Super Quick Lapbook!

Ia made this super-quick lapbook this morning! It was a ready made poem study lapbook which I got as a freebie on Currclick some time ago. It was easy to do, and was something different for English language study. She read the poem, did some copywork, did an illustration and the rest of the lapbook parts were based around questions about the poem. It was quite satisfying to complete something in one morning as our lapbooks generally seem to be taking longer and longer to complete!

Some of today

The boys have been doing some work on fractions in maths and conjunctions in English and they've been reading books from "The Danger Zone"history series on American history themes. In Islamic Studies we went through the incident of the rebuilding of the Kabah and for French they practised using mon/ma/mes. They also reviewed their memorised surahs and went out to the park for football practice with H.
The girls have used Education City, played with Top Trumps wild animal cards, worked on their desert lapbooks and read their reading books. U has also done some more on her All About Me project, which she is enjoying, maashAllah. Ia has done a little from her Iqra workbook and both did a little maths.
Looks like I forgot to get Ia to do her Quran reading lesson revision today, but she did go through the last 10 surahs on the computer.

Snowdrops

MaashAllah!!! Spring really is coming, inshAllah.....real evidence photographed today!!!!

Ship Pictures

Sometimes we do no art at all for ages, and then we do lots at once. I think sometimes I'm just not in the right frame of mind for art, although this is a poor excuse as it is not as if I have to think of ideas, I just copy them. The idea for the ship picture was from Deep Space Sparkle again.

U had her own take on this, and just wanted to draw a ship to put on her background, maashAllah.Following this both girls are enjoying an extended ship drawing session at the moment.

What with having other kids over this week and slipping out of our routines I'm feeling a bit confused about what day it is. I keep thinking it is already Saturday. I hope, inshAllah this week has been a refresher, although I feel like I need a bit of springtime!

Testing for Right Angles

Another part-time sort of day here today. The girls did a little maths, reading and Quran. U is getting quite well practised with her CVC words by now, maashAllah!
The boys had some reading, Islamic studies and a little French. I'm currently using the Collins French Club books I got from the Book People with them, although I don't use all the audio. We have been rather patchy with the French, although today I was pleased to notice that they could remember quite a bit of the vocabulary from the chapter, alhamdulillah, and their pronunciation seems to be improving too. I really want to be making more effort with the French, inshAllah.
This afternoon R and J's friend was over again, and this time his sister came too to do some baking. The three boys did some English comprehension together and then had free time.

Sunshine

I took the idea for today's artwork from here.

Today was sunny in a way that seems spring-like when it has been so long since warm sunshine, alhamdulillah.

The boys spent much of the afternoon playing in the garden with one of their friends. I did a little more work in the garden, cutting down the dead left-overs from last year, and the girls ran about for a while.

Monday

A picture from R's work today! Just to make a change. Our geography topic has moved on to South America now, and today's task was the continent map.

It is school half term so the boys went over to visit a school-going friend this afternoon. I do not see the point of taking a whole day off routine if there is nothing else planned to do, just because of school half term. The weather remains wet and cold at the moment, so not encouraging for spending much time outdoors, although I did try to tidy up a bit in the garden over the weekend. I hope, inshAllah, that we'll do some out of routine stuff further on this week.