2010 - 2011 School Classes & Activities

     
        In 2010-2011, we started the new structure of the school of having a board,the the classes were structured in such away that we had an assistant teacher with every teacher.

Level 1: Arabic, Quran memorization and Tilawah classes with 2 teachers and an assistant teacher Level 2: Grammar, Tajweed, Tilawah and memorization with 3 teachers and one assistant teacher Level 3: Tafseer, Tilawah and Tajweed for Arabic speakers and all the classes attended Tafseer classes.

-  We reached having one hundred student and stuff members - Fashion show for sisters, a fun and learning activity about other countries traditions.
 - We had snacks and breakfast available at the break time.
 - We also provided an online training for all teachers with an online teacher for the purpose of getting an Ijaazah in al Qaydah El Nouraniya.
- We started because many sisters complained about their inability to attend the class because of their work or school situations, I created an online program, and started some sessions after paying registering in a website that offered virtual classrooms, the online school went on only for a couple of months because of technical problems in the website.
 - We added a new school blog, one for the school, one for the teachers to publish their homework for the students and for the students to review the lectures for their exams. The other blog was made for the teachers' training.These are their links:

 http://uqbahschoolhomework.blogspot.com/
http://teachersclasses.blogspot.com/

School Classes and Activities of the year 2010-2011

Arabic Class level 3

Farewell party for teachers

                                                     Face Painting Activity in the Bazaar

 Henna Activity 

 Arabic level 3 class

 Arabic 102 Class

 Arabic 101 Class

 Tafseer Class

  Tafseer Class

Farewell to a Teacher

Arabic Speakers' Class level 4

                                                            Farewell to a Teacher

Surprise Gifts in Classes for Students

Fundraising Bazaar Activity for the School henna and face painting and food were offered by the school

Fashion Show for Sisters

A very fun learning activity that the school has organized in this year is fashion show for sisters, where sisters from different countries modelled different cultural  dresses and gave explanations about the traditions, students modelled 15 outfits of 10 countries, these are some examples in pictues

 Nigerian outfits

 Nigerian bride

 Libyan Outfit

 Palestinian Traditional Outfit

 Pakistani Outfit

 Indian Sari

 West African Casual Outfits

                                                          West African Casual Outfits

Nigerian Bride

                                               

Extending the Schools Relationships, Professional Tajweed Trainer

Attempting to improve the school's programs, we international sought teachers of Tajweed like Ustath  Shbook, who trains students for Quran recitation competitions locally as well as nationally in Morocco. We interviewed him, he was was willing to help train some of our students online for Quran recitation.

Conversation in Arabic 101 Class

Arabic 101 Conversation Class

Graduation Party of 2009 - 2010

UQBAH 'S ONLINE SCHOOL

Online Cllass[1]

Slide Quran and Language School(2)

A Survey to Improve the School Performance

As Salaamu Alaikum

Dear Students,

                  In an effort to evaluate and improve on the functioning of our school please take the time to fill out the questionnaire.

1.     Do you believe that the syllabus is for each class is adequate? ___________

If not please explain.

2.     Are the timelines of the syllabus realistic? ________________

3.     Do you believe there is enough, not enough or too much homework? ______________________

4.     What can the administration do to improve your experience at the school?

5.     What are your thoughts on the tuition rate?

6.     If you are having difficulty paying tuition, are you willing to participate in fund raising?

7.     What do you believe is the reason for the high absentee rate?

8.     What suggestions do you have to improve the attendance rate?

Additional comments:

School International relationship (2)

We had a relationship with a Quran School in Saudi through Dr Sana, who helped create communication between the two schools. The Saudi Quran School provided us with advice, help in structuring the school, technics on how to teach adults Quran memorization and books for all the classes of different levels.
They also helped provided online classes as a professional training to all our teachers in Qaydah Nouraniyah with the purpose of getting Ijazah in Tajweed Rules through Qaydah Nouraniyah.
This is the blog where all online classes with the teachers are published:
http://teachersclasses.blogspot.com/

International Relationships with other Quran Schools

In the summer of 2010, the school tried to have relationship with Dar Al Quran for girls in Mekness in Morocco, they helped providing us with technics on how to conduct a Quran class, we learned from their experience and we discussed the possibility of creating an alliance between the two schools.

Arabic Language Caligraphic Styles

Deewani script is an Ottoman development parallel to Shikasteh (broken style). The script was largely developed by the accomplished calligrapher Ibrahim Munif in the late 15th century from the Turkish/Persian Ta'liq. Deewani reached its zenith in the 17th century, thanks to the famous calligrapher Shala Pasha.

Like Riq'a, Deewani became a favorite script for writing in the Ottoman chancellery. Deewani is excessively cursive and highly structured with its letters undotted and unconventionally joined together. It uses no vowel marks. Deewani also developed an ornamental variety called Deewani Jali which also was known as Humayuni (Imperial). The development of Deewani Jali is credited to Hafiz Uthman. The spaces between the letters are spangled with decorative devices which do not necessarily have any orthographic value. Deewani Jali is highly favored for ornamental purposes.


Click here to see a gallery of Deewani Style

Kufi was the dominant priestly script in early times. It was created after the establishment of the two Muslim cities of Basrah and Kufah in the second decade of the Islamic era (8th century A.D.). The script has specific proportional measurements, along with pronounced angularity and squareness. It became known as al-Khat al-Kufi (Kufi script).

Kufi script had a profound effect on all Islamic calligraphy. In contrast to its low verticals, Kufi has horizontal lines that are extended. The script is considerably wider than it is high. This gives it a certain dynamic momentum. The script often is chosen for use on oblong surfaces. With its glorious Handasi (geometrical) construction, Kufi could be adapted to any space and material -- from silk squares to the architectural monuments left by Timur at Samarqand.

Because Kufi script was not subjected to strict rules, calligraphers employing it had virtually a free hand in the conception and execution of its ornamental forms.


click here for more Kufi
images
For more information about other Arabic Calligraphy Styles visit these websites:
Islamicart website
Al Bab website
Arabic Calligraphy website to see more galleries

Some Of My Personal Arabic Caligraphy Art Works

Let's Learn the Arabic Alphabet

These are different Arabic Alphabet video songs as a learning tool :

Nawras Al Amal Arabic Language CD 1

Introduction to Arabic Level 1 By Hajiba Jonahi-Ivey

(Audio CD 2007-2008)
In this CD you will be able to learn: Letters, Numbers, Body parts,Greetings, common expressions and more in Arabic Language.
Buy: $14

2008-2009 The Sisters Arabic School

The school Started on September 2008.We have have had more students this year: around 40 students and six class: Arabic for beginners class, Conversational Arabic and Quran Memorization. For the intermediate level, we had conversational Arabic class, Arabic grammar class and Quran Memorization long ‘Surats’. This was with help of four teachers:Imani Hassinah Firdaws and Hajiba.
By the end of the year, students of the beginners level were able to read and write Arabic and to know basic tools of conversation. Besides this, they had to present an Arabic Presentation as a final project on the video. They were also able to memorize some short’s’ in Quran.
The students in the intermediate level were able to study some Arabic Grammatical rules, Tajweed rules and Memorized long ‘suar’ in Quran and did their Arabic presentation project for the finals.

2008-2009 Sisters Arabic School Graduation Party

Around 70 sisters had attended the party the 7th June at 2:00pm in the activity room in Uqbah foundation.Here are some pictures:



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The Graduates'Arabic Presentation Videos 2008-2009

The students who have passed the Arabic Class for beginners this year have had to make Arabic Presentation videos introducing themselves and their activities here are some samlples

More Videos Presentation

2008-2009 The Sisters Arabic School activities

Henna design offered to the Arabic School Sisters 2008-2009