and she did this puzzle all by herself. she changed the names of the Prophets from English to Arabic. she brought me each Arabic Card and read it to me and then replaced it. There is no Haraqaat on it but she read, may be because she knew all the names of the Prophets but she basically read to me and when she was stuck I told her the haraqaat for some letters and she caught it. 

 

  

Alhamdulillaah we have completed our Kindergarten Curriculum for the school Year 2011/2012 by the grace and Mercy of Allaah. All praise is indeed due to Allaah that we were able to complete all according to the planned curriculum. Now looking forward to Ramadhaan and then another exciting beneficial school year Inshaa Allaah. Baarakallaah Feekum wa Jazzakumullaah Khayr for all of you who have encouraged and helped us throughout.

Art!

Since we have finished our Kindergarten Curriculum, Maimoonah is busy with different activities nowadays.

Today we did some painting activities.

She used her stencils and then painted them.

Then we did some painting with ear buds. It was a great hit. She made her own designs. Thouroughly enjoyed!

Then I gave her some straws and told her to add paint to them and make impressions. This was a great hit too.

It was a good way to keep her occupied for a change. Not done some painting for a long time and need to continue this Inshaa Allaah.

Kindergarten Curriculum Summary - Week 29 & 30

Islaamic Studies
Fiqh - Dua and etiquettes of Dua. We used the Tj Dua Unit Study for this. Explained to her the difference between "Want" and "need". Asked her to mention some "Wants and Needs and I wrote them down.

Then we went through each want and need and identified who can give her each one of them. And made her understand that while Abi and Ummi can give few of the things she needs and wants it is only Allaah who can give her everything and even what Abi and Ummi can give her is only given by Allaah. And we should ask Him alone , all what we want and need.

We learnt the etiquttes of asking dua. We also revised the Asmaaul Husna and discussed which attribute could be used for each dua.

I told her the story of the three in the cave, that they were trapped and they asked Allaah dua to help them by mentioning the good deeds. And asked her to mention some of the good deeds she has done and that she could use to make dua.

We pasted the etiquettes of Dua review sheet on the Islaamic Studies Book.

We read all the Darul Kitaab Learn About Series Books on Dua.

English

• Grammar -  Continuous and Perfect Tense

 

 

 

• Grammar - Contractions

 

  

• Reading - We started reading "The Treasure Island" She can read but she wanted me to read aloud every day each chapter. 

• We have not finished the book yet. But this book has given her a very new understanding about the world she is living in. For the first time she is reading about Pirates, killing each other, fighting with each other and so on. She had many many questions and I can feel that she is beginning to understand that people are different. 

• She also wanted to know about the author of the book and she was pretty confused that he lived and wrote this book 100 years ago. She also wanted to know whether there are any Muslim Pirates? I explained the hadeeth of Allaah, " "A believer who drinks khamr is not a believer while he is drinking khamr, a believer who steals is not a believer while stealing." So she is learning. I was not too sure if these kind of stories were good to give her to read, but I also thought she must know these things and it is better that she knows this from me first. I keep telling her that we understand the evil so that we will try to protect ourselves from that evil.

Science 

•    Mechanics/ Electricity/Electronics/Heat
• Weather  - We used the encyclopaedia and learnt about Weather.

 

She did the smart start science book activity on weather.

She did the worksheets on weather words and weather pictures. 

She used an old magazine and cut some of the clothes that are used during different weather conditions and pasted them accordingly. Also We did a weather Graph for the month of May. I looked up on the internet and told her the past month's recorded weather for the city and asked her to mark on the graph. This is the first time she learnt how to mark on the graph and what a graph is all about. She did well.

We also revised the dua to be told during different weather conditions, examples rain, thunder, storm, etc etc.

Maths

• MEP - Year 1 - Maimoonah can understand and do additions now without much of a problem. But I noticed that she is struggling a little with subtractions. If I give her problems to solve she could tell easily but with equations she is getting confused. So I used the marbles this time and kept explaining to her the concept of  minus. Asked her to write an equation and then also gave her the marble and asked her to demonstrate to me the the equation. 

 

 

We also together did this MEP activities.

 

 

Since we did about heat, I took the opportunity to make her understand the -1, -2 on the number line.

Arabic

• Reading - We took out some Arabic First Books and read. Since the letters are big and clear she could read them and then did some activities on them.

 

Maimoonah is growing Maashaa Allaah and I am finding it difficult to get her to bed at night, as she has so many things to do lol and which is very normal at this age. I sometimes get so annoyed that she takes so much of my time just trying to go to bed. So since we got her a copy of the Noble Qur'aan , I thought it would be better that I make the Qur'aan and Bed Time Story Book and also gives me an opportunity to revise something with her. She was more than happy and Alhamdulillaah gets ready to go to bed faster than before. The deal is if she gets to bed fast I read more, if she takes her own cool time my reading is less. She has requested me that I read Soorah Baqarah with the meaning every night. So I read one soorah from Juzz Amma that she has memorised and I ask her to recite the Arabic and I read the meaning and the explanation given. Then I read one page of Soorah Baqarah each night with meaning and explanation. So far so good Alhamdulillaah!