10th meeting

Our today's stories - "Wash your hands!" by Tony Ross and "You're a big bear now, Winston Brown" by Paul May.

"Do you like to wash your hands?" asked Umm Uzair, as we sat down on the carpet for our story time. All of us agreed that we do. She reminded us that last week, when she sent us to wash our hands before snack-time, nearly all of us were back from the washroom in a blink of an eye... Could we have washed our hands well at such a top speed? :) Umm Uzair then asked us, why do we need to wash our hands? Hafsa had the answer ready - because otherwise germs would go down in our stomack and we would get sick.

The first book we read today was "Wash your hands!" It was a bit funny picture book about a little princess, who was made wash her hands over and over again. She kept on asking, why she needs to do it so often, till she got confused and asked: "Do I need to wash my hands also after washing my hands?" All in all, through this book we saw all the different occassions, when we definitely need to wash our hands.

Next, Umm Uzair asked us, if we were brave kids. All of us were ready to prove that, of course, we were very brave. Umm Uzair asked us, if we have ever been very scared of something. Isa said that he is scared to go upstairs in his home, when it is dark there, because he feels that some ghost or something like that could be hiding in the dark. Vajih said that he was scared in the airplane, when it was chaging direction and seemed to be turned upside down. Uzair said that he gets scared when he plays hide-and-seek, because people come on him unexpectedly and try to scare him. Hafsa said that she once got vey scared, when she was washing her hands, because a cocroach ran over her foot.

Then Umm Uzair asked us, what we do when we are very scared - how do we deel with our fears? Isa said that he just tries to run very fast, so that he can reach quickly in the dark the room he needs to go to. Muadh also said that he runs very fast. Uzair said that when he is afraid of something, he hides. But Hafsa said that she simply screams very loud, whenever she gets scared.

From this, we proceeded to read the book about Winston Brown. The story was very similar to that of the Goldilocks - Winston bear found out that a 'burglar' had been in his home, had eaten his porridge, broken his chair and had gone to sleep in his bed. He was so very afraid of this burglar that even his furr stood up on his head. But he tried to be brave and, without looking at the burglar, gave out a big roar, which scared the burglar (little girl), who then jumped out of the window and run off. Winston's parents were very proud that Winston had been so brave.

After the stories, we made our very own bookmarks. Now, whenever we read some book at home, we can use them to mark the place in the book.