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Hadith no 21 | Topic of the Hadith is The importance of Salah| Story A friend of Allah and devil| 30 short hadith for children.
Video of story in English

Al-Kitab-Ul-Hadees🌷

Day .22…Hadees No 21 👇🏃‍♂️

🌷Aslam-O-Alaikum Dear members.🌷

Our today’s Hadees is Down 👇

The Topic of the Hadees of the Day is The importance of Salah.

For English members:-

Today we will teach our kids about the importance of Prayer. We all know that Namaz is compulsory, not optional, but only a few people offer their prayer. And those who are punctual, Their actions are also not according to true Muslims.
Prophet Muhammad SAW said, Pray Differs a Muslim from a kafir. If we want to guard our children against kufr and kafir then we have to teach them the importance and punctuality of Prayer. So that they would offer their pray like Shabah. So that they would get close to Allah and live a sin-free life. But the point to ponder is that, if our good Terbiyat makes them punctual to offer prayer and one from the parents don’t offer the prayer, then there is a high risk that our child would say us, kafir. So we should be punctual and sincere in our actions. Here is no leave from Salah. And if we will skip Salah for our other activities, then It is not Allah who needs us. He will also forget us. He will not feed us at the bed, but he will be kicked us away and we will get tired of achieving the goal for this world. The message of out today’s story is that the door of Jannah will not be opened without a key to Salah. And without Salah our all other good deeds will be wasted. Salah protects us from Shaytaan and sins.
Our today’s story is The friend of ALLAH and Devil. I don’t have the written content of this story. As I wrote this with the help of my memory. So I’m giving an outline of this story. Please read this story as a bedtime story for your kids. And make sure to write this hadith at any board or hang the t wall to memorize.
The outline of the story is
Once there was an old man. He was very poise and a true believer of Allah. Because of his Abadah, Good character, and helpful nature, Allah had made him His friend. Shaytan tried his best to indulge him in any sin but failed. He came to him again and again but his Salah was protecting him from shaytan. Shaytan was not happy that this old man would go into Jannah. So once he though a very powerful trick and he decided to do something to keep that old man away from Salaah. He comes to the old man in the face of an angle. He praised the old man. He said to him that Allah is very happy with you. And he sent me to you to give you news of Jannah. The old man was happy and asked again if it is true? He (devil) Said yes, and Also also appointed me to tell you that you are a true believer. You made me happy. Your struggle to help people and offering prayer on time was a trial and you succeed in it. So Allah says that now you are free to fulfil my rights. You don’t need to offer prayers. Instead, you should spend more time helping my people. The old man was not happy with this. He remains silent. He thought something and stood up saying, get away from here you bastard Shaytan. You are here to mislead me. It was you who denied fulfilling order of Allah. Allah had never said to his prophets to leave any prayer than how would give me permission to do this.
Shaytan was frightened and run away.
Tell your, kids, that shaytan comes in many faces to us and whispers us to not obey. But we have to say him no to become a good friend of Allah.

Please open the video of this story and Play video for kids. The link to the video is above. (If you want to get

In the end, don’t forget to write Hadith in the Hadees book. And share the picture of the Hadith for other activities you did for this Hadith. So that your kids would get the certificate of completing their Ahadith.

May Allah make it easy for you.

Note: -Spread this Hadees with your family and friend so that more people would get benefit from it.

Video of Hadith no 21↓

For Urdu members.

ہماری آج کی حدیث نماز کی اہمیت کے بارے میں ہے. ہم سب اس کی فرضیت اور اہمیت سے آگاہ ہیں. مگر بارے افسوس کی بات ہے کہ بہت کم لوگ نماز پڑھتے ہیں اور جو پڑھتے ہیں ان کے عمل بے نمازیوں سے مختلف نہیں ہوتے

اللہ کے نبی نے بتایا کے نماز مسلمان کو کافر سے الگ کرتی ہے. اور اگر ہمیں اپنے بچوں کو کفر سے اور کافر سے بچانا ہے تو اس کی لیے نماز کی عادت اور نماز کی اہمیت ان کے دلوں میں ڈالنی ہو گے. تا کہ اللہ کا قرب حاصل کر کے بچے گناہ بھری زندگی سے پاک رہیں. لیکن یاد رکھیں اگر والدین میں سے کوئی نماز نہیں پڑھتا اور بچے کی تربیت میں نماز کی پابندی شامل ہے. تو اس بات کا بہت خدشہ ہے کہ بچہ والدین کو ہی کافر سمجھنے لگے -نماز اختیاری نہیں بلکہ ایک فرض ہے. جس سے چھٹی کسی صورت نہیں. اور اگر آپ نماز کو پیچھے ڈال کر دوسرے اہم کام ختم کرنے میں لگ گئے تو یاد رکھیں اللہ بے نیاز ہے وہ آپ کو بیٹھا کر نہیں کھلاۓ گا. بلکہ اس دنیا کے پیچھے دوڑا دوڑا کر تھکا دے گا.

آج کی کہانی میں بھی یہی پیغام ہے کی نماز جنت کی چابی ہے اس کے بغیر دروازہ نہیں کھلے گا سارے عمل ضائع ہو جائیں گےاور جو نماز پڑھتا ہے شیطان اس پر کبھی قابو نہیں پا سکتا لہذا اس کا سب سے مضبوط وار نماز چھڑوانا ہے

کہانی اور حدیث کا ترجمہ اور تفسیر نیچے دیا جا رہا ہے.بچوں کو وڈیو دیکھیں اور ساتھ ساتھ ان کے سوالوں کا جواب بھی دیں

میں نے بچوں کو سنت سیکھانے کے لیے انفرادی طور پر کچھ مطالعہ کیا ہے اور اپنے بچوں کو سیکھانے کے لیے کچھ چیزیں تیار بھی کر رکھی ہیں اگر کسی کو میری مدد کی ضرورت کو تو مجھے کومنٹ کر سکتے ہیں

Video of the Urdu Story and Hadith.

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October 10, 2019
Ramdan and Eid of expats. With Eid and Ramdan arts and Crafts for kids
Ramadan And Eid of Expats.

The First Ramadan and Eid as an expat was at the stage of self-pity and made me homesick. But now after 8 years when my kids grow up and we are 5 members at home,

I enjoy blissful Ramadan. with arts and crafts for Eid and Ramadan. But living as an ex-pat is a little hard thing itself when we have zero Muslim community around us.Especially for children its hard to understand the difference between religious rituals. Here the non-Muslims celebrate their rituals with much excitement and community involvement.In this condition, it’s very important for us to make our rituals more attractive and charming with its soul. That’s why. This year The theme of our Ramadan is about a Verse of a Quran which is In Surah Baqra 183.

Because Some non-Muslims think it’s very cruel to live hungry for the whole day. And Muslim children feel pity for them-self. So we will explain and follow these three Conceptions of Fasting...
1. Fast was also Fardh in other religions like Hinduism and Christianity. But they forget their prayers and added new things in their rituals.
2. We can’t leave Fast in any condition. We can delay it if we are Sick or traveling.
3. The purpose of Ramadan is increasing our level of Taqwaa.
In the light of this Verse we will plan our all activities covering two things.

1.Ramadan eid decorations and planners. 2. Ibada activities to get Taqwa

Ramadan/Eid decorations and planners. Ramadan preparations Start from the month of Shawwal when we start to clean home and prayer mats. To follow Sunnah It is the best thing to practice more fasts in the month of Shawwal..

My kids start to countdown the Ramadhan and excited about the happiness of the daily iftar table.

Here I will describe some things we will do in Ramadan.

1.Wishing Crads and Self evaluation cards for nonemuslim fellow.

Alhamdulillah we have made planned to give Ramadan wishes, self-evaluation cards and a pack of some dates to class fellows of elder one who is turning 9yrs this Ramadan. In this activity, he will share a short introduction/Ramadan story in his class. Then he will give wish card to his class fellow with a self-evaluation card in which every student will ask a question (how am I?) to his parents, friends, and people around him. And get good behavior starts and hearts from others.

2.Prayer Corner.

Our first and Welcome Ramadan activity is Making of a prayer corner.

In a less messy room, we choose a corner and decorate it to offer our prayers and Ibadah here.

In this corner, we have prayer mats, Table of Quran and Seerah books, Tasbeeh. I also added some sticky notes Color/pencils and some other activity materials in this corner to do some activities(described down)We made this corner full with fragrance and charming lights or candle. A video of prayer corner

3.Shopping;-

All necessary Grocery and new summer clothes shopping should be done before Ramadan. So we will buy clothes to wear in Jummah prayers and Eid Before Ramadan. 4.Wishing cards. During Ramadan, kids will make some eid wishing or Iftar invitation cards which they could do best. It depends on them whatever they will use to decorate and write on them.

5.Iftar preparations

Every member of the family will volunteer in preparation of after. Of Course, the kids are too young to practice Fast, but they do Iftar. It’s the best time where we could learn to eat Sunnah foods, manners of eating and welcome every food.

6.Eid gift packs

This Ramadhan I’m planning to make eid gift packs. Living in abroad we don’t have other kids surroundings to give these gift packs. But This year we would make these packs for their schoolfellows. Because kids feel a little complex when they can’t take part in school celebrations and the rituals of their friends. So I think our kids should feel proud of their rituals. And doing this will also raise awareness in their friends that they also have their religious rituals. Here is the picture of the gifts I gave them last year. This year I’m planning to give something else to my kids and adding some candies and chocolate bars in the gift packs of other children.

Ibada activities to get Taqwa1.Alhamad Garden.

Every day of Ramadan is a blessed month. So we have this beautiful garden with our name tags. We will add a flower daily to say Alhamdulillah for the blessing of the day.

2.Wall hangers

We prepared wall hangers with the verses like.
1. Allah is watching. AL-BASEER(For Kitchen)
2. Forgive others Al-Ghafoor(kids room)
3. Allah is listening Al-same (prayer corner)
4. Prayer is better than sleep (Bedroom)
5. Ifter and Sehri Supplications (wall of the dining table)
3.Quran memorizing.

My elder one is already doing Hifz. So, this year I planned my self to memorize at least one Surah in this month. And younger kids will also take part in memorizing. For this, I think listening of audio is the best way for kids. I have apps of Quran recitation which they will listen and learn.

Stories About the Ramadhan of Sahaba 4.Daily Ayat e Tadabbur. Daora e Quran is my favorite thing to do in Ramadan. It’s also Sunnah that Prophets Muhammad SAW did Dora e Quran every night of Ramadan with Jibraeel A.S. For kids its better I will choose any Ayat for them and do tadabbur on it.

5.Charity box

Like last year we will have a charity box in which we will add some money to donate kids.

6.A Ramadhan schedule/Planner

This year we have a planner with us in which we have tick option for

Prayer,..A hand made Ramadan countdown and Prayer countdown. Big sticker for Fast and small stickers for daily stickers. Recitation,

Daily some verses age according and Dora-e-Quran for kids a video of9 minuts daily and 3 hrs daily for elders.Good Deeds..For kids we make good deeds tree. Which will get fruits of good deeds in stickers.

Tasbeeh... Ziker is complspry thing to do. We have made these short tasbeehat from beeds of broken tasbeehat. Our one bucket is for Tasbeehat. Second jaar of countdown beeds and second to keep counted beeds.

7.Bonding with Grandparents and other relatives.

Every Ramadan and Eid we all miss our relatives and country rituals and homesick. I miss my parents and my Husband so as. So to make strong bonding and attach kids with our bondings, we will try to make more live calls to get connect with them.

Eid room decorations

Last week of Eid is good to start Eid decorations.

Last year we did it with balloons, stars, Crescents and fresh flowers. Let’s see what we added more.

In’sha Allah. This is My Planner and pre and in Ramadan preparations. Hope everyone will get a blessed Ramadan.

Allahumma ballighnaRamadhana.

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April 28, 2019
A complete nutritional Sunnah break fast for Muslim Parenting.A motivational Article.
Healthy breakfast Ideas with Sunnah Meal/ ingredients.

Last week we had a school meeting. The agenda was full of tummy breakfast and healthy meal awareness.

There It was a shocking comment from the teachers of nursery classes.
They were telling the ratio of kids coming with a complete breakfast is 2:20 and with a light breakfast is 3/5 out of 20, and the rest of the students are coming without breakfast. And they summed up that sugar and white floor is lowering the hunger and making them weak inside. That’s why children especially girls get weaker and complain about the ache in the joints and bones.
I was surprised. I know many children don’t like to eat in the morning. So many parents seem to be grateful if they are at least taking a cup of milk. So there was a campaign started in the school and the target was sending children in the school with a full tummy breakfast.
Alhamdulillah, my all children have a habit to take a complete and healthy breakfast every morning.so I’m not much worry about them. But I felt Proud of being Muslim that we have Sunnah food in our life when teachers recommended ‘Honey’ instead of Jams and other topping ingredients. Many Mothers are in need a good recommendation and motivation of healthy breakfast for the little ones. That’s why I decided to write an article to share some tips and ideas about a complete nutritional breakfast every morning.

Tip 1.

Breakfast is the first meal of the day. We need more energy and a pleasant mood to begin a worthful day. This is the time when our body and stomach could absorb heavy meals. Make a healthy and rich meal menu for breakfast

Here is a set of breakfast ingredients.

A brown toast topped with honey and butter, half egg and the half cup of milk.

A brown Rusk with cheese or butter and yogurt.

A Bowl wheat porridge with and a spoon of honey and 3dates.

A Brown chapatti bread made in olive oil and a cup of yogurt.

A glass of fresh juices and with the role of brown bread filled with cream and chicken.

Mouselli with milk/yogurt and Banana.

Black chocolate with milk and bread.

Tip 2.

After a long sleep, children don’t want to eat. So give them a break of 1:30 to 2 hrs between awakening and breakfast.

Tip 3.

Motivate them to eat healthy foods in the morning. Mostly girls like to look pretty and glowing and boys want to be more strong and healthy. So encourage them to eat a more and more healthy thing in the morning so that could achieve their target.

Tip 4.

Change the menu often. So that they do not feed up with the same things every morning.

Tip 5.

Sit and do your breakfast with them and show your interest in eating more in the morning.

Tip 6.

At the start, children will not be ready to eat so much in the morning. slowly and steadily they will get used to it. But you live constant and force them to take breakfast. In some days, they will change their behavior.

Tip 7.

Provide a relaxed and calm atmosphere at the time of Breakfast. Don’t show the hurries, otherwise, the children will make the reason to avoid breakfast.
In the end here is a list of Sunnah foods that are rich nutritional.

Dates

Olive/olive oil

Milk

Brown bread

Honey.

Dry fruits.

Meat

Apple Cider.

Pomegranate.

Fig

Watermelon.

Cucumber.

Barley

Water.

Grapes

In holidays when the children stay at home before noon try to add more sunnah foods in their diet.

Note:- The foods that are not good for children are enlisted.

Fast foods

White floor,

Suger.

Brown and fatty Chocolates

Candies,

Tetra pack juices and soft drinks.

Broiler meats and eggs.

Jams and artificial coloring items.

Foods are the fuel of our body. Do not spoil the habits of children. The rest of the life of children depends on what they eat At a young age. So do not compromise with it. Good health promises a productive energetic and strong body.

What is the favorite breakfast of your children? Share your tips and ideas with us.
Here is a motivational video for kids of Fruits mentioned in the Quran with Playdough. I hope your kids will enjoy it.
Here is my video of the making of fruits mentioned in the Quran with play dough. Kids love to play with playdough and make these things.
December 3, 2018
Three Birds three stories in the Qura’n. Islamic stories for Children
Three Birds three stories in the Quran

Stories with facts, crafts, verses of Quran and Interesting activities for children.

Stories in Qur’an are a big source of teaching moral lessons, universal rules, and

facts of nature to kids. I personally use to read for them these stories to raise their interest in reading and understanding the meanings of Qur’an for strong bonding.

Qur’an Is for every age and every aspect of life. So for children, it has many interesting things. It has all science, nature, and fiction topics for children.

This summer we decided to read these stories in a different way. And the outputs are really good.

We started our journey of learning Quran from the Ayat of the Quran about birds and animals and their benefits and relation with human beings.

In surat-al-Baqara, Allah SWA says:-

…….and dispersing therein every [kind of] moving creature, and [His] directing of the winds and the clouds controlled between the heaven and the earth are signs for a people who use reason. (164)

Then we had a general look at the names of animals, birds, and insects mentioned in the Quran. And the list was very long.

So we made a list of them in three categories, that is Birds, animals, and Insects.. I will add the names of all of them in a related category.

Here I would like to recommend you to get ready for unexpected questions from the children. They asked many minds unlocking questions to me like;-

If the horse is also mentioned in the Quran?

If my name is also in the Quran?

Where is a list of things I will get in Heaven?

Honestly, children are more clever than elders.

Three Birds Three Stories.

Children were interested in Birds. So we started from the stories of the birds, mentioned in the Quran. In the Quran Word ‘bird’ is mentioned 5 times and the word ‘birds’ occurs 13 times.

Three birds are mentioned with their names in the Quran.

Crow (Surat Al-Maida)

HudHud (hoopoe) Surat Al-Namal.

Ababeel (Swallow) Suat-ul-Feel.

In the Quran, We find many Ayaats about benefits and general

information about the birds.

Allah SWT says about the Bird:-

“Do they not see the birds controlled in the atmosphere of the sky? None holds them up except Allah. Indeed in that are signs for a people who believe.”(Al-Nahal-79)

And Here are many other verses which invite us to look at birds and ponder the psychology of birds. We summed up all the verses of the Quran in a list and started our journey.

First of all, we made an outline of our field of storytelling sessions. We worked on this project in these steps.

Photography of some birds/nests in nature

Reading/listening stories

Marking the bird from the story

Numbering the benefits of Birds

Facts about that bird

The moral lessons of the Story (discussion)

Learning verses or just Dua(supplication) of the prophet.

Crafts/creative work(Shop here)

Day 1. PhotoGraphy:-

Our First step was the photography of some birds and their nests from nature. That day was full of excitement. Nature, free time to spend outside and then finding birds and taking photos of them was the totally amazing experience of learning without getting bored.
Here are some photos of birds and nests, my young learners took.

Day2. Discussion About birds and their living style.

The next day we had a healthy discussion about the birds and their nests. How they make nests, what do they eat and how they fly. Life. The cycle of birds is also an interesting aspect of stories of the birds. We also discussed the airplane which flies like birds. Children were also wishing that They may also fly. And then I told them they may fly like a bird in a pursuit when they will grow up.
It was the time when I was able to make them realize that Humans are the best creature of Allah SWT in this universe.

Day3. Benefits of the Birds.

Making the list of the benefits of the birds was also incredible work…
We found these benefits;-`

They give us food

They eat insects so our world is saved from a huge quantity of insects.

They are also a natural source of spreading the seeds of some fruits and herbs from one to another place.

They also make our earth beautiful.

In the last, every bird has individual facts which will be described in three birds and their stories.

And then we entered into our next doorstep. And this level was labelling the birds mentioned in the Quran with the name. We found three Birds mentioned in the Quran named:-

Crow (Surat al Maida.In the story of Adam.A.S)

Swallow(Ababeel) ( Surat Al-Feel. In the story of Elephants)

Hud (Hoopoe) (Surat AL-Namal. In the story of Hazra Suleman A.S)

Day4. Story telling

This was the day we started our story session.
We Started our 1st story that was the Story of Hz Adam A.S. Children are listening to these stories almost from the lap, so I tried to involve them in these stories. some important points and the morals of the stories were discussed in our storytelling session. Our focus was on the bird mentioned in That story to keep them interested in this story.

Day5. Facts of the Bird of each story.

Facts of that bird. Then we entered into the world of those birds and watched some videos about the facts of that bird. Children were happy because they got new information about the birds.

Day 6.Crafts and creativity.

Now children have much knowledge and information. So in the end, some creative work and craftwork was done. video of easy nest craft is added now down.

You can also do it. If someone is much interest to get a collection of Ayats about birds and animals then leave a comment.

Soon I will publish the stories and individual work on every story and bird.

Now it’s your turn to let me know how much are you interested in getting my next story in the Quran with creative work and

information?

Please leave a comment if I forget to add something.

Also, see my other creative/crafts work on the Lifecycle of birds

Recommended Books for the Quran stories.
Nest of Ababeel with playdough.

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August 9, 2018
Step by step guide for math lessons for preschoolers.
Math for Pre-schoolers Early school/Kg 1 and Kg 2

Want to know how to start teaching Math?

Here is a complete guide

Smart activities

Fine motor skills.

Number blocks.

Numbers learning toys

Counting or reading Numbers.

Number Tracing

Number building with Playdough

Colouring pages

Writing on sand

Tracing numbers with finger colours

Making numbers/shapes with card paper

cut and past activities for teaching orders and sizes

resources to teach orders/ sizes and pattern

Free worksheets

When we talk about Math lessons for pre-schoolers don’t mean to give
a high burden curriculum books or a tight schedule to teach. Maths and numbers could not be put into the brain by dumping or pumping.

Some children love to play with numbers but other gets confused when its time to figure out values and numbers. And in the end, they start to hate the numbers. All feelings about math start to develop in early childhood education when a child starts learning. A little mislead could dig them into number phobia and smart help could make them math genius.

When one starts to teach a kid he/she needs to make them familiarize with the things around in a fun and natural atmosphere. And later using educational resources things would be more easy to make them understand the rules and problems of math.

Here I’m going to share with you how I started to teach my children as pre-schoolers. I’m sure this will help your child to love with numbers and patterns instead of creating a feeling of hate for maths.

Oral math lessons for pre-schoolers.

Oral math lessons for pre-schoolers are the best and most effective method to familiarize children with shapes, sizes and learn how to count and learn numbers. For this, we could get help from nature and be having fun transplant all the number mania to the kids. Like to Learn numbers and counting start to count:-

Fingers

Birds

Fruits

Toys

Foot Steps

Coins

Candies

Number poems

Then make some

Crafts,

Cards,

Playdough

or use toys

To teach and familiarize with shapes and sizes cards or toys.

Math lessons for pre-schoolers with smart activities/motor skills.

Number blocks

Numbers learning toys

Counting or reading Numbers of pages of books

Number Tracing

Making numbers with Playdough

Colouring pages

Writing on sand

Tracing numbers with fingers

Making numbers/shapes with card paper

cut and past activities for teaching orders and sizes

other some resources to teach orders/ sizes and pattern

$Math lessons for preschoolers.$

Watch this video to see how I made some puzzles and shapes free at home.

Math lessons for pre-schoolers Using worksheets and writing activities.

In this section, we use some simple and easy maths worksheets or some pencil games to make their finger muscles more strong and to teach them how to hold a pencil properly.

Here is a list of activities/worksheets we follow to teach numbers.

Tracing numbers and lines in different worksheets

Practice with Matching worksheets

Number and value games.

Scrambles

Some other Worksheets to Familiarize with

Shapes/sizes/,

In/out,

Up/down,

Near/far,

Before/after,

Short/long

(Click here to watch videos how I made these resources free at home.)

Pre-schoolers can’t write properly but they could have some prewriting activities. We use colouring into numbers, making drawing and having some pencil games. As shown in the pictures.

You can watch these videos of prewriting activities.

Games of prewriting

Activities for prewriting.

Number tracing/colouring.

All the children in this age need more play/games and motor skills also teach them to count days of the week and months. The colour names and other interesting crafts about seasons/ fruits/food/animals/stories.
Hope you all will enjoy making numbers and shapes activities with your kids. Don’t forget to share your thoughts about these activities.
Comment below if I’m missing something and you need to get info about that too.
I’m uploading more maths and alphabetic activities for toddlers so don’t forget to subscribe to get updates from me.
here are my other articles about math activities. Watch them also.
Math fun activities on fingers.
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December 28, 2017
Tips with free recourses to start early childhood education program,
As a mom of three and a teacher, I’m feeling happy to share my experience of start of early childhood education program which was a great and this method worked for my children.

When a parent blessed with a baby they also bless with love, care and worry about a child, A child gets all the emotional, physical and social needs from his parent.
Parents do their best to raise the child as a successful and complete person.
Education would be their first priority when a child grows and of course, everyone tries to do their best to fulfil this duty.
But dear parents/ guardians if you are accepting the responsibility to educate your child and decided do it pre-schooling yourself at home. You must have to know that an early childhood education program is such a big and challenging task. Teaching and transforming knowledge with perfect method and educate your child like a complete personality is not as much easy task as everyone could do it. It is a very sensitive department. And it also needs a proper guide and full training.

As Parents spend much time closer to their child so they already know the nature of their child very well. That’s why with a proper guideline and a little training about early childhood education programs, they could get a high level of good performance.

Here I will go through intro how to start an early childhood education program at home.
There are three basic learning resources in this age.

Learning Methods

The child will learn what he/she will listen to.

The child will learn and do what he/she will Watch or experience.

The child will learn with little speaking/conversation and exploring different things.

Using these three resources we try to get connect our child towards learning. We will start from things of their interest. Some kids listen more and others would have exploring and curious nature. So If child would like to listen and talk more, We would need video resources, story books and more time to talk with them.

But for curios children this method is best thing of interest.

What to teach?
Here is a list of things we have to teach in this age.

Colours,

Sizes

Shapes and faces.

Nature and seasons.

Near and far.

Right and left sides.

Count and numbers.

motor skills

Basic Alphabets and their sounds(phonics)

Good and bad emotions and behaviours.

Our ethics and values through stories.

Poems/games and outdoor fun.

How to teach?

All you need to do is Understand the mood and nature of your child. Then use a good tone of voice and an interesting way of communication with your child. From a young age of 3 to 7, every child is a self-learner. So you should be here to support him in learning and providing him/her with good resources to learn, not to stop them from self-learning and following your footsteps. Being a tricky person all you need to do is say yes when they want to ask you some thing. Be there with them to give answers. Nature is full of learning resources . Don’t miss any opportunity to teach them about things, sizes, colours explore world.

My Personal experience of Teaching

My kids always learned much in a playground or park but also in the kitchen, drawing room and even in the washroom. Yes in the wash room the goes into a different world.
So, I taught colours to them using fresh fruits and vegetable. I had used my fingers, clothes of My Husband and children to teach them sizes.
Same like that they counted the beans in the kitchen and flowers in the Garden and Birds in the air and doors of the room which also kept them busy for a long hour.
Now I will give you some tips to make and use free resources.

Tips to make free resources

You can draw big flower and ask them to count petals and colour. Than ask them to write numbers or trace for them to write.

You can make origami boats, fish, aeroplanes, photo frames and many other things of different shapes, sizes, colours. This will also help them to name colours, and learn sizes.

Use a paper/cardboard to make puzzel cards again of different colours and sizes so that child can match colours, sizes Numbers and pattern.

Water bottles/lids, popsicle sticks, disposable cups also help them to Learn.

Give you child some newspapers and a child friendly scissor and ask them to cut just fruits or flowers or favourite foods and past on a paper. This will help them in motor skills increase their memory. They would also be able to understand difference between different things.

Play dough is Big source of teaching for me. I had used it in many ways and still I’m using it.

(You can see photos down or watch videos at my channel)

I had started a chain of videos for making free resources at home for early childhood education program and also giving full training how to teach your child at home or in the school. Visit my channel to get videos of crafts and free resources.
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Play dough, Numbers and lids can be used for this.

Draw and color

Card paper puzzels.

Shapes drawing

Shapes Made of Ice-cream container lids

Paper fishes ,shapes, flowers and envelops to teach sizes

Play dough balls to teach sizes and colors

Play dough motor skills

Origami

Origami
November 27, 2017
How the role of worksheets is turning into child labour in schools.
This is Monday morning and I’m sitting in front of my laptop after dropping my kids at the school. I’m in the condition where I’m forced to think that if a bundle of worksheets and written homework on the weekends are like a child labour in the schools.

Don’t mind if you are doing this as a teacher or parent of a home-schooled I’m explaining here why I’m thinking in this way. He returned from school with 9 worksheets and one notebook to be written on weekend.

After Friday prayer they reached home and after some snacks, it was evening(about 1.5 hr left to be night) and asked them to go outside for some week relaxation and friends gathering. As I also feel a little freedom of no work like all working days. So all the homework was pending for the next two off days.
At morning after breakfast, all the friends of them were waiting outside so they went and Done many healthy activities and enjoyed much. Noon was the time to study and in the evening they left for the mosque. And Sunday morning again Was the time to play outside as Baba was also at home, they played more than Saturday.
When at the study time they sit to do homework younger one who is in the grade one told me, ‘mom I have many worksheets to be done today’.

As already prepared children and sharp kids in writing and reading with other activities, my two kids do all of their homework themselves. I just sit for a little time for check and balance. I was shocked with that a lot of worksheets.
When Baba told them that they are going to the Fun park, for him it was a time to write more faster. But for so young child of grade one, it was impossible to write all those in one sitting with having an excitement of going outside. So some were done and later after taking bath and eating food they were out And returned much tired. They went to sleep and Sunday ended up. He could not complete all the work.
And in this weekend routine, I didn’t mention another thing like reading of Quran, and religious oral activities I used to teach them at home.
So it was Monday morning he woke up at 6, wrote all three worksheets and one notebook in about 35 minutes and then ready for school. Got a big thumbs up from Baba and mama for achieving the goal.

It was a good experience for him and me as well.
But I’m in the feel of a little guilt.
As a mother, a teacher and as a writer, I feel it is another kind of child labour.
I think children should have no work to write for weekends. As they are writing for whole 5 working days at school and in the home as well. Weekend means weekend. It should be just for fun, doing oral and practical activities, to spend more time with family and friends, watching some educational and children fun videos, and outdoor games. My boy was ambitious, keen and prepared but what about the other kids who just started to grip a pencil and just started writing.
I want to hear from all of you,
- Do you agree with me that a lot of writing work and worksheets are like child labour?
- Do you also think weekends should be weekends for other activities not for writing and boring study schedule?
- Do you think children learn more with playing, group activities, the family gets to gathers and fun activities?
- Do you also think writing and reading is the best way to teach kids?
- Are you agree with me, reading and writing could prepare kids just for sitting in front of desks, instead of giving life skills.
Leave your comments about the good or bad experience about worksheets. It’s a time to give a big no to child labour in the study.
You can read these articles to know more about skills and activities good for kids to do at home.
Read this to know which skills your Home-school kids need to be taught

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The methods of a good Homeschooling in Islam?
October 9, 2017
The methods of a good Homeschooling in Islam?
Ways to teach children of all learning type using the method of good homeschooling in Islam?

Fathers and mothers will equally be asked about the upbringing and education of their child, not educational institutes.

And whatever parents teach and train to their child is called homeschooling. Let’s see
What is the meaning of homeschooling?

Homeschooling. known as home education, is the education of children inside the home. Home education is usually conducted by a parent or tutor.

Homeschooling means an informal way of getting knowledge and learning. And informal learning starts when a child born he starts to learn and starts getting life skills. In this regard Parents sibling, society, schools, religion plays the role.

Good Muslim homeschooling starts from the lap of the mother and it never ends till the life ends.

Hence, parents could not get full knowledge of every field of life but little knowledge of every field of life is necessary for good homeschooling.

Here is a complete guideline for parents who do homeschooling.

Homeschooling consists of three facts.

What to teach,

Whom to teach

and how to teach?

Whom to teach?

Education starts from the very first day of birth and ends up with life. But as the methods of good homeschooling are under discussion, only Children’s education will be highlighted here.

Every child has own individual learning style.

Nowadays, every educationist as well as homeschooling parents aware of these seven learning styles.

   8 learning styles:

The linguistic learner

The naturalist

The rhythmic learner

The kinesthetic learner

The visual or spatial learner

The interpersonal learner

The Intrapersonal learner. Read more

These learning types find and fit onto the individual persona of the child and are applicable just for preschoolers and a little informal education.  And at the last, formal institutes are using a typical method(more writing and reading).

In the homeschooling method, the regular syllabus is available in the market. But a parent or tutor has more flexibility to teach with individual personal learning styles.

How to teach?

The methods of good homeschooling.

What strategy should be applied to nourish skills rather than teaching knowledge?

Islam is a complete religion and it has an own code of life which nourishes individual skills. It gave human beings a wonderful homeschooling method(informal training system Like mosques, madrasa) which emphasis training and practice more than learning.

Quranic methods of human training have such wonderful features that fit into the methods of good homeschooling. All social development and advanced technology are because of That Islamic(INFORMAL)homeschooling method.

Today it is needed to move back where and follow Quran which has complete homeschooling methods

Now see how Quranic methods of a god homeschooling will be applied, using four sources of information on the children of all learning types to nourish their personal skills.

1) The artistic and verbal method and the tone of voice (as Qur’an uses) in a good Homeschooling help more.

Children love to color and want a variety of toys, clothes, foods, games, stories, poems outings, etc. And they learn while playing but they need dictation(Molding interest and converting information).

And dictation should be more attractive with a soft tone of voice and verbal sentences.

Instead of teaching the knowledge, convert the information.

Suppose, if a child hurts someone(his siblings, friend, and bug or bee), and he would be told not to do this in insulting or dictation method and harsh words would be used to stop him, this will not work.

A good method of good homeschooling is that it makes him realize he did wrong, wisely using soft words and a painful wise tone.

like: – oooh it must be hurting him,

it is very painful for him,

You must say sorry and hug him,

Because of the devil, you did it so say Astaghfirullah.

This thing and style feel sorry for him.

The intellectual and scientific content

When children are being homeschooled, they ask,

what is this?

why is this?

where is something? etc.

They should be answered wisely with scientific content

Like: –

If Children ask why a bird can fly and I can’t?

Answer with scientific reason makes things easy and understandable.
Your answer should be like this; –
he has wings,
it has less weight,
and he can push air and can go high and fly.
Make a paper/origami bird or plan to show the example. Just answering them that because they are the bird and we are not is not enough.

3) The reinforcement of the spiritual dimensions of man.

In a Good homeschooling method, a child could be treated according to his own spirit and level of learning. In this regard learning types of a student could help.

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4) The appeal to reflect and ponder.

In this regard provide material to them and let them practice.

Facilitate a child with the application. In a good homeschooling method, a single item could help much.

Activities Like: –

Seed a plant and observe the stages of its growth,

Take the fruit basket and observe the colors and taste of different fruits,

Colors combination(red and yellow makes orange)

5) The appeal to the study of nature.

Nature is the world’s best trainer and teacher.

As a homeschooling student, a child gets more time to play and live outside. Spend more time outside near nature and discuss birds, plants, clouds, the sun, day-night, bugs bees, land, and hills.

In this regard, I have another article about mobile apps which helps a child to study nature.

6) The tapping of the historical incidents for evaluation.

In the method of good homeschooling,, history works like junk food. Direct from shop to mouth.

Stories from the Quran,

Then make own stories for kids like, Story of a pencil was made,

The living style of old ages,

How a knife or fire harmed anyone? The story of the child’s childhood.

And most attracting stories for children are your own childhood stories.

7) The expounding of the mysteries of the creation.Discussion with children about

Why Allah had made this world,

Why was sent into this world,

What is the reason for creating the plant,

clouds, water, air, germs, etc?
Clouds to rain, water to drink and grow, birds to eat bugs bees, cats to eat the mouse, etc

8) The mentioning of series of truths and principles that govern human life, i.e. Sociology, Economics, Government, etc.

Here are rules and regulations of every aspect of the life described in the Qur’an.

In a good homeschooling, the child would be more about these rules.

Sociology includes, And rights of Allah Rights of human, rights of birds. How to interact with others.who is the owner, how to share or get things from others.

Economic, How to do trade, Sharing foods, toys, sell and buy, And who is the owner.

Government. The rule will be included like Who is the boss(father)? How to obey him and respect his orders.

same as that A team captain in a game governs, and the team will obey.

9. Zikker.(Repetition) m m

Every child learns with repetition. It may visual, oral or experimental.

In a good homeschooling, Parenting/ tutor could repeat as many times as he wishes with children. And again this repeating should be artistic and verbal so that children do not get tired.

10: – Penalty and punishment.

The penalty means reward, it could be oral like praise and acknowledgment. And some time to stop a child from something doing wrong punishment is also necessary. AS in Qur’an, penalty, and punishment are described at the same time.
But Right after 20 to 30 minutes of punishment, come back to the child and discuss with him/her what he did wrong and why it should not happen next time.(Remmeber!children have a weak memory, They learn very fastly what they see but they could take the time to forget any wrong habit. So in a few discussions, they could not leave any habit. so some times try to ignore and sometimes discuss with good words)

What to teach?

1) Reason and logic.

2) Experience.

3) Study of Nature.

4) History.

are the four sources of information.

And In a good homeschooling, With this source of information children is taught different subjects and field of knowledge, like ethics, socialism, economics, science, and technics.

Informal education, the more educated, trained and skillful person who runs the educational institutes provides fully structured services.

With the changes in lifestyles and technology life become more easy and advanced systems are being introduced to formal schooling methods. But in a good homeschooling method Parents or tutors Use these sources to transform knowledge into children.

Using these all ten good homeschooling methods, a child could be shaped into a pious and honest Muslim. A good Homeschooling means more patience, more devotion, more skills, more passion, and full knowledge.

In this method of good homeschooling, Don’t forget to provide a good educational and practical environment, and also say “yes I’m here to a child” every time.

Watch this video for the Method used in Quran for human training.

What do you think about all these methods?
Did you get new idea’s other than these?
If you are using some other great methods, don’t forget to share it with us. Comments awaiting for your hits.

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July 28, 2017
Math fun activities from toddler to Grade 2 Home school activities
No need to print, Make your own without boring them with traditional activity books and a load of worksheets.

Your child will pretty enjoy with these math fun activities.

Activities of hands and fingers will make them more Math clever, genius help them in motor skills also.

This is a compiled collection of math fun 🎉 activities that I had tested and practiced with kids.
Believe me, It really works…., especially for kinesthetic learners.

These activities increase interest and they learn more quickly.

As restaurants can provide quick services with a variety of food but they can’t help you with reliability and quality ❤. Food 😋 made by mom always leaves GOOD memories🎶.
The same is here that schools and teachers can’t fulfill all the emotional needs of your child. Parents can understand the child better than anyone else. A group of students and a classroom follows the same pattern and same stander of learning. they can’t help your child to entertain them and teach them fun. But Parents can!
The second thing our traditional education system

and that load of worksheets, books, patterns, notebooks deal them like a robot rather than creative-minded individuals.
School syllabus off course have reliability and students learn with them, but not all kind of learners.

For homeschooling worksheets and a planner is needed but both schooling and homeschooling need fun activities. Then why always push them like a robot learner.

Parents can create fun activities for them and I bet those activities will be more wonderful like a mom’s tasty food,

And your child will admire all of your efforts.
Children will always remember the fun activities they had with parents.
But parents also need to learn unique and innovative ways to make it easy for them to make sure what is going well 😊 to help them out.

you will no need to print them.

These activities will be more wonderful, creative, traditional, and mood appropriate

The significance of these math fun activities.

These Math fun Activities will be done without printable.

These math fun activities could be done anywhere even in the sand. When you will be at the beach or on the bed with bedtime stories.

These math fun activities also help with motor skills.

These math fun activities are much helpful for kinesthetic learners.

These activities will be mood appropriate and more entertaining.

Watch the videos samples and then try. I Believe Parents could create more fun activities including these.
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Did you enjoy it? Is homeschooling make easy to learn math and other subjects? Try with your kids and share your thoughts.
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July 16, 2017
Summer Craft! Simple, easy and a good looking hang out.

Summer Crafts

Very Simple wall hanger, Easy to make
and also a good looking hang out For remind-able things!

How to make This summer craft?

Take A blue card paper A4 size or what ever a child will like…

Instead of having blue card paper.. white paper could also be used for this summer crafts and color it blue with water color………

Draw some fish of different shapes and sizes…….

And color in artistic style…..

Then take any poem, Prayer, quote, Name of child, photo

or any memory which one you like to hang out…

Then give it a sea look…

Paste all the fish and also sea plant if you want,

some shiny stones to give it glowing look…

And in the middle of the page make a frame.

in this summer craft frame time table, favorite quote, and wish, prayer, picture, certificate, and some thing special could be posted.

Write children name bottom of This summer craft…..

With puncher make whole at the top.

And make a hanger to hang it….

It looks very great…………..

And also children feel Deep happiness and mind coolness whenever they watch…..

And the most important thing,

With this summer craft, Children will also remember the thing posted on it.

Try it and don’t forget to share your experience.

For more Summer Crafts and idea’s go

here

Adiba Anwar

July 7, 2017