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Islamic education is one of the important subjects to be studied, especially in the early stage of a child. To make Islamic Education attractive for the children, we as Muslim should know the ropes so that the children do not get bored and quickly forgotten what they had studied. Here, one of the most easy and effective website to be explore by kindergarten and primary school children who wanted to learn Islamic Education in a best way. Here, are 10 reasons why this learning activity site is needed for the children:

 It’s Easy and colourful

· The moving icons in the web make the children easy to choose which topic they   interested to know and by clicking on the icon, the subtopics will be appear. Next,  they need to clicks on the subtopic and the information about it will be display for them. The background, picture and icon of the website is colourful and it shown in attractive way where can catch children's attention to it.

More choices on the topics

• The web gives 9 choices of topics for the visitors to choose. (We Love Allah. We  Love Prophet (s.a.w), We Love Quran, We Makes Dua’s, Play and Learn, Stories  (in  English), Stories (in Urdu), Rhymes, Mail Us). The subtopics for all the topics will appear and visitors can scroll the subtopic at the small cute smile icon ( J )

The Background sounds make the information easy to be store in memory

· For all of the icons, there is a background sound as there is a person that teach and     guide the children. For example, in the “We Make Dua’s” icon, there is a  background sound of a person who taught on how to recite, for example the dua for parents or dua for protection and there will be one more background sound of a child that followed the dua recitation. This is effective way for the children to remember because the use of rehearsal technique.

Know Allah the Almighty

• The children can explore about the greatness of Allah by reading and hearing      (background sound like someone tell the story) the story that related to the  greatness of Allah such as The Sleeper of The Cave, In a Stomach of a fish and many more which is in “We Love Allah” icon.

Learn Arabic

• Moreover, this web also displays the Arabic word each time after one word of dua (in We Make Dua’s icon) had been taught. There is also English translation below the Arabic word displayed.

Tajweed information

• It same goes to the icon of “We Love Quran” where there is sound of Quran recitation which the children may follow the correct way of Quranic recitation. But, there is additional knowledge where the website gives subtopic on the tajweed session with the videos too. This gives more additional information to the children about tajweed knowledge.

Know History of Islam

• Children also can explore about the history of Islam if they choose the icons of “Stories” where it  have in 2 languages (English and Urdu). There are stories of Hajaratul Aswad, Eid Fitri and other stories like the color of rainbow, the beggar boy or rich boy and many more that will give lesson to the children too. They also may know more about the last prophet which was Prophet Muhammad s.a.w. if they click the icon of “We Love Prophet s.a.w”

Play and Learn

• The children also can play if they choose this web as their learning aids. This is where the children may not easily bored when learning.There are quizzes that related to Islamic topics like solah, ramadhan, wudu’ Quranic quiz, and many more. There are also games that related to Islamic Education such as Jigsaw Puzzle of the mosques, find the place like the holy Kaabah, Nabawi mosque and many more if children click on the icon “Play and Learn”. Thus, it can be seen that children may play and at the same time they had learn something new. 

Music time

• Children can hear songs (in Arabic, English or Urdu language) in the “Rhymes” icon. It is not just a song but the content of the song have hidden meaning that can give lesson for the children. For instance, the song of “Bits of Paper” where the content highlight about cleanness in Islam and the lyric of the song mentioned that Prophet Muhammad had told Muslim that cleanness is a part of faith.  

Give Comment and Feedback

• Not only learning but the visitors can also play a role in giving their ideas or comment of this website. There is icon of “Mail Us” where children can take opportunity in express their own opinions and share their ideas about the website.

Some suggestion on the improvement on the wesite

Some improvement can be made on this website in order to make it more power and meaningful website. It can be add up many more languages so that will be easy for children who wanted the translation in their own language and to make them easy to understand the content. In addition, in the “We Love Quran” icon, it can be add more on other Quranic chapter and if they can make it so, they may put all Quranic chapters on the website.

· Congratulation to the one who create this website…It is very useful in Learning Islamic Education in fun way!!! 

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