Kafa D'Notts , 30th November 2013

Assalamualaikum

Hi everyone!

          Little caliphs of Nottingham had a fun session on the last day of November. Everybody seemed to be looking forward for  that particular day, and Masyaallah, the kids really did enjoy themselves.

      The little caliphs started the morning with  Circle Time, during which they sat in a circle and sang the salawat, praising Allah and remembering the prophet. As we sang " anta shamsun anta badrun" , we reminisced upon the hard works done by the prophet for the mankind, and the kids learned the word 'sun' in arabic.

        During Al-Quran Time, the kids were split into two groups for juniors and seniors. They juniors tried to recognize the letters sin, jim and dal, with the help of the teachers ,and how sin sounds with fathah, kasrah and dhommah. The senior group had fun tracing the letters on worksheets, making them look beatiful with various colours.

               Brother Shoaib arrived shortly after, and he sang a song about Mary and Jesus together with the children, a song which we learned the past week . It was harmonious , although arguably off pitch at times. He proceeded with a story about Jesus and his mother, according to the Quran.

     After an engaging sharing session, the kids made paper airplanes and decorated their craft. They had then a little plane throwing competition , to see whose plane can go the farthest. Brother Shoaib tries to show that
while Allah has given Jesus the ability to create living birds out of clay, we could not even make proper paper airplanes. Hopefully some bit of teamwork and creativity were sown between the thrown airplanes.

   We had Snack Time  after that, while the parents prayed Dhuhr together. Time constraints made us unable to recite a hadith for the day, but surely we will do so next time, insya-Allah!