Free Unit Study Musa (as) Pt. 2

Hello guys, this is part two of our Musa (as) study. We covered quite a lot this time just because the story was lengthy and full of detail. I broke it up into two parts just for this purpose. I'll quickly go through some of the activities we did and I hope this unit is of help to you.

Arabic

For Arabic we learned the words for sheep, frog, and fly. My son drew in his Arabic notebook and we wrote the letters.

Crafts

For crafts we made a paper chain for the different plagues, we also made a frog fly catcher using paper towel roll, and we made a spiral snake and wrote different facts we learned about snakes.

Narration

I combine our narration and handwriting practice. After each after my son draws and narrates to me. He also works on his handwriting.

Science

For science we did a walking water color mixing activity.

We did so many more activities and all the details are in the lesson. Don't forget to check out part 1 and the unit on Yunus (as). If you found any benefit in these unit studies please drop us a comment.

Click on the image above for the free download of this unit

Arabic Alphabet Activities

My six year old has been asking to learn the Arabic alphabet so that he can start memorizing Quran like his older brothers. I was so excited that I started setting out activities for him to explore and work with. I wanted to share some of those activities with you guys.

I try to incorporate Arabic into our monthly themes as much as I can. For our moon unit we worked on the letter Qaaf. He practiced writing the letter on the moon printable, which was just a picture of the moon that I laminated.

Here he is working on the letter (noon) for tiger. He built the letter out of attribute blocks and practiced writing the letter from his worksheet.

For our farm unit he worked on the letter baa for cow. He drew a picture of a cow labeled it and wrote the letter on top.

We also practiced the letter noon during our bee unit. This time we used our sand board to trace and build the letter. We talked about beginning, middle, and ending letters also.

Here for the letter Zaa we build a giraffe out of blocks and drew one in his notebook. We also practiced the letter in sprinkles, which was very exciting for him. He wanted to know how to say tall in Arabic so we added that word in and build it with our Arabic move-able letters.

We use a lot of different materials to help him learn the letters and still keep it fun and hands on.

1. Playdough
2. Writing in sand or sprinkles or shaving cream
3. Building the letter from blocks
4. Making the things that start with that letter out of blocks
5. Writing and drawing in his notebook.

I hope this gave you some ideas on how we learn our Arabic alphabet. How do you guys teach your children and still keep it fun and hands on.

Islamic Studies

Hey guys, today I wanted to share with you some of our Islamic Studies topics we've been covering. The boys each have their own workbook they work through daily, but we also do some work together.

Here are some of the resources we use along with the Quran. 

I usually pick either a Surah or a topic I want to cover with the boys, and we read through it together and draw lessons from it and journal in our notebooks.

Surah Feel (The Elephant)

After we learn the background story of each Surah the boys will narrate and write out their narration. They will also add a drawing, copy out the Arabic and English translation.

Surah Masad (Palm Fiber)

I give them some art supplies to help make their notebooks more colorful and enjoyable to work in. They can use colored pencils, markers, stamps, stickers, washi tape, and whatever else they want to help with their creativity.

Surah Quraish

I will also complete a page along side them just to give them some ideas and show them mommy studying the words of Allah. 

Surah Ikhlas

They boys and I also pick out vocabulary words to concentrate on from each Surah. Throughout the week they will practice writing out the words in both Arabic and English. 

Pillars of Islam

We also take topics they are learning in their individual books and expand on it. Here we covered the 5 pillars of Islam.

Since Ramadan is approaching we took this opportunity to expand on the fifth pillar which is fasting. 

We focused on Surah Baqarah Vs. 183-186.

Click on the image above to grab this game. 

We learned the phases of the moon since Ramadan is dependent on the sighting of the new moon. We also learned the Du'a(supplication) for sighting the new moon.

We played this fun matching game I put together for them. I just painted some wooden discs I got from Michael's.

With each lesson, if it is applicable, we add in some Arabic language lessons. I usually pick a theme related to the study, for example, in Surah Masad it talks about the hands of Abu Lahab. So we learned about the body parts in Arabic.

We also use our movable Arabic alphabet letters to spell out the words. 

I hope you enjoyed getting a peek into how we incorporate Islamic studies into our homeschool.

Back To School 2018-2019

Hi guys! We are officially back to school for the 2018-2019 homeschool year. We took the summer off which was much needed but now we are back to routine and schedule. Which I love by the way.

This was our first week and it went really well. This year I have a 5th grader, 3rd grader, Senior Kindergartner, and a toddler. That's a lot of grade levels to joggle so, I broke our schedule down into 4 parts.

1. Morning Independent Work for my older two-during this time they work on typing, Islamic studies, map drawing, sentence diagramming (5th grade) and math facts (3rd grade. While the older boys are busy doing that I do circle time and phonics lesson with my K student and toddler.

2. Morning Basket- after morning snack we all gather back and do read-aloud, map drills, states and capitals flash cards, poetry, etc. During this time all the boys are either building Lego, playing with playdough, drawing, or doing a puzzle. I'll share more about what's in our morning basket.

3. Independent Work (for the older boys)- the big kids work on spelling, grammar, independent reading, geography. While I work with my K student on math, sight words, and play with my toddler.

4. Group Studies- After my littlest one takes a nap which is right after lunch. We come back the school room and work on history and science, and ELA interactive notebooks.

Now that I've shared all that lets get to the fun pictures of our first week of school.

On the first day of school we always have a pancake breakfast and open a small gift I put together for the boys. This year I made them a monogrammed clipboard, coloring book/trivia book, some brain putti (they love this stuff) and their favorite candy or chocolate bar. It just motivates them at the beginning of the year.

Tot/Kindergarten shelf.

I keep all their hands on activities for phonics, fine motor, sight words, writing on this shelf. After our phonics lesson (K student) he can come here and do extension activities that reinforce our phonics lesson. He is currently doing word family study. My toddler can explore this shelf all day. The bottom half is his material. I keep an alphabet basket (he's currently doing the letter A) sensory play, a book, and some kind of math or puzzle.

I switched the activities in the middle of the week.

Tot School Activities:

This week he is doing activities for the letter A. He already knows all his alphabet and sounds but his too little, so I want to keep doing fun activities with him when ever he wants. He usually will do a couple of activities and walk away and that's fine with me.

Blue rice fine motor scoop and transfer activity. I colored the rice to go with our A is for airplane theme. 

Letter A sensory bin. Dig and find objects that start with the letter A and match them to the cards. He loved this activity. After he found all the objects he played with the beans all day long.

Name recognition bottle cap activity.

I'll share more of his tot school activities on another post.

Kindergarten Activities:

Like I mentioned my K student is going to work on word families for the first half of the school year and if he is ready we will start All About Reading with him.

Here are some of the fun hands on activities he worked on this week.

-at word family lacing activity. 

This week he is working on a community helpers theme so all his activities correspond with that. He reads the words on the stamp and matches it to the envelope with the correct pictures. If it's right he gets to mail his letter. 

Number puzzle and writing from 11-20.

Handwriting with out tears. 

This was his favorite activity. It was fun and completely independent work. Say the name of the picture, build the word, write the word, and open the card to check if you did it correctly. 

Since this post is already getting way to long. I'll share more pictures and fun activities in another post. Have you already started school? How's it going?

5 Hands On Name Activity Ideas

Hi guys! Today I wanted to share with you some activities that I've been doing with my preschooler to help him learn to recognize and spell his name. I've put together 5 hands on ideas that are fun and effective.

1. Name Puzzle

I am storing the name puzzle in a zip lock bag. He can pull it out

whenever he wants to work with this activity.

2. Name Lacing

This activity is both good for fine motor practice and name recognition.

3. Craft

 

Incorportae name practice into your theme. We did this fun rocket ship

name during our space theme.

4. Tracing 

You can go to this post to read more about this activity.

5. Bottle Cap/ Wooden Clips

My son really loves these two activities. I save the bottle caps 

and use them for all types of activities. 

I don't know about you guys but my son gets easily bored. With these 5 activities he has a variety of choices. I hope these activities have inspired you.