Child/Tama: Abdulrahman. Teacher/ Kaiako: Naema. Date: 26th August/Here-turi-kōkā, 2019.

Asalam-o-Alakum Abdulrahman your last story was about how you have discovered
different ways to be creative and express yourself by enjoying playing music instruments
and recognizing the letters and developing the understanding of how things work. It is
also mentioned your creativity is supporting your social skills. It was mentioned how we
will be providing the opportunities for you to express your feelings and ideas using a wide
range of materials. During these last few weeks your attendance was not that regular but
every time when you came we make sure foster your learning accordingly. We
encouraged you to sit for mat time and observe the space where to sit. We encouraged
you to play in a group and share turns,

We made
To extend you interest in role play and creativity I brought cardboard pipe for the children
to be creative and expressive. I noticed you stood on my side and quietly waited for your
turn when I asked you if you want to come you showed your great interest by nodding
your head. I encouraged you to use your manners you said my turn please. As soon as you
got a turn you screamed into the pipe and I had a big jerk and said, “Wow Abdulrahman it
is too load you gave me a fright”. You had a big laugh and together we had great fun
talking and whispering through the pipe.

19/08/2019 Revisit: Today you sat down to wait for Mohamad to have his turn to get
perfume (Itare that King Suliman Bin Abdul-Aziz gave to all the people went for Hajj
effected by 15th March) on his cloths to smell and later had ZamZam water and dates
Teacher Naema brought form Hajj. After lunch Abdulrahman is learning how to follow rest
time and reading a story.
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Abdulrahman enjoying
bubbles with teacher
Jan and Saliha. He is
learning the technique
how to blow bubbles
he was so happy to see
he successfully blew a
bobble and popped it
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Abdul

nAbdulrahman today when you saw wood bark on the table with chalk and markers you
came and looked around then you saw me writing Abdi’s name on the wood-bark. You
took the red marker then drew on the wood bark and picked the black marker and
scribbled on the wood bark and looked carefully at what Abdi was doing then you gave
your black marker to Abdi and took the white chalk he left on the table and drew a line,
you liked it then scribbled on the bark with white chalk and was very happy to see visible
white lines on brown wood bark and said, “Look teacher Naema.” I complemented you for
your art work and asked you if you want me to write your name at the back you nodded
your head and gave me to write your name.
What is Happening:
you have discovered different ways to be creative and expressive and enjoying all the
learning opportunities provided by the centre playing music instruments and singing. It is
also evident that you are observing your environments and learning alongside other
children your creativity is supporting your social skills that is an important element in
building friendships with other children as you gave black marker to Abdi and took the
white chalk in exchange.
How can we extend this learning?
Abdulrahman, your learning pathway for this term will be getting confidence to develop
ways to express yourself appropriately build friendship with other children. Therefore, we
will be providing more opportunities for you to express your feelings and ideas using a
wide range of materials. We will also support you using vocabulary in context to your
interest.

Parents’s Contribution: