Assalamu Alaikum Wa Rahmatu Allah Wa Barakatuhu
Dear Parents,
Here are the updates:
Language Arts: In Phonics, we started Jolly Phonics workbook 4. In this
workbook, we will be learning how to sound out Digraphs. Digraphs have two
letters, but make one sound (eg. ai, oa,
ie, ee, or). Rule: We learned that when two vowels go walking, the first does the talking (So the spelling “ai” says the name of the first vowel, A. It is also called long A vowel sound).
This week we covered the digraph ai (long a) and the letter J. We have also been learning new sight words that are now posted on our classroom door. For more practice on long vowel sounds and other letter sounds please go to this interesting website:
http://www.readingbear.org/
In
reading, this
week our focus was how to make predictions regarding an unfamiliar text by
doing picture walk, use cover pictures and/or the title to determine the topic and/or text form. We read the book “Time to Sleep”
and predicted which animal will hibernate. We also read the book “Snowmen At
Night” which became a class favourite and before reading, we predicted what snowmen
might do at night. For this story, students then wrote a response for a writing
prompt. Great work! SK2.
Literacy Tips:
- Read for 20 minutes with your child everyday.
- Practice finding two letter and three letter words with your child while reading at home.
- Go to starfalls.com and reading bears to enhance your child’s reading skills.
Math: We started our new unit on
Measurement, which is a fun unit. In this unit, we will be learning how to
measure length, mass, area, temperature, and capacity. This week, we used a
problem solving approach to compare different lengths using measurement terms (e.g.
longer/shorter, taller/smaller). We did lots of hands–on learning activities with a variety of materials and objects
from the class to compare different
lengths.
Math tips:
·
Use
play dough to roll out two ‘snakes' of different lengths. Talk about one snake
being ‘shorter' and the other ‘longer.'
· Play board games like Chutes & Ladders, Sorry!, Dominoes, etc.
as they promote the development of counting skills, understandings of patterns,
and numeral recognition.
Science: In Science, we made a “KWL” chart and read
another non fiction book “Let’s Look At Winter”
and wrote many facts about Winter. We learned how to label a picture of a boy
wearing different winter clothing. We also revisited the living things unit. First, we read a
wonderful book “Are You Living?” and then we learned how to do a presentation
for our upcoming diorama “Show And Tell”.
Edible Snowman: On Friday afternoon, students have a blast when they had to make their own edible snowman with marshmallow,raisans, pretzel sticks,and cake frosting:)
Visual Arts: In Visual Arts, we made two crafts: a wind sock craft for the
“long A” vowel sound and learned how
to make a snow globe using q -tip painting.
Islamic Studies: We read a story on Prophet Muhammad (P.B.U.H). We also
watched a video on Wudu (Ablution) and then started to practice how to make wudu the way Prophet Muhammad (P.B.U.H) taught us. We also practiced a “Wudu Poem. 
Quran Competition:
On Wednesday, Abraar
school had its annual Quran competition. Congratulation to Youness and Mariam from
SK2 for being in first and second place,
Masha-Allah!.
Masha-Allah!.
Development Reading Assessment 2:
This year, from
January 2014, Abraar School
Jazakumullahu-khaira
for your co-operation and support!
