We are potters. Columbin Pottery in pictures

Assalamu alaikum!

Some pictures of the potters in work and their finished products!

We did it! On a gagne!

Did we forget to mention that we WON the cleanest classroom competition? 

All the classes from CI to seconde were trying to win the coveted prize of a FREE trip to Magic Land. Alhumdulilah, our class won!

We are still trying to keep our class and our school environment clean! That is the point of it all!

The trip will be in January inshaAllah as we have 2 of our students who are travelling during the break!

Have a great day!

Reminder: Parents Teachers Conference

Assalamu alaikum!

Grade 5 report cards will be available tomorrow 19 December. You can also discuss the progress of your child at this time from 15h - 18h.

Have a great day!

Health and hygiene week this week

Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullah!

HEALTH AND HYGIENE WEEK

We're celebrating health and hygiene week this week!

We will be having activities all this week including the cleanest class competition. Now, Grade 5 said that they want to win the competition because they want the GRAND prize of the trip to MAGIC LAND. Now, that's all good, however, everyone has to clean up their OWN space. No collective sweeping or cleaning anyone else's MESS! This way inshaAllah, everyone is responsible for keeping the class clean just by keeping their own space clean.

VISITORS

We will be having some inspectors from the USA this week inshaAllah at IQRA. So just a reminder to students to respect school rules at all times and come to school neat, tidy and ready to work!

Have a great week!

Picking up the pace...

Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullah!

We hope that everyone is doing well!

We are a little behind in our lessons and we have been going quicker this last week and will continue over the next few weeks inshaAllah. It means, however, that students must maintain the agreed 2 hours minimum of lesson revision, homework and reading EVERY DAY including Saturdays and Sundays. It would be actually good to do a little more on the weekends anyway!

Nous sommes légèrement en retard par rapport a nos leçons. Donc les rattrapages, nous sommes entrain d'aller plus vite. Les élèves désormais doivent faire les deux heures obligatoires de révisions, devoirs et lecture chaque jour y compris les weekends!

Francais Revved up Essay competition 2014

Revved Up est un programme international d'enrichissement pour les adolescents développés à leur offrir des perspectives mondiales, les occasions de leadership, et le capital social significatif.

Ce concours d'écriture annuel pour les enfants de 10 à 14 ans accepte maintenant les inscriptions pour son concours 2014-2015. Le thème de l'essai de cette année est «Comment faire mieux a l'école?», et devrait être de 300-350 mots, tapés et soumises par voie électronique avant minuit à la date limite.

Students should be preparing their essays NOW!!!

DELF - Diplôme des études en langue française

IQRA students will be sitting this very important French language exam next year inshaAllah. 

Why take the DELF? IQRA students need to attest to high levels in both French and in English. This diploma is a recognized French diploma that will prove their profiency in the French language.

C’est l’occasion pour lui de mettre en valeur ses compétences en français, d’être récompensé de son travail pendant ses études secondaires. Les DELF sont reconnus dans le monde entier et votre enfant aura un diplôme valable toute sa vie !

Au-delà de sa satisfaction personnelle, le DELF est, pour votre enfant, une attestation officielle de ses compétences en français à faire valoir auprès des universités francophones, des grandes écoles ou de ses futurs employeurs.    

Sortie pédagogique - Field trip to Columbin Pottery

Assalamu alaikum!

Notre première sortie pédagogique sera le 04 et 09 décembre a Columbin Pottery, Cite Asecna, Ouakam.  

Our first field trip will be the 4th and 9th December inshaAllah to Columbin Pottery.

Pourquoi Columbin? Why Columbin?

C'est un centre de poterie qui est particulier dans le fait que les élèves handicapés (sourds, autistes) y apprennent a faire de la poterie. Et ces élèves sont des vrais artistes! Ils apprennent pendant 4 heures par jour / 3 jour par semaine les techniques de modelage, sculpture, peinture, vernissage, etc.

It is a special pottery centre because M. Ibrahima, the potter works specifically with handicapped (deaf and autistic) children. There are of course other schools that learn pottery there as well!

Qu'est ce que les élèves de Zaharah feront donc la bas? What on earth will Zaharah students be doing there?

Apprendre a faire de la poterie!  Trying to create pottery masterpieces on their first try!

Pourquoi une sortie sur 2 jours? Why a 2 day field trip?

Il faudra du temps pour cuire les pièces créés par les élèves. Ensuite les élèves vont apprendre le coloriage et vernissage! C'est cool non? 

The sculpted work has to be fired (go into the oven) and it will take time to cook and then cool. The students will come back to learn how to paint the pieces afterwards! Won't that be super?

Institut français de Dakar

Students will be going to IFD tomorrow!! Ils ne doivent surtout pas oublier a emmener les livres empruntés!

Mapping Point E / The Emperor and the king IN PICS

Assalamu alaikum!

STUDENTS' WORK

Social Studies - Creating Maps 

Map of the Point E area around IQRA

 Ibtisam

 Cheikh

 Dauda

 Mor Talla

 Maryam

 Awa

 Elh Malick

 Karima

The Emperor and the Kite

English Language Arts

Artistic representation of the Chinese folktale

 Dauda

 Karima

Ibtisam

Elh Malick

This week in Zaharah

Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullah!

May Allah accept our good deeds during these days of Muharram and Ashoura. Ameen.

PE Uniforms

PE uniforms can be worn instead of the regular uniform on PE days. PE days for Grade 5 are Monday and Tuesday.

IFD - Institut francais de Dakar

We will be going to the library this Wednesday 5 November inshaAllah. Students must remember to bring their books with them to exhange! They will also change their English reading books as well in the school's library on this day.

Xam Sa Deen competition

The Xam Sa Deen competition will be starting on Monday 10 November inshaAllah.

Parents Teacher Association

We need you! The first general assembly of the Parents Teachers Association is this Saturday 8 November at 10am inshaAllah. We hope to see you all there! Your support is needed!

Holiday

Reminder that school closes at 12pm Monday 03 Nov and will not be open on Tuesday 04 Nov.

End of semester

The end of the first trimester is the 28 November. We feel that our students are progressing so much alhumdulilah! We really have great expectations for Grade 5.

Have a great week et attention au thiere!

Progress Reports

Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullah!

Les bulletins seront distribués cet après-midi inshaAllah. Nous sommes disponibles pour vous rencontrer si vous avez des questions, des suggestions, ou des soucis.

Progress reports will be distributed to students today! If you would like to schedule an appointment to see a teacher, please contact us by email or telephone.

Going to the Spelling Bee finals are...

Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullah!

Huge TAKBIR to all the students in Grade 5 who participated in the knockout rounds of the Spelling Bee competition. They really, really, really, tried tried their best!

Congratulations to the preliminary winners:

English: Ibtisam and Awa

French: Karima and Maryam

We hope you win the school competition inshaAllah!

Ngor clean up in pictures

 

Spelling / Trip to Institut francais

Assalamu alaikum!

I hope that the week has started well!

Students have just left IQRA to go  to l'Institut francais de Dakar to borrow two new books in French. We will be starting our Reading Workshops shortly inshaAllah.

Spelling Bee

Les eliminatoires commenceront le 21 octobre pour CM1 et CM2 inshaAllah. Vous pouvez consulter les listes de mots sur les liens suivants:

The knock out rounds of the spelling bee will start on the 21st October inshaAllah. Students have received word lists. You can see the lists online as well by using the following links:

English Language Arts: 

http://www.k12reader.com/spelling/Fifth-Grade-Master-Spelling-Lists.pdf

English Foreign Language

http://www.4thgradespelling.com/4thGradeWordLists.pdf

Have a good day!

Ngor Community Service Field trip form

IQRA Bilingual Academy

Autorisation pour sortie pédagogique

La classe de votre enfant effectue une visite :                         Nombre approximatif d'accompagnants:                5 Mme ZamZam, M. Amos, M. Traore, M. Diagne, M Bamba     

Endroit:	Plage de Ngor / Ngor Beach
Mode de transport:	Le bus de IQRA BA
Quand ?:	(jour)  samedi	(date)   le 11 octobre 2014
Heure:		07:30 – 11:30
Informations supplémentaires:	Pendant la sortie vous pourrez parler à  votre enfant à tout instant en appelant le numéro suivant:    M. Traore 776504061 / M. Amos 70 655 89 20

Important:  Veuillez conserver la section superieure de ce formulaire .

Coupez ici ---------------------#Coupez ici  ---------------------#Coupez ici  ---------------------#Coupez ici  --------------------#Coupez ici

Veuillez retourner cette portion du formulaire à Mme ZamZam                                           

Veuillez retourner votre accord parental demain

Je donne à mon enfant,                                                                                        en classe de              _______________

la permission de participer à la sortie pédagogique a NGOR                                                            

                   

en         le 11 octobre 2014                                                            de                 07 :30 a 11 :30                         

Activité d'évaluation:   (voire pièce jointe)

Je vous autorise à administrer à mon enfant des soins médicaux  d'urgence.  En cas d'urgence veuillez contacter

	Nom	Numéro de téléphone
1.
2.
3.

Mon enfant suit un régime alimentaire spécial / à des besoins médicaux tels que:                                                           

                                                                                                                                                                                   

Mon enfant et moi connaissons parfaitement le code de conduite de IQRA et sommes d'accord qu'il/elle se conformera aux règles tout au long de cet événement scolaire. 

Signature  du Parent/Tuteur                                                                      Date                                                

Community service/Environmental awareness

Assalamu alaikum!

IQRA BA en collaboration avec l'ambassade des E-U, USAID - équipe verte, International School of Dakar, Oceanium, Dakar Women's Group et la communauté de Ngor organisons une nettoyage de la plage de Ngor ce samedi 11 octobre.

IQRA BA (Grade 5 and Grade 6) in collaboration with the US Embassy, USAID Green Team, ISD, Oceanium, Dakar Women's Group and Ngor community organise this Saturday a beach clean up in Ngor.

Time/L'heure: 7:30 at IQRA

 7:45  Expose par Mme Dierdre Bester, épouse de l'ambassadeur de l'Afrique du Sud et coordinatrice de l’événement sur l'importance de ce nettoyage et de garder l’environnement propre. 

Mme Diedre Bester, wife of the South African ambassador to Senegal will give a short talk on the importance of environmental awareness to the students.

8:00 Départ (bus d'IQRA) - Departure

All families welcome to participate!

La participation doit être confirmée! Participation must be confirmed!

Students will receive a field trip form tomorrow inshaAllah to fill in and return back to school. 

Les élèves recevront demain une fiche de sortie pédagogique qui doit être remplie et retournée le lendemain.

Eid Mubarak!

Wishing you a blessing Eid!

Eid Celebration Social Studies activity - In pictures

Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullah!

Nous avons terminé  notre chapitre sur les celebrations en Islam en Social Studies. Le quiz/test est demain inshaAllah.

We have finished our unit on Celebrations in Social Studies. The quiz is tomorrow inshaAllah.

Pour conclure, les élèves ont créé une mobile croissant lunaire - étoile. Voici leurs créations!

To end it all, they created a star and crescent mobile as an Eid decoration. Here they are!

 Awa

 Ibtisam

 Dauda

 Karima

 Elh Malick

 Maryam

 Cheikh

Mor Talla