SK2 Weekly Updates! (Feb10 – Feb14)

As-salamu Alaikum Wa Rahmatu Allah Wa Barakatuhu

Dear Parents,

Here are our classroom updates:

Language Arts

This week, we practiced long vowel sounds in order to thoroughly understand diagraphs. We made a vowel sound booklet, played long vowel bingo and did review worksheets from book 4, Ahumdulilah. We also started sounding out and recognizing new sight words. For more practice on long vowel sounds and other letter sounds, please go to this interesting website: http://www.readingbear.org/

Reading: In our read aloud time, we read the book called “My Mouth is a Volcano” by Julia Cook. This book teaches children the value of respecting others by listening and waiting for their turn to speak.  We also read “Pete the Cat and His Magic Sunglasses”.  This story has a great lesson about looking for the good in every day. As well, we reviewed how to predict a story by going through a picture walk and took turns predicting. Also, Sister Madlein came to our class this week. She read a book to small groups of students to train them for the upcoming reading program. Jazaki-Allah-khairen Sister Madlein for her great work and for volunteering in our class.

 

Writing: We wrote a journal response to a question: What do you want to be when you grow up? Students wrote some interesting occupations, some examples are: Dentist, Astronaut, Firefighter, Teacher, and Doctor. Masha-Allah!

 

Literacy Tips: 

• Read for 20 minutes with your child everyday.
• Practice finding words with long vowels (ai, ay, oa, ie, ee, ea ) with your child while reading at home.
• Go to starfalls.com and reading bears.org to enhance your child’s reading skills.

Math

We started to learn what is area and how to measure “Area”  with non-standard units of measurement. We did lots of hands on exploration, Alhumdulilah! 

On Friday, we pretended to be bakers and the students helped stir the brownie mixture. After the brownie mixture was baked and ready to eat, we cut the pieces and counted how many pieces of brownie would cover the area or space inside the dish. Then, Sk2 enjoyed the fudge brownie!!!

Math tips: 

• Bake cake or brownies and cut pieces in a square or rectangular pan. Then, count the pieces to see how many pieces will cover the space/area inside the baking dish.
• Play board games like Chutes & Ladders, Sorry!, Dominoes, etc. as they promote the development of counting skills, understandings of patterns, and numeral recognition.

Social Studies

We started a mini-unit on community helpers. We watched a video, did some fun worksheets, and played a riddle game about different community helpers and what they do. On library day, Tr.Nancy talked about what she does as a librarian. Jazakallahu Khairun to Sister Rabia for coming in our class and giving an informative talk about what she does as a dentist.

Visual Arts

We started to make an “All About Me” booklet for portfolio night.

Islamic Studies

We reviewed the steps of Wudu and watched the teacher doing the proper way of Wudu. Then, some of the students volunteered to model how to do Wudu after watching the teacher. We finished learning Wudu, and will insha-Allah start Salah lesson next week.

Gym

We have been playing and participating in skill building exercises such as warm-up drills, soccer and running. We also played co-operatively with our new giant parachute.

Field Trip

We will be going to the Museum of Civilization on a field trip on February 28, Insha-Allah.

Jazakumullahu-khaira for your co-operation and support!