Post Raya School
It was a surprisingly disciplined and engaging day at school today despite it being the first day after Hari Raya celebrations and the first day of post-Ramadan school. We are still on the Hansel & Gretel theme; don't ask me how learning about Islamic communities became a German folklore.
We read a chapter on where Germany is from a book on Germany, thereafter I let the boys do a virtual puzzle of the map of Europe on http://www.yourchildlearns.com/mappuzzle/europe-puzzle.html. We don't have the Europe wooden puzzle map and this sorts of make up for it, not? The boys enjoyed it and even asked to work on it again after our outdoors session.Ihsan even referred to his Atlas to help figure out where to put the pieces, eventually however the boys managed to do it on their own and reduced their time from 14 minutes to 5minutes.
Ihsan then worked on his workplan; selecting information on the Brothers Grimm to write a biography from http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm.html.He sort of sulked through it but managed to complete the rubric I printed out. Contrary to this, he was really into his multi-model long multiplication on http://www.cimt.plymouth.ac.uk/projects/mepres/book7/bk7i6/bk7_6i2.htm .
While he was working on them, Umayr and Sofiyya were trying to make a collage for the Hansel and Gretel book which is our project for this theme. Sofiyya however was more interested in 'cooking' the paper we cut and took out her own piece of paper to cut and paste.
We also read the "Colours of Germany" and I taught Sofiyya the primary colours in German together with Colour Box 1. She was however interested to know the rest of the colours in the book and we ended up using Colour Box 2 too and Umayr joined in. Eventually, we even revised the names for the colours in Arabic. Hooray!
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