Alhamdulillah today ‘Arfaan achieved another milestone. He just completed his Iqra’ and now can move to Muqaddam/Juz ‘Amma.

Just in time before he starts school. For keepsake, we started the journey casually when I was still on my maternity leave back in Nov. So basically if you spend 15mins average daily for 10months, youre able to complete all 1-6 iqra’ inshaAllah biiznillah

Few tips (this might not work for other kids though but hopefully its helpful);

1. If the child loves to watch TV or play gadgets or anything they cant do without, use that as a reward
2. The first 5-10mins are precious. Get their attention
3. Limit to one page a day (iqra 1-2) & halfpage/day (3-6)
4. There is 30page/iqra hence total of 180pages. Thats 36wks if you do one page daily, minus weekends
5. Encourage other siblings to read Quran/Iqra at the same time – healthy competition, yes? 😜
6. Keep the momentum ie never miss a day especially during the first 2 iqra’ – intro to huruf hijaiyyah
7. Give reward for each book completed

Alhamdulillah moga ‘Arfaan terus istiqamah dgn Quran dan hiasi peribadi dgn akhlaq alQuran amiiin.

My handsome and clever yet clingy lil boy will be going to school soon. I mean this Sunday, my oh my. Gonna miss his presence at home. So its been almost 6months since his last ‘schooling’ experience i hope he will do just fine adapting.

Always keep on reminding him that nobody will understand you if you converse in malay haha so we occasionally will practice simple conversations in english. So far so good.

Mula2 dia mcm reluctant sikit bila bagitau dia akan gi skool. Maybe coz he’s so used to staying at home no need to wake up early for school etc. But after some time he likes the idea and really put an effort to the vid that we need to submit to the school as part of admission requirements.

We need to submit few videos ie writing letters, recognising shapes, counting 1-20, reading story book & organise a simple jigsaw puzzle. It was such a breeze shooting the videos alhamdulillah. Funny thing was we only noticed that he can actually read his fav Famous Five series on his own – although not 100% correct in pronunciation. He also amazed that he can read lol. All the while we only use Ladybird KeyWord cards for english. So i guess it eventually helped him in reading, alhamdulillah haza min fadhli rabbi

Last week we did some ‘back to school’ shopping. Getting him his school uniforms, new shoes, backpack, tumbler and bekas for bekal later on. He’s so excited about going back to school and hopefully this momentum will be up high throughout the year amiiin!!! He will be in Reception class for Yr21/22 btw. Thats a the year before entering Year 1.

May Allah keep you safe. May Allah protect you from bad people or bad influences. May Allah surround you with only good friends and teachers. Hope you are happy meeting new friends learning new things. Which your walid and I didnt get the chance when we were kids he he