Report: Thinkers' Club Session 2

Session # 2 
Date: 10^th August, 2014

Attended by: 15 participants
Report Written by: Zainab Salman

Today was the 2^nd session of the Thinker’s Club. We all gathered and introduced ourselves to the 4 new kids who hadn’t come last time. Actually, we didn’t introduce ourselves, we introduced others. We were paired up with somebody whom we didn’t know and were asked to introduce them. After that, we started our discussion. We debated over Do animals think? Everybody had different answers and then we decided that because animals feel and have emotions, they probably do think. But they just think around their basic needs; around their instincts. We also talked about whether animals have brains or not and decided that animals have brains because some kids had eaten cow and goat brains before. We were also asked that Is there any animal who’s brain is larger than it's body? After some time somebody answered the question and we learned that the ant is one such animal.

Then we wrote on the topic, A Day in the life of an Animal. From lizards to elephants and dogs, everybody had chosen a different animal to write about. We shared part of our writings with the rest of the class. All the writings were interesting.

We talked about Animals mentioned in the Quran. The responses were ants, honey bees, elephants, cows, spiders, etc. We discussed on diverse topics and answered several questions. We learned interesting facts and pondered upon different questions. We talked about birds and their nests. As the class ended, we were given a challenge to make a nest. You've to use no nails, glue or any artificial things. Most kids agreed to make a nest and seemed eager. This session was more interesting than the last one and everyone enjoyed.