Allah gave me Ears to Hear

 In the past week we have been learning about Sense of hearing and Hashir enjoyed all the activities. He learned that Allah gave him two ears which helps him in hearing.

Islamic

We repeated the same dua which i mentioned in my old post about Eyes. This dua is in our morning/evening azkar for the protection of our body, hearing and sight.

I have downloaded Azaan by different Qari and Muazzin on my mobile and we have been listening to them frequently. Hashir now recognize the call of Azaan and when ever he hears it from masjid, he says Baa'a pointing outside. He hears me replying to the Azaan and insha'Allah he will pick it soon.

Hashir learned that noise, shouting, screaming is disliked in our religion . At the same time its not good for ears. Whenever he now raises his voice or cries loudly i mention that my ears hurt, this makes him go back to his normal voice. Masha'Allah what beautiful religion Islam is which teaches us about the manners of listening and speaking

Vocabulary

I made flashcards with words related to this topic like ear,  hear, listen, low, high, voice,  clean, dirty, cotton bud, earings, noise. We read these books too.

Hashir pointed out the ears of different animals. These days his favorite book is Little Elephant and he wants me to read it to him almost every day. I point to the big ears of the little elephant whereas he likes to show me the elephant's tail :)

Hearing Games

Whispering  is always a source of fun for kids. We played this game in which i  whispered something in his ear and he repeated the words back or i asked him to do something in whispers. This game always made him laugh as there is a tickling feeling in the ears.

He used headphones and speakers to hear the Azaan, and he learned how to use the volume control to raise, lower or mute the voice. He understood the low and the high sound by doing it himself.

 

Again we played the blindfold game, where the one who is blindfolded has to catch the people around by means of hearing only. This was fun for him but he still did not like to be blindfolded.


Montessori Activities

• Popcorn are one of Hashir's favorite snacks and now he knows the simple recipe of making them. What amazes him is that he put the corns in and close the lid, then he hears this bang bang popping sound and when i open the lid to show him whats inside, Wow .. All white big popcorns. This surprised him couple of times when this phenomenon was new to him but now after watching this number of times he no longer make that cute surprising look.

• Hashir did some pouring and spooning activity along with sound making activity with  items like coins, stones, wood, corns, sugar, water, sponge.

 We took plastic, glass, tin and wooden containers and poured the above materials in them one by one, closed the lid and shake, shake, shake. Every other combination made different sound. Coins in the metal tin made the noisiest sound, where as sponge made almost no sound in glass.

• I talked to him about cleaning our ears with the cotton bud as our ears get dirty and need cleaning. He makes a particular kind of face when i clean his ears like he wants me to keep doing it. 

• He have been feeding birds from quiet some time and now i have added a potted plant in the same window which he waters. He likes watering plants and love watching birds.

Triangle


Hashir learned about Triangle and did the shape sorting , coloring and sticking activities with triangles.

He now tries to make a square by joining two triangles.

             

I helped in coloring the triangle as he only scribbled in it. It was all a happy learning time Alhamdullilah.