SK2 Weekly Updates! (April 14 – April 17)

As-salamu Alaikum Wa Rahmatu Allah Wa Barakatuhu

Dear Parents,

Here are some updates from our class:

Language Arts:

Phonics: In phonics, we learned how to sound out the consonant digraph, “th.” Also, to reinforce how to pronounce the “th” sound correctly, we made a cute thinking thumb craft. Here is the link of the “th” sound for further practice at home:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNZwTRQSfkY


Reading: We have been doing shared reading for the past month, Alhumdulilah. Every day we pick a special helper who helps the teacher during circle time routines. Afterwards, we read information about him/her written by the teacher. Then, the special helper chooses students to come up and circle/write sight words that are in the morning message. Sk2 are doing wonderful job during shared reading and writing.

Reading Program: Every Wednesday, students will take their book bags home for the reading program and will bring it back next Wednesday to get a new book, Insha-Allah.

Writing: We did a craft activity to practice writing down words that begin with or have the three consonant digraphs “ch,” “sh,” or “th” in them.

Literacy Tips:

• Read for 20 minutes with your child everyday.
• Play I spy games using the ch and sh  and th consonant blends. For example, “I spy with my little eye something that starts with the ch sound.”
• Go to starfalls.com and readingbears.org to enhance your child’s reading skills.

Math:  

This week, we have finished our unit on 3D shapes by doing some review activities through worksheets and hands on exploration, Alhumdulilah. We had a fun time sorting out different 3-D shapes that we brought from our home and we also set up a shape museum in the class. Here are some pictures:

Math tips:   

•  Look for 3-D shapes around your home. For example, marbles and oranges are examples of spheres and a tissue box is a rectangular prism. Sort and classify the shapes by size and colour. You can also make models of 3-D shapes with toothpicks and play dough.
• 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 started our spring unit. In our first lesson, we brainstormed signs of spring as a class using a circle map and then talked about how we can describe spring using our five senses. SK2 did a great job participating and taking turns to write about spring using their five senses, Masha-Allah.

Islamic Studies:

We  reviewed the steps of Salah and continued to practice praying in class.

Arts:

We made a “Consonant Digraph Garden” by writing down words that has "ch", "sh" and "th" consonant blends on each flower petals.

Talent Show:

We went to watch the Abraar School talent show organized by the PST. Two students, Laila and Saara, from Sk2 participated in the talent show by singing the songs ”I am a little teapot and “The blue sky is blue like blue bubblegum.” Thumbs up to their great performances, Masha-Allaah. We are very proud of them!

Jazakumullahu-khaira for your co-operation and support!