life moves on.........

Over the weekend ,I became ill with flu and fever and completely knocked out .

But the children had a nice time with their cousins.
Dh  even  managed  to make  a bonfire with the children .  

The children went out with my in laws to have more fun with other friends as they were invited for dinner.

 

We usually start on the Sunday evening to get home ,but since dh also fell sick ,we had to change our schedule .Finally arrived home around mid morning .I was in bed for the most of the day .

The children were allowed to play in snow ,they had a wonderful time making snowman with their next door friend .They played outside most of the time ,as we don't have snow so often .

 

Then M and J spend their time reading Horrid Henry's 2009 given to them by their aunt. It has lots of riddles, facts ,experiments,tricks ........etc.

The rountine of the perious week has payed off ,as  boys did the washing up .M makes us tea as and when  need Alhamdulillah 

Iam very anxious and concerned about the people of Gaza who are undergoing hardship and misery by losing thier dear and loved ones SubhanAllah .May Allah pour down upon them mercy and peace ,Ameen .

Love is where the heart is

We started our journey which was 1 1/2 hrs drive .We ended up with a number of interesting discussions stimulated by dh about Allah 's love for us that was immense and uncountable  .So the discussion stirred as to how to measure the unit of love ......lovometer ,rose power etc.And that lead J to question ,if the love for someone was from the heart or brain .He was strongly convinced that it was through the heart ,but he could not explain .M was convinced that it was through the mind .So it almost turned it to a debate reflecting their personality. 

Then we finally arrived ,the children ran around in excitement meeting their cousins .I only saw them for dinner and sleep time ...gave me break at least.

Their cousin finished reading Quran ,which is  great achievement Alhamdulillah .

 

MMmmmmm........time  to eat .The children enjoyed it .I

let them loose today to sleep in their own time (past nine),had their so called mid night feast .

SubhanaAllah when I see children playing  carefree without worries or  in fear ,it aches my heart to think about the children in Gaza who are wrapped up under their mother's tender arms knowing not what will happen next .Lets us all pray to Allah to ease their   situation and bring tranquility in their life  ,Ameen. 

Review of the week

Since dh is off work ,the boys got to go for the juma'h  Alhamdulillah.

Most of my day was occupied in cleaning and scrubbing . 

 

Apart from the academic side of things  this week ,I  encouraged the children to do some  household chores .M  and J surprised me  by agreeing to wash up the dishes and actually doing it through out the  week. M washes up after dinner and J does it after breakfast,and they enjoyed doing it .

InshaAllah the other routine we wanted to establish was salah(prayer)for M.So we  came up with this idea of ticking the chart each time he prayed  and he would be rewarded at the  end of week (Friday) a pound  .I got the print out off the net and laminated it and hang it in the hall way so that I and dh can  keep an eye on it ,and remind him in case he forgot to pray.

 MashaAllah as you can see he has achieved it this week .Since the print out is in Arabic ,he has learnt the names of the days in Arabic Alhamdulillah .

The plight of our Muslim brothers and sisters in Palestine brings tears to my heart .May Allah strength their heart and  establish their feet firmly  in eeman .May Allah unite them together and give them victory in this life and the next Ameen.

Maths can be fun!!!

Quiet  start 

After  quick and short lessons, M had to go for his football training today.He came home pleased that he was  man of the match .J couldn't go for it as he was having cough and cold .J continued working .While M was away J and I with help of little ds1 prepared a fun trail for M .

I wanted to do something different to the norm.Doing maths in a work book or worksheet can be boring for the children at times.So, while I cut them to strips from the sheet J and ds1 went around the house sticking them .

The aim  is  to do the maths mentally and look for the answers on the other strip, then read the question on that and carry on until you come back to where you started.M really enjoyed it and started  straight away as soon as he entered the house and noticed them .

I got this idea from www.parentsintouch.co.uk

I prepared for the next lapbook that we are going to make on volcanoes ....printing .

Then I read some  information about volcanoes to them- today it was about Paricutin, a volcano in Mexico 1943-1952. We discussed the damage  caused by the volcano and it's consequences on the people and the surroundings .

 

The next sahaba that we have started to read is about Ummaiyr ibn sa'd Al Ansari  who  was an orphan and entered in to the fold of Islam in his tender age of 10,SubhanAllah.

As a bed time routine we read them books  ,at the moment i am reading The Mysteries collection by Enid Blyton . Next I am going to try reading Sherlock Homes as M and J like detective stories.

Little ds2 decided to help us sort through the books as we were boxing them .Censoring the books with a critical eye of disapproval .........I  am  trying hard  to understand mummy!!!!

Electricity

I am not able to upload the original power point  which has sound and other effects .

this is the best i could do . I am open to advice as to how to upload these without distorting .will apreciate any help

see link below and download the file.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/10731127/Electricity-2

A Day of Reflection .....

It was a productive day today,Alhamdulillah .Managed to  finally finish our project on electricity .We decided to shift our  class room upstairs as it was extremely cold downstairs ..despite high heating (wood floor i guess).little J worked on his 5 times table and spellings (as  he enjoys  doing it ).M did his metal maths very well even though  it was challenging ,Alhamdulillah .

As they finished their work on time I promised them that I would take them for walk to the corner shop although  it was  a  freezing cold day .But Alhamdulillah it was worth it .Once we were up and out it wasn't  that bad .
SubhanaAllah ,it was a learning experience .As children  are generally   inquisitive, learning can be done anywhere .We talked  about Allah's creations, how barren and dead the trees are now and how Allah revives life back again .

  

We  often fail to appreciate the beauty of nature which would help us  to remember Allah .we are living in time of WWW.(wildly whizzing world ).No time to think or reflect. This applies to me first and formost  .

Time for treat ,they each got to buy something from the shop .

After we returned dh helped M to finish his project .As i previously mentioned before that we usually do projects in the form of lapbooks .We wanted to do it differently this time .So chose to do it in the power point presentation .This project took us a while as we were learning  ICT (ppt)and about electricity at the same time  . so it dragged on a bit .M and I have  learnt a huge amount from this as I am not an expert at computers .

Lets not forget our brothers and sisters suffering in the other side of the world (Gaza),May Allah alleviate  their sufferings  and hardship Ameen !!!

Recount...

M found the maths a bit challenging and struggled a bit .Looks like he requires  a lot of  re enforcement .As we spent a fair amount of time  on that ,we decided to do recount of the story that i read to him  before (abu ayyoub al Ansari).This is the idea I learnt from a good friend of mine .Does work .First i read the story to them ,then we  discussed it and finally to make it really sink in ,we put pen to paper with a bit of illustration .The idea behind is  eventually  to make him  write the whole recount by himself without any prompting .

Recently I've been taking the Arabic as a subject quite seriously .Before we used to do the odd bits and bobs .But even then they  showed  huge interest in  it .So for  now we are going  through the vocabulary " ingredients of the cake" (that's something   I came across on the internet).They have  completed it this week Alhamdulilah .

Next I would like to focus on the vocabulary  "The animals from the quran".And more relevant words from the Quran.

  
Then  they helped me  with lunch ....and went off  to play outside in their bikes .

whilst the girls were  asleep ,I left them with dh who was sorting out  his tax returns .And I took the boys to their friend's .

All the excitement begun when they were just about to sleep ......someone rings to enquire about our bed which we put for sale .Soon the man  arrived ,interested in item and takes it away .......children watching all the commotions .Now ....they wanted to  sleep in our mattress on the floor ,as they  found it EXCITING

so.. we are kicked out     hmmmmmmmmmm...................................