Stories of the Prophets- Ibrahim and Ismail

Hi guys, today I wanted to share with you our lesson on Prophet Ibrahim and Prophet Ismail. I shared on a previous post that I've been teaching grammar and handwriting using the stories of the prophets. We've so far read about Adam, Nuh, and Salih (AS). In that post I detailed the lay out of our lessons and what I cover with my first grader. If your interested click the picture below.

Since the story of Ibrahim and Ismail contain so many different parts, I decided to break them up into mini stories for my son. The first story we read was about when prophet Ibrahim was young and broke all the idol statues. As a punishment the people of the town threw him into a big fire and Allah had saved Ibrahim.

On the first day we read the story and just talked and my son completed an oral narration. On day two we worked on our drawing. Day two we talked about nouns and verbs related to the story.

I wrote down sentences on a piece of paper and my son used the Montessori grammar symbols to label each part of the sentence. For day three my son practiced the cursive letter I.

 The second story we covered was when Prophet Ibrahim left his son and wife on a barren desert. After running out of food and water, baby Ismail started to cry. His mother ran between As-Safa and Al-Marwa seven times looking for someone to help her. Then and angel came down and kicked the earth causing a spring to gash forth-Zam Zam water.

We talked about proper nouns vs common nouns for this story and also reviewed verbs, articles, and adjectives. For handwriting my son worked on cursive letter z. For some reason I don't have a picture of that, but If you follow me on Instagram I share our daily lessons on there.

The last story we read was about Prophet Ibrahim and Ismail building the Kaba.

For this story my son practiced the cursive letter K for Kaba.

That's it for our lessons. I hope that you guys are enjoying this series just as much as my son and I are enjoying it.

Stories of the Prophet- Adam, Nuh, and Salih (AS)

Hi guys, today I wanted to share with you what I've been doing with my first grader as far as his Islamic Studies is concerned.  We have been studying the stories of the prophets together. We incorporate cursive writing and grammar into our studies. So here is what a typical study looks like;

Day 1- We read the story and talk about it.
Day 2- We read the story again and do an oral narration plus draw a picture in our notebook
Day 3- We review the story and work on our chosen letter
Day 4- We incorporate grammar
Day 5- We review that weeks story and the previous weeks stories.

I am reading the stories from Migo and Ali love for the Prophets. I find this book to be perfect for where he is at as far as comprehension. I plan on doing the stories of the Prophets with him every year and adding more information as he gets older.

Here is a drawing of Nuh (AS) and the ark. We talked about words from the story and practiced writing the letter N in cursive.

Here is another picture from the story of Adam (AS). We were working on identifying nouns in the story. We used our letters to write each noun and talked about whether it was a common noun or a proper noun.

For the drawing inspiration I follow Hana over at pepper and pine. She has a wonderful alphabet series using the stories of the Prophets on her YouTube channel.

This was for the story of Salih (AS) and the she-camel. We talked about all the Proper nouns in this story (Salih, Thamud) and the common noun (camel). We also practiced the letter S but I didn't get a picture of that.

If you follow me over on Instagram  @teachermomplus3 I show the process and the daily routine over there. I have a whole highlights video dedicated to our Islamic Studies.

We've only done three prophets so far but I'll share more as we progress through out the year. How do you guys teach Islamic Studies? I'm always looking for more books and ideas, please share any recommendations or tips you use.

Quotations and Commas with Macaroni Pasta

I've mentioned before that our school year is coming to a close. My kids are itching for summer to get here, in the mean while we have been reviewing a lot of the material we covered during the year.

For our review I wanted to keep it hands on and fun. So, today we reviewed quotation and comma rules with macaroni pasta. My son absolutely loved it! I typed out some sentences from his grammar curriculum and set him up with the macaroni and he took it from there.

You can have your child glue the macaroni pieces into place but we just placed them on and once I double checked he could move on to the next card.

Check out the other fun games we've been playing this week. 

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