I hope all of you had a wonderful and blessed weekend. We surely did, alhamdulillah!
Thanks to the grace and mercy of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, Sunday mornings are the highlight of our week. Gone are the lazy Sunday mornings. For the past 6 weeks, our Sundays are active and productive. Though we still try and squeeze in a relaxed and big, heavy family breakfast, post that, it's all about hurriedly cleaning up the house, showering and dressing, and getting the material ready for our class. Alhamdulillah, our class has given so much, not just to the kids who attend, but to me, to my husband, to my kids and to our family. I can think of no better way to spend quality time with my family. This 'team' effort is so precious to me that I cannot express gratitude enough to Allah for giving me this opportunity.
The kids had a fun, fun session this Sunday. It was more or less a recap session, where we just revised whatever we had learnt over the past weeks. Since, we had covered the five pillars of Islam last week, I went over them again with the kids. We sang the pillars of Islam song, but this time we stood and did it with actions. Let's face it, it's a Sunday morning and just listening to a woman talk and talk can tend to get boring. The mind is prone to wander. Especially if you are a child. So I needed to shake them up a bit and also get some action into the class. And it worked!
We resumed our recap session with energy levels magically multiplied.
We then had an interesting game called Laundry Letters. I found the game on this site where it's used for the English alphabet. There are lot of amazing resources out there which can be easily adjusted to your particular needs.
I started out by cutting out little dress shapes from different coloured chart paper.
Then I wrote an Arabic letter on each one of them.
Thanks to the grace and mercy of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, Sunday mornings are the highlight of our week. Gone are the lazy Sunday mornings. For the past 6 weeks, our Sundays are active and productive. Though we still try and squeeze in a relaxed and big, heavy family breakfast, post that, it's all about hurriedly cleaning up the house, showering and dressing, and getting the material ready for our class. Alhamdulillah, our class has given so much, not just to the kids who attend, but to me, to my husband, to my kids and to our family. I can think of no better way to spend quality time with my family. This 'team' effort is so precious to me that I cannot express gratitude enough to Allah for giving me this opportunity.
The kids had a fun, fun session this Sunday. It was more or less a recap session, where we just revised whatever we had learnt over the past weeks. Since, we had covered the five pillars of Islam last week, I went over them again with the kids. We sang the pillars of Islam song, but this time we stood and did it with actions. Let's face it, it's a Sunday morning and just listening to a woman talk and talk can tend to get boring. The mind is prone to wander. Especially if you are a child. So I needed to shake them up a bit and also get some action into the class. And it worked!
We resumed our recap session with energy levels magically multiplied.
We then had an interesting game called Laundry Letters. I found the game on this site where it's used for the English alphabet. There are lot of amazing resources out there which can be easily adjusted to your particular needs.
I started out by cutting out little dress shapes from different coloured chart paper.
Then I wrote an Arabic letter on each one of them.
We tied up a length of rope in the living room. Then I told the kids to hang the laundry out to dry alphabetically! :)
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