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.