As-salamu Alaikum Wa
Dear Parents,
Here are some updates:
As we are learning about bugs in
Spring, this week we learned about butterflies in Science. As well, we continued
to work on different literacy and numerical activities on butterflies throughout
the week. Sk2 loved these hands-on and fun learning activities.
Language Arts:
Phonics: In phonics, we continue learning Jolly
phonics workbook 7. We will be learning the following digraphs: qu, ou, oi, ue,
er, and ar, InshaAllah. This week we learned the sounds of the diagraphs oi,
and ue. Please check the link below for further practice at home:
We read “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” by Eric Carle to go along with our
“Bugs in Spring” theme. The book tells you about the life cycle of a butterfly
through beautiful illustrations and engaging text. It is an all time favourite
book among SK2 students!
Literacy Tips:
- Read for 20 minutes with your child everyday.
- Please help your child to read the book from their reading bag daily.
- Go to starfalls.com and readingbears.org to enhance your child’s reading skills.
We continued
to learn how to add using addition strategies like drawing pictures and counting
fingers in order to write an addition sentence.
We made a
“The Hungry Caterpillar” addition booklet and practiced our addition
skills. Sk2 really loved to do addition.
Math tips:
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Have
your child draw pictures on a calendar to record each day’s weather. At the end
of the month, make a picture graph showing how many sunny days, rainy days, and
cloudy days were there in that month.
·
Have
your children manipulate objects to figure out basic concepts in Math. For
addition, they could add one, two, or more blocks to a pile of blocks and then
tell you how many blocks are in the pile.
·
Play
board games like Chutes & Ladders, Sorry!, Dominoes, etc. as they promote
the development of counting skills, understandings of patterns, and numeral
recognition.
Science:
·
We watched a very interesting and educational video
about butterflies, and then we made an anchor chart together about it.
·
We made the life cycle of a butterfly on a paper
plate.
Islamic Studies:
This week, we learned the fourth
pillar of Islam, “The Zakah’ (Charity). We did a class discussion of ways to
give charity (helping poor with money or food, smiling at someone, helping and
respecting parents, listening to teachers, etc…).
Arts:
To go along with our Butterfly
theme, we made butterfly masks.
Edible snack:
We beautifully decorated the butterfly cookies and ate them after! Yum!
Jazaki Allah Khairen to sister Laura
(Hala’s Mom) for baking butterfly cookies for us.
Career Day:
On Wednesday, Abraar School
3-D Masjid Presentations:
Sk2's are doing a wonderful job
presenting their 3D masjid projects, Masha-Allah!
Field Trip:
We had a great field trip to the Nepean
Centrepointe Library on Friday, Alhumdulilah. Students enjoyed the interactive
read-a-louds and a tour of the children's section. Jazakum-Allahu-Khairun to our volunteers who went with us. We couldn't have done it without you!
Jazakumullahu-khaira
for your co-operation and support!
