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Islam is My Life!

Islamic Preschool Curriculum Outline

|Week |Topic |Vocabulary (teach/oral |Sight Words |Sight Words – Arabic |Big Idea/Across the curriculum connections |

| | |drilling of terms) |-English(flashcards and |(flash cards) | |

| | | |writing practice) | | |

| |Q: Who is Allah? | |Allah, Lord |Allah, Lord |color in Allah’s Name in English; practice writing Allah’s Name in English; drill on |

| |A: Allah is my Lord? | | | |the Q & A; can teach “is” and “my” as sight words and Allah is my Lord can be read |

| | | | | |and written. |

| |Q: Where is Allah? |Arabic: Samaa (heavens, | | |Learn a little about clouds; draw pictures of clouds; can teach “where” and Where is |

| |A: Huwa fee samaa (with |sky); Huwa for he | | |Allah? Can be read and written. |

| |pointing) | | | | |

| |Q: Who Created You? |Al Khaaliq – The Creator | | |talk about why Allah created us (to worship him); talk about types of worship, what |

| |A: Allah; or Allahu khalaqnee | | | |worship is (doing things Allah like and staying away from things he doesn’t like); how|

| | | | | |Allah say “Kun” (be) and things are created |

| |Creations of Allah: People | |Man, girl, boy | |Read about different types of people around the world, the different colors and that |

| | | | | |they come from different countries, how not all are Muslim like us |

| |Creations of Allah: Animals | |cat, pig, dog, cow, bat | |learn about different animals this week and always mention that Allah created them; |

| | | | | |learn about names for baby animals (kid, calf, etc) or what you call groups of a |

| | | | | |particular animal. Talk about farm animals; zoos, etc. |

| |Creations of Allah: Nature | |tree, rock, flower, etc. | |Read about something different in nature each day, remembering that Allah created |

| | | | | |everything |

| |Allah lets me wake up each day| |day, night, sleep | |Discuss importance of sleep; how Allah allows us to wake up each morning, practice |

| | | | | |duaa for waking up; establish/review morning routine |

| |Allah gives me food to eat | |food, pizza, apple, etc. | |go over eating etiquette; food groups, favorite foods, not wasting, sharing food and |

| | | |foods that are familiar to | |sharing equally; cook a simple recipe with Umm |

| | | |child | | |

| |Remember Allah through our day| | | |stress that we should say duaas and remember Allah all throughout our day; go over |

| | | | | |etiquette of duaas; bathroom etiquette and duaas; |

| |Q: What is the Quraan? | |book, Quraan | |discuss that the Quraan is the book of Allah; it is his words, how to treat a mushaf, |

| |A: The book of Allah | | | |that the Quraan is written in Arabic; start to teach Fatihah, Naas, Ikhlaas, and |

| | | | | |Kawthar during the rest of the year; others if possible |

| |I must obey my parents |mom/dad; Umm; Abu; Anaa |mom, dad, me, I |Umm, Ab |teach what the word obey means, that it is a sin to not obey your parents, that Allah |

| | |(I) | | |says this in the Quraan; talk about ways we can obey our parents, (doing things the |

| | | | | |first time told) and always reminding that disobeying does not please Allah. |

| |Allah sees all |Al Baseer |see, all, eye | |Talk about the fact that Allah sees everything, nothing is hidden from him; teach the |

| | | | | |Name Al Baseer; show how in a dark room, we cannot see a tiny speck but that Allah |

| | | | | |can; teach that we must always remember that Allah can see every little thing we do |

| | | | | |and say so we need to watch what we do and say; sense of sight (taking care of our |

| | | | | |eyes, learn about our eyes); make simple sentences to read and write: I see a (use |

| | | | | |past sight words) |

| |Allah hears all |Al Samee |hear, ear | |same things as above but applied to hearing; care of ears; sounds that different |

| | | | | |animals or things make; make simple sentences to read and write: I hear a (use past |

| | | | | |sight words) |

| | | | | | |

| |Allah gives me shelter |beyt – house |house, door, in, out | |monitor the saying of the duaas for entering and leaving the house; memorization not |

| | | | | |necessary, insha Allah will come with time; shelters of different types of people or |

| | | | | |animals |

| |My house |names of different rooms | | |go over the functions of each type of room; what we do in each type of room; things |

| | |in house in Arabic and | | |you find in each type of room; maybe a different room each day this week; how to help|

| | |English | | |clean each type of room; being thankful for our homes, realizing that others do not |

| | | | | |have homes |

| |Allah gave me a family |family, names of different|family | |talk about the different members of a family; make a textual family tree; introduce |

| | |types of members’ (sister,| | |“my” and make sentences: This is my family, this is my house, my cat, etc. |

| | |brother, etc) actual names| | | |

| | |of family members; usrah | | | |

| | |or ailah is family in | | | |

| | |Arabic | | | |

| |Allah gave me a healthy body |face body parts in Arabic |optional: nose, mouth, hair | |learn body part names, tell the functions of the body parts; sense of taste and smell;|

| |I: my face |and English |(review eye and ear); cheek | |classify tastes as sweet, sour, bitter, salty by doing an “experiment;” go over |

| | | | | |smells, things that smell good, things that smell bad; cleaning and taking care of |

| | | | | |parts of your face; talk about sicknesses and conditions of the face parts |

| | | | | |(blindness, deafness); dental care; first aid for cuts; sentences: this is my nose, |

| | | | | |this is my eye, etc. |

| |Allah gave me a healthy body |any body parts in Arabic |arm, leg, hand, foot/feet | |learn body part names, tell the functions of the body parts; keeping our bodies |

| |II: my body |and English | | |healthy; sentences, this is my……….. |

| |Allah gave me clothes |clothing names in Arabic |clothing words | |learn about the different types of clothing, what weather they are worn in; cleaning |

| | |and English | | |our clothes, taking care of them, putting them up when we undress/dress, say duaa for |

| | | | | |getting dressed, Bismillaah before getting undresses; hijaabs and thowbs |

| |Getting Around: Land vehicles |land vehicles in Arabic |truck, car, bike | |read about different types of land vehicles; math activities using vehicles (word |

| | |and English | | |problems, counting, sorting); draw picture of different types of vehicles; can also |

| | | | | |talk about use of animals as vehicles; sentences: I see a…… this is a……. |

| |Getting Around: Water & air |boat, plane, jet, etc |boat, plane, jet | |read about different types of land vehicles; math activities using vehicles (word |

| |vehicles | | | |problems, counting, sorting); draw pictures; sort vehicles by how they travel, land, |

| | | | | |air, water; sentences: I see a…… this is a……. |

| |Things in my neighborhood |neighbor, neighborhood; |specific things in a | |draw an aerial map of neighborhood (or color one in); simple maps |

| | |specific store types |neighborhood (park, store, | | |

| | | |etc) | | |

| |People in my neighborhood I |Islamic neighborhood |imam | |talk about how to treat each person (give salaam); be respectful to elders, all |

| | |people (imam, brothers, | | |muslims are our brothers and sisters; |

| | |sisters, muadhdhin, elders| | | |

| |People in my neighborhood II |non Islamic people in | | |being kind to neighbors whether they are muslim or not; giving gifts to neighbors; |

| | |neighborhood; occupations | | |learn about different community workers |

| |Weather |weather words, including |sun, rain, cloud, snow | |talk about and identify different types of weather: snowy, rainy, sunny, cloudy; track|

| | |hot and cold in Arabic and| | |the weather daily with a weather graph and analyze it; draw what different types of |

| | |English | | |weather looks like; could learn how to answer question, how is the weather in Arabic |

| | | | | |(and English) |

|27. |Outside my world |planet/universe vocabulary|sun, moon, earth | |look at pictures of solar system, identify sun, moon, and earth; |

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