The Arabic Alphabet can be challenging to learn, but it is possible to learn it within several weeks if a student studies 2-3 hours per day. Insha’allah. Based on the upcoming Arabic card game, the Blessings of Allah Interactive Arabic will help students see how each letter is written, remember sun and moon letters, and even help with pronunciation. Consisting of 29 pages, the Powerpoint presentation is meant for students to be able to easily click each letter and listen to the sound of each and how they change with each vowel. |
Do you ever struggle with finding activities to keep your children occupied during Ramadan? During Ramadan, it is often just my son and I, so it is important to make these times special for him. This year, my goal is to find positive activities for him and list them on our website so that we can refer back to them each year. Insha'allah.
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Asalamu'alaykum! I am so excited to meet the founder of Brain Builders. I have heard such positive reviews of the activities from other parents, and best of all the activities are affordable for low-income families and are arranged so that it is much easier to have educational after school and summer activities for kids. As a parent, I am always concerned about cost and being able to provide activities for my son that flexible to our schedule. Brain Builders fits our schedule so well, and we are so excited about some of the upcoming courses. Robotics? Building forts? Sign us up please! Many places offer summer camp for $120 per week; however, Brain Builders offers courses often for under $10 per child for attending one day a week. For example, an upcoming super-exciting course gets children outdoors to build forts, toys, story telling, and even gardening. The cost is only $7.50! If you are in the Michigan area, I would highly recommend checking out Brain Builders, especially for something fun and affordable that exposes kids to science and mathematics in a fun and hands-on way.
If you know of any summer camps in your area, please let us know. We will be posting various summer camps and activities on our blog! Years ago I focused on teaching my son how to read and write English. We started using Starfall and I had my son use the website for 20 minutes per day while I cooked and cleaned around the home. It was truly exciting to see how quickly he was picking up new words and learning how to read. By the end of the first year I began to teach my son Arabic. I used my laptop monitor as a light box to allow my son to trace each of the Arabic words. We used to carefully place the printer paper onto the screen, and he would use the pencil to draw over the Arabic words which I had prepared using Microsoft PowerPoint. Alhamdulillah. After he traced each of the words, we would transliterate each letter so that he could eventually learn to recognize each one. It took him one month to be able to learn how to read the letters using this technique. Over time I have added more to my son's curriculum. I have been able to do this by focusing on increasing his vocabulary by reading books we borrowed from the local public library. We never read the same book twice, and we always read books at least 15-20 minutes a day. Sometimes we read up to an hour before bed. Sometimes we read the Qur'an, and other times we sat side by side in the fading sunlight reading chapter books together. It came to the point where my son was reading chapter books by himself and progressed to reading at a twelfth grade reading level by the time he was seven years old. In my family reading is important because if you can read, you can read to learn. You can read anything and know how to look up unknown words. I encourage my son to Google unfamiliar words using his laptop. Over time, I have found that any subject can be broken down in to small lessons so that my son can grasp each of the concepts. In addition, I teach my son based on his learning style so we are building his knowledge like bricks on a home. Alhamdulillah, now it has now been four years since we started. My son is now 8 1/2 and I am hoping to finish our pre-algebra this year. Insha'allah.
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