A message from our Quran teacher, Teacher Nesreen

Assalamo alaikom dear parents,

In Quraan, we started surat AL-ALAQ (from 1-3). Please, help your child memorize the sura with clear pronunciation. We also finished the first lesson of Nurannyah ( The single letters). Some of the students are still getting confused between the similar letters:

ج ح خ       ص ض ط ظ    ع غ

Here is the link to revise the first lesson:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmhQxsuyrzU

Jazakom Allah kahiran for your following up 

Nesreen Zahedah, B.Sc.

Quran & Arabic Language Teacher

Abraar School

www.abraarschool.com

 

Working hard in Grade 1A :)

Assalamu alaikum!
We have finished our 7th week of school, walhamdulillah!
We have achieved lots:

• we have gotten used to writing the short date on all of our work.
• most of us have mastered the rules of writing in our journals (please ask your child to tell you what the rules are).
• in reading we have been reading about living and non-living things, some stories just for fun, and we have been listening to online stories (please take the time to read with your child on a daily basis).
• in math we have wrapped up our second chapter 'Exploring Numbers'.  We have been counting by 1, 2, 5, and 10 (please practice that at home with your child).  We have practiced using the words 'more' and 'less'.  We used 10-frames (ask your child what that is) to solve our problems.  We talked about calendars and ordinal numbers. We are now working on chapter #4, 'Introducing adding and subtracting'. We talked about the difference between 'plus' and 'minus', etc.
• we have completed our 'Living and non living things' unit in science.
• in art we have been doing little tasks here and there.  We have drawn living and non-living things and written about them.  We have drawn things related to math (calendars/numbers/addition and subtraction stories).
• in Islamic Studies (taught in Arabic) we covered the following topics 'Thank you Allah', we thank Allah for all the 'ni'am' (blessings) He has given us.  Saying 'Alhamdulillah' for all that we have been given. Doing 'Thikr' (subhanallah, walhamdulillah, wallahu akbar). We talked about Allah's name 'Al-Hameed (The praiseworthy).  'Allah loves kindness' (lutuf). We have to be kind to humans, animals, and plants.  We respect our parents, neighbors, classmates, friends, etc. We mentioned a couple of hadiths that talk about kindness.  We talked about the story of the woman who was cruel to the cat and the man that was kind to the dog.  We moved on to talking about the 5 pillars of Islam (arkan alislam alkhams) and their importance in our daily live.
• in gym/health class we have been practicing the dos and don'ts of being in the gym.  We learned and played a couple of games: 'Middle line tag' and 'Dead ants'.  The students were divided in 4 teams and given a chance to dribble and shot the basketball.
• in social studies have started talking about 'rules', 'responsibilities' and 'relationships'. We talked about how all these things are important everywhere around the world. We talked about relationships at home, and at school.  We talked about the rules in the class, at school, at the park, on the street (how everywhere we have rules and we have to follow them in order for everyone to be safe and live a good life). We will talk about responsibilities next.

*Please note that I usually do NOT send personal emails home unless I feel that you need to be aware of something that happened in class, but please feel free to email me if you have any questions, concerns, suggestions, or/and comments.

*Usually I do not send books home because most of the time, but if you need to take a look at the work we are covering in class, please let me know and I can send the book(s) home.

*Also, if you need anything or feel like you would like to meet please email me and we can plan accordingly, inshallah.

*I am sure all of you are aware of our 'Zero Tolerance' rule, in which no one is allowed to touch his/her classmate in any way or manner.  Parents will be notified through an email whenever a student breaks the 'Zero Tolerance Rule'.

*I have completed the DRA (Developmental Reading Assessment).  I have tested each student by doing a one on one reading test.  I will be reviewing the results with Teacher Hajer (our Reading Program Coordinator), then we will send the results home, inshallah.

*Week 8 will be the first week we will be sending our weekly homework home.  We (Teacher Jessica and I) will send the homework home on Tuesdays and we would like it complete in a neat and organized manner and sent back to school on Mondays.

By working together we will have a successful year, inshallah!
Teacher Asma'a

A message from Teacher Nesreen, the Quran teacher

Assalamo alaikom dear parents,

Alhamdulellah, we finished surat AL-Sharh, and we kept practicing in the class. InshaAllah, I will test the student in this sura on Wednesday and Friday.

Please help your child to get ready to be tested !

JAK

 

Nesreen Zahedah, B.Sc.

Quran & Arabic Language Teacher

Abraar School

www.abraarschool.com

A message from Teacher Salam, the Arabic teacher

Arabic Language- Gr.1A (Abu Baker El- Sedeek class) - Tr.Salam Beseiso.

Assalamu alaikom,

In Arabic class we started the first unit God is ‘The Creator’. Students learned how to read and write new vocabulary, connect pictures with words, write the first and the last letter of the names of the things shown in the pictures, and we are learning a nasheed related to the unit.  

Our Arabic class, in Gr.1A is called (Abu Baker El- Sedeek) as I mentioned before, and has three periods weekly, 50 minutes each.

If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to send me an email at:

Sbeseiso@abraarschool.com

Jazakum Allah Khairan

Tr.Salam

 

A message from Teacher Nesreen, the Quran teacher :)

Assalamu alaikum dear parents,

Please help your child in quraan:

1. To memorize surat Al- Sharh with tajweed rules and clear pronunciation.

2. Keep listening and copying the link below, of the 1st lesson from "Nuranyah".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmhQxsuyrzU

 

Nesreen Zahedah, B.Sc.

Quran & Arabic Language Teacher

Abraar School

www.abraarschool.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Second Month of School has started :)

Assalamu alaikum!
Alhamdulillah, it is the 5th week of school already...
We have already learned so much:

• how to write both the long and short date on all our work.
• printing neatly and correctly.
• the rules on writing in our journals.
• in reading we are still reading about school (acceptable and not acceptable behavior).
• in math we have completed the first chapter of our math book (patterning and sorting) and we have started our second chapter 'Exploring Numbers' (when do we use numbers, how do we use numbers, where do we see numbers, why do we use numbers, etc.).
• in science we have covered the different between living and non-living things, the needs of living things, characteristics of living things etc.
• in art most of us completed our friendly monsters and have worked on our apple crafts.
• in Islamic Studies (taught in Arabic) we covered the following topics 'Allah is Our Great Creator' (Al-Khaliq, Al-Musawwir, Al-Bari)... We completed the simple phrase in Arabic 'Khalaq Allah...'.  Then we moved on to 'Searching for Allah' (Prophet Ibrahim's search for Allah)...  We talked about why Allah is not 'the sun', 'the moon', or 'the shining star' and how Prophet Ibrahim figured out that Allah could not be any of those things.  We used the phrase "Yabhat Saiduna Ibrahim ala Allah...", we mentioned that Prophet Ibrahim 'Khaleel Allah' (friend of Allah). Then we talked about the ones of Allah 'Allah wahed', by starting with the first of the five pillars of Islam... 'Al-Shahadatain', then we moved on to talking about 'Surah Al-Ikhalas'.  We talked about how Allah does not need anyone with Him.  'La ilaha ila Allah', 'Al-Wahd', 'Al-Samad', 'Al-Hayy', 'Al-Qayyum', 'Al-Aliyy', 'Al-Atheem'...  We talked about Tawheed (The believe in ONE God)Student got to reflect about "I love God, He loves me', why do we love Allah? Why does He love us?  'Limada nuhib Allah wa limada huwa uhibbuna'... the name of Allah 'Al-wadud' is what we focused on... 
• in gym/health class we have been practicing the dos and don'ts of being in the gym.  We learned a couple of new games:  'The mirror' and 'Steetcars'.
• We will be working on social studies after we finish our science unit, we usually alternate between social studies and science in grade one.

*Please note that I usually do NOT send personal emails home unless I feel that you need to be aware of something that happened in class, but please feel free to email me if you have any questions, concerns, suggestions, or/and comments.
*Usually I do not send books home because most of the time, but if you need to take a look at the work we are covering in class, please let me know and I can send the book(s) home.
*Also, if you need anything or feel like you would like to meet please email me and we can plan accordingly, inshallah.
*I am sure all of you are aware of our 'Zero Tolerance' rule, in which no one is allowed to touch his/her classmate in any way or manner.  Parents will be notified through an email whenever a student breaks the 'Zero Tolerance Rule'
By working together we will have a successful year, inshallah!
Teacher Asma'a