Friday 5 August 2011

Finally getting stuff done...

OK it's taken us [well me] a few days to get into the swing of things this Ramadan...I was ill the week before Ramadan, then we decided - because of the long fasting day here in the UK - to stay up all night and then sleep from fajr until dhur. Well that was the plan and everyone did sleep until dhur...except me! For some reason I was waking up at 7.30am and couldn't get back to sleep so for the first few days of Ramadan I was sleep deprived [about 4 hours a night] and a little tetchy to say the least. Well, now I can manage to sleep until about 11am which is just enough sleep for me to back on track, alhamdulillah. So for the last couple of days....

Lego has constructed most of the buildings for his D-Day landing model - built to fit his ready made army, as you can see!:





We completed our Ramadan bulletin board thanks to the very talented sisters at TJ Ramadan and Mini Mu'min for their wonderful downloads:

We also spent an afternoon at Watermead Country Park and visited the Climate Trail:
They played on a dinosaur [with cargo nets, woop!]
Learned about recycling and our contribution to the ozone etc..
They climbed long poles...
Rode a polar bear.
We [yep, me too!] walked a rope bridge across the river [it was very wobbly and I didn't like it *pout*, lol]
Then we spent an hour or two sitting in a quiet spot by the lake reading Quran, skimming stones, fed the ducks and swans and did some sketching....what a lovely day. The swans kept coming up on the bank to hear the Quran and scaring Daisy lol!

And Sprite built this bubble blower from a Robot Kit [there was a bit of artistic license in play there I think, I wouldn't go so far as to label it a 'robot' but he's chuffed with it nevertheless].



And that's it!

2 comments:

Umm Tafari said...

As salaam alaikum,

Those models are spectacular, maashaa Allah.

I love that playground too. I don't think we have anything like that near us. Although, one of the most imaginative playgrounds in the world is in Northern Virginia and was featured on the
inculture online magazine http://www.incultureparent.com/2011/07/top-10-most-imaginative-playgrounds-around-the-world/

Umm Adam said...

Wa alaikum assalaamu Umm Tafari, that playground deserved to be featured how colourful and fantastic that children with disabilities can join in the fun too!