Monday, September 22, 2014

Etiquettes Of Reciting The Quran for kids اداب قراءة القران للاطفال

I have designed those two posters, one for a boy and the other for a girl, to be kept in their folder as a visual reminder of the Quran reading Etiquettes.

I have grouped the expected etiquette according to the organ that uses it. I have also included a Duaa before reading the Quran and the benefits of reading and studying the Quran. , some of the Quran's merits.

 Have fun with it. I hope you find this useful and refer to it often in shaa Allah.

Download :
powerpoint: اداب تلاوة القران للأطفال
PDF  اداب قراءة القران للأطفال

Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Interactive educational presentaions

this presentation helps students to read and practice Arabic in a fun and interactive way. Students can guess the meaning, understand the relation between letters and the harakat  and correct their reading.


Aslam Alykom

Reading worksheet for the fatha.

Sunday, June 8, 2014

Why learn Arabic? Find a use for it....



My students ask me often , why should we learn Arabic?  It is a complicated language that we will never master!

At the beginning I used to tell them : Arabic is the language of the Quran and if you want to understand your religion and read about it first hand , you must learn the language. Arabic is a special versatile language that Allah has chosen from all languages to reveal the Quran in. and ....  but then they are kids. yes I can tell them that, but the majority wont understand the genuine meaning and importance until they are much older. ( Except for few indeed -God bless them) , only when they get older, they understand why their parents  dragged them in their weekends ignoring their morning wining, and forcing them to go to the boring Arabic school.  

How can I make learning Arabic meaningful, useful, personal, fun, indulging, integrated and in  the same time work within my limited time frame of only 2-hour class once every week.

I found the answer through a serious of actions that would lead to one big meaningful ending:

   The theater  المسرح





Starting at level 2, I always end the year with a play written by me and the kids are free to change and adapt it to their liking to make it better. In the play, the kids get to practice the Arabic skills that they have been working hard to acquire during the class time and in the same time find a purpose and a meaning to learning the language.

Theater is life and the Arabic language comes to life in our class.


courtesy of daminblake