Co-op Lesson 1
We kicked off lessons formally today after a session at the zoo last week for our co-op this year. Alhamdulillah, it was a good session today and I learn so much from the sincerity of the children whilst teaching about the Prophet pbuh.
We started our lesson with the children drawing a portrait of their family. The children were focused in drawing their family members and oasked for help when they couldn't do technical matters like drawing a face or a nose.
We talked about different members of a family and how there are different types of families. I asked the children that if the Prophet had a portrait of his family when he was about their age, who would be in it?
They were silent. Not necessarily because they don't know his history for one or two interjected when I told of his birth and childhood later, but maybe they were unsure of the direction I was taking them.
Unlike you, by the time the Prophet was around your age (5 going on 6), his parents were no longer alive. When his mother was pregnant with him, his father went on a business trip and at that time there were no aeroplanes and journeys can take months or years.
Just when he wanted to return from Madinah, his father, Abdullah, fell sick and passed away. Aminah was left to give birth to the Prophet after the incident of the Battle of the elephants on her own.
When you were a baby, your mummies nursed and took care of your, but the Arabs had a culture where babies were cared for by a wet nurse in the desert where the air was fresh and people still spoke in classical Arabic.
So, soon after he was born, the Prophet too was sent away to live with a wet nurse and he only returned for good to his mother when he was about five. (I also spoke about the cleansing of his heart)
Aminah, his mother took him for a trip and they visited relatives in Madinah. However, his reunion with his mother was short-lived for Aminah passed away on their way back to Mecca and the Prophet had to return home with his mother's slave.
Imagine being 5, without a father and then seeing your mother fall sick and pass away and having to go home with just your helper.
It was a very sad moment. However, I think it made him more patient and stronger later in life.
Allah has taught us that everything will eventually return to him just like the dua we are taught to recite when something sad struck us.
Do you know what that dua is?
A student said it out aloud. MasyaAllah.
I then asked the students to share a moment when they lost something or when they felt sad and what they did about it.
It ranged from losing a soft toy, to a video of a lizard crossing the street (I'm still figuring that out) to losing a grandparent.
The children then pasted the sticker of the dua I have printed out onto their lapbook.
After the break, we did mapwork. First I showed a map of the world to site where we are in relation to Mecca. I then showed a map of Mecca and pointed out the other places we have learned; Madinah and Yemen.
The children then did a map exercise on Saudi Arabia where they have to locate Mecca and Madinah. They learned about the waterforms around Saudi Arabia; the Red Sea, the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea and the presence of desert land in the Middle East.
We also learned about parts of a map- the compass and the keys and how the map was a model of the earth and how it is derived from a globe.
I instructed the students to colour the waterforms blue, but of course someone wanted to colour the Red Sea red and another coloured the Persian Gulf rainbow. Oh well...
And that's a wrap for today! I was so focused I didn't take pics.😊
We started our lesson with the children drawing a portrait of their family. The children were focused in drawing their family members and oasked for help when they couldn't do technical matters like drawing a face or a nose.
We talked about different members of a family and how there are different types of families. I asked the children that if the Prophet had a portrait of his family when he was about their age, who would be in it?
They were silent. Not necessarily because they don't know his history for one or two interjected when I told of his birth and childhood later, but maybe they were unsure of the direction I was taking them.
Unlike you, by the time the Prophet was around your age (5 going on 6), his parents were no longer alive. When his mother was pregnant with him, his father went on a business trip and at that time there were no aeroplanes and journeys can take months or years.
Just when he wanted to return from Madinah, his father, Abdullah, fell sick and passed away. Aminah was left to give birth to the Prophet after the incident of the Battle of the elephants on her own.
When you were a baby, your mummies nursed and took care of your, but the Arabs had a culture where babies were cared for by a wet nurse in the desert where the air was fresh and people still spoke in classical Arabic.
So, soon after he was born, the Prophet too was sent away to live with a wet nurse and he only returned for good to his mother when he was about five. (I also spoke about the cleansing of his heart)
Aminah, his mother took him for a trip and they visited relatives in Madinah. However, his reunion with his mother was short-lived for Aminah passed away on their way back to Mecca and the Prophet had to return home with his mother's slave.
Imagine being 5, without a father and then seeing your mother fall sick and pass away and having to go home with just your helper.
It was a very sad moment. However, I think it made him more patient and stronger later in life.
Allah has taught us that everything will eventually return to him just like the dua we are taught to recite when something sad struck us.
Do you know what that dua is?
A student said it out aloud. MasyaAllah.
I then asked the students to share a moment when they lost something or when they felt sad and what they did about it.
It ranged from losing a soft toy, to a video of a lizard crossing the street (I'm still figuring that out) to losing a grandparent.
The children then pasted the sticker of the dua I have printed out onto their lapbook.
After the break, we did mapwork. First I showed a map of the world to site where we are in relation to Mecca. I then showed a map of Mecca and pointed out the other places we have learned; Madinah and Yemen.
The children then did a map exercise on Saudi Arabia where they have to locate Mecca and Madinah. They learned about the waterforms around Saudi Arabia; the Red Sea, the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea and the presence of desert land in the Middle East.
We also learned about parts of a map- the compass and the keys and how the map was a model of the earth and how it is derived from a globe.
I instructed the students to colour the waterforms blue, but of course someone wanted to colour the Red Sea red and another coloured the Persian Gulf rainbow. Oh well...
And that's a wrap for today! I was so focused I didn't take pics.😊
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