November Pages for My Morning Book

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Alhamdulillaah, here are the November pages for My Morning Book.

Although these pages are for use with My Morning Book, they can also stand alone and be used to help students review previously learned concepts. With these pages, children will have the opportunity to work on the following skills:

• Islaamic Studies (Qur'aan, Sunnah, Akhlaaq, Social Studies) - The questions in this section have been revised, to allow children in grade 1 to be able to answer them without the aid of a teacher or parent in shaa' Allah.
• Story elements: main character & setting & problem using stories from the Qur'aan and Sunnah
• Phonics - consonant blends and digraphs
• Grammar - plurals, nouns, irregular nouns, common and proper nouns, silent e
• Math subtraction facts to 20

Benefit & Enjoy In shaa' Allaah!

Habitats: Supplementary Interactive Science Notebook

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Alhamdulillaah, this is a supplementary science notebook for students to use when learning about habitats. This 32 page workbook is interactive, to allow students the opportunity to demonstrate their understanding of the material in different ways in shaa' Allaah.

The notebook, once assembled, is a bit thick for a regular stapler. You will either need a heavy-duty stapler, such as those used at copy centres, or you can have students leave the pages uncut (there is a line down the middle of each page for students to cut) and hole punch the pages at the top and place the pages in a duotang. **NOTE: On page 11 of the book, the instructions say the template is for this activity is found on page 31. This is an error. The template is found on page 22 of the PDF. Alhamdulillaah, the file has been updated to reflect this correction.**

Also, here are books that you may wish to have available to students when studying about habitats.

   From right to left:

1. About Habitats: Deserts
2. About Habitats: Forests
3. About Habitats: Mountains
4. About Amphibians: A Guide for Children
5. About Insects: A Guide for Children
6. About Birds: A Guide for Children
7. About Penguins: A Guide for Children
8. About Rodents: A Guide for Children
9. About Crustaceans: A Guide for Children

**NOTE: In each of these books, the dedication page has a verse from the bible. This page is easily modified by placing a sticker over that sentence.**

Download your free The Creation of the Most High: Habitats interactive workbook here inshaa' Allaah.

If you have any questions and/or need clarification about any aspect of the notebook, please do not hesitate to leave a comment and ask.

Benefit & Enjoy In shaa' Allaah!

Getting Ready for Grade 1 - English Language Arts Pack

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Sister Umm Layla, 

Here is a sample of some activities to help transition your kindergartener to grade 1 in shaa' Allaah. As I mentioned in my reply in this post, please have a look at these pages and provide your feedback to let me know if this is what you need/had in mind. If it is, I will continue in shaa' Allaah and just update this post as I complete the pack in shaa' Allaah. If you have other skills/concepts you would like to see or if this is not what you had in mind, please do not hesitate to provide your input so I can modify the resource to meet your needs bi ithnillaah. 

For pages 8- 12, the black dots represent the beginning, middle, and end of the word (sound wise); in other words, where we hear the vowel sound in a word. So, if a child hears the short a sound in the middle of the word, the child will place his/her finger on the middle black dot.
 
Click on the picture to download the sample pages in shaa' Allaah. 

Jazakillaahu Khayr!

Alhamdulillaah: The Ramadan 2015 Activity Pack is Here!

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** Post Updated**

Ramadan is close alhamdulillaah! This year, because Ramadan is expected to start a few weeks before school lets out (for some), the Ramadan Activity Pack for 2015 is being posted early alhamdulillaah. The pack is over 100 pages of Ramadan Themed activities that will help children review what they know about Ramadan, perhaps learn things they did not know about Ramadan, and review crucial math and language arts standards that they encountered throughout the school year in'shaa allaah.

The pack is intentionally structured to allow children to complete the activities independently in'shaa allaah. It is hoped that this structure accomplishes several things:

• It provides beneficial activities for children to complete during the day (after the school year finishes).
• It provides engaging, beneficial activities for children to complete at the masjid while parents are praying taraweeh.
• It aids in preventing summer reading & math skills loss, which is known to occur during the summer break, and which, according to research, contributes to the ever-widening achievement gap.
• It helps children master topics that they may have struggled with during the school year.
• It helps build children's confidence during the summer months and helps them move to grade 2 with a solid foundation in Language Arts and Math in'shaa Allaah.

To help accomplish these goals, all math activities in the pack have an example that shows children how to complete the upcoming math problems; the directions for all other activities are written at grade level so children should be able to read and comprehend the directions without needing help from an adult (but, of course, still be ready and willing to offer assistance if the child should need it). There is also a table of contents that allows children/parents to choose which activity to complete and track the student's progress. Each time a child completes an activity, he/she (or the parent) can go back to the table of contents and check that activity off of the list. There are also paper dolls that children can cut out and play with! At the end of the book, there is a certificate of completion that parents/teachers/activity coordinators can download, print, and present to children. A cautionary note: there should not be pressure placed on the child to finish the pack during the month of Ramadan. Encouragement yes, pressure, no.  

And here is a language arts pack for the last ten days of Ramadan that can be used with the Big Book of Ramadan Activities (i.e. the ELA pack can be added to the Big Book or it can be used separately in'shaa Allaah). You can see which concepts/skills are covered in the pack in this post.

Click here to download your free Last Ten Days of Ramadan Language Arts pack or download it free from A Muslim Child is Born's Teacher Notebook store!

So, are you ready for Ramadan?

Are you ready to help child(ren) grow spiritually and academically this month? 

Excellent! Then download your copy of The Big Book of Ramadan Activities here in'sha allaah! You can also download the activity pack from A Muslim Child is Born's Teacher Notebook shop! Please be aware of the Terms of Use for this and all resources on the blog.

Benefit, enjoy, and Ramadan Mubarak!

Ramadan Activity Book Coming Soon In'shaa Allaah!

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Very soon in'shaa Allaah, The Big Book of Ramadan Activities will be posted here on A Muslim Child Grows Up.

The book contains over 100 pages of Ramadan Themed Activities for grade1 students. Check back often or subscribe via email to receive a notification of when the book has posted!

Fresh Baked Place Value: A Grade 1 Math Resource

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The time is approaching for Grade 1 students (and many kindergarten students as well) to be introduced to place value, and some have already begun working with this concept (your little one may already be working with this mathematical concept). This resource is is intended to help students master the teen numbers (11-19).  Click on the picture below to get this resource. 

Included in this resource are four interactive activities that, insha'Allaah, help solidify students' understanding of place value. The activities in this pack can be used as morning work, for small group instruction, in math notebooks, or as homework. Instructions are included for each activity for the classroom and for homeschooling use. 

Each activity, is interactive, making it ideal for use in math notebooks, or for individual and small group instruction. The activities include: 

 - Eggs in a Bowl: Students use pictures of two eggs, each with base ten rods and cubes on them, to show the number that is on the mixing bowl. 

- Fresh From the Oven: using place value cookies, students partner up and take their cookies out of the oven and then record which number is represented on each cookie.

- Place Value Bingo: this game features numbers represented by base ten blocks on the playing card. Students hear or are shown a number in its numerical form and must match the base ten representation to the numerical form of a number. 

- Place Value Flip: individual cards have numbers from 11-19 represented by base ten blocks. Students fold and glue the cards into their math notebooks and flip the cards up and write the numerical form of the shown on the card.

Also, many have asked about translating resources from the blog into languages other than English. While I certainly understand the importance of having resources readily available for homeschooling, I am unable to authorize converting files or modifying them in any way. The companies who own the clipart that I use specifically state that all images must be locked down so that the file cannot be modified and the images lifted (i.e. taken and used without being purchased from the respective company). Additionally, I also request that the files be left in their original format and not be modified in any way. A lot of work goes into making these resources, and I sincerely appreciate the terms of use being respected and adhered to. To help those of you who need resources in a language other than English, I have been researching a way to make the files editable and still respect the terms of use of the companies and still maintain my own terms of use. Your patience is requested and appreciated as I continue to look into a way to make this possible. 

In the meantime, this resource has very little text on the actual resources (on purpose) to make using it easy, regardless of the child's instructional language.

Why isn't this a free resource? Click here to learn why.

Enjoy insha'Allaah!

Composing and Decomposing Numbers: A Supplementary Resource

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This supplementary resource is ideal for math centres, math journal work, small group instruction, or one-on-one instruction. Using the breakfast themed cards, students match the ten frame to the math problem that shows which equation is represented on the ten frame. 

The dots on the ten frames are two different colours to facilitate quick cognitive processing. Students will have the opportunity to increase their understanding of composing/decomposing the numbers 6,7, and 8 in this resource. Enjoy!

Why isn't this resource free? Click here for the explanation.

October Pages for My Morning Book now available alhamdulillaah

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Click on the picture to purchase insha'Allaah

Alhamdulillaah, the October pages for My Morning Book are available. This month, children will have the opportunity to work on the following skills: 

• Story elements: main character & setting using stories from the Qur'aan and Sunnah
• word work
• Illustrating sentences and short stories
• Sentence and word scrambles
• Predicting
• Sequencing
• Place Value
• Subtraction Review
• Solving Word Problems
• Addition fact families
• More and Fewer (with and without graphs)
• Longer and shorter
• Counting forward
• and more!

The 'See it' section for the word work (i.e. See it, Spell it, Write it) is blank so that the teacher/parent-teacher can decide which word he/she wishes his/her student to work with that day but the letters the student needs to build words are included with the pages. The math work for counting forward is blank so teachers/parent-teachers can decide which number they wish students to work with that day. Also, depending on the student's reading level, assistance may be needed to read and complete the work associated with certain stories.

These pages fit easily and conveniently into a three ring binder so students can turn the pages with ease. This also allows new pages to be inserted quickly. Additionally, the skills covered in this packet build upon what students learned in the Qur'aan workbook. Also included in the pages for this month are the necessary resources for teaching place value and decomposing numbers.

If you purchase this resource (or other resources), please do not email/send/give them to others. Please direct them to That Was Fun! so that they may purchase the resource for their personal use. Jazakallaah khayr for respecting the time and energy that goes into developing these resources!

And here is a freebie that also goes with the My Morning Book October pages!

This resource can be used when teaching children how to compare numbers. Students use the apples in a bowl cards to explore more and less (greater than, fewer than), and teachers/parent-teachers can use the apple number cards to extend students learning insha'Allaah. There is a worksheet included for students to record their learning alhamdulillaah. You can download this freebie here from the Teacher's Notebook store or here from Box insha'Allaah!

May Allaah accept your efforts and work!

FREEBIE: Quraan Workbook for Grade 1

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Alhamdulillaah, school is set to begin for many schools and homeschoolers. The beginning of the school year is a very important time for many reasons. It is during the first weeks of school/homeschool that students learn new routines that will help contribute to a positive learning environment. It is also during the first weeks of school that teachers/parent-teacher set expectations for the school year. These first weeks are critical then because they often set the tone for the entire school year. To help set a tone that is pleasing to Allaah, grade 1 students can work on this Quraan workbook.

Click on the picture above to download the workbook insha'Allaah

Some of the material students will encounter in this workbook include:

Reading:

Reading Comprehension

Retelling a story

Answer questions about details in a story

Begin to recognize that words are separated by spaces and begin to apply this to own writing

Writing:

Use pictures, words, and dictation to tell about a story

Talk and write about what happened to the main character in their story

Recognize, name, and  use end punctuation

Begin to edit their own pieces of writing

There are 3 rubrics included for each type of writing students will do, 3 student editing sheets - with these students self-edit prior to submitting their work with the happy proclamation that it is 'done'.

Students will also:

• Make lists
• Learn to add details to their writing by describing something/an object using strong adjectives
• Learn about Makkee and Madanee suwar and be able to list a few suwar that fall into each category
• Make a plan for the suwar they will read from al-Quraan and start to take ownership in making sure they read the Quran daily insha'Allaah.

Are you ready to start school? Then let's begin insha'Allaah! Click on the picture above to download the workbook insha'Allaah or download it here.

FREEBIE: My Writing Journal

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It's hard to say just how important daily writing is for students. So many skills are taught and learned through this activity that a lot of focus is placed on it in classrooms. This year, students will write in their journals daily using this writing jounrnal insha'Allaah:

The journal is simple to assemble:

1. Print all pages (if you want a more printer-friendly copy don't print the first page and use the last page as the front cover for the journal).
2. Photocopy page two 21 times (1 page for each school day in September).
3. Photocopy page four or five (depending on how you spell the word colour) as many times as needed so that each student has 1 bookmark. This bookmark is to help students spell words that they might use during the first month of school in their writing. Page 3 is to show you where to fold down the book mark so you students can insert it into their writing journals. Once folded, the bookmark sits on the top of the page where the student last wrote.
4. Photocopy page six 4 times. Place this page after each 5th page. This page is for you, the teacher, to collect the journals once a week and look through that week's writing and write back to your students and briefly tell them about their writing for that week. The first section is for you to mention something positive about the student's writing, the second section is for you to mention some points you think the student should pay attention to or maybe some things that might help enhance the student's writing (i.e. like adding strong verbs or describing words to show and not tell). The third section is to again point to something positive in the student's writing. Here, you should strive to be genuine and honest. Look for something that resonates with you or something that you could relate to as you read his/her work or something that brought back a memory for you, and then, if you choose, share that with the student in this section insha'Allaah. 
5. Page 7 is the back page of the journal or if you want a more printer-friendly version of the journal, the cover of the journal.

Each month, I'll hope to upload new bookmarks, with new pictures & words, for the journal insha'Allaah - Check back! This is, alhamdulillaah, a FREEBIE. Just click on the picture, or the link above, or the Teacher's Notebook widget in the upper right hand corner, to download it.

Insha'Allaah you enjoy it and benefit from it!

Back to School: My Morning Book

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Alhamdulillaah, the first product has been uploaded to Teacher's Notebook! Insha'Allaah, this is a wonderful resource to help start off the new school year and, depending on the response from readers, I'll try to add new pages each month insha'Allaah. The Morning Book has daily morning work pages for each day of the month and is designed so that teachers/parent-teachers have only minimal preparation to do the day/night before so that students can complete each page independently.There is also space at the top of each page to allow for binding without interfering with the text.

Each morning, students have the opportunity to practice:

• Writing their name neatly and with correct spelling
• Writing the day of the week
• Recording the daily temperature
• Reading and/or identifying an ayah from the Quran and which surah the ayah is in
• Reading, or having read aloud to them, a hadith or dua
• Telling time to the hour and half hour
• Math work
• Colouring
• Crossword puzzles
• and Sight Word work

Teachers will only need to cut out the clocks and a dua/hadith and set them out for each student and make sure all students have a glue stick so that they can glue the clock and dua/hadith in the correct area. For the first week of school, the teacher will need to write the math problem on the board that is in the morning book because it has been left up to the teacher which number the students will subtract from the number 8. Other than that, students can complete each page independently Insha'Allah.

My Morning Book will be on sale for the remainder of August for just $1.00! So grab it while it's on sale insha'Allaah. Do you want to win a free Morning Book? Be one of the first 5 people to leave a comment and you'll receive My Morning Book via email for free insha'Allaah!

If you purchase My Morning Book, what would you like to see in the upcoming pages insha'Allaah? Leave a comment below insha'Allaah!