Monte Co-op Mar 2017 Lesson 1
I have finally recovered from clearing the house of most its excess and was leisurely easing into preparing some lesson materials (I was suffering from no-formal-class-to prep for syndrome the past three days) when I found out about the passing of an Ustaz whom I looked up to in my early years of 'returning' to my deen and when I was working with the children of converts.
May Allah bless him and place him among the righteous.
Death always reminds you of your own short life and what little you've done. In between grieving the loss at this trying time for the ummah, I had a jolt of motivation to do more with what little way I can. (I actually tidied, mopped and prepped lesson in a few hours.)
Teaching fellow HSrs was my little way of doing something with what little I know.
So today I read an interactive (not digital, the type where you pull tabs and turn dials) recipe book on pancakes, made pancakes and learned about fractions while also learning how to cut pancakes into equal parts with a knife and fork.
I overestimated the children on the last part. Maybe we should have table etiquette next time around. As for learning the fractions with pancakes, by that time all the children wanted to do was eat. I wonder if they even heard what I was saying. Lol.
When we came back from the "backyard" I wanted to do individual work. I was teaching one of the younger girls phonics which included "f". I then realised I just bought a fish puzzle from the $2 store for my toddler; so I used that to teach her to trace the fish and wrote "fish" and "fin" on the tracing itself to extend on the sandpaper lesson.
Apparently it was attractive to the older girls too, so they joined. To extend it for them, I labelled the parts of the fish for them to copy into their notebook. Before you know it 3 hours had passed.
Life, it moves too fast...
May Allah bless him and place him among the righteous.
Death always reminds you of your own short life and what little you've done. In between grieving the loss at this trying time for the ummah, I had a jolt of motivation to do more with what little way I can. (I actually tidied, mopped and prepped lesson in a few hours.)
Teaching fellow HSrs was my little way of doing something with what little I know.
So today I read an interactive (not digital, the type where you pull tabs and turn dials) recipe book on pancakes, made pancakes and learned about fractions while also learning how to cut pancakes into equal parts with a knife and fork.
When we came back from the "backyard" I wanted to do individual work. I was teaching one of the younger girls phonics which included "f". I then realised I just bought a fish puzzle from the $2 store for my toddler; so I used that to teach her to trace the fish and wrote "fish" and "fin" on the tracing itself to extend on the sandpaper lesson.
Apparently it was attractive to the older girls too, so they joined. To extend it for them, I labelled the parts of the fish for them to copy into their notebook. Before you know it 3 hours had passed.
Life, it moves too fast...
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