Homeschooling: 5 Pillars of Islam

Our guide is the Qur'an

Our Religion is Islam

Five Noble Pillars upholding what is virtuous

To make the Testimony is the base of the Faith, and the Fast, and the Prayer, the Pilgrimage and Charity.

Dusturuna-al Qur'anu

Wa Deenuna-al Islamu

Arkanuhu Jaleelah da'aimun Fadheelah

Wa hiya ash-Shahadatani, qa'aidatul Iman, wa-as Sawmu, Wa-as Salatu, Wa-al Hajju, Wa-az Zakatu

So we started our eduplay group this time, with this song entitled the 5 noble pillars. A very simple song yet the kids get to memorize the 5 pillars and learn some arabic too!

Next, I used the whiteboard to have an interactive discussion on the 5 pillars with the kids.

And to make my job easier,and the session more colourful, i get the other mums of the group to present each pillars in their own way. 

An interesting way they presented them was in a form of storytelling.. where they made their own personalized story book with simple pictures, using the names of kids in the group as the characters in the story.. a very creative and effective way to attract the kids attention, inshaallah...

Lastly, for the craft session, we divided our group into 2 groups because of the age gap. I got the smaller kids to do handprinting. Their 5 fingers represents the 5 pillars. Get the mums to write in the 5 pillars on each finger tip.

And for the bigger kids, we got them to make a mosque with the 5 pillars being its pillars.

One difference that we made in our model, compared to other models I came across on the net is the fact that we made the shahadah, the 1st pillar, as the middle and thus, most important pillar of all... Just to highlight to the kids that while all the other pillars are also important, 1 thing that we can and we need to have in us all the time, is the believe in the Oneness of Allah and the Prophet Sallahu'alayhiwasallam being the Messenger of Allah.A person might not be able to pray, fast, pay zakah or perform hajj for different acceptable reasons but as muslims we can't afford to take even a breath without a firm believe in the kalimah... Allah give us the taufeeq inshaallah, Ameen!

The idea is to fill in the pillars with notes about each pillar.