Ramadan Sponge Painting & Moon Phases

Ramadan idea day 5

This is a nice science idea we came up with.  For the boys to learn that Ramadan begins when we see the new moon we would explain the phases.

We told the children the ways the moon looks through the month.

From the beginning of each month the  moon will go through several differences (phases) before the next month comes.

And will start over again as a new moon

 

To teach this we decided it would be best to learn the moon phases with paper plates and sponge painting.

We learned that moons go through certain stages:

Crescent

Half

Gibbous

Full

We bought blue paper plates from the store and cut them into the shapes of each phase.

Next we used white paper plates for the boys to paint the phases of the moon and match them to the blue paper plate ones.

Weeks ago we bought pool noodles from the store and have yet to use them. Today they were used for our sponges.

 

Later when the sponges dry we will string them and them up as decorations look for that post later this week inshaAllah!

Ramadan Suncatchers

Ramadan idea day 4

On the Habeebee Homeschooling facebook page we had an excellent post from sister Jazmin who made suncatchers with her children. Alhamdulilah this morning we did our own version of the suncatchers. 

Hubby and I cut out different pictures, we did a moon and stars, and made two masjids for the children to decorate.

The boys glued the tissue paper behind each one and we hung them in the window.

Materials needed for this are black construction paper or cardstock glue and tissue paper.

We made a few more with different colors but here are pictures of two that children have in the window

We have to thank Jazmin for this cute and fun Ramadan idea!

 

Reading Practice- Blocks & Balloons

As a child I always had a love of reading, books allowed me to travel to new places, meet new people, and explore! I want my children to have a love of reading and they do! Alhamdulilah my son has been reading since he was two years old. We are always looking for new and fun ways to make reading fun.

The more fun something is the more inclined the children will be to do it.  In this blog post I will show two ways to make learning and reading fun! One way: Blocks

 

We have A LOT of blocks but this kind in particular has ABC’s and numbers. We put the blocks together for some reading practice.  Hands on, and getting the children involved has really produced children in our home that love to learn!

During Ramadan we have lighten on the lessons a bit,  and will resume to our Ramadan post tomorrow inshaAllah. For our two year old we used the number side and did some number and color recognition. We practiced letter sounds, combining the letter sounds and reading words. Even though he knew his letter sounds at an early age, we still like to go over them every now and then.

I love the blocks! It’s a great investment to make and there is so much you can do with them, the boy’s even made towers with them!

 

Another idea we used when our oldest son 2, was using a balloon and writing words on it for him to read as he played with it in the house.

It is a great idea, we tossed the balloon around and whoever caught it, had to read the words on the balloon.

This is a small mobile picture of the balloon inshaAllah we will do this activity again and take pictures with our camera.

Start early with a love of reading even by simply putting the ABC’s on the balloon, numbers, and any other things you are working on.

The children will love it!