Last Playrgoup

Alhamdulilah we were blessed to meet a lovely group of families here in KL. We had playgroups weekly for the last year.  Alhamdulilah we've shared some special memories with them.  We hosted our last playgroup yesterday.  We made memory books, memory game cards, made our own pizzas and had icecream and balloons!

Its bitter sweet saying goodbye, but alhamdulilah for the memories.

Phases of The Moon

Alhamdulillah we have been able to establish a playgroup here in Malaysia which is a huge relief for us. Having a weekly get together with other homeschooling families has always served as a great sense of support for us.
We rotate houses and each parent who hosts that week also puts together an activity for the kids.

Last week we studied the phases of the moon in a very tasty way! Alhamdulillah!

Waste Management and Botanical Gardens

Last week we went to the Waste Management place which was really interesting! We learned about all the different things you can recycle, how the landfill works, how we should compost, how we should try hard to avoid things going into the landfill, how they make soil out of compost and how landfills have birds of prey to prevent seaguls from over crowding the place and also carrying the garbage around the city and spreading disease.  We had a school bus for all our homeschooling friends and after that we went to the botanical gardens.  The kids also had fun there, the program was really cute for kids complete with digging for bugs and feeding chipmunks.  Alhamdulilah for a great day! 

Fire Truck Visit

Have I ever mentioned how much I LOVE our playgroup? Mashallah we do some pretty awesome things!  This week we had a fire truck come to one of our houses for a presentation.  It was super cool! The fire fighters were really friendly.  They showed the kids all around the truck, let them sit inside and best of all, hooked up the hose to a fire hydrant and let them play in the water.  They finished it off with coloring books and driving away with their sirens!  We were really impressed = )

Garage Sale

Once again weve been keeping super busy and I havent had much time for myself, let alone the blog. So heres what weve been up to. We recently had a garage sale to raise money for our playgoup. Alhamduliah we raised over $100 and the kids had a great time. Yusuf's favorite part was selling lemonade. He also loved giving people change. Three weeks later hes still talking about it = )

Science Center

Me and the boys at the waterfall
(since we went with alot of kids, we had special red playgroup shirts made)

Yusuf's 'friend' teaching him about camoflage

Ibby 'helping' Yusuf build a ramp

Checking out the skull

Alhamdulilah we had a field trip to the science center yesterday. We had lots of kids mashaAllah! Everyone came on a school bus but I decided to drive my van and then stay after (bus was there from 10:30-1). One of Yusuf's friends and her aunt stayed back with us. We bought a membership for the year and Im so happy I did (it pays off in 2 visits). We had so much fun and were learning at the same time. And because it was a weekday it was really empty. The staff was awesome! They were so friendly and would come up to us and teach the kids and play with them. We will definatly be going back soon inshaAllah! = )

Playgroup: Winter

Today we went to playgroup. MashaAllah it was a lot of fun. It started with our usual circle time (surahs and songs) but for the first time we had the kids do show n tell which was cute. Ibby took a ball, and Yusuf took one of his new cars along with a Malaysian Twin Towers figurine that Baba brought back from his trip. Inshaallah we will continue to have show n tell apart of our regular circle time.
We then read the same book which we read at preschool class yesterday [The Mitten] and the all the kids brought their mittens, put it on a sheet, and used the sheet as a parachute and tried to bounce off the mittens and see which one lasted the longest. The kids had lots of fun!
After that we played with ice. The Mom whose house it was at froze a bunch of different ice shapes, including a big ball of ice made by freezing a water balloon, and different ice cubes, some of which had food coloring in it. The kids used water to stick the ice together to make buildings. It was a great playgroup.. and you can check out some of the pictures here and here (sorry Im having issues uploading pictures)

Playgroup: Winter

It was our turn to host playgroup today. For January we are doing a unit study on winter inshaallah. We read this book called "Snow."
We also watched a time lapse of the four seasons. To watch, click here
We passed a ball around our circle and each child said what their favorite season was.
We looked at what snow flakes look like up close. I cant find the link we used but heres similaar one. Click here.
And then we made snowflakes using these instructions. Click here


Then the kids drew a picture on construction paper and then used a q-tip and white paint to make snow. Alhamduliah it went well today. = )

Ramadan Lanterns