Go, go, go to hajj

Any way you can

Verily, verily, verily, verily

Do what Allah Commands.

To Makkah, To Makkah (to the tune of ‘To Market, To Market’)

To Makkah, to Makkah

On hajj we all go

Home again, home again

We loved it so.

· Art

a. Make Eid cards (All grades)

b. Make a Ka’bah moneybox from a square tissue box. (PreK-2) Paint black with a yellow/gold line around.

c. Make a diorama about what hajj means to the student. (Middle Primary)

d. Make a quilled sheep. (Upper Primary) Draw an outline of a sheep on A4 paper. Apply glue to the sheep. Using black quilling paper (which are thin strips of paper about ½ cm wide) twirl it around a pen/pencil, remove from pen/cil (but keeping the curled shape) and place it onto the glue so that it lays flat. What students should end up with is a sheep with curly black ‘wool’. (Search quilling techniques for more details on how to do quilling.) Alternatively, use black paper for the sheep and white quilling paper for the wool.

2. ENGLISH

· Read ‘Hajj is…’ book. (PreK-2)

· Write a procedure on how to perform hajj. (Middle-Upper Primary)

3. SCIENCE

· Transportation ‘Getting to Hajj’. Study the different transportation needed to go to hajj.

· Classification. PreK-2) Classify and categorise the animals that can be used as sacrifice – sheep, lamb, ram, camel, cow, chicken

4. MATH

· The number 7. (PreK-2)

a. Collect stones and put into a basket. Have children count out 7 stones.

b. From the basket of stones, have children count out 3 groups of 7. How many all together?

· Cube shape. (PreK-2) Learn about the cube and the sphere. Make a cube from black paper. Draw in the gold lines to make it look like the Ka’bah. Compare with a small ball.

6. HSIE

Geography

a. Saudi Arabia. Study the places of hajj.

History

a. Story behind Sa’I (Hajar and baby Ismail and zamzam)

b. Story of the Sacrifice (Prophet Ibrahim and Ismail – including stoning of shaytan)

c. Building of the Ka’bah

d. Prophet Muhammad’s hajj (including tawaf, Arafat)

6. PDHPE

b. Pretend to go around the Ka’bah and Sa’I seven times. Vary the pace - do it at a normal pace at first, then slow, then fast.