This is another “All About Me” activity that I like doing with my classes at the beginning of the Madrasah year. It can be done after a few days of Madrasah have passed, and you’d like for them to open up and gain insight into who they actually are.
This activity also focuses on the acknowledgment of strengths and setting goals for the year.
This is a fun End of Year Activity I love doing with my students before the last day of the Madrasah year ♡
It’s such fun seeing their excitement for the holidays!
This is how we do it:
Step 1: Brainstorm ideas of activities according to the students’ interests/ages with them. Ensure that all are Shari’ah compliant and involve self-improvement, too.
Step 2: Make a comprehensive list on the board
Step 3: They can now choose to write as many as they prefer to their lists and then design and decorate their lists!
P.S: Don’t forget to remind them to make the correct Niyyāt (intentions) for the holidays / their fun activities.
• Inspire love in the hearts of the students for Nabi ﷺ
• Inspire the desire to follow his ways ﷺ
(among others)
💡 You could use this as a revision activity, a beginning of the year activity or make this an entire Seerah lesson itself (I did that because I felt like the kids knew much more about people around us and other famous people than what they knew about Nabi ﷺ)
📋 You could stick these up and/or dedicate a wall in the classroom to “All about My Nabi ﷺ”
Alhumdulillāh, we have reached the halfway mark! May Allāh accept. Āmīn
I made the 1st page of this activity to do with my students today. Alhumdulillāh, it is an activity that can be done by anyone from Age 10+.
(Yep, even adults may find these beneficial, Alhumdulillāh!)
The 2nd 2 pages of the Activity can be done in the last few days of Ramadan or after Ramadan.
You could even cut the text boxes out and stick them to a bulletin board, or classroom display wall. And there will be so many useful discussions come out of this Inshā’Allāh.
Keep a look out on my pages (Telegram, Instagram and WhatsApp) to see the end result of these in my classroom.
The idea for this stemmed from the Arabic Airplane Themed video that does its rounds every year at the start of Ramadan, if you’ve seen it, you know how amazingly done that is! And if you know me, you know how much I love Airplane Themed stuff! (Hehe)
You’ll find the Boarding Pass and Luggage Tag has two styles: The first is Sha’ban to Ramadan and the second is Dunya to Jannah.
I had planned these activities for last year – but, we were online during Ramadan so Alhumdulillah, finally got to do them this year and the kiddos are loving it!
They are taking it so seriously and ready to kick anyone out (of the class!) who didn’t bring their boarding pass or luggage daily! Hehe
I know your kids will enjoy it too so go ahead and print!
Remember me in your special duas during these Muabrak days
All praise is due to Allah who has allowed us to reach the month of Ramadan 1442ah.
There are so so many beautiful Ramadan activities out there and it’s amazing to see how creative every Apa, Muallimah and mum is out there in creating beautiful activities and spaces for Ramadan. (I hope to be as creative some day Insha Allah!!)
Here are some activities I’ve put together in 1441 and 1442. I hope you find them useful Insha Allah.
At the beginning of every year, I love playing games or doing other activities for the learners to get to know each other and for me to also learn more about them.
Finding appropriate activities in this regard hasn’t been difficult but I wanted to create one with an Islamic ethos.
This ALL ABOUT ME activity reinforces Aqeedah of Allah AL-Khaliq, AL-Wadood and students will have fun decorating and writing about themselves.
You can also use this as an icebreaker activity and ask learners to present this in front of you and their classmates.
I hope you find this useful and beneficial for your classroom and students inshaAllah.