Year 4 Islamic RE: Autumn 2 worksheet

“Madinah map squares” is free to print, with no account. It is the first sheet in the Year 4 Islamic studies unit “Islamic RE: Autumn 2”, for children aged 8 to 9, and takes about 20 minutes.

Print it on A4. The child's pages come first; the answers, and what each wrong answer tells you, are on the grown-up page that follows. Weeks 7 to 12 of the year, 6 sheets in the unit.

Free sample · answers on the last page

Madinah map squares

Name: ____________ · Date: ____________
Year 4 · Islamic RE · about 20 minutes
Answers are on the grown-up page

Today I can describe where places were in Madinah, using a grid and the mosque at the centre.

A Look back3 min

1.
The Prophet ﷺ travelled to Madinah from which city? Circle one.
MakkahTaifJerusalem
2.
What did the Muhajirun do? Circle one.
moved to Madinah for their faithstayed in Makkah and ran the marketbecame the leaders of Taif
3.
Which name of Allah means the Most Forgiving? Circle one.
Al-GhafurAl-HayyAl-Qayyum

B Watch me, then you4 min

This is a plan of Madinah in the Prophet's ﷺ time. The mosque is the middle square, C3. It is not drawn, so count from C3 in your head. The school symbol is the Suffah, next to the mosque.

A flat picture of a simple desert town with date palms and low homes around a plain flat-roofed mosque

Watch me

The mosque is at C3, in the middle of the map.

The shop is at E1: two squares right and two squares down.

The Suffah is at B3, one square left of the mosque.

Now you

1.
The mosque is at C3. Which square is directly right of the mosque? Circle one.
D3B3C2C4

C Your turn8 min

The mosque is always at C3, the middle square. Find the shop, then circle where it is from the mosque.

1.
Where is the marketplace, compared with the mosque? Circle one.
one square rightone square leftone square upone square down
2.
Where is the marketplace, compared with the mosque? Circle one.
one square right and two downtwo squares right and one downone square left and two downtwo squares left and one up
3.
Where is the marketplace, compared with the mosque? Circle one.
two squares left and two downtwo squares right and two downtwo squares left and two upone square left and two down
4.
Where is the marketplace, compared with the mosque? Circle one.
two squares right and two uptwo squares left and two uptwo squares right and two downone square right and two up

Say it out loud: How many squares did you go across, and how many up or down? What changed in each row?

D Spot the mistake3 min

The school symbol is the Suffah, a shaded place by the mosque where poor companions lived and learned. The shop symbol is the marketplace. The mosque is at C3.

Kit says: “The Suffah was the marketplace, where people bought and sold food.”

1.
Is Kit right? Explain in one or two sentences.

E Think deeper4 min

1.
The Suffah companions had very little, yet they learned a great deal. Why might the most important things not fit on a map? Write your ideas.

How did it feel?

I can do it Nearly Not yet

For the grown-up

Madinah map squares · 2 minutes to read

Answers, and what a wrong one tells you

A

1. Makkah

2. moved to Madinah for their faith

3. Al-Ghafur

B

1. D3 your child may have gone up or down instead of across. Ask them to put a finger on C3 and slide it one square right.

C

1. one square right your child may have counted the wrong way. Ask them to put a finger on C3 and move one square along the row.

2. one square right and two down your child may have mixed up across and down. Ask them to move across first, then count down the rows.

3. two squares left and two down your child may have the right number but the wrong direction. Ask: is the shop on the left or the right of the mosque?

4. two squares right and two up your child may have counted the right squares but swapped up and down. Ask whether the shop is above or below the mosque row.

D

1. Look for: Says no, and that the Suffah was a shaded platform where poor companions lived and learned, not a marketplace. your child may have mixed up the two places. Point to the school symbol beside the mosque and ask what people did there, then point to the shop.

E

1. Look for: An answer saying faith, learning, or care for others cannot be seen on a map because a map only shows places and buildings.

Words to use

Say“Show me where the mosque is on your map. Now count the squares from it to the shop, across first, then up or down.”

Instead of“Just tell them the answer, or say the map is too hard for them.”

After the sheet

Draw a plan of the kitchen table with a cup in the middle. Ask your child to say where the biscuit tin is, counting squares from the cup.

Tick what your child got right in StudyDen. Anything missed comes back in a later Look back box, so there's no need to redo the sheet.

The rest of this unit

5 more sheets come with a StudyDen plan, in teaching order:

Lessons from Uhud(with a plan)
Failure or a test?(with a plan)
Four conditions of Salah(with a plan)
Hijrah to Uhud review(with a plan)
Salman's clever trench idea(with a plan)

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