• Sunday 9 August 2009 - Lots of adventures
So this week we went to a lot of difrent places. WSU, the library, gymnastics, the railroad museum, Car museum, rode the bus, went to the park, ate out, went grocery shopping and even to wally world. Very busy.  |
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• Monday 3 August 2009 - I cant even remeber all that we did
Hi there, I cant remeber all that we did this pas week but I know it was a lot. Lets see we worked on George and Martha The Tub and The Mirror, review arabic vocab and worked a lot on on and in, Thanking and gratitude, numeracy, made a eye color graph, learned about microscopes, went to gymnastics, jumma and discovery time at the library. We read My Crayons can Talk and finished Mary Poppins.
Yep thats all I can think of. |
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• Monday 27 July 2009 - HIS FIRST POEM!
Yes thats right folds the Boy wrote his first poem. I was reading him poetry about bubbles and baths and he said "I have a poem." I replied "You do?"
"A bubble,
"Going up, and up, and up,
"And POP!"
Mashallah, my boy's a genious! Even if I can't spell it! lol Anyway then i asked him what it was titled and honestly he then came up with some made up words that I wont even pretend I can say so I asked, "No, the name of you bubble poem. What's the name of your bubble poem."
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• Sunday 26 July 2009 - First Week Finished
Well we just finished our first week on friday and it went well. He seemed to have fun and I think he learned some, lol. I learned that we are week in the concepts of near and far. he had them backwards. I made a lap book for this so inshallah he completes it next week, we started it on friday. I made a lap book for the letters qaaf raa alif and noon. He loved it and i was quite proud of it mashallah.

I made a lap book for left and right but it not nearly as cool, lol. The harfun on had siders, a trail that each tim he was correct he got to put a sticker on the trail getting closer and closer to the masjid. It aslo had coloring and I made little textured squares with the letters on them. Lets see there was a fabric one, a stickey one(honey), one that I just let a lot of glue dry in the shape of the letter, and one where I glued the "bristels" from a miswak stick in the shap of the letter.
If he rembers to bring back the book from his dads I will inshallah show a picture of it.
I need a microscope for just this week alhumdulillah but I can't buy one as I can't even buy shampoo right now. I am hoping inshallah that we can barrow one from my friends step son but her step some has OCD and Aspburgers syndrome so he might not want to.
In the mean time I found a few cool simulated miscroscope links. Virtual Electron Microscope is pretty cool. Mashallah. Molecular Expressions also has some cool stuff.
I just need it to go with this lesson on Msnucleus in Applied Science. 
We read
Miss Bendergarten Gets Ready For Kindergarten, George and Martha, Five Senses, Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed, various poems about liking and disliking food including Turtle Soup, as well as poetry about growing. We made split pea soup and baked cookies, practiced writing our names.
- Recognize numerals and match to sets 0 - 10
- Use ordinals first through fifth.
- Recognize basic two-dimensional (plane) figures: circle, square, triangle, and rectangle.
- Complete simple spatial visualization tasks and puzzles
- Model and use directional and positional words.
- Name the days of the week
- Describe likenesses and differences between and among objects.
- Create patterns with actions
- Collect data to create concrete and pictorial graphs and describe the results as a group activity.
- Display and describe data with concrete and pictorial graphs as a group activity.
- Create and extend patterns with actions
(I don't really know how to get the text to behave the way I want it to so bare with me. )
Also this week we did TJ's Introduction to the Quran unit.
We reviewed alif, qaaf, noon and raa. As well as the Arabic words for this, house, mosque, door, book, key, chair, pen, desk, bed, yes, no, is this, what is this, star, boy, man, dog, cat donkey, horse, rooster, camel, teacher and hankercheif. O I slmost for got, in.
Lets see what is left, he went to gymnstics and to jumma. The Man was working durring Discovery time at the library.
I think I'd like to start a journal inshallah of things that the Boy liked. I will inshallah ask him each friday what he liked doing during school time that week and add my own notes. Maybe when we can buy some paper I will have him draw pictures of what he liked. Right now the only blank paper i have is consrtuction paper and not much at that. But alhumdulillah we have the chalboard and even some sidewalk chalk.

I think this week he really enjoyed cooking, playing in the dried peas and the harfun lap book.

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• Monday 20 July 2009 - So far so good! Alhumdulillah!
O my gosh! Today is going so well! Alhumduillah! All my hard work of pre is paying off i think. Right now he is playing in a tub of split peas (dried of c ourse) which goes with unit theme. This week we are reading George and Martha Split Pea Soup. Also Miss Bendergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten. He likes both the stories. I only have this unit planned completely out. As in daily lesson plans so I need to work on all the rest but I am really liking this.
Yesterday I started moving the "class room" from the dinning room to the Boy's room and I wasn't finished until 3:30 this morning but some of that time was filing lesson plans for the futer, gathering all the materials for this week and what not.
I didn't think i'd have time to cook today but it looks like I will! Inashallah.

This is the weeks outline:
Reading
Look At Me Now
Miss Bendergarten Gets Ready For Kindergarten
Writing
Write first name
Self Esteem
George and Martha: Split Pea Soup
Math
Counting, shapes, colors, calendar concepts
Quran
Introduction to the Quran
Arabic
Written
Writing first name, Alif, Qaaf, Noon, Raa
Spoken
Vocabulary
in,on, from,to
Concepts
definite vs indefinite
Applied Science
Tools of Discovery
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• Friday 17 July 2009 - Ok here we go again
So next week we start schooling again, although for two weeks now we have been working on Quran and Arabic. I am excited. I have half my school year planned and and now just gathering materials and what not.
I need to get a hold of a micro scope and some birds nests. I would just make the investment and but a microscope but the ressesion has hit the company my husband works for and they did some restructuring so we are $650 less a month and everything is getting more expensive. O well Alhumdulillah.
I am very excited about our new school year. Inshallah we we strike the perfect balance of schooling and playing and benifit the most. |
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• Monday 6 April 2009 - I'M A FARMER NOW!....well not quite or There is Life in My Dirt!
We had a wonderful warm spell about 2 weeks ago and I made a garden. I planted, cabbage, spinach, onions, herbs and what not. Then it snowed a few inches. Then it melted and snowed but didn't stick. Then It snowed and didn't stick again. And again. Then it sleeted. Then it rained. Then it sleeted. Then it rained. Today was nice and sunny. I took a peek out my back window and there I saw it! Something green!
Tomaro inshallah I'll take a picture.
There is life in my dirt!
wah hoo! And here is my spiderman.
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• Thursday 2 April 2009 - HRO (Home Relationship Officer)
I ran into an article debating the best title for what my "job" is. My dear husband while he values my being at home, doesn't get what it is I do. The title housewife, is fun and evokes images of Samantha from bewitched in my head. I like the title homemaker better because it gives me an ideal to strive twards. But really what I do is better discribed by HRO (Home Relationship Officer).

I feel like the biggest part of my job is being a tharapist. I belive there is an art to what we, HRO's do. Reading the mood of the situation, and what needs are most pressing in the family at any given moment.
Home because thats the ideal a lovely place where all members can find tranquility. Relationship because its all about providing the family memebers with the tools they need for the outside world. Officer because we have to be an authrity on the needs of the family.
What do you guys think?
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• Wednesday 1 April 2009 - Progress
• Sunday 29 March 2009 - Help please? Trying plan a gratitude unit for next year
Hi
So I am planning next year and I want to do a unit on Gratitude and thanking. All the ideas I am getting on the web are make thankyou notes and gratitude journals. Which a great but I need to know of books that are good examples and more many more ideas. Today is the only day I have time to plan with out my boy around, nor my husband. Its just me. I really want to take advantage of the day. |
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• Wednesday 25 March 2009 - Progress
• Tuesday 24 March 2009 - Progress
• Saturday 21 March 2009 - Progress
• Friday 13 March 2009 - Progress
went to discovery time
did a little bit of reading
played out side with kids a lot
played with play-dough
drew a picture of how he was feeling |
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• Tuesday 10 March 2009 - Progress
English read Pit-Pat listened to several books on tape (actully on line)
PE did BBC PE related stuff
Math, played tic tac toe and puzzels
Science learned about butterfly metomorphasis and anatomy as well as watch videos about several wild animals |
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• Monday 9 March 2009 - Progress
| English, read Thin Pig, played -in games, did sticker worksheets, COMPLETED ENTIRE Poo workbook! (I would ask "Should we take a break?" He would say "No, i want to do that page." Is currently listening to a book on tape. |
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• Friday 6 March 2009 - Progress
• Wednesday 4 March 2009 - Progress
English distar
Arabic, reviewed vocab, traced dthaal
PE silly sit ups, animal/arabic action game......
Math, reviewed 8,9,10,11
Science learned about Koko the Gorilla and dolphins |
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• Monday 2 March 2009 - Popeye!
• Sunday 1 March 2009 - Turkish Food, Can You Say Yummy! Noah pudding, manti, excetra
So yesterday we went to a Turkish Food Festival. It turned out to be a fund raiser for a Turkish community center in SLC. O my goodness! YUMMY!
We had manti, that is wikapida explaines "In Turkish cuisine, manti are typically served topped with yogurt and garlic and spiced with red pepper powder and melted butter. Ground sumac and/or dried mint can be added to taste. Manti may be made from shredded meat of quail or chicken in some regions of Turkey."
We had El acması borek kinda a puff pastery filled with ground meat filling,
I think this is the right stuff, Icli Kofte ours seemed oranger,
Some of these only the ones we had were crustier and made me think of hot pokets bruito wraped.
They had these too 
They have a meat filling as well.
Also Noah's pudding or ahura..i think thats the right word
(Its sweet, citrusy and kinda makes me think of oatmeal)
And of course they had some tasty baklavah. I'm not going to post a pic of baklavah because most peole are familiar. By the way I do NOT like it when there is lots of cinimon in it. There is a good greek restaruant here that has bad baklavah, its chewy like hard candy and tastes like red hots. YUCK, no this that we had was good stuff, alhumdulillah.
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