Literacy

Learning happens for the preschool children when we create the environment for them. We have some students from last year and some brand new students who just started the school. We were careful  to ensure all children in our classroom felt included. 

Both the pre-K and three year old children were enjoying the lacing activity, no matter if they know the alphabet yet or not.  They were excited to make a necklace.

When we provided word puzzles, it was fun for the older children and younger ones too.  

They were learning the alphabet, colours and some of them just enjoyed the sorting activity.  Wring is an adventure for the preschoolers, especially when they have a job to copy something.  They will take the challenge, they do not care whether it was perfect or not. They just like to keep going -so we have a little table with some paper and pencils, and children can use it any time. When they were doing the alphabet collage, they were very creative to make something -some of them made caterpillars, some of them choo choo trains. The teacher was carefully telling the alphabet names when they were picking them.

Lacing with the alphabet is not only teaching the children all the letters, but also developing their fine motor skills.  Children were carefully inserting the string inside the letter's hole, and at the same time they were telling the name of the letter with the help of the teacher if needed.

Children were doing the puzzles with all the wooden letters.  Most of them were very enthusiastic to learn the alphabet and solve the puzzles.

Some of the children were practicing their writing, such as mastering their skill to hold the pencil correctly, and how to make a line or draw a circle to copy some alphabet letters.

Art is also a fun activity for the children. They explored working with various colouful foam alphabet pieces.

It was amazing to observe how hard working our preschool children are.  They were engaged, passionate and eager to learn how to write the A B Cs. I was so excited to observe that they actually were able to copy some of the alphabet successfully. 

Newsletter September 2012

Dear Parents Assalamualaikum , Welcome to all who are new to sprouts of Iman preschool this year and welcome back to returning children and families. It has been wonderful to see you at parent orientation. We are enthusiastic to greet your children, to work and play with them each day and to be partners with you in their growth and development. It is important that these first years of school for your child are stimulating and happy. Please feel free to discuss any concerns you might have so that we may know your child better and work with him/her more effectively. I especially want to assure families that phone calls and email are always welcomed. Few things about clothing your children: The first is that children who are recently toilet trained needs to have easy clothing they can take down easily by themselves when they go to the washroom. We are encouraging children to put jackets or shoes on by themselves, it helps them build their self-esteem. Secondly, a reminder about shoes. Please send your child in shoes that firmly stay on and allow them to run, climb, and riding. Thirdly please provide raincoat in the bag according to the weather. We already mentioned in parent handbook about providing healthy snacks and for drinks only water. This week we will focus to introduce our schedule, hand washing rules and help the children to make connection with each other. Inshallah from second week we will focus on the curriculum following the children interest . We will appreciate your donation for our preschool. Jak Sister Fatima

Last Day Party & June Newsletter

Assalamualikum Dear Parents,

It is hard to believe that this is our last newsletter of the year. Our first year of preschool is ending and some of our preschoolers will be off to kindergarten in the fall.

We thank you greatly for assigning your child to us this year.  We have truly enjoyed working with all of the children in our preschool and have seen growth, development and skill attainment in all of the children, masha’allah.

We are very proud to announce that some of our preschoolers will be graduating from Sprouts of Iman Preschool inshAllah. We will expect their prosperous and meaningful journey for their future will be full of blessings and success. Obviously, we will dearly miss them in the coming year. Most of them started with us in September, the beginning of the preschool and they made a very special place in our heart.

The last day of preschool will be Thursday, June 21st 2012 from 10:00am-12:00pm; we will have all classes together with all the parents.  All Sprouts of Iman Students and their parents will attend this day and time.  There will be no regular class during this special party day.

For the Last Day Party we will have potluck Inshaallah, I will provide  “potluck sign up sheet “ on the bulletin board and request all the parents to choose an item to bring, so that we can decide what kind of food we will bring for the party. This time we expect all the parents at preschool from 10.a.m. to 12 p.m with their children. We will have lots of fun and interesting activities with our preschool children as well. We thank you for all your support throughout the year. We feel a close partnership with our parents and send you our best wishes.

Please make note of this special event coming up.  The end of the preschool year is very special, whether it means coming to the end-of-year celebration or attending graduation.  Insha’allah we wish to see all children and parents for this last day event.  May ALLAH bless you all and your families.

Thank you

Sister Fatima

Baby is sick

 1:I set up the table with a doctor set and a doll to encourage the children for their science and social play.

 2:"k" picked up the doll from the table and said,'oh no baby is so red and hot -he need to drink some water ."He was checking the temperature of the baby as well."

 3:"J "joined with k with a tweezers  -and said"I think something stuck in his mouth ,he need help."

 4:Both of them were pretending that ,they were helping the baby to be cure ."

 5:"K " said ,"now the baby is ok he needs to drink some orange juice."

6:"R" joined with them with her little doll and said,Little baby girl come here to see the baby."

Let Them Explore

1: J was naming all the dolls--She was calling them her preschool friends names.

 2:Big doll is the teacher and small one is J.

 3:J gently held the teacher doll-Carefully  helped other dolls to sit and announced, "It's group time -sit down kriss cross apple sauce"

 4:She started to sing, "open shut them------Give a little clap--".

5: Another girl 'm' decided to join with J and she said, "This is princess-she is your new student".


Reflection: Dolls with the doll house is a very popular activity for our preschool children. I love to set up  the table with soft and bright color mats, so that it will be appealing for the children. Also I provide space for at least five to six children for their activity. When I was planning this activity- I  was curious, what will be their ideas-will they play princess game or Mummy, sister? When J came to the preschool, she was so excited to observe all the dolls and doll  house on the table. After washing her hands, she sat there and picked all the dolls from the bamboo tray, to my surprise, she said,  "This is teacher", Holding the big doll and the others she was telling her friend's name. Two girls together were taking their role as a teacher and student -Both of them were telling stories, singing songs and sometimes guiding as well. It was amazing to observe how engaged, playful and expressive they were when they have the opportunity to explore with the warm environment. 

block play

 E is observing carefully that the bear is sitting on the rectangle block.

 E likes to add the bear on the block .

 When he have finished he decided to put the triangle wooden block .

He carefully placed the triangle besides the bear.

My reflection 

 E always  likes to observe other children activity  before he will join to his own activity at the preschool .Yesterday when he came to the school ,at first  he was focusing on his art .When he finished his texture collage then, he was very curious about block construction .M was building something with the various shapes block .Mashaallah we are so lucky to have a such a nice block unit in our preschool .E  was observing him carefully ,when M moved to the dramatic play area , E joined to the block area.He sat down in front of the block unit and then he started to build something with the block.At the beginning he decided to add the half circle shape wooden block and then gradually he was adding various shapes and sizes wooden block for his construction .It was amazing for us to watch his perseverance-every time the tower was broken he started to build it again .He added a bear on the block and said bear .He was looking at the bear for few second and he put triangle wooden block beside the bear.Another thing was so surprising for me to observe that E knows that after triangle shape he will not be able to put another block on the triangle .He was engaged with this activity for longer time and we did not distract him for our transition.We waited until he finished his activity . 

MAY NEWSLETTER 2012

Assalamu Alaikum,

           

Last month we have been focusing on planting and some science experiment with our preschooler .We have planted some flowers seed outside and children are enjoying to see them growing. Following their interest we have started more dramatic activity for our children .We also started practicing Surah Nas .

We like to thank to all the respectful parents for contributing the delicious dishes and your valuable times to attend our preschool spring potluck .I hope you all enjoyed your time meeting with other parents, teachers and children .I will email some pictures of the potluck to all the parents Inshallah.

Upcoming closure:

Statutory holiday is on May 21^st, 2012 Victoria day.

Registration Reminder:

Please submit your registration/Re-registration   form for September 2012/13.As we have limited space available, it will be first come first served basis.

We like to welcome our two new children Reyhan Abu Maloug morning and Sumaya bukuk (Maryam’s sister) after noon classes.

Please put sunscreen on children’s uncovered area to protect them from UV ray.

Gentle reminder:

We have to go outside everyday; this is a government licensing regulation, except in extreme weather conditions. Please provide children clothing according to the weather condition.  Rain coat & rain boats are needed.  

Wish list:

Extra raincoat, boot

Spare clothes

Old magazines

Baby food jars

Art and craft item

Old suitcase

Containers

Thank you,

Fatima

Manager

Sprouts of Iman Preschool