Ramadhan Idea 25: Ramadan Lessons for Schools (and libraries)

Jul 8, 2019 | Ideas for Marking Ramadan with Kids, Ramadan, School

A few people have asked about any sort of lesson plans for Ramadhan, to be able to do a presentation at school.

Here are a few options…

A. Ramadhan talk at school (put together by a mum):

1. Play the months of the year song and child can show her calendar

2. Ramadhan – why is it one of the most special months of the year? Because…

• The Holy Qur’an was sent down through angels – R can show the Qur’an and read a short chapter, with the meaning

• It is a chance for us to think about ourselves, about all the things we have said and done in the past year, whether we have been kind to people or not and to make promises about how we can try our best to even better next year.

• In fact Muslims love the month of Ramadhan so much that we all look out for the moon of Ramadhan on the first night – R can show her poster on the phases of the moon

3. Play ‘Ramadhan Moon’ (4:05)

4. In the month of Ramadhan, Muslims do lots of things:
• We spend lots of praying, reading the Qur’an and thinking
• We try our best not to say anything or do anything that might make others feel sad..so we try our best to use our bodies in a good way
• Don’t eat anything during the day and when we eat at night, start with milk and dates to give you energy and give thanks for all the wonderful food that you have to eat everyday

5. Use interactive whiteboard to talk about how our bodies are very special and it is nice to use them to do good things and to do things that make people happy. This is what Muslims try especially hard to do in the Month of Ramadhan. Group discussion and annotate diagram on the white board-how can we use our hands, eyes, ears, mouths, tummies, legs, heads in a good way?

6. Read a Ramadan storybook

7. Activity: Make a new moon poster

B. A Ramadan play/assembly for all of primary:

Here is a play/assembly that one school did with all the Muslim children in their school and it was very well received!

C. Ramadan talk at pre-schools and Key Stage 1:

Here is a lesson plan for teaching about Ramadan in Early Years

Here is a powerpoint on Ramadan – with a focus on the moon

Here is a ramadhan talk that includes a Mystery Box plus a lantern activity.

D. Ramadan Activity Day in Primary Schools:

Here is an example of an activity day in school, teaching about Ramadan through hands-on activities!

E. One mum sent this in, from her time in at her child’s school:

“I thought I’d share these pictures. I went into my daughter’s school and we did a few Ramadhan activities.This is a British School in Bahrain – a lot of the kids (and teachers) really didn’t know much about Ramadhan so it was really nice spending time with them.

We made a telescope to spot the hilal (after we talked about the moon and watched a nasheed) – the teacher was so excited about the mobiles she told all the rest of the infant classes to make them too! We also made a moon and star mobile which was hung up in the school, and a good deed jar. With the good deed jar for every good thing the child would get a coin. At the end of each week the jar will be emptied and money given to charity. The kids were very enthusiastic!

“Since Christmas my son Mahdi has been asking me to come to his school and talk about Ramadan! He had to be a bit patient but i finally went to my sons KG class and did a Ramadan class! The kids and teacher were super happy, but best of all was how excited my son was to share his holiday and be represented in the classroom!

P.S. This is what one mum gave out when she went into school!

G: Ramadan sessions at the library

One mum takes it one step further and goes to the local library to share Ramadan there! Working with the librarian, they came up with a lesson plan and voila! It’s now a yearly tradition and all the local library users join in. What a wonderful way of truly sharing Ramadan with the local communities around us!