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Our home-schooled children have been learning Arabic vocabulary and labelling parts of the human heart.

The activity involved using online and paper resources to identify and label the main parts of the heart in Arabic.

They then went on to describe the functions of the different parts of the heart focusing on spoken and written language.

In Science our home-schooled children have been busy making a blubber glove and have been exploring what blubber does in the cold and in the heat.

To prepare, the children gently kneaded the vegetable shortening and distributed it evenly between the bags.

They then placed their hand inside the blubber glove and dipped the gloved hand into the cold water for one minute.

After this, the children were instructed to place the warm washcloth inside the blubber glove and feel the outside of the glove.

This activity helped the children investigate the insulating properties of blubber.

Following on from last week’s session on Tuesday, children at our Kids Arabic started linking the variety of fruits that they learned with associated colours.

Using the immersive language strategy, the tutor also supported the children to pronounce the names of the fruits and colours featuring key fruit images and vocabulary.

They also participated in a Fruit and Colours Matching Game which gave the children the chance to reinforce fine motor skills by working on the task challenge whereby the children cut out the fruit pictures and used them for the different games and activities.

This gave the children the opportunity to show how much they’ve learned about this topic.

During History, Key Stage 1 children have been learning about Ancient Egyptian Jewellery.

During this time, Jewellers were skilled craftsmen.

The jewellery was beautiful and colourful, and was made out of copper and gold wire, gemstones, coloured glass beads, and colourfully painted clay beads.

Wide collars were popular, as were rings, earrings, and bracelets worn at the wrist, upper arm and around the ankle.

Key Stage 2 have been learning how to make fruit with modelling clay.

The tactile nature of allows children to develop their imaginations and their motor skills while having fun.

Using the right tools, the children were able to create their fruits and once the clay sculptures were dry they then got the opportunity to paint them and add fine details.

On Tuesday, some of our home-schooled children visited the AbaKhan Fabric Store in Manchester.

As part of the Art Curriculum the children have been focusing on designing and will be making handbags this term.

Our home-schooled children have been learning about Ethiopia and Liberia during History.

They took part in a cooking activity serving an Ethiopian meal.

Ethiopian food is served on Injera-a special kind of flat bread that looks like a gigantic sourdough pancake.

Food is piled on the Injera, and diners tear off pieces of the Injera and use it to eat the food on top of it.

The food is made up of a mixture of cottage cheese and yogurt and Dora Wat (a spicy chicken recipe).

Our home-schooled children have been constructing sentences in the Arabic Language.

There are two ways to form sentences in Arabic: You can manipulate definite and indefinite nouns and adjectives, or you can pull together nouns, adjectives, and verbs.

The children have also been practising spellings which is important because it aids in reading and increases their vocabulary.

Some of our home-schooled children have been conducting science investigations.

Over time, they have been carrying out a collection of investigations around the topic of plants, looking at life cycles, factors affecting growth, parts of a plant as well as composting and plants that we eat.

They have been  identifying and describing the functions of different parts of flowering plants: roots, stem/trunk, leaves and flowers.

This also included the following:

•  exploring the requirements of plants for life and growth (air, light, water, nutrients from soil, and room to grow) and how they vary from plant to plant

•  investigating the way in which water is transported within plants

•  exploring the part that flowers play in the life cycle of flowering plants, including pollination, seed formation and seed dispersal.

The children are looking forward to many more exciting activities that are yet to come!