ENGLISH The Lesson-‘Toys’ was introduced with a ‘Show & Tell’ activity where the children brought their favourite toys & also spoke a few lines to describe them. This was conducted to simultaneously introduce the concept of ‘Describing Words’. The children completed the unit with focus on individual reading & comprehension. Dolch list was given to the children & Oral drills of the Dolch Words were taken up regularly in the class as it helped the children achieve reading fluency in the English Language. ‘Verb Wall’ took the attention of young learners as they wrote a lot of ‘Action Words’& pasted them on the Word Wall created in the class. This was done to foster the concept of ‘Action Words’. The Choral English Recitation on ‘Five Little Seeds’ gave an opportunity to our budding orators to brush up their oratorical skills. The activity ‘Envirophilia’ witnessed our young artists who came clad in greens talk about the significance of plants and nature in their lives. This activity saw the integration of English Language & EVS for the Subject Integration Week-19th-23rd August. HINDI छात्रों को उ मात्रा का वीडियो दिखाते हुए “उ” मात्रा का परिचय दिया गया और इसका उच्चारण सिखाया गया | सब बच्चों ने गुलाब के प्रतिरूप को सजाया | छात्रों ने इससे दो और तीन अक्षर वाले शब्द लिखते हुए वाक्य रचना की | उन्होंने भित्ति पत्र की मदद से “उ” की मात्रा से नए-नए शब्दों का निर्माण किया | श्वेतपट्ट पर छात्रों ने शब्द निर्माण किया जिससे उनका पुनः अभ्यास हुआ | छात्रों ने “विषय एकीकरण भाषा सप्ताह” में कविता का हाव-भाव के साथ उत्तम प्रदर्शन किया | बच्चों को “उ” व “ऊ” मात्रा का अंतर बताते हुए “ऊ” मात्रा का उच्चारण सिखाया गया | सब बच्चों ने झूले के प्रतिरूप में अपनी कल्पना के रंग भरे और दो और तीन अक्षर वाले शब्द लिखते हुए वाक्य रचना की | छात्रों का “इ” मात्रा का श्रुतलेख लिया गया जिससे उनका मात्रा का ज्ञान सुदृढ हो सकें | छात्रों की “उ” व “ऊ” ““मात्रा की यात्रा” बहुत ही आनंदायक रही | MATHEMATICS Students learnt to add the numbers with carryover by using place value blocks. They also learnt to solve the story sums in their Mathematics lessons. The concept of Subtraction was introduced as a take away process by using classroom objects. They were introduced to ‘Subtraction terms’ by using vocabulary cards. Subtraction was taught by two methods ‘counting backward’ and ‘counting forward’ by using number line. Students played ‘Snakes and Ladders’ game to develop the concept and enjoyed learning math the fun way. EVS Students went for a nature walk and studied about the different types of plants and parts of plants. They interviewed the school gardener and learnt a lot about plants and process of growing the plants and recorded their observations. They also understood about the “Life cycle of plants” through a class discussion based on their observations during nature walk. On 14th August students also took part in making ‘Seed bombs’ and understood the process and importance of growing plants. During the Subject Integration Week students came dressed as trees, shrubs and herbs and spoke about their various uses. INDIAN MUSIC With festivals galore, Music is a way to express our feeling and emotions connecting the festivals to festival spirits through Music. Our little musicians/singers prepared hard for their Special assembly planned during the Subject integration week. Everybody was held spell bound by the prayer song sung in proper rhythm and sur by our little singers. In Sangeet 4 all program, students practiced singing a new song 'Railgadi' and other class activities like vocal warm up exercises, rhythm clapping and animal choir. All these activities are helping the students hone the quality of their singing. DRAMA Students of Grade 1 learnt various forms of acting in the drama lessons. They learnt how to emote different gestures, postures and moods through body language and facial expressions. The ‘Shepherd and Wolf” story helped the students to display laughter, anger and sadness emotions through the story in the form of a role play in class. During the Subject integration week, the students performed a dance drama on Janmashtami and Eidgah. Their performance was appreciated and applauded by everyone in the audience. ART & POTTERY Students of Grade 1 in sync with the theme for the month ‘Plants’ learnt how to draw the National flower “Lotus”. In addition they also learnt to draw the national tree. They learnt different elements of colouring using colour pencils and oil pastels and are learning to enhance their colouring and shading skills. The students also made clay pen stands for all teachers to be gifted on Teacher’s Day. ICT The students learnt about computer mouse and its parts – left mouse button, right mouse button and scroll button. In addition, they also learnt the functions of mouse and how to drag and drop text and images using single click and double click. Students also practiced their typing skills. They learnt how to use shape tools to draw in MS Paint. LIFE SKILLS In their Life Skill lessons, students strengthened their ability to demarcate and protect their personal space. Students attempted a worksheet which helped them understand that they are the owners of their own. They observed through an illustrated example of how even animals protect themselves and saty safe and shared examples of how they can be safe. The session concluded by them understanding that it is OK to say NO, when in trouble they shout NO loudly-GO AWAY from that person/place- TELL someone trusted. WESTERN MUSIC In the month of August the students learnt the ‘’Wind song” composed by Sangeet4all Instruments played: guitar Exercises done: Vocal warm up with Musical alphabet (Do, re, mi, fa) PHYSICAL EDUCATION Coordination exercises
Swimming Students are learning basics of swimming i.e. bubbling under water and floating. Gymnastics The students learnt the following exercises:
ROBOTICS Unit Topic: Exploring Our Skeletal System - MAKER SESSION Challenge : In this session, students were introduced to a problem statement with the help of some videos and images to find out ways to design and build a complete Skeletal system with movable joints in arms and legs using ‘Straw it Kit’. he main focus of maker session is to see what students can actually think of building after learning the basic concepts about human skeleton. Here are few glimpses of kids while they are engaged in the activity: Some more glimpse of the student's activities in school.....
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ENGLISH The month of July started with the launch of a month long ‘ Fables Fiesta’ - A Reading Fiesta to inculcate the habit of reading from the very early years. This Reading Program saw students develop reading habit by reading the stories sent to them every day and writing a story report on their own. The month also witnessed the Spell Bee Finale wherein the children participated with great zeal & enthusiasm. As a part of the educational field trip, the students went for ‘The Lion King’ – a movie which was completely in sync with the month’s theme ‘Animals’, post which students made flash cards based on the movie & wrote two lines on it as a part of the class activity. To introduce the VIBGYOR concept students made a rainbow colouring activity where they learnt the names of the VIBGYOR colours while integrating Verbal Lingustics with Visual Art. Students enjoyed singing & dancing to the tunes of the VIBGYOR song, specially composed for the reinforcement of the concept. As a part of an extended activity students went for a nature walk to explore more about ‘A Rainy Day’. They spotted few small puddles, different kinds of insects and had lot of fun by listening to the pitter patter sound made by the rain drops. The activity transformed into guided writing on ‘A Rainy Day’. To teach the concept of Articles, the story of 'Article Brothers' was narrated in the class. Students even enacted the story in a form of a Role Play which enabled them to recapitulate the concept of the articles ‘a’ and ‘an’. HINDI छात्रों का ग्रीष्म अवकाश के बाद स्वागत किया गया | छात्रों को वास्तविक वस्तुएँ (तकिया, दिल और किताब आदि) दिखाते हुए “इ” मात्रा का परिचय दिया गया और इसका उच्चारण सिखाया गया | उन्होंने जाना कि केवल “इ” की मात्रा ही अक्षर के आगे लगती है | सब बच्चों ने चिड़िया के प्रतिरूप में अपनी-अपनी कल्पना के पंख लगाए | छात्रों ने इससे दो और तीन अक्षर वाले शब्द लिखते हुए वाक्य रचना की | उन्होंने भित्ति पत्र की मदद से “इ” की मात्रा से नए-नए शब्दों का निर्माण किया | श्वेतपट्ट पर छात्रों ने शब्द निर्माण किया जिससे उनका पुनः अभ्यास हुआ | छात्रों को गतिविधि में “इ” की मात्रा के अलग-अलग प्रतिरूप दिए गए जिसमें सब बच्चों ने इ मात्रा से शब्द सोचकर लिखे | बच्चों को “इ” व “ई” मात्रा का अंतर बताते हुए मात्रा का उच्चारण सिखाया गया | सब बच्चों ने मछली के प्रतिरूप में अपनी कल्पना के रंग भरे और दो और तीन अक्षर वाले शब्द लिखते हुए वाक्य रचना की | छात्रों का “आ” मात्रा का श्रुतलेख लिया गया जिससे सबकी मात्रा की नीवं मजबूत बनें| छात्रों की यह “मात्रा की यात्रा” बहुत ही अच्छी रही | MATHEMATICS Students were introduced to the ordinal numbers and positions such as before, after, next by participating in a race. In the second week addition was introduced by using classroom objects and place value blocks. Students learnt to identify Addition keywords for like more and total were used to enhance their mathematical vocabulary. Students played block games to develop addition skills. The concepts of regrouping in tens and ones were taught by using place value blocks. EVS Students learnt and spoke about their families during circle time to develop their communication and conversational skills. They understood the family structures and the terms Nuclear and Joint family. The topic ‘Animals’ was introduced by storytelling sessions in which the students played the role of different animals and they spoke about special features of those animals . They also collected pictures of wild and domestic animals and made a beautiful collage. ART & POTTERY Students made paper tigers in their Art lessons. They were given cut-outs of the body parts of tiger and they strategically assembled and did crayon colouring. During the Pottery lessons, students learnt to make an elephant head with trunk, attaching ears and eyes to complete their elephant head model. INDIAN MUSIC Students came back rejuvenated after the extended summer break to learn more in the Sangeet4all program. They practised class welcome song, vocal warm- up स, रे. ग, body game, class exit song, rhythm clapping, jungle song, new Train song and an animal choir in the class. This activity made the students understand how to start and stop and follow the instructions in a choir. WESTERN MUSIC Students learnt various songs this month, to name a few - Greeting song, Clock song, Dididi dong the ding (action song), Wind song and Praise song. Students thoroughly enjoyed learning new songs in the western music class. PHYSICAL EDUCATION Students started to work on their gross motor skills of static and dynamic balance. In the process different implements were used which would challenge them to develop good kinaesthetic sense and a better sense of how to control their body and also improve their eye-hand coordination. They also got started on their swimming and gymnastics classes where they got to know about skills such as bubbling under the water, kicking in freestyle, front float and Forward roll, Stretching and leg opening, turns and jumps respectively. ICT Students were taken for a visit to music room to know what is keyboard and made connection with the keyboard and parts of computer. They also visited the Computer lab where they understood the different parts of computer and its features. They were excited to learn and started to learn typing on the software named Tux typing. DRAMA Students learnt various forms of acting in drama classes, like mood, gesture, posture, facial expressions - happiness, anger, sorrow with the help of various stories and their characters such as the king and the parrot, dhobi's donkey, bullock and the lion etc. LIFE SKILLS During Life Skill lessons, students built their confidence by understanding about their safe circle. They were taught how they can help themselves and be safe without getting anxious and afraid. They made a personal illustrative chart “People I Can Go To” with their picture on it and wrote the names of the people they can go to for help. The safe people could be family member or a non-family member. Students are quite adventurous and sometimes get into petty conflicts. To avoid these conflicts students learnt how they can protect themselves and be harmless on playground by observing hazardous things around them. These skills can help students in avoiding careless mishaps and accidents. After all, playtime is all about exploring, learning and enjoying without getting hurt. ROBOTICS During their Robotics lessons, students made a human skeleton using 'Straw-bees' kit. This whole activity made them understand how skeleton gives shape to our body. They also tested the strength of the straw bones by putting weight on it to see what happened. They connected this to the real life to see what would happen if there was more pressure laid on the bones. Important Events in the month of July 2019 |
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