Teaching Arabic Letter Forms

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These sheets are what I have used to teach my kids the letter forms in Arabic. They get to choose any material to color in/fill in the Alphabet being worked on, as long as they only fill in the Alphabet which the page belongs to.

They can choose from sketch pens, highlighter pens, pulses, rice, playdough, anything at all. All my kids have been excited to do these sheets Alhamdulillah!

I use the Arabic Alphabet Letter form strips alongside this sheet.

You may download the PDF for the Arabic Letter Form sheets here.

And the PDF for the Arabic Letter Form STRIPS here.

Hope you find it beneficial.

Arabic Alphabet Flashcards

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These are the first flashcards we made to teach the Arabic Alphabet. It was sort of hard work to cut out everything, then place it properly on the lamination sheets, and then laminate. After laminating, I found I had missed a Nuqta for a couple of alphabets so I had to go back and do it again. But Alhamdulillah, after it was done, these were such a useful resource for us. The printable is available here, inshaaAllaah.

Proceeding to vowels, these flashcards, we are using at the moment, apart from other ways. The printable is available here, inshaaAllaah.

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Surat An-Nasr meaning puzzle

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We do discuss the meanings of various words while my son learns the Surahs, but re-enforcement is needed for it to stick. This puzzle met success Alhamdulillah. He enjoyed it a great deal, especially because he is now able to read the English words.

I do intend to laminate and velcro these, but I couldn't wait to try it out, so I just had him stick them.

You may download the printable here.

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Letter Forms Puzzle

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A fun way for kids to learn their letter forms.

I printed the letters on a colored sheet. And laminated them separately.

Then printed out the puzzle base and laminated that as well, and stuck velcro on the puzzle base and the behind the letters.

The child has the match the letters according to the images.

You can download the printable here.

Please let me know if there are any problems with the file.

I hope you find benefit in using these to leach your children the language of the Qur'an.

Hifdh Chart for Encouraging Kids

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السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته

Over the past year, my 5 year old and I have been waiting so often, for seeds to germinate, or for the shoots to appear, or for roots to appear... etc. So I took this idea from @mamateachesme where she used her daughter's love of the space and launched 'rockets represented by Surahs into space once she had memorized them.

And Alhamdulillah it's been working beautifully. He is so excited to perfect his recitation to get the seeds to sprout. And since sprouts don't come up overnight, rather it takes time, and is a slow process, I explain to him he will learn slowly and perfect it slowly, and that there's no need to be frustrated or in a hurry.

Alhamdulillah for this.

Basically I colored in the field background with crayons. 

Then pasted pictures of soil with the Surah name underneath. Then laminated it.

Then I colored the sides of some images of small plants. Cut them out, and laminated them.

Then placed velcro behind the plants and above the mud.

You can download the printables here.

I've also included some blank mud images that you can write in the names of whichever Surahs you are working on your kids with.

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Surat Al-Falaq Activities

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These are some activities we did with my 5 year old for Surat Al-Falaq:

1. A puzzle. For Surat An-Naas, each verse was in a different color to make it easier, and in this Surah, I used patterns.

You can download the PDF here: Surat Al-Falaq Puzzle.

2. We also did a little activity to make him to know the 4 things that we are asking Allaah's protection from in this Surah.

  The little orange cards are in the same file as the 'jealousy' activity below.

3. An activity to help him to teach his heart to feel the right way instead of feeling jealous when he sees his friends or others having things that he himself loves and would like to have.

I printed out pictures of things he loves, and I know he wants for himself. Then we lined up all his toy friends, and gave those 'things' to his friends, we would sometimes name the toy to be one of his real friends. 

Then we would read out what he should feel in his heart when he sees something like that happening.

I felt that instead of telling him what NOT to do, it would be more helpful to help him to learn the RIGHT way to feel in his heart, to counter jealousy.

The text read as follows (don't know if the image will be clear enough):

What I should feel in my heart, when I see my Muslim brother having/getting something nice:

1.     You got a wonderful thing!

2.     You must be so happy!

3.     I feel so happy for you!

4.     I am happy that you are happy.

5.     I hope you will enjoy your gift a lot, and that Allaah will put barakah in it.

6.     And I hope that Allaah will give ME a gift like this too!

The printables for this activity and the previous one can be downloaded here.

4. Lastly, since the word 'min' (from) is recurring in the Aayah, we did an activity to help him to learn the meaning of the preposition 'min' (من). 

This one says, "Get me a plate from the kitchen."

"Get me a pillow from the bedroom."

"Get me a book from the bookshelf."

I asked him to get me a certain object from a certain place. And he had to first make the sentences, and then bring me the object. It was engaging, and hands on, I think he got it Alhamdulillah.

The file with the printables for this activity and the last one can be downloaded here: Min Preposition Activity.

I hope that you find benefit in these.

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Activity for the Arabic Preposition 'fee' (in)

Assalam alaykum,

We did an activity to get them to understand the meaning of the Arabic preposition 'fee' (in):

We got out the 5 objects and 5 containers needed. I made him familiar with the vocabulary.

then I made sentences using the words and he had to put the right object IN the right container. I said to him in Arabic, "َDa3 (the object) fee (the container)". I explained to him that that means 'put' the object into the container. We read the sentences and translated them. Alhamdulillah they loved it and want to do it again.

The printable for the words can be downloaded here.

وَ لله الحَمد والشكر.