Egyptian Easter!

Hi friends,
How are you doing?

In Egypt, we have a kinda of different Easter. First off, it is on a different day. Ours will be the coming Monday. Second, it is a national holiday. Although it is a Christian celebration but Muslims and Christians get this day off. Also, some of the Muslims do some of its traditions on that day like egg dyeing. It is mainly to celebrate spring.

For this celebration, I prepared this sensory tub for Sarah and Farida. It was really a hit. After a while, they stopped exploring the tub and started throwing the papers at each other and on mommy while giggling so hard. It was really fun. All the items included in this tub were items I had on hand so it cost me nothing.The tub included:

• Plastic eggs
• rubber bunny
• feathers
• rabbit
• chick
• flowers
• shredded colored paper
• a small ladybug

Farida doesn't speak yet, she only says, "Mama, baba, tah (which means open in Arabic), bah (which means all done)" and that's all. I think this causes her a lot of frustration. She cries for the tiniest reasons nowadays. 

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Love,

Happy Birthday!

Hello friends,

It has been over a month since I last posted anything here. A lot has happened during this month. We finally celebrated Sarah's Birthday a couple of days ago. It was the first themed birthday party we ever had. Sarah was "Tinkerbell". So many details! It was a lovely party. First off, Sarah's generous godmother bought her the lovely Tinkerbell costumes with all its accessories from the states since we don't have it here. It was sent via DHL. We were planning on having 2 parties, one at home for our close friends and family and the other in Sarah's daycare but since we got a lot over the budget, we won't be having one in her daycare. We had 10 children :) Thanks to our great family members and friends who made our day so special. Here are some pictures, I am sorry for the quality of the photos, I didn't have time to edit most of them:

Also, today Sarah had her school interview. It is the same school I went to when I was a kid. Of course, I am biased but Sarah was more than perfect! She is a princess :) You can see dad and Farida at the back ;)

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Love,

Scary Feet,Scary Feet, Scary Feet!

Hi lovely faces,
Don't deny, I wasn't absent for long this time, LOL! Today's post come from my classroom :)
This our Course book in class. Module 4 unit 7 talks about body parts. Lesson C has a simple activity that asks students to make their own monsters out of play-dough.
Here is the deal:
The school provided each student with one block of not so safe play-dough. No googly eyes, nothing but this block that is supposed to magically turn into a monster :D Our students were never asked to do anything imaginary in their lives, they might be asked for a chart or something which mommy does of course :(
Our class rules rules were simple:

• Don't put your hands or the play-dough in your mouth.
• Students were divided into groups of 5s (Those 5 are supposed to come up with one big monster, this gave them also a variety to vary the colors)
• I play soft music as a background. If it stops, it means I have an important notification for them to hear.
• After they create their monster, we will gather in a circle and each student will describe his group's monster in one sentence (They were just introduced to have got/has got)

Of course, we were eagles hovering over their heads making sure no one forgets and puts anything in his mouth. Also, we had to show them other possibilities. For example, it was surprising to them that they could use their rulers to shape,carve, ...etc their play dough.

Here:

Yes, I love bragging about my students and my class. Yes, our students' monsters weren't the best if compared to other classes BUT it was their group work and their imagination! Our class was the only class that did this activity in groups while playing music with no help from teachers or mothers at home.

Currently, we are busy at home applying for Sarah in different schools! She is turning 4 in April! Wow, my big girl!

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Love,