Precious Water

We began this session of our Book Worm Club with "Show and Tell", where our member Saaim Saadi shared his project of dinosaurs. He had made a 3D display of dinosaurs in the wild (all by himself Masha'Allah!), as his tyrannosaurus Rex stood menacing to one side and the Dinonychus who moved in herds stood close by. His replica of a Ankylosaurus, with it scaly back and block end tail was the most fascinating model, Saaim explained how it used its tail to hit meat eating dinosaurs who tried to hurt it.The children and mothers alike were impressed as he recounted their names, their eating preferences and then answered questions.

For more information on these ancient creatures do get in touch with Saaim.

Mysterious Costume

Next Umm BAPs appeared dressed in blue. The children tried to guess what she was trying to depict (someone thought she looked like a penguin) but they couldn't figure it out, so she decided to read a book to help them guess.

The book "The Water Hole" displayed the various animals that visit a waterhole and their reactions to what was happening to the water, as it slowly disappeared......the pictures helped the children guess that Umm BAPs was pretending to be a drop of water.

Following the story the book club members were reminded of how living things drink water. Imaan pointed out how our bodies consist of 72 per cent water and Lubna Aunty explained how cucumbers have 99 percent water. Aisha Aunty told us that watermelon has 97 percent water content and Alhumdulillah we all agreed that it is one of Allah SWT blessings to us that the most fleshiest and juiciest fruit are in season during the summer months, when we need to increase our water consumption.

We agreed that water is truly precious and we ought to show Allah SWT our gratitude for it. Umm BAPs then read us another book. "Precious Water; A Book of Thanks" reminded us how all living things need water to survive.

Following the story, Umm BAPs spoke of Allah's warning in Surah Mulk, that if all the water in the land were to sink away who could then retrieve it? Though water is replenished through the water cycle, each drop of water and even the water cycle itself, has been provided to us by Allah SWT alone.



With that in mind we discussed the various habits we could adopt to conserve water Insha'Allah. The children offered many suggestions and even the mothers shared their tried and tested practices.

Finally, before the snack, each family received a drop shaped paper, to take home, to develop their own personal pledge and course of action to conserve water, Insha'Allah.