Our home-schooled children have been developing a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour and pattern, using watercolours to create a background.
Firstly, the children used a small piece of paper to try out the watercolours. Then they used the skills to colour and create a picture of a hot air balloon.
In Science, our home-schooled children have been learning about different types of germs & bacteria.
Germs are tiny organisms. They are so small that they are not visible to the naked eye and can only be seen using a microscope.
Many germs are useful and keep our bodies healthy. Some types of germs are even used to make food like bread and cheese, or as medicine like antibiotics.
Occasionally, germs can make us feel poorly. Only certain types of germs can have this effect.
There are 4 main types of germ: Bacteria, Viruses, Fungi & Protozoa.
Children have been learning Singular, dual and plural of nouns during their Arabic lessons.
Nouns in Literary Arabic have three grammatical cases (nominative, accusative, and genitive [also used when the noun is governed by a preposition); three numbers (singular, dual and plural); two genders (masculine and feminine); and three “states” (indefinite, definite, and construct).
Arabic nouns can either be singular( ﺍﻟﹿﻤﹹﻔﺮﹶﺩ), dual( ﺍﻟﻤﹹﺜﻨﳲﻲ), or plural( ﺍﹶﻟﺠﹷﻤﹿﻊﹸ).
Our home-schooled children have been busy participating in a science experiment which involved making coloured carnations.
They made colourful carnations from fresh, white carnations using food colouring and water.
The children experimented with red and green food colouring creating different-coloured flowers by using the plant’s ability to absorb water through its stem.
Alhamdulillaah yesterday afternoon we came to the end of the winter term 2018 at the Tuition Club and to celebrate the achievements of our home schooled students, we held an end of term ceremony and a parents afternoon.
During the ceremony our students were rewarded for achieving a 100% mark in all subjects on the Tuition Club behaviour and effort charts, and were presented with certificates and gifts.
Some of our Arabic students also gave a presentation and spoke about the environment. They spoke about the different ways we can protect the environment from pollution. Also, we had some lovely speeches from some of our home-schooled children.
After the ceremony we held a parents afternoon, which gave parents the opportunity to speak to the tutors regarding their child’s progress.
Alhamdulillaah a lovely afternoon was had by all, and the ceremony was a befitting end to a fantastic term.
We would like to thank all parents for their continued support, and tutors and students for all their hard work and effort.
We hope you all have a lovely winter break, and we look forward to our students returning on Wednesday 3rd January 2019 in shaa Allaah.
As we are coming towards the end of term, children have been revisiting topics of Ecology and Plant Nutrition/respiration in plants as well as many other areas.
Display posters were created which involved diagrams and pictures showing the part that flowers play in the life cycle of flowering plants.
By the end, the children were able to demonstrate understanding of the process of seed dispersal, the processes of pollination, fertilisation and germination as well mention the different stages of the life cycle of a flowering plant.
Our home-schooled children have been working together to make a mini-ecosystem for earthworms, using a soda bottle and a little creativity.
As with all other organisms, earthworms occupy a certain niche: They are both decomposers and consumers, feeding on things like decomposing remains, manure, and other small underground organisms like nematodes, bacteria, fungi, and rotifers.
Earthworms breathe by coating themselves with mucus, which allows dissolved oxygen to pass into their bloodstream, so living conditions must be moist and humid, or else the worms will dry up. They are ecologically important because they loosen and mix up the soil, enabling water and nutrients to seep through to plant roots. Since they can’t walk, earthworms move with tiny bristles, or setae, which are paired on each of their segments and grip onto the worms’ tunnel walls. Then the worms push themselves forward with strong muscular contractions.