Sunday 23 November 2014

Weekly Update (Nov. 10-20)


Theme
 الله الخالق
قال الله تعالى: {إنَّ في خَلقِ السَّمواتِ والأَرضِ واختِلافِ اللَّيلِ والنَّهارِ لآياتٍ لأُولي الألبابِ(190) الَّذين يَذكرونَ الله قِياماً وقُعُوداً وعلى جُنُوبِهم ويَتَفَكَّرُونَ في خَلقِ السَّمواتِ والأَرضِ ربَّنا ما خَلَقتَ هذا باطلاً سبحانكَ فَقِنَا عذابَ النَّارِ(191)}
سورة آل عمران(3)


Language لغة عربية:
- We started our new theme “Allah the creator”.  In this theme we are expected to talk about 5 different things Allah created (الإنسان ، الحيوان، الطعام، البحار، الفضاء).
- Two new letters have been taught through the following:
-          Identify the letter ح on a worksheet
-          shape the letter ج with a play dough
-          students check for جزر in their lunch bags and repeat the word جزر
-          listen to the stories of the letter ج and ح (جميلة والجمل، حنان والحوت)
-          to integrate the letter to Islam we talked about how Allah SWT created the جمل and made it get adjusted to the life in the desert.
We also told the story or Prophet Yunus and الحوت. Students traced the letters ج and ح, and colored the pictures of جمل، جزر، حوت، حصان) ). Students worked on their letter ج craft (ج جمل) and are going to work on (ح حوت) craft tomorrow (Monday, Nov.24), Insha’Allah.

English Language لغة إنجليزية:
-          Below is a very useful website your child can use for practicing some skills in the English Language:
 www.starfall.com

Math حساب:
-  Students are practicing counting 1-10 on a daily basis during calendar, circle time, recess etc…
-  Counting from 1- 5 backwards by singing number Nasheeds.
- Teach one-to-one correspondence. I.e. match number 2 with 2 objects.

Artsفنون:
-          Students made a frame for the word “Allah” using paper plates, rods, glitter and glue sticks.

-          Students made a huge sticky mess experiencing the feeling of sticky slime and had lots of fun playing with it.