Dua to Say After Wudoo (Free Printable)

For this year I am planning to teach my 6 year old daughter the steps of wudoo. I have designed a beautiful poster for her to read and memorize the dua's we say after making wudoo.

And the poster is free for you to download and print at home. Available in a boys or girls version.
Just click on the links below to claim yours.

Juz Amma Hifdh Chart New Version (FREE PRINTABLE)

Juz Amma Hifdh Chart Printable

An updated version of a Juz Amma Hifdh Reward Chart. Encourage your child to memorize Juz Amma with this reward chart each time your child completes a surah colour in or place a sticker on the star of which surah they have memorise to recognize their achievements and efforts.

Grade 2 Dividing Fractions Cheat Sheet

This is one way to divide fractions. Written by my 7 year old.

Grade 2 Multiplying Fractions Cheat Sheet

Fraction times fractions, this is one way to multiply fractions. 

Grade 2 Adding and Subtracting Fractions Cheat Sheet

Equivalent Fractions and Simplest Form Grade 2 Math

An important skill to refine, learning how to find the simplest form for a fraction, and understanding equivalent fractions.

Fraction strips coloured in

Fraction Strips grade 2

Having a fraction strip page is always helpful to visualize what a fraction looks like and how many parts make a whole, or half or equivalent to. 

Fractions

Naming the parts of a fraction and what is their function.

Types of Fractions

Types of Fractions Cheat sheet

This year Maths topic we focused on fractions. My 7 year old found using cheat sheets extremely helpful, she would refer back and fourth to it. She particularly enjoyed sitting down and making her fraction cheat sheets to stick in her Math Art book. 

Fraction Strips (Free Printable)

Click on the link below for youf free fraction strips copy, and scroll down for the fraction strips blank version.

Fraction strips are narrow, rectangular pieces of colored paper of varying lengths used to teach fractions. I have designed large fraction strips that can be coloured in various colors, and can be folded and cut up to represent different fractional parts. Fractional parts are equal shares that makeup a whole. For example, it takes five 1/5 pieces to makeup one whole. Fractional strips are a great way to model equivalent fractions.

Fraction Strips Free Printable

Fraction Strips Blank Version free printable

What's my 6 to 7 year old been up to?

My daughter had just turned six when we relocated to another city from Saudi's capital to the eastern province. My DD typically doesn't mind change, in fact she looks forward to the unknown and adapts anywhere as long as she has the security of her family by her side.

Restarting our home school education after a long 3 month summer/autumn break was easier than I thought, DD initiated her own independent studies and left me to do the unpacking for our new home, I'll really appreciated that. 

Her progress between 6 to 7 years old has been easy going for her, since this year was about revision.

Multiplication Flowers Printable Updated (FREE PDF)

When we moved into our new home in 2018, the first thing on our agenda was to decorate our classroom, adding colour and our personal touch with artwork and our own educational references. So we began we the multiplication flowers since my daughter had turned 6 and well on her way to memorising all 1 to 12 times tables, this year was dedicated to solidify her multiplication facts as well as her other math facts for her to move forward easily to more complicated math problems.

With the multiplication flowers all you do is colour them in and glue where it says "stick here" making sure the correct multiplication sum corresponds with the answer behind like the this picture below;

Learning the Names and Attributes of Allah with Kids

My kids thoroughly enjoyed listening to the video series of Learning the Names and Attributes of Allah based on the explaination shaykh Abdur Razzaq al Badr by student of knowledge Ariff Olla. The videos are short and easy to listen and learn from.


Click the link to watch lesson 8.
Learning the Names and Attributes of Allah with Kids

What's my 4 to 5 year old been up to?

It has been a full year since DS has been home schooling. At 4 years old we uprooted from the city of Riyadh where we have been living and became familiar with for the past 8 years to start a new life in a new city in Saudi Arabia, on the east coast where all the beautiful sandy beaches are and calm seas. DS4 first impressions of our new home after a 16 hour flight from the UK, tired and barely awake, ran into every room on the ground floor then ran upstairs into the bedrooms and yelled joyfully, "Mummy I LOVE my new house!!!" His words relaxed me and his happiness gave me happiness and giving me a positive outlook to our new beginnings.

During unpacking, and setting up our classroom, the children were very excited to see their books that they had missed whilst been in the UK over the summer. They would eagerly want to write in their workbooks I had brought for them, although I wasn't ready to home school as I was still unpacking and getting familiar with the neighbourhood and the neighbours, the kids funnily enough were happy to sit at the table and work through a few pages at a time. My inner thoughts was "wow what good kids I have I hope they're always to enthusiastic when it comes to home school." DS did amaze me at that time as it was he first time to be disciplined enough to do four to six pages of a workbook, not that I made he do it, he loved the activities so much he made me do it with him. Oh, I should mention the workbooks that was a winner with him... Gold Stars Big Workbook  I have been using most of their collection this year and they have worked well with him. 

Aside from workbooks we did a lot of hands on activities to teach new concepts in language arts, maths and science. 

Language Arts

This is the year he learnt to read. We continued from the year before, using our Jolly Phonics program starting again from group 1 working our way to group 7 until we finished 7 months later, there were many times he wasn't fond of doing it, so on those days we would Montessori style activities by matching sounds to objects or picture cards, then moving on to pink series matching word cards to its picture cards. He preferred these activities a lot more than Jolly phonics. His writing is neat and controlled for his age and he tries his best to copy letters and words. The letters that he struggles with he will write its capital, for example A and B. He started to read level 1 Biff and Chip books by Oxford Owl by the time he was 4 years and 7 months. He struggled to remember repeated words in the book and always blended every word he read except for sight words which he read with ease and proficiency. We stuck with the same book for one week, by the end of the week he read a little bit better and got a little bit more confident, but he didn't enjoy to read, only when he was asked to. At 4 he would rather play and move about than sit down and read a book, although he would enjoy looking at the pictures and making sense of the story or intently go through activity books like mazes, or finding wally.