ICR reflection 11/3/19

This week during my service, I helped mostly with the two smaller children who are 5 years old and 6 years old. Usually, the younger children are split up from the older children during lesson time so that they can learn things that can actually help them and they will not be lost during the lesson. This week, Anna and I helped the two smaller children work on reading, writing, and the alphabet in both Arabic and English. The children are not at the same reading level, the younger one can read basic books but the older child has a hard time with reading. Because of this, we worked on basic things such as the pronunciation of animals and writing the alphabet. After doing some reading work, we then moved onto Arabic. The school has some puzzles with Arabic letters on it, so we had the children match the letters and put them into alphabetical order so they were practising the Arabic alphabet. We then did the same things with letters and then gave them a little bit of a quiz. After helping the younger children, I moved over to the room with the older kids where they were having their lesson. They were finding a Surah to read and reflect on, so I did the same thing and read Surah 2 and tried to analyze it. After this, I helped in the kitchen by making lunch for the children. It was a fun day of volunteering, and next weekend we have a banquet with a large community of Muslims in the Indianapolis area.