Weekly News & Learning

• Weekly Focus: Advanced VCe Patterns & Special Endings

• Objectives: Reinforce the "magic e" rule, introduce "u_e" (long /ū/ and /yū/ sounds), "_ce" (producing /s/), and "_ge" (producing /j/).

Group 2: Digraphs and Review

• Weekly Focus: Voiced/Unvoiced Digraphs

• Objectives: Practice "th" (voiced/unvoiced) and "ch" sounds.

Group 3: Short Vowel Review & Advanced Practice

• Weekly Focus: Short Vowel Sounds

• Objectives: Advanced practice with short vowels "a," "i," "o," and "u."

Amplify Skill 5: Basic Code, Tricky Words & Spelling Alternatives

• Weekly Focus: New Sounds & Tricky Words

• Objectives: Introduce /x/ (‘x’), /k/ (‘k’), tricky word "Look," and assess sound knowledge.

• Activities: Sound-spelling reviews, oral exercises

Chapter 6: Muhammad (ﷺ), My Prophet

• Focus: Prophet's Early Life & Key Qualities

• Objectives: Lessons on kindness, honesty, courage, and spreading peace.

• Daily Routines: Wudu practice, masjid visit, small Surah recitation.

Topic: Dua for entering the bathroom

Letters with kasra

• Recognize the shape of kasra.
• Know between fatha and kasra.
• Pronounce each letter of the Alphabet with a kasra correctly.
• Write the letters with kasra.

Unit 3: Lesson 7: Safe Internet Practice:

• Discuss rules for using the Internet safely.
• Role-playing scenarios on asking for permission, not sharing personal information, etc.

Includes : Activities | Show and Tell | Informational Tech Video

• I Ready Unit 3 - Lesson 13: Collect and Compare Data

• Math Daily Review: Numbers, Geometry, Measurement, and Algebra

Topic: Dua for entering the bathroom

Lesson 7 - Tanween kasrah

• Recognize the place of tanween kasra on letters and in words.
• Pronounce tanween kasra as a noon saakina when tanween kasra is at the end of a word.
• Write in the activity book.
• Practice reading the words.

PE

Lesson 01:

The objective of the drill is to help the players keep the ball at a short pace, an attribute that is expected of a good dribbler. This will help their touch and control of the ball.

Lesson 02:

• Students build and review motor skills, jumping, balance, coordination, and endurance.

• Students work on teambuilding,

• Students build a sense of problem solving.

SEL:

• Introduction the lend of physical as a place where the positive actions for the physical area body are learned.

• Lesson 23: Introduce the positive actions of the physical area for good nutrition.

• Math quiz: Lesson 11

• Math test on Friday, 11/22

• Quiz grammar: Simple past tense for regular verbs ‘’ed’’ for all rules

There is a project for Quarter 2 in Science and Language Arts coming up, inshallah. More details will be shared in the WhatsApp group soon, inshaAllah.

Lesson 11: Tell and Write Time 2.MD.C.7

• Session 1: Explore

• Session 2: Develop

• Session 3: Refine

Quiz math for lesson 11

Test : Math solving word problems involving money on Friday, 11/22.

Science

Chapter 2: Why aren’t the chalta seeds getting what they need to grow?

• Lesson 2.3 Investigating How Roots and Leaves Grow

• Lesson 2.4 Finding a Good Place to Grow

Lesson 2.5 Why Aren't New Chalta Trees Growing

Unit B, Chapter-6 “The Happy Marriage”

• Discuss about Prophet Muhammad (SAW) and his first wife, Khadija (RA).

• Discuss the key qualities of Khadijah (RA) that made her an ideal wife and supporter of Prophet Muhammad (SAW).

• Discuss the contributions of Khadijah (RA) in the early spread of Islam.

Lesson 19: Quranic Recitation Punctuation & Lesson 20: Similar Sounds Among Letters

• Pronounce the Similar Sounding letters correctly.

• Get to know the beauty of the sound of letters when they are pronounced correctly.

• Surah Al-Nazi'at 1-46

• Writing activity book

• Spelling Arabic bee words

PE

Lesson 01:

The objective of the drill is to help the players keep the ball at a short pace, an attribute that is expected of a good dribbler. This will help their touch and control of the ball.

Lesson 02:

• Students build and review motor skills, jumping, balance, coordination, and endurance.

• Students work on teambuilding,

• Students build a sense of problem solving.

SEL:

• Introduce the positive action of personal cleanliness

• What cleanliness mean?

• How can I get ride of germs?

• Cleanliness mean healthy body

• I am clean I feel good about myself

Technology

Unit 5: Lesson 6: What is Internet ?

• Basic explanation of the Internet using simple terms and examples.
• Discuss ways we use the Internet (History, How internet works and Internet Safety)
• Quiz

Art

Optical Illusion Patterns

• Basic art lesson
• How to draw a three dimensional hand using simple lines.

Unit 4: Ancient Roman Civilization

Lesson 3 The Roman Gods and Goddesses

• Explain Roman life and their beliefs in a short essay response.
• Take notes on a graphic organizer.
• Determine the meaning of words formed when –er or –or is added to a known root word.

• Students will analyze a Roman god and goddess family tree and add pertinent information.
• Identify the main ideas and supporting details presented orally.
• Compare and contrast people in ancient Rome using a graphic organizer.
• Form an opinion on the best type of government.
• Identify the present and past tense of to be.

Lesson 5 The Punic Wars

• Read to identify and record important information related to the previous lessons and the Punic Wars.
• Listen to identify and record the main ideas related to the significance of the Punic Wars and Hannibal’s role.
• Use guide words to identify which words would appear on a page of a dictionary.
• Use a note-taking strategy to summarize and categorize information about ancient Rome from previous readings.

Lesson 6 "Daily Roman Life Part 1" and "Cupid and Psyche"

• Use a note-taking organizer to summarize the main aspects of Roman life.
• Recount the myth “Cupid and Psyche” and compare outcomes to original predictions.
• Identify the point of view of a passage.

Lesson 7 "Daily Roman Life Part 2" and "The Sword of Damocles"

• Summarize what they learned about Roman life.
• Analyze Damocles and explain how his actions caused events to occur in a certain order.
• Outline an opinion essay.
• Utilize the proper verb tense of to have.

Spelling List 11 Group A

quiet quack queen squeeze quilt squeak quick squirrel quite question half thumb match climb myself scratch pitcher shelf crumb kitchen

Spelling List 11 Group B

jump left next end camp sank sing drink hunt stand long stamp pond bring young friend

Math

Unit 2: Multiplication and Division: Concepts, Relationships, and Patterns

Lesson 11 Understand how multiplication and division are connected

LESSON 10 QUIZ Friday, 11/22

Social Studies

Unit B Chapter 6: “Building Al-Ka’bah”

• Understand the historical background of the Ka'bah.

• Identify key figures in the history of the Ka'bah, such as Ibraheem AS, his son Ismaeel AS.

• Explain how Ibraheem AS and his son Ismaeel AS were tasked by Allah to build the Ka'bah.

• Discuss how the Ka'bah is central to the Hajj pilgrimage, which is one of the five pillars of Islam.

Lesson 19 : Quranic Recitation Punctuation & Lesson 20: Similar Sounds Among Letters

• Pronounce the similar sounding letters correctly.

• Get to know the beauty of the sound of letters when they are pronounced correctly.

• Surah Al-Nazi'at 1-46

• Writing activity book

• Spelling Arabic bee words

PE

Lesson 01:

The objective of the drill is to help the players keep the ball at a short pace, an attribute that is expected of a good dribbler. This will help their touch and control of the ball.

Lesson 02:

• Students build and review motor skills, jumping, balance, coordination, and endurance.

• Students work on teambuilding,

• Students build a sense of problem solving.

SEL:

• Introduce the positive actions for cleanliness

• What is cleanliness?

• How can I keep my self clean?

• Feeling good about my self when I am clean.

Unit 2 Middle Ages Part 2

Lesson 17: The Birth Of a New Religion

• Reading: Answer inferential and comparison questions about Muhammad’s early life.
• Grammar: Identify and correct sentence fragments.
• Morphology: Correctly use the prefixes un–, non–, and en–, given the context of a sentence.
• Writing: Scan the text to find quotes about a particular topic.

Lesson 18: Prophet Muhammad's Early Life

• Reading: Sequence events related to the spread of Islam throughout Muhammad’s life.
• Writing: Paraphrase information from the text.

Math

Unit 3

Lesson12 Multiply by Two-Digit Numbers

• Multiply a two-digit number by a two-digit number.
• Use area models and partial products to multiply.
• Use estimation to determine whether an answer is reasonable.

• Electrical devices convert electrical energy to other energy forms.

• The function of an energy converter is to convert electrical energy into other forms of energy.

• Examples of energy converters include lamps, fans, radios, and toasters.

Unit B - Chapter 6: “Surat-Al-Ghashiyah”

• Recite Surah Al-Ghashiyah (Ayat 1-16).

• Learn the meaning of each ayah.

• Learn the main lessons from the surah.

Test on Monday (11/18)

• Review Bidaya Book Chapter 6 (Lessons 18 to 20)
• Reading Book from pages 45 to 65

PE

Lesson 01:

The objective of the drill is to help the players keep the ball at a short pace, an attribute that is expected of a good dribbler. This will help their touch and control of the ball.

Lesson 02:

• Students build and review motor skills, jumping, balance, coordination, and endurance.

• Students work on teambuilding,

• Students build a sense of problem solving.

SEL:

• Introduce the positive action of avoiding illness

• What is illness?

Technology

Unit 4: Lesson 4: Introduction to Docs

• What Docs are and their uses.
• Show examples of simple spreadsheets.
• Demonstrate how to create a Doc.
• Show basic formatting (e.g., Write a paragraph, changing colors, different font type).

Art

Pipe Cleaner Flowers

• Use pipe cleaners, bend it to create flower designs, use different colors.
• Attach the flower to a green pipe cleaner to make a flow.

Unit 4

• Lesson 1 The Life of a Knight
• Lesson 2 Don Quixotes Journey to Knighthood
• Lesson 3 Quixotic Behavior
• Lesson 4 Characterizing Don Quixote
• Lesson 5 Don Quixote and Sancho's Obstacle

Reading
Continue to make inferences about a character’s personality and will summarize key events that add to the plot’s development.

Writing
Respond to a prompt based on an excerpt from Adventures of Don Quixote and write opinion statements using supporting textual evidence.

Math

Unit 2

Lesson 9 Compare & Round Decimals

• Develop strategies for rounding decimals to the nearest whole number, tenth, or hundredth.
• Recognize that you can round a decimal to a given place by comparing it to the halfway point between two nearby values.

Science

Social Studies

Chapter 4 Lesson 3-Slavery in the Colonies

• Summarize the development of slavery in America.
• Explain the contributions of enslaved Africans to the colonies.

Unit B - Chapter 4: Lesson 2 “Surah Nuh”

• Learn, recite and understand Surah Nuh (Ayah 10-20).

• Understand the message of Surah Nuh.

• Learn the importance of repentance, humility, and reliance on Allah

Group 1

Understand Quran 8A (Tashahhud)

• Renew faith in Allah and His Prophet.
• Seek divine blessings.
• Express devotion and gratitude in prayer.

Group 2

Lesson 7: The Alphabet Letters with Tanween Kaser (ـــٍــ)

• Get to know the beauty of the sound of Tanween Kasra.

• Recognize the place of Tanween Kasra in letters and words.

• Pronounce each letter of the alphabet with Tanween Kasra.

6B Mysteries & Investigations

Sub Unit 3

• Lesson 3 “We shall see if the inside throws any light...”
• Lesson 4 What Does the Furniture Say?
• Lesson 5 Which Clues Does Holmes Use?

6C The Chocolate Collection

Sub Unit 1

• Lesson 1 Evaluating Sources: Part 1
• Lesson 2 Evaluating Sources: Part 2

Reading: Reread the text and identify the clues Sherlock Holmes uses to solve the case.

Writing: Identify and explain how a textual detail is developed as a key clue in the story, and then identify and explain how a detail from the story misled them.

• Explain Talqeen, and other recommended acts to do when a person is on his deathbed.

• Recall the actions required for a Janazah during ghusl, shrouding and the method of Janazah Salah.

Grammar
Lesson 6b: فِي، عَلَى، بِ

• Learn that these three prepositions occur 3617 times in Quran with 7 Pronouns.
• Continue learning to read and understand the meaning of each Ayah of Surah Al-Hashr.
• Each student has their own packet to track their reading progress.

Exploring Plate Boundaries NGSS Standard- ESS2.B.6-8.1:

• Lesson 1.3: Exploring Earth's Plate
• Lesson 1.4: Analyzing Patterns at Plate Boundaries
• Lesson 2.1: What's Underneath Earth's Plate
• Lesson 2.2: Listening to Earth
• Lesson 2.3: Plate-Mantle Interactions

Objectives

• Understand how scientists investigate plate-mantle interactions at convergent and divergent plate boundaries.
• Construct physical models of plate movement at each boundary type (systems and system models), based on what they have read.

Part 9: Tools of History

• Core Concepts: 9.2 Historical Sources
• Core Concepts 9.3: Archaeology and other Sources
• Core Concepts 9.4: Historical Maps

• Section 1: Chapter Atlas

7D: Poetry & Poe lessons 2.2-2.6

• Practice close reading skills

• Cite specific textual evidence

• Make qualitative inferences

• Compare and contrast events in a text

Key vocab: brazen, decorum, acute, blasphemous

Please remind students to keep up with their homework!

• Recognize the Prophet's (S.A.W) noble character; the way he spoke and recited the Quran; manner of walking; reasons of fasting and devotion of his Salah.

• Outline the personality of Umar (R.A) giving examples of his attributes.

Monday, 11/18: Unit 2 Assessment Review

Tuesday 11/19: Unit 2 Assessment

Lesson 11: Understand Multiplication with Negative Integers

• Session 1 homework is due on Thursday, 11/21

Grammar
Lesson 6b: فِي، عَلَى، بِ

• Learn that these three prepositions occur 3617 times in Quran with 7 Pronouns.
• Continue learning to read and understand the meaning of each Ayah of Surah Al-Haqqah.
• Each student has their own packet to track their reading progress.

NGSS Standards: ESS2.B.6-8.1: LS1.A.6-8.3

• Lesson 1.3. Evaluating Initial Claims about Elisa
• Lesson 2.1-Exploring Body System Model
• Lesson 2.2- Problems with Body Systems
• Lesson 2.3- Learning More About a Condition
• Lesson 2.4- Conducting Sim Tests

Objectives

• Determine the molecules that cells need to function in a healthy body (scale, proportion, and quantity).
• Use a digital model to test how a medical condition can affect the functioning of the body and its subsystems.

Chapter 4: Ancient Egypt and Nubia "Hatshepsut"
Learn about the life and accomplishments of Hatshepsut, one of Egypt's few female pharaohs.

• Section 1: Egypt Under the Pharaohs

Novels in Verse: Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga

Students will start their official novel study this week! We will be reading Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga and each student will be sent home with a copy of the book. If you have any questions about the text, please send me a message!

• Analyze lines of dialogue to reveal how it progresses a story along
• Understand the role of narrative storytelling
• Examine the use of free verse in poetry to propel a topic or convey tone.

Key vocab: deference, transcend, manipulate, expressive

Please encourage students to keep up with their homework and reading assignments for this unit.

• Explain the importance of Taqlid.

• Recognize who is a Mujtahid.

• Recognize the four imams, their backgrounds, and achievements.

Lesson 10: Solve Linear Equations in One Variable

• Session 3 homework is due on Tuesday, 11/19.

Lesson 11: Determine the Number of Solutions to One-Variable Equations

• Session 1 homework is due on Thursday, 11/21.
• Session 2 homework is due on Friday, 11/22.

Quran Pages
3C Qur’an’s Call (Al-Baqarah: 21-22)

• Understand the universality of the Qur'an.
• Develop Taqwa (God-consciousness).
• Reflect on Allah’s creation.
• Practice Du’a and planning from the lesson.
• Continue learning to read and understand the meaning of each Ayah of Surah Al-Baqarah
• Each student has their own packet to track their reading progress.

NGSS Standards: ESS2A.6-8.1-8.2; ESS3.C.6-8.1; ESS3.D.6-8.1

• Lesson 1.4: Modeling How Rocks are Formed
• Lesson 1.5: Examining Evidence about Rocks
• Lesson 2.1: How Magma and Sediment Formed
• Lesson 2.2: Devil’s Tower
• Lesson 2.3: How Magma and Sediment Form

Objectives

• Use a physical model to investigate the processes that form igneous and sedimentary rock.
• Study the processes that create rock formations and the energy sources that change the rock materials and drive these rock transformations.

Chapter 5: The 13 English Colonies

• Section 2: Pilgrims Found Plymouth Colony (continued)
• Section 3: Settling the New England Colonies
• Section 4: Settling the Middle