Assalamualikum,
Hope you have enjoyed the Hajj Diorama in the previous post. The school my kids go to recently had a presentation on various projects on the theme of Hajj, I took a few snaps to share them with you all. It was really inspiring to see the contributions by the kids and their enthusiasim in making it all. Hope you enjoy them too !
Till next time, take care.
Assalamualikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu,
As I mentioned previously, we were doing the second part of the Stories of the Prophets, which concentrates on the Bani Israeeli Prophets. We finished the stories till Dawood (AS) and I asked them to refelct on the errors of the Bani Israeel, because our Prophet(SAW) informed us that we will follow their errors. They did a short refelection to find the errors that have creeped into us as individuals and on the Ummah as a whole. Alhamdulillah, I found their insight to be amazing, these we as adults too, do not realize. Below is a listing of their refelections, hope it helps us all in identifying our mistakes and rectifiying them before we are taken account off. May Allah Guide us all and give us tawfeeq to do Taubah, to turn to Him before we die – A’ameen.
Children’s reflections:
| The problems that plague our Muslim Ummah today are; | |
| Ungratefulness to Allah | Internal wars and fights |
| Making fun of other nations and races | Rudeness |
| Cowardice, to speak the truth or face it | Inclination to music |
| Lack of respect for HIjab or no Hijab | Break Promises |
| Follow the easy and leave the hard commands of Allah | Lack of appreciation of the blessing of being a Muslim |
| Apologetic in speaking about the commands of Islam | Laziness, carelessness in learning or following the deen |
| Lack of unity | They don’t fear Allah |
| Lack of honesty and trustworthiness(Amanah) | Laziness in praying and no relation with the Quran |
| Muslim Ummah is lost in the pleasures of the dunya and they have forgotten the Aakhira | They ask too many unnecessary questions about the deen of Allah, and do not believe in the hadith of the Prophet(Peace and blessings be upon Him) |
| They have lost connection with Allah | Constantly complain of the situations, but do very little to change themselves |
| They make fun of the sunnah and ignore its importance | Hypocritical and double faced |
That’s it for now, take care.
Wassalaams
Assalamualikum Wa Rahmatullah,
Following up on our previous activity the Hajj Diorama, My older one made a Lapbook. Alhamdulillah it contained the following minibooks, Hajj Day by Day, Quranic Ayat on Hajj, Hadith on Hajj, Ihram and its conditions, Miqaats, What animals can we slaughter, The three types of Hajj, A Hajj Flowchart. We got most of our resources by reading the lessons at http://www.freewebs.com/hajjlessons/hajjrites.htm, The Haj day by day we printed it out from Umm Abdulbasir’s blog. Here are a few images.
The left flap contains two step-books, Quranic verses on Hajj and Ahadith on Hajj. The right flap contains the Conditions of Ihram book and the Miqats Book.
The center flap lifted up has The three types of Hajj flap books, a mini-book on Animals we can sacrifice and a Hajj Flowchart.
The Ihram book contains all the do’s and don’t’s of Ihraam, and the Miqat book talks about the four miqats and its distance from Makkah.
Alhamdulillah, that’s the Lapbook.
Take care, Wassalaam.
Assalamualikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu,
I know this is a bit late but better late than never. We were going through the haj day by day, as it was happening. I was narrating our personal experience of Hajj, day by day, like on the 7th of Dhul Hijj I told them how I and Abbu were preparing to go to Mina the next day and so on. Then on the day of 8th Dhul Hijj, I recounted our journey to Mina, along with this we were following the Pilgrims on Saudi Channel 2, where they were telecasting the events live. MashaAllah, Alhamdulillah this was a great way to teach them the Hajj Journey as they learned from our personal experience and they were also watching the Pilgrims live, so they knew what they would do next.
Once we finished these lessons, we made the diorama, then Alhamdulillah, Mashallah each one of them acted like pilgrims and did the whole hajj journey in the Diorama. I have a few images of our simple diorama, I am sure many of you can come up with better versions. Enjoy!
InshaAllah, will be back with the Haj Lapbook photos. Take care
Assalamualikum wa Rahmatullahi wa barakatuh,
Here is an image of the Prophets in Islam in the genealogical order (those 25 mentioned in the Quran) in the form of a tree. A very dear Sister at Easel and Ink designed this tree for me, she has done a splendid job. There are also other islamic graphics and blinkies galore on their site, do check out the garden its worth a visit. Insha Allah, I will also be sprucing up my site a bit with their graphics soon, as soon as I figure out how to 
In the meanwhile here is the image..
Till next time, take care
Wassalaams
Assalamualikum Wa Rahmatullah wa Barkatuhu,
I can’t believe that its so looong since I posted last. My apologies, I was caught up with a new course and we were having the initial teething problems. Alhamdulillah, it’s all ironed out now and things are going well by the Grace of Allah.
We have started the second session of My Prophets in Islam Course and yes – we are having a Lap book this time too(smile). Insha Allah will post you the details shortly, in the meanwhile we had a collage competition on, “The events in Life of Prophet Yusuf(AS)” and this is what the kids came up with. Enjoy.
Dream of Yusuf(AS), and a 3-D well
Caravan to Egypt, and the 10 bro's
A well again
The Dream of Yusuf(AS)
The women cut their fingers, and a prison cell
Where is the King's cup?
That’s it for now, till next time May Allah keep us in the best of Eemaan and health.
Salaams
Assalamualikum,
I am sure after a busy Ramadan and Eid most of you have rolled back to your routines, but not me (still procrastinating 
). We were traveling quite a bit and have just settled to everyday life.
Haven’t been teaching much recently hence I am putting up an activity I did some time ago. It deals with kindness to parents and how Allah rewards it. After giving a short talk on the status of parents and the importance of family in Islam, we did an activity based on the three men who were shut in a cave, and how Allah rescued them because of their good deeds. (Activity based on an idea in IHSAN)
We made a small cave with a stone cover and under the cover, each child was asked to mention one good deed that he did to please his parents, and he did this only to make Allah happy. The children wrote the good deed like, ‘I wanted to play, but my mum sent me on a chore I obeyed her though my friends were calling me to play’ and so on.
Here is an image…
That’s it for now. May Allah keep us in the best of Eeman and health.
Assalamualikum wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu,
Wishing you all a blessed Eid Mubarak. Taqaball Allahu minna wa minkum.
May Allah (SWT) increase our eemaan and help us continue striving in His path, till We meet Him in the state of Eemaan. A’ameen.
Assalamualikum wa Rahmatullah,
I know this is kind of late, but Alhamdulillah I got to post it just at the nick of time. This is a small journal I made with the kids (7 yrs and above) to have a checklist of the things they have to do in Ramadan.
I improvised on an adult checklist I saw somewhere, I am unable to recall where. The files are in doc format u can download and make your own. I printed 5 copies of the main journal page, for the whole month of Ramadan.
ramadan journal front page, Ramadan journal chklist
Take care and have a blessed Ramadan. Ramadan Greetings to all of you in advance.
Wassalaam
Assalamualikum,
Well, it was just one of those days today, the older ones would not stop arguing with each other. They seem to be growing by the minute and both have their own opinions, none would compromise and give room to the other. Subhanallah, at times being the one to judge can be quite disconcerting, in desperation I separated them both and did the following activity with them.*phew*
I traced their hands, 2 sets for each one of them, then I swapped the hands and gave the older one, the younger one’s hands and vice-versa. I then gave them both a secret mission to write all the good qualities they saw in their sister. The younger one actually needed more coaxing to write the good rather than the bad (lol). Alhamdulillah, this got them thinking as to how much they appreciated even small gestures and how much they actually loved & enjoyed each other. I kind of improvised on an idea I had seen on my fav.resource(family is special hands).
May Allah increase the love in their hearts for each other and Guide them to be more patient and tolerant towards each other.A’ameen
A couple of pics…
Mashallah, they got really creative.*smile*
Anyone got more ideas, do get in touch.
Take care.
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