So excited to have you in 3RD GRADE this year!
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Saima Adnan (Homeroom, Language Arts, Math, Science, and Social Studies): adnans@dupeoria.org
May Ghazawna (Qur'aan and Arabic): ghazawnam@dupeoria.org
Fatima Mubeen (Islamic Studies and Computers): fatimam@dupeoria.org
By clicking on above, you can access the documents. If you issues opening the above documents, please email me at adnans@dupeoria.org. Thank you.
SEPTEMBER Character of the Month:
RESPONSIBILITY
An every person is held responsible for his own actions. Quran 17:13
Sept 19 - School Improvement Day, No School
Sept 25 - MS Bake Sale
Sep 30 - Picture Retake
Please refer to the school website dupeoria.org for more detailed information regarding upcoming events.
IXL
IXL is a very important tool that we use to reinforce academic concepts. In order to check if your student has done their work or how did they perform, you may use the following steps. Please know that your student gets the grade for the assigned IXL only when done in the current school year.
In order to check if if your student did the work, here's what you do:
Log into your student's account
On the top bar, you'll find ANALYTICS. Click on it.
From here, you have two options:
OPTION 1
Go to the SUMMARY tab
On top of the title STUDENT SUMMARY, you'll find "Date Range". Please make sure it is "This School Year".
Scroll down and you should come to a list of IXL your student has worked on. To get more information about their score, just click on one and it should give you the details of their work.
OPTION 2
Go to the SCORE CHART
On top of the title SCORE CHART, you'll find "Date Range". Please make sure it is "This School Year".
Under SCORE CHART, select the subject. Then scroll down to the IXL you are looking for. It will give you both their score and when it was done. By clicking on IXL title, you should be able to view their performance.
The advantage of OPTION 1 is that when you have All Subjects in SUBJECT (This will be right on top where the DATE RANGE is, above STUDENT SUMMARY), and then you scroll down, it gives you information about all the work your student has done and when. In OPTION 2, although it requires scrolling, but it gives you scores along with date and how much time spent. Go with whatever works for you.
Any work done before the first day of school will not be counted. I look at these date stamps to consider if a student finished their work on time or not.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
WUDU AND SALAH
We pray Dhuhr in school everyday. I need your help in this:
Please make sure that your student makes Wudu in the morning and then puts on socks after drying their feet. I have already reviewed the steps of Wudu in class and how to do masah (wiping over socks) especially in school. Your help and support in review and reinforcement would be greatly appreciated. The students do not have time to take their socks off to make Wudu, then dry their feet and put on socks. The students use the restrooms that are attached to the gym ONLY when they have recess. The restrooms in the school wing do not have sit-down Wudu making area like the gym ones.
Please continue to review salah at home. We do go over it in school regularly. Any areas that we see that the students are struggling in, we reteach.
The students were amazing during this Friday prayers. The boys who prayed in the men's musallah area got complimented by Ms. Saba Fatima. She supervises the boys during Salah. The girls were upstairs with me. We have 5 minutes discussion about the Khutbah after we came back to class. The discussion focusses on things they learned or remembered that were mentioned in the Khutbah. We did this the first Friday in school, and this last Friday the students couldn't wait to be back in class and share. I am glad to report that they were really paying attention, and some remembered points from previous one.
HMH AND IXL ACCESS
I sent home HMH and IXL access information with the students this Friday. You will find it glued in their Daily Planner. The students independently logged in on Friday for final check. They were easily able to do so. I would appreciate it if you would set these two platforms up in the device(s) that your student will use at home for their easy access.
IXL: to access, go to ixl.com and enter their user name and password.
HMH: to access, go to https://hmhco.com/ui/login/ . Country --> United States/ State --> Illinois/ District or School --> Daarul Uloom (It would show up as you type 'Daarul' and then you can you can click on the popped up option.) / Click continue.
Insha Allah I will be emailing you the usernames and passwords. If you do not receive this information by 5PM today, please email me.
FIELDTRIPS AND NEED FOR AUTHORIZED DRIVERS
The students took home information about their first fieldtrip which is to Tanner's Orchard. We will be going in a school bus. While we are not limiting the number of parents/chaperones who can accompany us, however keep in mind the following:
Please let us know when you return the form along with the $7 entrance fee. We will purchase your ticket when we purchase the students' and you will be counted as part of our group.
You can meet us directly there. No need to come to school. Due to space limitations in the bus, the chaperones will have to drive themselves.
If you have multiple students going on this fieldtrip, please clearly indicate which grade you signed up to accompany.
On this fieldtrip, KG, 4th, and 5th will be joining us. As I mentioned on the Back to School night that in the absence of authorized parent drivers, we have to rent a school bus. This substantially adds to our cost. To offset individual high costs, we make the student group bigger (thus the other grades accompanying us). There are places I would love to take students, but they cannot accommodate this number since the facilities are too small. Just last year we went to WTVP station. It was just us, and this was before the new driver requirements went into effect. The year before this, we went to WTVP and the Peoria Courthouse. In order to be an authorized driver, a copy of valid driver's license and car insurance has to be submitted to the office. For current group, I would need 4-5 drivers with each taking at least 4-5 students. We currently have 19 third graders. Once I have the information that I have authorized drivers from the office, I can look into arranging these field trips. As always, Jazakallah Khairun for your support.
BLUE FOLDERS
The blue folders with the graded work be sent home on Mondays. Regular classroom work is to be kept at home, whereas quizzes and tests (or anything marked "please sign and return') are to be sent back with your signature on them. Please make sure that the folders are returned by Friday or following Monday at the latest. I can not send papers home without the folders. Email me if you have any questions about any paper sent home.
In class, we follow the procedure for class corrections. The students for do their work in pencil, and then later we review together. This is when the students use the blue pens. They can correct any mistakes they made or complete questions they didn't do. Sometimes, I may even ask them to do one or two things extra as a review. As long as the students have corrected and finished their work, I do not take any points. If there are spelling mistakes, missing additional work I asked, or missing corrections, I take points off. They can see my work displayed on the Smartboard. So when you see classwork with work done in blue by your student, that is them doing corrections. This practice gives us an idea of what the students actually know without them worrying about the grade.
VOLUNTEERING
Junior Achievement is one of those programs that 3rd graders love and look forward to. I am looking forward to a volunteer to lead this. All the materials are provided for. 5-6 sessions by the first week of December. We can work out a schedule that is convenient to you.
ROOM PARENT: Looking for someone to take this position. Their main job is to co-ordinate with other parents and organize events. During the school year, 3rd grade ha sthree main events: 2 semester parties and 1 bake sale.
AT HOME VOLUNTEERING: If you are looking for volunteering work that you can do at home, please let me know.
GUEST READERS/ ARTS AND CRAFTS: If you would like to come and read to the class or come teach art or craft, please let me know. We would love to have you.
Also, join the DU PTO! Their support make many things possible in school.
EARLY PICK-UP
If you need to pick-up your student early, I request you to please let me know if possible a day before or early in the morning the day of. I do not check my email at all when I am in the class. That time is for the students only. When I know in advance, I can make sure that your student is prepared and ready to go. Your support in this is greatly appreciated. Jazakullah Khairun.
DAILY PLANNER
On Friday, your student should have come home with a notebook marked as DAILY PLANNER. This is for every day communication. It is also help the students become more organized and independent when it comes to school. I would appreciate it if parents took a few minutes to check it everyday. Your initials would tell me that you reviewed the information sent home. More will be explained on "Back to School" Night.
LIABILITY WAIVER FORM
If you haven't yet signed liability waiver form for your student, please let me know. I can send the form home. It is one form per family.
SCHOOL SUPPLIES
Jazakallah Khairun for sending in the school supplies. Only the following school supplies are collected for community use in 3rd grade:
copy paper
Kleenex boxes/ Tissue boxes
Wipes
Pencils
The rest of the supplies are kept by the students for their own use. Each student has desk space and a drawer to store their immediate use. Extra supplies are kept in storage which they have access to should they need them. If later in the year, your student comes to you that they are running short on something, please note that your student was the only one to use them. Glue sticks are often the things many students run short of. If you want to take advantage of the ongoing clearance sales right now, I would highly encourage you to do so. I have already stocked up on this as back up supply.