3rd meeting

Our today's story - "Who Can Save Noor?" from "The Talking Tree and Other Stories" by David McRobbie

We had so many new friends join us today for the Bookworms Club! We were happy to get to know Zainab, Amina, Ayesha and Maaria.

Today was a special day for all of us, because we made our very own Bookworm, which will be watching us every Wednesday, as we read the stories and do our crafts. Umm Uzair had prepared the head of the Bookworm and it was our job to make the joints for his body. Each of us took a page of colour paper, put our left hand on it, drew a line around our palm, cut out the shape and wrote our name in the middle of that hand-print. As each of us finished our hand-print, Umm Uzair stapled them one by one to the head of the Bookworm to form his body. So the body of the Bookworm is made up of us! And the more members we'll have in our club, the longer our Bookworm will grow, Insha'Allah. Here in these pictures you can see our Bookworm and you can see also our little hand-prints with our names on them.

After finishing our Bookworm's project, we sat down and Umm Uzair started out by asking us, if we have ever lost anything, how we felt about it, and what we did in order to find that thing that we had lost. Ayesha had lost her bag, Hafsa and Uzair had lost their balls. All of us agreed that we were sad about loosing things. As we talked about finding those lost things, Ayesha's mom suggested that there is a special Dua we can say, which would help us to find our things sooner. Of course, who else, if not Allah (swt), can help us find these lost things?

Then, Umm Uzair asked us, if we ourselves have ever got lost. It turned out that Isa and Vajih had got lost! Isa was lost in Makkah, when he and his family went there for Umrah, while Vajih was lost in a park. Isa told us that there is a special place in Makkah, where the kids, who are lost, are taken to, so that their parents can find them again. That's where somebody had taken him, and that's where his parents had found him again. All of us agreed that in case we get lost anywhere, it is good to know by heart the phone numbers of our parents, as well as the address of our home.

Today's story was also about a child, who had got lost. In the story "Who Can Save Noor?", a little boy Noor had got lost by falling into an old well. All the villagers looked for him but couldn't find him, until a girl by name of Harun remembered about this old well and asked the villagers to go there and check it. And, indeed, Noor had fallen into that well. Harun, who was of short height, was the one, who was lowered on a rope through the narrow opening of the well to bring the Noor up. Harun saved Noor!