jovial january

“Freedom in Mind, Faith in words, Pride in our Hearts, Memories in our Soul”

To commemorate our commitment to the constitution and to celebrate the rights of democracy we celebrated the 73rd Republic Day with patriotic zeal and fervor on the 26th January’ 2022. The program began with the invocation to the Almighty to bless our dear nation on the propitious occasion of Republic Day. Honorable Principal ma’am, Ms. Guneet Ohri, unfurled the tricolor in all its solemnity and grandeur with the tune of National anthem in the background. The special assembly began with the News reading followed by the thought for the day. The little cherubs from Grade 1D, demonstrated the presentation by dressing up like the great personalities of India, with a lot of passion and excitement. Their adorable song reverberated the surroundings. The students took pride in glorifying and celebrating the spirit of nationalism through the incredibly informative as well as interesting skit was performed to enlighten the gathering about the significance of Republic Day. Next was a scintillating dance performance which kindled the patriotic spirit in every Indian heart. Reminiscing the spirit of Nationalistic feeling the children of Grade1E presented their assembly on 28th January on the Martyr’s Day. The children paid tribute to the brave soldiers and the freedom fighters of India.  It was highly appreciated by one and all. Principal Ma’am was invited to address the gathering, wherein her appreciative words created a motivational wave through the children. It was a great exhibition of the essence of the nationalistic feeling which filled our hearts with vigour and pride for our country.

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mathematics

Students were warmly welcomed post the Winter Break. They had a recapitulation of the concepts of Lengths and Weights, followed by an introduction to ‘Capacity’ with the help of interesting activities in class. They compared capacities of two containers to understand the concept better and observed items around themselves in the house, further discussing their capacities in Litres and millilitres, in the class. Furthermore, they learnt to add and subtract using lengths, weights and capacities in real-life situations. The students revised the Fractions concept and attempted an MS Form assessment.
 
Young learners were introduced to the topic of Time, which they started by discussing the relevance of Time, Units of Time and their relationship.  They practiced to read time as part of their classwork and homework assignments. Towards the end of the month, students began to learn about ‘Quarter To’ and ‘Quarter Past’ and practiced several related questions too. 
 
Reference Links:
 
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbjy9ixs6Gc&t=7s
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pht7dTlM0VA

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science

Housing and Clothing, Our Earth
 
Learners took the center stage to assimilate the knowledge of how a garment takes its journey from fibre to fabric and further decorated and assembled to a wearable garment.
They explored the journey of silkworm from being in a cocoon to a secret economic enhancer for China in the early years by the sale of Silk Fabric.
They touched the area of life skills by recapitulating the importance of keeping one’s house and surroundings clean.
 
Learners analysed the formation of seasons, day and night, with respect to Earth’s revolution around the Sun and rotation on its own axis. Fetching the previous knowledge learnt, they brainstormed on ways to keep the environment clean.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxdViOP2HyI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SzjlsuyTdk

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social studies

The ongoing topic- “The Sun and its Family” was taken up further wherein the students delved deeper and learnt about the importance of space exploration and researched interesting facts about the famous astronauts. They also learnt about natural and artificial satellites. The students culminated their learning journey by designing their own constellations. To self-assess their learning, the students were given auto-graded live worksheets.
 
Later in the month, the students learnt about their home planet ‘Earth’ as a unique and blue planet. They recapitulated the facts already learnt about the planet Earth with the help of an informative video. Using visual-spatial intelligence, they marked the continents and the oceans on the world map. In order to make the marking on the map more interesting and livelier, the satellite view of the world map was shown to the students. 

The Republic Day was celebrated under the broader ambit of ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mohotsav’ where in GK Quiz was conducted in which our Suncitizens attempted an MCQ quiz on Quizziz and a PPT quiz with audio and visual clues.
 
Video Links –
https://youtu.be/sFZGZLRr6Dk
https://www.liveworksheets.com/worksheets/en/Science/The_Solar_System/Our_Solar_System_xa5810sy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPGNwkP5tv0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzf7Zs1USoQ
https://satellites.pro/plan/world_map#-24.080884,-39.164071,2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYYakyS_HOg

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ict

“Coding is the language of the future, and every student should learn it.”
 
In continuation to December, the students learnt more features of MS Word. They learnt the purpose and use of numbered and bulleted list, Superscript and subscript effects, etc. Using their knowledge of the features of MS Word, they applied their understanding by typing a document using these features of MS Word learnt [Newspaper format].
 
The students, in their ICT class learnt about the process of programming and explored about Scratch. They were made aware about components of Scratch window. They have started creating simple scripts by using Move, Turn and Pen blocks.
 
Video Links –
https://scratch.mit.edu/explore/projects/all

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english

In the month of January students returned to the classes after a brief period of hibernation during the winter vacation. 
 
Literature:
The warmth of relationship and friendship was touched upon in Unit-5 ‘New Neighbours’ where students learnt to interpret information in a fictional text when they dived in to the world of the Mouse family, Rose and Alex. This time students wrote their own answers to the questions which aided their answer writing skills.
 
Writing:
As a continuation from the literature unit, a demonstration of descriptive writing was given in the class. Students were taught how to use the five sense organs to write a descriptive paragraph, and how the stretch-a-sentence technique can be used effectively to describe a particular setting.
 
Grammar:
Articles ‘a’ and ‘an’ were taken up in the class. The use of these two articles was explained with an emphasis not only on vowels but on vowel sounds; making it clear why it is ‘a university’ and why ‘an university’ is incorrect.

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hindi

जनवरी माह में छात्रों को भारत की सबसे ऊँची चोटी ‘माउंट एवरेस्ट’ पर चढ़ने वाली प्रथम भारतीय महिला बछेंद्री पाल का विडियो दिखाकर सतत विकास लक्ष्य(SDG) –१३ “जलवायु परिवर्तन”के साथ एकीकृत करते हुए पाठ ‘वह बर्फीली यात्रा’ का पाठ-पठन करवाया गया और बताया गया कि साहस और दिलेरी से बच्चे भी बड़े-बड़े काम कर सकते हैं और यदि हौसले बुलंद हैं तो हम किसी भी उम्र में ऊँची उड़ान भर सकते हैं |
  
मासिक विषय, सामाजिक विज्ञान व कला विज्ञान से एकीकृत करते हुए PBL(Project Based Learning) में एक परियोजना बनवाई गई जिसमें छात्रों ने उनके पर्वतारोहण के अनुभव, माउंट ऐवरेस्ट पर चढ़ने वाले कुछ प्रसिद्ध लोगों के नाम, बर्फ़ीले पहाड़ों तथा इलाकों में पाए जाने वाले घरों के चित्र (रुई के प्रयोग से ) बनाए | छात्रों को उनके बहुमुखी विकास के लिए पाठ के शब्दार्थ, प्रश्न-उत्तर व रचनात्मक लेखन करवाया गया |
 
छात्रों को लोहड़ी और मकर सक्रांति के बारे में बताया गया | छात्रों को हिन्दी कैलेंडर दिखाकर, शुक्लपक्ष और कृष्ण पक्ष के बारे में बताते हुए चाँद की विभिन्न ८ स्थितियों का ज्ञान दिया गया | चाँद क्यों घटता –बढ़ता है, कब पूरा होता है आदि जानने के लिए छात्रों को विडियो दिखाकर कविता-‘चाँद का कुरता’ का वाचन करवाया गया | गतिविधि में छात्रों ने चाँद की विभिन्न स्थितियों को चित्र द्वारा दर्शाया | कविता के शब्दार्थ, पठित गद्यांश व प्रश्न-उत्तर करवाए गए | छात्रों के साथ हमारे राष्ट्रीय पर्व गणतन्त्र दिवस के बारे में चर्चा की गई | 


लिंक :-
https://youtu.be/B7lNwhLr1fk
https://youtu.be/UyNVbV9CZEw

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PHYSICAL EDUCATION

In their Physical Education classes, the students worked on:
 

• General fitness exercises for building strength and endurance.
  
• Coordination activities and line jump series for eye-hand & feet coordination.
  
• Surya Namaskar (benefits and demonstration for better understanding about yoga)
  
• Animal poses for better kinaesthetic sense of their body
  

 
Students also played chess online in breakout rooms and against the computer.

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INDIAN DANCE

In their Indian Dance lessons, the students learnt: 
Bhangra-folk dance of Punjab: Bhangra is a traditional folk dance of the Indian subcontinent which originated in the Majha area of Punjab.

Dance form: Bhangra
YouTube link: https://youtu.be/JwSB9gbA2fw
Students enjoyed learning Bhangra dance with full of energy and enthusiasm to commemorate the festival of Lohri.

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WESTERN DANCE

In their Western Dance lessons, the students learnt:

• Basic steps of contemporary style (Hand exploration and Chinese)
  
• Dance choreography using the above steps on ‘Ae watan mere watan’
  

Dance form: Contemporary (Beginner level) 
Song: ‘Ae watan mere watan’ 
Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKx_B1VZ2kw ​

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DRAMA

Forms of Acting: Role play 
Skill focus: Script Writing

Application of their learning:

• Students practiced and performed a Role Play related to the four seasons--summer, spring, monsoon and winter. The role play was integrated with the monthly theme. Through the role play students understood about the time period of seasons and the benefits of all seasons.
  
• Students practiced the skill of Script Writing. Script writing is the process of writing stories in the form of a screen play. While writing a script, a writer tries to write the stage directions, actions, expressions and dialogues of the characters, etc.
  

Role playing is a fundamental skill that allows actors to be successful in their roles. Role playing allows an actor to step into the shoes of a character. This may sound easy, but it isn't necessarily a natural process. It's a skill that requires a lot of practice before an actor can do it comfortably and well.

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INDIAN MUSIC

जनवरी माह छात्र छात्राओं द्वारा की गई गतिविधिया:
 
गायन अभ्यास: शुद्ध स्वर अलंकार । 
राग, गीत - देशभक्ति गीत हिन्द देश के निवासी ,प्रादेशिक गीत 'मन लगो मेरो', प्रभु जी प्रार्थना ।
प्रयोग हुए वाद्य: तानपूरा, ऑडियो ट्रैक ।
गायन तकनीक: गायन के अभ्यास की बुनियादी तकनीक, प्रतियोगिता में प्रस्तुति के महत्वपूर्ण बिंदु ।
सन्दर्भ वीडियो लिंक:https://youtu.be/5mE9uJZQgCo  https://youtu.be/CB2TCCowHpA
https://youtu.be/WZRRY9awPPw

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WESTERN MUSIC

In their Western Music lessons, the students learnt:
 

• Vocal warm-up exercises with 5 notes of music with different scale
  
• Practiced the symbol and structure of musical notes 
  

Instruments: The fret board of guitar
Techniques: The uses and value of notes 
Recap: ‘Here I am to worship’

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VISUAL ART

• Students made Republic Day special drawing in which they learnt how to depict the Air show, the National Flag, the National Bird and the National Flower.
  
• Students were made aware of SDG 15: Life on Land. They drew a poster on ‘How we can save life on earth’ by growing more trees, recycling and restoring our resources, etc.
  

Composition: Creative & freehand
Art Technique: Free hand, paper craft, colour mixing, colouring, outlining
Art tools: Pencil, sketch pen, crayons, oil pastels, scale, craft aper, tissue
Learning Outcome: Development of observatory and motor skills, how the motor skills change when introduced to similar art forms like music. 
SDG: 15 -  Life on Land

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LIFE SKILLS

This month students were introduced to the theme of “I am Truthful”. With the help of pictures, role play, video and discussion on examples from daily life, students understood the importance of being truthful, the consequences of lying, and how truthfulness makes deeper connections with people and how to practice truthfulness. Students enjoyed learning about being truthful and realised that we need to practice being true always. They also promised themselves that from now onwards they will practice truthfulness regularly and give a thought whenever saying any lie.“Truth earns trust and respect” is the learning of the month.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzYBZIZxi5U
  
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZqZzXfbOb8
  

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