IHA Mission

To provide a nurturing Islamic environment where students aspire for excel-

lence in education, integrity and leadership skills to better serve humanity.

Principal’s Corner

Inside This Issue:

Ms. Mari 2

Ms. Huda /

Ms. Hanan 3

Ms. Hanan 4

Ms. Mona 5

Ms. Wafaa 6

Ms. Sherry/

Ms. Pam 7

Ms. Jane /

Third Grade

Student Council

8

Who am I? 9

Featured

Students 10-11

Events &

activities 12-13

Star Students 14-15

Indiana Horizon Academy

Important dates:

April

22nd — ILearn Testing

(3rd Grade)

24th — Picnic Field Trip

29th—30th — Terra Nova

May

1st — Mommy & Me

1st—2nd — Terra Nova

3rd — NO SCHOOL

13th—16th — NWEA

24th — Last Day of

School

24th — Award Ceremony

3RD QUARTER 2018-2019 VOLUME 1, ISSUE 3

Dear Parents and Community Members,

Assalam Aalikum WA Rahmatu Allah WA Baraktuh,

With the blessing of Allah SWT, our school year is coming to an end. We are getting ready to welcome the month of Ramadan. May Allah SWT accept all your worship reward you with many hasanat. We all have mixed feelings of excitement to see the growth and maturity of IHA students and feelings of sadness that we will miss seeing their beautiful smiles during the summer. Alhamdullah our fundraising dinner was very successful we were able to reach our goal to cover the financial deficit. IHA students’ performance was stunning. I am sure you enjoyed it as much as I did. I wanted to thank all the parents who volunteered and helped to make it a memorable event. I would like to thank all community members who came and supported our honorable cause to serve the Northwest Indiana Muslim community. We are looking forward to seeing you all again at the end of school year award ceremony. Please invite all friends and families to celebrate our success, achievements and Kindergarten graduation. I am sure you will proud of our students’ achievements in Academics, Quran and Arabic language. MashAllah some students in PreK already started sounding out and reading words in both languages. Some KG students are already reading sentenc-es and paragraphs in both languages a well. Jazakum Allah Khairan. Lama Almoazen IHA principal

To all the Parents

who helped with the

bake sales for Janu-

ary, February, and

March. Masha’ Allah,

we raised $2383.00.

Lunch with the Principal

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All About Ms. Mari’s Preschool and Pre-Kinder

In March, we celebrated Dr. Seuss and we did a few

cooking projects that really excited the kids!! We made

some green scrambled eggs after we read Green Eggs

and Ham, and a little guy came back to me and said

that his mom always says, “Green Eggs and Lamb” be-

cause it rhymes better, and it is not bad for you! I was

inspired and I might be trying that next year!

I was so excited that they loved eating

scrambled eggs, that after we read Oh

The Places You’ll Go!, I let them make

rainbow toast!

Finally, the weather is finally changing

into Spring and we have been able to

make it outside!! We are going to

spend as much time possible outside

until the end of the year!

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Ms. Huda’s Quran Blossom

Dear parents

السالم عليكم ورحمة هللا وبركاته:I hope every one is doing great. Can't believe how fast this year flew by. We are now at the last few week. In Quran we learned a few surahs including Surat Al-Feel. Kids were so curious to see how Allah swt destroyed Abraha and his Army and saved the kaaba. We also studied Surat Alkawthur -Asr and Al-humaza. In Arabic we still learning the Arabic letters and some vocabularies. The students love to bring things that begin with the letter each week and talk about it to their classmates. In Islamic Studies : Alhamdulilah, we learned most of the daily Dua’a and manners and how we should treat others. Also, We learned about types of charity A smile is a charity, removing harmful things from the way is a charity, and of course giving the poor is charity.

Ms. Hanan’s Quran Blossom

Dear parents: السالم عليكم ورحمة هللا وبركاته I hope you all are doing well and in best Iman and health.

SubhanAllah, how did the days flew by so quick? I can’t Believe that Ramadan is so close! May Allah swt always guide us throughout our journey in life. Wishing you and your family the blessing of Ramadan “Ramadan Mubarak”.

Arabic: We continue to learn the Alphabets and their vocabularies till the letter lam )ل).

Five of my students can now pronounce the words very well and they knew shapes of

the letters. They were so happy when they sang the vegetables song in fundraising din-

ner .

Qura’n: We continue with Juz Amma Surahs. So far, we have finished Surah At-

Tkahthur along with their stories. I am very happy that my students are competing to

memorize more than the required amount.

Islamic Studies: We have learned many Dua’a and many Manners that improved their

character as a good Muslim. Three of my students when they learned about charity

(sadaqah) and the rewards of it, they brought coins weekly to get hasanat and rewards

from Allah swt. Masha’Allah

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Ms. Hanan’s Elementary Arabic & Islamic Studies

Arabic for (KG): Students learned how to compose letters with the correct shapes to make words and put Harakat to read them with sounds, some of them like to draw the new vocabular-ies and write the words. Arabic for 1

st grade: Students learned the following units in “I love Arabic 1” book series: The

Daily life and Family, the Body and five senses, The Animals life and Arabic grammar.

Arabic for 2nd

Grade: Students learned about all about the presents verbs such as “what are you doing”, time, food, the four seasons, and the days of the week with numbers and colors . Arabic for 3

rd Grade: Along with Arabic Grammer, students learned about greetings, nationality

and names of countries, time, locations, shopping, and things inside a house.

Islamic studies for (KG): Students learned about Seerah (The Prophet Muhammed’s life from his childhood until his death) and some names of the companions of our Prophet Muhammed.

Islamic studies for (1

st) grade: Students learned all about the five Pillars of Islam, Wudoo’,

steps in Salah, and Ramadan and Fasting. Islamic studies for (2

nd & 3

rd) grade: Students learned and continue to learn about the 5 pillars

of Islam, Salah, types and conditions of Salat-ul- Jama’ah, Zakah & charity, and more about the Seerah the life of Prophet Muhammed .

Ms. Mona’s Elementary Quran Classes

KG:

We studied Surah Al-Inshiqaq, Al-Mutaffifin memorizing and meanings. An- Nuraniyah: we covered the fol-lowing based on students’ mastery levels. Lesson 9: training on altanween and the three letters of mad المدand the two letters of alleen . اللين Lesson 10: training on Sukoon السكون , Tilawah from Quran book.

1st Grade:

Surah Al-Inshiqaq, Al-Mutaffifin, Nuh, al-Ma'arij, Al-Haqqah, al-Qalam , Al-Mulk , At-Talak , At-Taghabun , Al-munafiqun , Al-Jumu'ah and As-Saff memorizing with the ayat meanings. Lesson 9: training on altanween and the three letters of mad المدand the two letters of alleen .اللين Tilawah from Quran

2nd Grade:

Al-hamdu lillahil-ladhi bi ni'matihi tatimmus-salihat (Praise is to Allah by whose grace good deeds are com-pleted)

Congratulations to Ibrahim Kawamleh, Houda Alkourdi, Abdul-Wahab Safadi, Rajaa Ibrahimi, Rihab Hamed, Harun Ibrahimi and Lillian KaaKaji on completing Hifz juza Tabarak. May Allah (swt) bless them and their parents for this accomplish-ment May Allah (swt) preserve the Quran in their hearts til their last breath.

آمين يا رب العالمين.

3rd Grade:

We studied Surah Al-Qalam from 1-52 , Al-Haqqah from 1-12 with

the Ayat meanings. Tilawah from Quran book.

Ms. Mona’s Quran Blossom

Dear Parents,

As-salāmu ʿalaykum

Alhamdulilah, as we move forward with our curriculum, some of the children can read from the

Quran and memorized Surah Al-Inshiqaq. We studied Surah Al-Lail, Ash-Shams, Al-Balad and Al-

Fajr with overall meanings.

Islamic Studies: We learned the following hadiths and duaas: Two phrases are easy but highly re-

warded, Be merciful with children, respect the rights of elders, The roads have rights, so fulfill their

rights, : "He who is favored by another and says to his benefactor: `Jazak-Allah khairan (May Allah

reward you well)' indeed praised (the benefactor) satisfactorily., Dua’a when visiting the sick.

Arabic language: We studied letter Thaal )ذ(,Raa ( )ر,Thaa( , )ظGhayn ( ,)غFaa( ,)فQaf )ق(,with

sound and different shapes.

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Ms. Wafaa’s Kindergarten Classroom

We are marching into spring! The school year is nearing its end! Third quarter was a busy time for us where so many events took place. Oh my! Oh my! How did the days go by so fast? Kindergarteners are continuing to learn to read and write as they are becoming more mature and responsible citizens not only in our classroom but in our school community. We are continuing to work on the three values: responsibility, respect, and safety while continuing to work on im-proving their Stamina, doing something for a long period of time without giving up or getting tired. Academically in reading kindergarteners are working on their decoding skills, reading long vowel words, multisyllabic words, chunking, fluency, and comprehension skills. They are also working on becoming word detectives while increasing their oral vocabulary back-grounds. They are learning how to use different strategies in decoding including looking for visual and structural cues when reading new words. We are all into good books and our favorites are: The Cat in the Hat, One Fish, Two Fish, and Red fish, Yellow Fish, Blue Fish, and Fox in Sox. Remember that Readers are leaders!!! We also celebrated Dr. Seuss’s Birthday. We had a full week of Seuss activities in math and science including predicting, measuring, recording data and conducting surveys.

We also celebrated culture Day. We explored Brazil, its culture, land marks, language, and its cuisine . Moreover , we celebrated the 100 day mark with reading books, math , science and studies ac-

tivities.

I would like to thank all the parents for their

continued support of our classroom and our

school! May Allah bless you all!

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Ms. Sherry’s 1st Grade Classroom It’s hard to believe that the 3rd nine weeks is already over! First grade has really been working hard. In math we covered time, geometry, and fractions. In reading, we have been working on harder concepts such as problem and solution and cause and effect. We also celebrated the Hundredth Day of School! Students were given the opportunity to go to each of the elementary teachers to complete an activity related to the hundredth day. Students had the chance to see how many licks it took to get to the center of a tootsie pop, pizza graphing, comparing school to-day to 100 years ago, and complete some thumbprint art. We also had our culture day during this nine weeks. First grade learned all about the Netherlands. The students learned about the food, clothing, symbols, and places. We made Dutch hats and wooden shoes to wear on Culture Day.

In the fourth nine weeks, we will be working on graphing and measurement. We will also be reviewing everything we have worked on this year. In reading, we will be getting into some of our toughest concepts this year: theme and author’s purpose. Please contin-ue to make sure your child is reading nightly and doing their math homework.

Ms. Pam’s 2nd Grade Classroom Wow can you believe we are counting down the last few weeks of school! We have been

very busy! We are learning about fractions, multiplying and dividing. We have been working on a class book with Ms. Jane’s class. We continue to work on fact fluency incorporating multiplication and division. We have only one 5 week unit of reading left. We completed 5 units in all. Writing is a challenge at times. We continue to work on drafting, editing, revising and publishing our work. We are learning about our world around

us in Science and Social Studies. The students have been working hard on their dramatic play and songs for the fundraising dinner. We look forward to the alphabet countdown and the end of the year picnic. Keep up the great work! 3rd

grade is just around the corner. I am a very proud of my class. They have worked extremely hard in all subjects. I look forward to seeing what’s in store for this group.

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Ms. Jane’s 3rd Grade Classroom Spring is finally here, and we couldn’t be happier in our classroom! As you know, we just finished the state I-Read test. Our third graders seemed to think the test was easy for them. Now, we are practicing and looking ahead to the I-Learn state test scheduled for the week of April 22, 2019. I-Read involves both Language Arts and Math, so we will be practicing hard these next few weeks. Please be sure that your child is reading every night, even if only for 20 minutes. It is important for them to build fluency. Lastly, I know the weather is getting nicer, but it is still important for your child to be wearing a coat. Although the temperature may be warm outside, the winds can be chilly. We want to start heading outdoors with the students to take advantage of these beautiful days! Thank you.

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Be the first one to e-mail your answer to

ihacademy13@gmail.com and your child/(ren)

will get a token from her/his teacher

Who am I ?

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Featured students

Lights, Camera! Action

Name: Ibrahim Kawamleh

Age: 8 years old Favorite Subject: Math

Favorite Book: “The world according to Humphrey”

When I grow up: I want to be a Computer Engineer

I am special because I have a strong faith in Islam.

Lights, Camera! Action

Name: Mohammed Zaid

Age: 6years old

Favorite Subject: Math

Favorite Book: “Snowman”

When I grow: I want to be a Engineer. I am special because I am the only brother.

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Featured students

Lights, Camera! Action

Name: Lillian Kaakaji Age: 6 years old

Favorite Subject: Science

Favorite Book: “Ever After High”

When I grow up: I want to be an Artist. I am special because I am a good reader.

Lights, Camera! Action

Name: Rajaa Ibrahimi Age: 7 years old

Favorite Subject: Math

Favorite Book: “Press Start”

When I grow up: I want to be a Pediatrician. I am special because I am a good helper.

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Events and Activities:

GrandParents/Special Guest Day

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Events and Activities:

Dr. Seuss Week

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January Star Students

Emilia Musleh Elien Mousa

Omar Alkurdi Noora Estwani

Muhammed

Safadi

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Salaf Alzeer

Mohammed Alhelali

Mohammed Alkhalidi Kasim Sayyad

February Star Students Page 15

Jude Alnahass

Rihab Hamed

Zain Mattour

Tulai Sayyad

Rayyan Jamaleddin

Alma Mousa