Hands on Measuring

The other day my son pulled out a pot and some measuring cups. He filled the pot with water and began to compare measurements.  I asked him questions like; “how many 1/8 cups does it take to fill a 1/4 cup, and so on.  He would guess then fill.”  Before hand I also explained that the bottom number of the measurements (ex. 1/8) tells how many it would take to fill 1 cup.  Then I would ask things like  how many 1/3 cup will it take to fill 1 cup?I think we will have to try measuring spoons next.  He had a lot of fun and that is what is important.

 

 

 

          

 

 

 

 

 

 

More Learning Game Websites

They are ESL sites but they can still be used for grammar games and whatever you  can imagine.

Daves Esl Cafe

 

Teach English in Asia

 

ESL Flow.com

 

MES-English

 

Three Wise Monkeys

 

Games and Activities

Spelling Game

Awhile back I joined this yahoo group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GamesForLearning/ and found some really great ideas in a download that someone spent a lot of time on.  Well today we played a baseball game using her ideas for spelling.  What you do is make a spinner that has 1-4, fly ball out and homerun.  Well as the child spins they have to spell the word right in order to move.  I used their spelling lists and since I only have 2 littleones we had to bring in some stuffed toys.  The kids really liked this.  I would really recommend joining this group if you haven’t.

First day with Mini Offices

Well today we began using Mini Offices so far we only needed the math one today.  I had to introduce all the things there, so my son would know what was available to help him.  So we will give it a week and see how it works.  I will keep you posted Insha Allah.

Nice Site With Lot’s of Teaching Ideas

http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/

Has some good Foreign language ideas too.

What we did for our Mini offices

For our Writing and Math mini offices  I basically printed up whatever  my son needed right at his fingertips for quick reference.  Especially the things he struggles with.  I also put whatever we review daily.  For example with Math I used this clock printout because my son gets confused which hand is which.  

For our Arabic/Islamic mini office.  I used the charts that I made awhile back.  I also made some charts to use with the vocab we are learning in the first lesson of the Madina program.  I printed up a chart that shows the different positions of the letters and a surah chart both from TJ and a poster that I made to help my son pronounce Iman Mufassal (we are all trying to memorize this right now.)  All of these were minimized before printing to about 50 or 60%. 

I hope insha Allah that these mini offices will help us to stay on top of things that sometimes get neglected when we are spending so much time on one subject.

Mini Offices

I’ve been looking into mini offices a lot lately.  We are so cramped for room in our house so posters aren’t really happening here.  So I’ve decided to try mini offices and since I’ve figured out how to reduce the size of things when I print them  it has worked out well Masha Allah.  I made 3 different ones for my son who is 2nd grade (Writing, Math, and Arabic.)  and I am currently working on one for my daughter who is 1st grade.

Some great sites to find out more and to get printables are;

http://www.squidoo.com/minioffice  this site will tell you all about mini offices and lead you to the other sites that are available out there.

http://talibiddeenjr.amanahwebs.com/index.html  ofcourse who can forget this one.

I’m planning insha Allah to begin using them Monday, so we will see how it works out.

Arabic Game Idea

As salamu alaikum,

Awhile back I had drew a game on a file folder called Arabic Party I just drew a path with some go ahead _spaces, go back_spaces and a short cut and added pictures of Arabic letters some cakes and goodies and at the end it says you made it to the Party Masha Allah. 

I also had a couple of file folders with a game I printed from yemen links http://www.yemenlinks.com/Downloads/Arabic%20Alphabet%20II.pdf My children would use these from time to time to match the letters.

Well I used both sets of letter cards and one of the folders as a poster.  I would have the kids roll a die and pick a letter card for them to read.  If one didn’t know I would let the other one help.  If they both didn’t know then we would ask the Alphabet.  Which I would take the card in hand and we would recite every letter until we got to the one in my hand and then I would let the one whose turn it was go.  Basically no one got a wrong answer and it was a lot of repetition when they couldn’t guess.  Insha Allah it will help them remember their arabic letters eventually.

As salamu alaikum

Spelling Game

Help your wiggleworms enjoy spelling while moving at the same time.  Get big pieces of paper 26 8by 10 or 13 and cut them in half.  Write the letters of the Alphabet on each of them and either tape them to the floor or a big piece of cardboard or posterboard whatever works for you.  Then call out words and have your child step on each letter in order as they spell example cat they would step on /c/ then /a/ then /t/.  My kids love this one.  In the summer you could probably write with chalk on the drive way and do it.

If your kids aren’t big on writing then maybe you could let them take their spelling test this way.

Math Game Ideas with 100 Number Chart.

As salamu alaikum

 As you know we use Saxon Math and in there they have a daily routine with the 100 number board.  The student has to put their finger on a number and you tell them to add 10, subtract 10, add1, and subtract 1 as you say this they move to the appropriate number on the board.  My son was getting tired of this so I decided to make it a little more fun.  So this is how it’s done.

 Material:

Spinner or die with the numbers 1 and 10.

100 number chart or board

a game piece.

 How to play.

 Pick a number and put the game piece on it.

Spin or roll whichever number you get you can choose to add or subtract.  The goal is to get back to the number you started on. (The student will have to use some serious thinking skills to figure out how to get back to the home number. Should you add or subtract 10 or 1 to get back?)

Game idea 2

Material:

100 game chart

50 game pieces to cover numbers

one day they could cover all even numbers and tell you the odd ones

next day they could cover odd numbers and tell you the even ones.

Most of you already know this site, it has a 100 numberchart and much more. Masha Allah! 

http://talibiddeenjr.amanahwebs.com/math_home.htm