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It's Back!

Umamah Learning Academy is pleased to announce close to heart Webinar once again....

Here's what some attendees had to say....

Sabrina Z

"Jazakillahu khayran for doing this webinar.  I have been following your blog for a few years and benefited greatly from all the activities and ideas you have shared."

Umm Abdullah

"Although I have read almost all the Islamic books regarding raising a Muslim child yet I must say that I am impressed with the knowledge shared in I Love Allah course. I found tips not just for me to work with the kids but for myself too. May Allah increase your love for Him and vice versa!"

Umm Safa

" 'I love Allah' webinar is a beautiful reminder to increase our love of Allah by engaging in an invigorating way with our kids. Umm Umamah have adorned this creative package with dua, zikr and craft suggestions, bi'ithnillah. I cant get enough of the awe-inspiring poetry in it!!"

I LOVE ALLAH WEBINAR

WHEN: November 22nd 2016 Inshallah

TIME:   9:30 pm Pacific Time / 3:00 pm Eastern time 

DURATION 1 hour including Q/A Session

COST: $ 5

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What do we Waste ?

TOP 10 THINGS WE WASTE

Recently I made a chart for my kids inspired by an entry in our planner by Busy Homeschool Mom Planners. There are other versions online to, but I liked her Islamic version. I am sharing it here with permission with the hopes that others can benefit too.

Most of it is quite obvious, but some may have you scratch your head

So here's the list:

1. Knowledge
2. Action
3. Speech
4. Body
5. Love (and we do love so many things)
6. Heart
7. Intelligence
8. Wealth
9. Time
10. Service

Beidhnillah I will add links to each  of the above listed titles as we do detailed lessons for each.

  

Feel free to download the Poster, the explanatory Notes  and Worksheet for kids to do their own write up.

For now we are working only on the first three. So during the day whenever any of the kids show wastage of Knowledge, Action or Speech I gently ask or remind them what they are wasting........In a house of young children waste of speech and actions towards siblings is quite common.

BUT the best part is that to implement this I have to be as CONCIOUS of myself too !

Oh Allah Make us steadfast in this endeavor and help us improve ourselves to become better human beings and even better Muslims.

If you use this idea please share ideas on how you applied it in your home. 

  

Hajj Inspiration

MAN WALKED TO HAJJ

Walking to the Hajj pilgrimage is not something new. Many have done it for years. But the story of this Bosnian Brother has really touched many hearts

Hajj Activities for Kids 3

HAJJ 
WITH 
UMAMAH LEARNING ACADEMY

Finally some of our humble efforts and Hajj related posts

DIY Hajj Map and many printable

KABAH our Qibla

CIRCLES AROUND THE KABAH

Learning About Hajj

If you have some that you did too, please share the link in the comments and I will post it on the blog. Inshallah

Learn About Hajj 1

 LABBAIK ALLAHUMMA LABBAIK

I came across this site and simply LOVE how it takes us through the Hajj journey Mashallah. May Allah  reward all responsible in its making ABUNDANTLY. A phenominal effort Mashallah..... 

You will find everything from important information to land marks, timeline, posters and so much more.

Here are a few images from the website Wathekker

SUBHANALLAH !

Check out for yourselves.

HAJJ JOURNEY @ wathakker.info

Mashallah , now that's one definite way of putting your graphic designing talents in good use. A wonderful Sadaqa e Jaria! May Allah increase all those involved in this project in khair to do much more in His way Ameen.

Hajj Activities for Kids 1

Dhul Hijjah Activity Resources for Kids

It's that time of the year again. The blessed month of Dhul Hijjah. may we all be able to reap its rewards and benefit from its blessings Ameen.

 Too much is going on in our home, all at the same time so I wont be able post much here but would definitely like to re share our Dhul Hijjah activities along with the wonderful and beneficial list Umm Maimoonah has posted.

Hajj Prinatble and activity suggestions @ Umamah Learning Academy

Umm Maimoonah's Hajj activity list (loaded with links Mashallah)

A Hajj Activity pinterest board and another board 

If you have something related to share please do so in the comments and I will update this post with your idea too Inshallah.

Also you wouldn't want to miss Hajj Activities for kids 2 post.

Eid Muabark in Advance!

Teaching Quran from Conception to 2 years

TEACHING QURAN PART 1

Assalamo alaikum warahamatullahi wabarakatuhu,

Teaching Quran is a new series of posts I have been intending to start on my blog. I got the final push from this post by Basbusa's Mama on Sugar Cake Diary. Alhumdolillah ! This and the following posts will be part of the Blog Hop: How Do You Teach Quran? she is hosting...Mashallah. I am looking forward to learning new ideas and improving our method where we are lacking Beidhnillah.

Well my journey of teaching my kids Quran started well before they were born....literally! I thank Allah for giving me the right knowledge at the right time...... Subhanallah.

But before I can start talking about what I did... I have to tell how I came about to do that. So please bare with me.

Going through the pregnancy guide book, during my 1st pregnancy I learnt that at 20 weeks (5 months) the unborn fetus can hear sounds from within the mothers body and outside. A new born also recognizes his parents voices and responds to them more than voices of others after birth, as well as other familiar sounds.

Then came a shocking new trend......

What am I talking about...........?

THIS!!!!!!!!!

 Astaghfirullah !

I was shocked to see a picture similar to this in the news paper.   This became the new fad. Making babies listen to classical music in the pretext that it increased their IQ etc. Some hospitals around the world actually started doing this in their nurseries as a rule !!!!!!

Then came Baby Einstein Mozart and many other gadgets fooling innocent new parents into buying them with statements like....

"BABIES can remember melodies they heard in the womb, according to a study."

These notions were backed by different studies and researches done in universities. These researchers discussed how they organized an experiment on several pregnant moms and asked them to listen to a certain type of music during their pregnancy. They were told to stop listening to any music after the babies were born. Then after a month they asked the mothers to bring the babies in for the final test. They exposed each child to the different kinds of musics they had asked the volunteer moms to listen for this experiment to the babies one by one. While the babies showed no interest in other types of music,  their behavior showed a marked difference when THE music THEIR mother had been listening to was played. They showed signs of excitement, happines, calmness and more responsive.

As a Mulsim, there was only one lesson to be taken from this......... the fact that babies hearing starts developing in the womb and they can recognize or respond to more familiar sounds made me think.

Why not Quran ? Why not try and bring about a love for the Quran from before birth. If I deliberately expose my child to any sounds what can be more beautiful than the Quran.

That set me out on my own personal quest Alhumdolillah !

What did I do ?

I started reciting out loud to my babies in pregnancy and after they were born.

Reciting what ?

• the Kalimah 1st thing in the morning
• the daily adhkar
• daily Salat slightly out loud
• the suar (surahs) I knew by heart while I was doing work around the house......

Alhumdolillah :) I tried to do this diligently with my first two at different times of the day, while washing dishses, folding laundry etc. With my other two all this became more automatic as I would remind my older Lil Muallims to do their daily recitations and adhkar.

Did this help ?...... Oh yes it did Alhumdolillah. It did help immensely. Especially to calm my children down when they were crying, got hurt and when trying to go to sleep.

Further on, by continuing this practice, helped my children to actually learn and recite the daily adhkar, suar (surahs) and Salat...... it was more like fill in the blanks Subhanallah !

Over the years, one after the other Allah put so many related articles, news pieces and presentations from Islamic perspective in front of me which I have benefited from.

It has been a wonderful journey full of surprises which I intend to share in the coming posts Beidhnillah !

Zaky's Learning Club

RAMADAN RESOURCE

RAMADAN ADVICE FOR CHILDREN

I just found these cute downloads and printables on Zaky's website yesterday. It's called Zaky's Learning Club. There are several issues from previous years, full of word searches, mazes, activities, posters etc. Six out of the seven issues are  on Ramadan. Most are quite color intensive, but worth having Mashallah ! I have found it.... now I have to figure out a way to get them color printed too Inshallah :)  

Do check them out........ ZAKY'S LEARNING CLUB

Felt Prayer Mats

OUR FIRST THREAD AND NEEDLE LESSON

This was our very first thread and needle activity. Alhumdolillah. We used the back stitch. She picked it up easily but needed me to guide here where to take out the needle from after putting it through. She did it in two steps and I sat with her all the way guiding her both the times.

Lil Muallimah`s prayer mat.. 

In the end she was quite pleased with her accomplishment Alhumdolillah!

You can see our basic Qiblah lesson done with this prayer mat here, and an advanced Qiblah lesson here.

Kabah Our Qibla

Where's the Qibla

In which direction do we pray Salah

We  have done a lesson on Qiblah last yera with Lil Muallimah as posten in our Ramadn posts. Here's how it was done.,

Discussion:
I asked Lil Muallimah to lay out a prayer mat for me for Salah. As this is a daily routine for her Alhumdolillah she laid it out in the correct direction. Then I asked her, "Have you ever seen me pray in any other direction other than this ?" She said "No". Then I asked her, "Do you know why?" and she said "No". :):):) The cords of curiosity were now struck :):):) Then I took her to the window in the direction of the qiblah and showed her outside. I said, "You know how big Allah has made the earth we cant see everywhere from this window, right?" She nodded her head in yes. Then I said, "Can you see your cousins house from here ?" She said "No". So I said,  "In the same way far far away Kabah is straight ahead from here, we cant see it, but we know that it is there. So we pray in this direction because Kabah is our qiblah."

After this talk Lil Muallimah also made a model of  Kabah with me using foam sheets. The pictures are quite self explanatory.

Once the model Kabah was built I again repeated "When we pray salah we face the Kabah as it is our Qiblah." Then I asked her to lay down the lil prayer mats on her own facing the qibla.

We repeated the activity a few times and enjoyed it too.

An explanation of the lil prayer mats can bee seen here. 

The other prayer mats were made by me, and are from our Ramadan Sensory Tub.

Muslim Countries Lapbook

MUSLIM COUNTRIES AROUND THE WORLD

Lil Muallimah was in geography mode. Looking into maps and muslim coloring. That gave us the idea to make a Muslim Countries around the world lapbook. 

It is a very basic lapbook revolving around flags and names of Islamic countries in Africa and Asia.

COVER

We used the double lapbook format. You can see the method for that here. But we added a top flap over the lapbook format, showing the division of of the lapbook into its two parts shown below.

1st INSIDE FLAP

Lil Muallimah colored the Muslim countries on the map of Asia and Africa green, that I had marked with green marker. When you lift up the Muslim Countries and Africa flap you see, flags of African Muslim countries and a flap with some coloring cut outs done by Lil Muallimah. Lil Muallimah also painted a heart and mosque with our DIY Ramadan stamps from last year :)

INSIDE AFRICA FLAP

 When this picture was taken a few flags had not been colored, but hav ebeen marked with the colors to be used Inshallah.

Now let`s look inside the Muslim countries of Asia flap.

INSIDE ASIA FLAP

Inside each flag flap is the name of the country. Unfortunately, some country flags are missing, we`ll be researching those and will probably add an extra flap to add those in too. Uptil then we will use this lapbook to review names and flags of Muslim countries with an Atlas book, map puzzles etc Inshallah

BACK COVER

All in all we really enjoyed making this lapbook. There are many math, patterning, design and memory activities that can be done through flags, on white board, Magna Doodles, Aqua Doodle, paper etc. I will be posting those examples in another post Inshllah.

Download:

Muslim Countries Flags Printable For added fun the flags are mixed and sorting them by continent can be turned into another activity for the kids :).

Asia and Africa Outline map 


Resource pages:

We got the list of countries from here.

Flag outlines can be found here for each country in it`s respective continent page. We used the small size image.

The coloring pages have been taken from the New Muslim Kids Blog . Do check out older posts to find more coloring pages.

I am hoping to do an advanced level one with Lil Mualllim # 2. Hmmmm.....!

Prayer Circles

THE EXPANDING PRAYER CIRCLES

The following is an extension of our Qibla lesson done last year. You can view it here.

As mentioned in my previous Adhan 24/7 post...all muslims praying Salah facing the kabah around the world are actually parts of the expanding circle circulating the Ka'bah.

We did the following activity to further strengthen this concept in my Lil Muallims mind Alhumdolillah

I simply printed out a world map outline through google images and drew parts of circles on all visible land areas around a small cube to show the Kabah in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

Alhumdolillah.... Another simple yet effective lesson. 

Importance of Adhan

Adhan - the Call to Prayer

Abi and the boys had an opportunity to attend an Adhan Workshop, by Qari Imran Khan at our local Masjid a few months back. It had been a deep learning and inspiring experience for all. 


Lil Muallim # 1 has been practicing the adhan for quite a few years, but more so as he is growing Mashallah. He looks for forward to a chance to give adhan sometimes when we have a large gathering at home to announce Salah time and Lil Muallim # 2 does the Iqamah. Mashallah!


A few days back while intending to review etiquettes and importance of adhan with my Lil Muallims I found the link to the actual workshop at the Understand Quran website. It has the power point presentation, the audio file and all Mashallah! 


You can check it out by becoming a member of Understand Quran Academy and support their cause:
 Adhan Workshop by Qari Imran Khan

Some of our favorite and beautiful Adhans are by:

Mishary Rashid El Afasy

Another style by Mishary Rashid El Afasy

Muhammad Adil Al-Emadi

Hadji Abdul Gani Hoshi From Sarajevo Bosnia

We are also using the following resources to support our review:

Littke Explorers Magazine's February/March Issue have a special section on Adahn. It's cute and colorful look makes you want to pick it up to read... and you are not disappointed!

If you don't get this magazine... go ahead click on the image. I highly recommend you to subscribe it. 

Ahadith on Adhan from Sahih Bukhari

Read online here

or click on the image below and get your own copy