When to whisper words of wisdom to your child..

My heart and soul..May Allah guide me in giving the best of both worlds for them amin.

There are said to be 9 best times when you should offer advice to your child, even if its for a minute.

1. Before they go to bed.
2. When they are asleep. (whisper it in their ears)
3. After they take their bath.
4. Upon waking up.
5. After they perform their prayers.
6. After they read the Quran
7. After supplications.
8. After they do exercises.
9. When they are in deep emotion, eg. after being scolded.

Wallahu a'lam.

My source

Amira Balqis @ 44 months

Umaira Balqis @16 months

Face off and a Birthday cake

As we learn about face today, I cut out some facial features (eyes, noses, eyebrows, ears) from mags to do a little craft that will be put inside our "All about Me! booklet".

Items needed:

Cardboard cut as the face

Facial features from magazines

Glue

Yarn for hair

Glue, glue, glue!

Adik was helping making a mess

The face sure looks 'off'' and somewhat eerie..don't u think?! Even Adik would 'bap' (trying to smack it) if she sees it...but Kakak on the other hand adores it and kissed it several times! Well she did put in her heart doing it after all. I also printed some work for her, and instead of writing down the numbers (she is not so into writing, tracing and the likes), I asked her to cut and paste them! She loves it!

Next, we talk a little about her age. She only knows that she is four, but doesn't understand the concept yet. I intended to a montessori birthday walk someday. We will see when..

For now its just a simple tracing sheet, and pasting of cake and candles made of felt.

Pasting the 'choc cake'

Done!

Homeschool Journal January: Week #1

Theme: All about Me!

Focus: Name, age, likes and dislikes

Phonics: s, a, t

Huruf: ma, ba, da

Numbers: 1-20

Arqam: 1-10

Surah: al-ikhlas

Do'a: Before entering the toilet

This week we actually had 2 days only of full schooling, as their great-grandma and aunties came over. So the assessments for some main subjects will be carried forward to next week. 

I am taking the montessori style approach, with activity trays and 1 to 1 assessment. I hope that this way I can focus on both Kakak and Adik, and lessen Adik's interference when I do lessons with Kakak. 

Day 1

Our simple trays/boxes. We got the shelves at Carrefour for only RM30!  

No beans at home, so I used dhal instead. They love this!

Finger stamping on numbers. Printed from here.

Arqam puzzle with cards (they were cutouts from a RM3 poster).

Pringles container, punch-holed lid, with pipe cleaners.

Face parts word and picture cards with magnetic alphabet

Painting corner

Great sensorial too!

Make own snack : peanut butter sandwich

Sprinkle sprinkles

Concentrating...

tadaa!

Masterpiece of the day

Writing activity with brief explanation on the meaning of her name, princess Balqis.

I'm quite amazed that she can actually say out wahid till asyarah

Day 2

Changed to magnet buttons with whiteboard - both  from Daiso

Hammering activity. A hit as well! Styrofoam, golf tee and wooden hammer

Changed from pipe cleaners to straws.

Hammering away

Full body outline

Just woke from nap and straight to hammering

Adding details on her body

An everyday activity

Phonics assesment

Fine salt on card

Masterpiece of the day

Ended the school day with water activty - full dressed..lol

 Day 3 (half day)

New tray - coins and camel bank

Adik's fav!

Still at it!

Masterpiece of the day

Locked legs when full of concentration

Lil Chefs: Pancakes!

For the last 2 days, we had been having pancakes for snack time. Chocolate Chips Pancakes. The plus point of being preggy is that you can stuff yourself and put the whole blame on it!

The 2 girls just love them soo much! Kakak prefers the prep and cooking part more of course. For the second time round, she actually did it by herself while I just instructed. She even flipped the pancake in the pan, and lift it out onto the plate!  

For cooking preps, it is much easier to use clear and simple instructions. Prepare all the ingredients beforehand, explain briefly what each are, and maybe let them taste. For beginners, use the cups and table/tea spoons measurement. And also, be prepared for the mess! Don't be afraid to let them try harder tasks, like cracking the eggs. Kakak cracked her first egg successfully when she was about 2 years old.

Mixing the ingredients together. Adik not missing out on the fun too!

The camera just don't take pretty pictures. Gotta get a new one! This is by far our fav pancake recipe..its soo fluffy! 

Well, Mama just got to show off too! Craved for Roti Jala, didn't have the mould so used the plastic bottle ketchup, this method is everywhere on the net. Some people are just plain genius! Doesn't it look pretty...and with curry its just soo YUM!  

And below is a masterpiece by Kakak. She just looove to draw. She would take a piece of paper and a marker, and started to draw whatever she wants. She hates colouring though.

Flowers, picture of herself with long hair, a cat, a bear, ermm the 2 bees are actually squirrels, and below them is the Ipad?? Her tall house, trees and cloud. ~according to Kakak

'tis the season

of DURIANS!

Its that time of year again. Where you can see mushrooms-paced-growing roadside vendors (only in Malaysia though) with baskets and baskets of the spiky loots.


Either you love it or hate it. Let's see what my girls have to say about them.

Apparently some chubby fingers have deleted this particular picture, luckily Abah saved it as his wall.

It sure is face-stuffing finger-licking gooood!

And oh! Notice the new ticker at the side:

Alhamdulillah, we are expecting! 

And that could be the reason of absence. 

Or that Mama's been slacking. Big time. Time to get back on my two feet again.

O Allah I pray that you grant me enough strength and rid me of this laziness and helplessness.