​During the month of December, the prime focus was on grammar and writing to enable students to frame meaningful sentences using various parts of speech.
​Grammar:

• PREPOSITIONS: Prepositions of place, movement and time (during, for) were taken up in consonance with Nelson Grammar units 7 and 18. The usage of various prepositions was discussed through live demonstrations, anchor charts and video references. Few stock sentences were written in the notebooks and students were asked to underline the prepositions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyMrLQ4ZI-4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niPyVnC6W5g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVo6N4vMPfI
Game: https://www.meddybemps.com/Opposites/OverUnder.html

• ADJECTIVES: The recapitulation of previous learning was done through an interactive session where students framed sentences using adjectives and posted them in the chatbox. Degrees of comparison were taken up from Nelson Grammar units 3 and 9. The notebook work was integrated with the festive fervor of Christmas and students compared various items related to Christmas using degrees of comparison.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5ISJUxKOpk
 
Writing:

• LETTER WRITING: Students were introduced to the art of writing letters and how the means of communication evolved over the period through a video which took them back in time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfOqyW8oXis

The purpose and format of informal letters was explained through a sample letter. Again, to encourage the spirit of Christmas, students wrote a letter to Santa informing them about the presents which they wanted for the holiday season.
 
SDG Book ‘Be the Change’:

Worksheet 5 based on SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy was done in the class integrated with the SDG (Climate Action) for the month. The difference between non-renewable and renewable energy sources was discussed. Wind Energy was taken up in detail. Comprehension of the poem by Christina Rossetti was done in class along with the questions. Students wrote a paragraph on the thing wind can do as a writing practice.  

Air, water and weather                  
The month commenced with the recapitulation of concepts like ‘Condensation’, ‘Precipitation’ and ‘Evaporation’ for a better understanding of the water cycle. Further, a ‘WATER CYCLE’ activity was performed where the students displayed all the processes involved in the water cycle using a zip lock transparent bag. Later, the learners were inquired about the different seasons we have in our country. They were asked to enlist some activities they do in different types of season. Thereafter, they learnt about the reason behind the change in seasons and also made a comparison between weather and season.
Video links:
https://youtu.be/2wpTUb4UnZE
https://youtu.be/igCmW5jLF7k

​The young learners recapitulated the concepts of ‘Division’ and ‘Multiplication’ through discussions, doubt-clarifications and self-check of the Weekend Revision Worksheet. This was followed by the Unit Test and discussion of the question paper.
Students made notes on ‘Proper and Improper Fractions’ for a better learning, and practiced sorting out the two types of fractions. Students were introduced to Mixed Numbers and learnt to read and relate them to Improper Fractions. They practiced to write ‘Improper Fractions’ and ‘Mixed Numbers’ for the shaded portions, as part of a practice during the lesson. Their understanding of Fractions moved to another level with an introduction to ‘Fractions of a Collection or Set’, which was done with the help of real-life examples, video demonstration and practice of related questions, orally and in writing.
Introduction to Measurements commenced with interesting inputs from students on the topic ‘Standard and Non-Standard Units of Measurement’. The novel minds discussed the cons of Non-Standard units and watched certain related videos. They got to know more about uniform and non-uniform, Non-Standard units of measuring lengths and learnt to measure by using a centimeter scale.  Students measured various stationery and other household items, in centimeters and milli-meters, noted down their observations in the notebooks and shared their learning with their peers in the class. They also made elaborate notes on Standard Units of Length and wrote real-life examples of the usage of each unit.
​Links:
Mixed Numbers- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEmCZGbd4R8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W97zsq3GFFY&t=2s
Fraction of a Collection - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQUgBAsW2KA&t=2s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orI0oL9_q9c

Length :
Non-Standard Units- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrQqkwdAK2M
Standard Units- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll21j2r8gDc

Using a Ruler: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jshiAs9HGOE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7WJxClpOu4

“Education is not the learning of facts but training the mind to think ”-Albert Einstein
 
The topic ‘Water’ was continued this month. To enable the students connect with SDG goal –Clean water and Sanitation, they were asked to create a ‘Hygiene Chart’, highlighting the importance of protecting themselves from germs. To strengthen their learning, students researched about the devices used to measure airspeed, direction and pressure. Integrating the topic with English, students completed a ‘Paragraph Writing’ establishing the relation between air pollution and climate change. The new topic-‘Festivals’ was introduced in which students learnt about the importance of festivals as an integral part of our culture. The three types of festivals, their significance and examples were discussed extensively with the students. Time to time recapitulation through quizzes, oral and written revisions, was done to reinforce the learning which has taken place in the previous months. This also laid a foundation for the preparation of the Unit test.  A ‘Map work' related to the harvest festivals was done to strengthen the visual-spatial skills of the learners.
To increase awareness among the students, the significance of Vijay Diwas (16th December) was shared with them. They were enlightened about the fact that the day is observed to commemorate the victory of India in the 1971 war. The next topic ‘Sun and its Family’ was also introduced this month. Interactive discussions, Powerpoint Presentations, real-life connections, See Think and Wonder strategy, Live worksheets, and visual snippets were the various methodologies used this month.
Links :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXXzYXxKEf8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU5UCy-mk6Y-Link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Vl8AeaOSQs
Religious Festivals - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2prtmPEjOc
Live worksheets link:
https://www.liveworksheets.com/nm1558286kn

दिसंबर माह में छात्रों को व्याकरण में मुहावरों का ज्ञान देते हुए बताया गया कि कैसे हम वाक्य में मुहावरों का प्रयोग करके वाक्य की सुंदरता को बढ़ा सकते हैं | छात्रों को वीडियो की सहायता से पाठ ‘सरकस’ का परिचय देकर पाठ-पठन कराया गया | छात्रों ने अपने सरकस के अनुभव कक्षा में सभी के साथ सांझा किए | छात्रों को उनके बहुमुखी विकास के लिए पाठ के शब्दार्थ व रचनात्मक लेखन कार्य कराया गया जिससे छात्र जानवरों की आज़ादी को समझ सकें | वार्षिक विषय –सोSम ‘मैं बुद्धिमान हूँ’ और मासिक विषय- मौसम और त्योहार से  एकीकृत करते हुए छात्रों के साथ होली पर चर्चा करके तेनालीराम की अनोखी दुनिया की सैर कराई गई | उन्हें समझाया गया कि हम सोच-समझकर किसी भी मुश्किल का हल चुटकियों में निकाल सकते हैं | छात्रों को सतत विकास लक्ष्य (SDG) –१३ ‘जलवायु परिवर्तन’ के बारे में बताकर जलवायु परिवर्तन के त्योहारों की जानकारी देकर वीडियो की सहायता से पाठ ‘रंग बरसा होली का’ का पाठ-पठन कराया गया और शब्दार्थ व हिन्दी महीनों के नाम का लेखन कार्य कराया गया | छात्रों ने तेनालीराम की कहानी का सुंदर चित्रों के साथ एक मुख्य पृष्ठ बनाया |
लिंक :-https://youtu.be/yava2x5DNZ8   
          https://youtu.be/K4w0WzpKeNE
​

​‘The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you.’
The students were given hands on experience through an activity in which they worked on a MS-Word document and applied several formatting features to it such as font type, applying bold, italics and underline effects. They further learnt and applied text alignment, text case and text colour effects and beautified their word documents while presenting them during the class. The students will continue with few more features of MS Word in the month of January.

In their Indian Dance lessons, the students learnt:
NAVRAS-“Nine emotions of dance”
 Dance form: Classical Kathak
YouTube link:
https://youtu.be/sSdMUaF3-18
 https://youtu.be/BMwy2DmOrSU
 यथोहस्ततथोदृष्टि (Yatho Hasta thatho Drishti)
Wherever your hands go, your eyes will follow,              
यथोदृष्टितथोमनः (Yatho Drishti thatho Manah)
Wherever your eyes go, your mind will follow,
यथोमनःतथोभाव (Yatho Manah thatho Bhaava)
Wherever your mind goes, there will be expression of
inner feeling,
यथोभावतथोरस (Yatho Bhaava thatho Rasa)
Where there is expression shown, there will be sentiment evoked. 
 Nava means "Nine" and Rasa is often translated as "mood", "emotion", "expression" or "sentiment". The Navarasa, in the scriptures refer to the nine expressions that humans often show. These are love (shringaara), laughter (haasya), kind-heartedness or compassion (karuna), anger (roudra), courage (veera), fear (bhayaanaka), disgust (veebhatsya), wonder or surprise (adbhutha) and peace or tranquility (shaanta).

In the month of December, the students learnt:

• Vocal warm-up exercises/ basic notes of music

Christmas carol: “Rudolph the red nosed reindeer” and “Mary’s boy child”
Instruments: Students learnt about the chords of guitar
Techniques: Vocal Warm-up exercises on C major scale to enhance vocal quality

​"What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds." Wayne Dyer
Being wise, considering the theme of the month, students were first introduced to how important it is to believe in oneself by knowing your abilities, skills and talents. Becoming more confident, value of thinking skills, every problem has a solution and boosting intelligence, were all learning of this month with associated stories, plays and games. Techniques to boost intelligence were also discussed to be wise.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaoevMkMu1M
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um1EXbwmYYs
3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJsCq7S4bHc
4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Om7JEF2zZAI
5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJqkUZ5o0T4

 

Forms of Acting: Mono Acting and 5 Ws
Application of their learning:

• Students performed a Mono Act related to the topic ‘Doctor and the Patient’, and understood how to perform two or three characters at the same time.

In Mono Acting, the actor performs many characters at one time himself to narrate the story or act; however, the time limit for a mono act is generally only 3 minutes.

• Students were made aware of the 5 Ws of Drama – WHO, WHAT, WHY, WHERE and WHEN.
• Students learnt the definition of above mentioned 5 Ws and applied their knowledge to write a story in class.
• The 5 Ws: In investigative writing and research, the five Ws are used to gather information about a story or subject matter. In fact, most writers don't consider a story to be complete unless all five of the Ws have been addressed. The five Ws are who, what, when, where, and why. These question words allow students, writers, and researchers to understand the full scope of the topic being discussed and enable critical thinking. Many of these words can be used in interrogation to tease out the information. 

In their Western Dance lessons, the students learnt:

• Basic steps of Hip Hop style (Step & touch, Step-slide-touch, Slide & push)

• Dance choreography using the above steps on ‘Jingle Bells’ instrumental track

Dance form: Hip Hop (Beginner level)
Song: ‘Jingle Bells’ instrumental
Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5uIahQw9sw

​दिसंबर माह में छात्र छात्राओं द्वारा की गई गतिविधिया:
गायन अभ्यास: शुद्ध स्वर अलंकार
राग,गीत -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 लिंकhttps://youtu.be/CB2TCCowHpA
https://youtu.be/WZRRY9awPPw

In the month of December, in their Visual Art lessons, students learnt: 
Gr 1 –  III
      Warli art was introduced to students; students learnt how these simple shapes like circles, rectangles and triangles can be used for beautiful paintings.
      Students made landscape on winter season, learning the use of colors and the elements used in the winter season.
      Students also learnt about Mosaic art and made some nice artworks.
Composition : Creative & freehand
 Art Technique : Free hand, paper craft, colour mixing, geometric patterns (with tools), colouring, outlining
 Art tools : Pencil, sketch pen, crayons, oil pastels, scale, craft paper, tissue
 SDG : Good Health & Well Being

In the month of December:

• Students took turns to conduct games and were in charge of notifying the class of the equipment needed and conducting the whole game according to their plan.
• Students controlled ball with their feet and performed animal movements like frog jump, crab walk, bear walk, etc. to stay active and, build strength using calisthenics and improve their ball control with foot.
• Chess was played in breakout rooms where the students got to interact with their opponents while playing the game and had fun.
• I Spy- Christmas edition, Pokémon this or that, Minecraft fitness run and various other videos were used to keep the class interactive and keep the students engaged.  

Inter-house GK Quiz
“Questions are the engines of intellect, the cerebral machines which convert energy to motion, and curiosity to controlled enquiry.”-David Hackett Fischer
 
Suncity School- 37 D organized the second edition of Inter-House GK Quiz Competition on the virtual platform in sync with Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsava. The theme of the quiz was My India, My Pride. The event aimed at enabling students to value, respect and know more about the rich heritage of our country. After the screening round, students were selected to represent their house in two categories: grades III-V and grades VI-IX.
The rounds ranged from picking clues, audio –visuals and connecting the clues. The event concluded with the encouraging words of the principal Ms. Guneet Ohri. She motivated students to explore more about our country’s rich cultural heritage and value the contribution of our freedom fighters.
Pacific House emerged as the winner in Grades III-V category an d Arctic House won in Grades VI-IX category.

​Students were all hands-on for the Math-Art Integration Activity, creating their own FACT FAMILY HOUSES, bringing their understanding of Multiplication Tables into action. Students made Multiplication and Division Facts to make lovely Fact Family Houses using colored A-4 sheets and sketch pens. Proceeding further, young learners were introduced to the concept of Fractions and to the terms Numerator and Denominator, also making notes of the same. They developed an understanding of Reading Fractions and practiced the same. Students also learnt to draw and shade Fractions as Parts of a Whole. They got acquainted with Like and Unlike Fractions and learnt to differentiate the two and were also introduced to Unit Fractions. To enhance their understanding of Like and Unlike Fractions, students further learnt to compare Like Fractions. Towards the end of the month, they were introduced to Proper and Improper Fractions.
 
Honing their observation skills and imagination to identify and complete the given patterns with colored cubes, students worked on the Shin Edu Activity-page 6.

Math- Science- Art Integration week  
 
Students of grade 3 were all geared up for the hands–on Science & Visual Art integration activities. They developed an understanding of different patterns obtained from reflection of light through CDs and also enjoyed making shadow puppets using their hands.
 
Solid, Liquid and Gases
                      
The learners continued to develop their understanding of different states of matter and related their properties while observing the real-life examples. They further categorized several objects as solids, liquids and gases on the basis of their understanding of different states of matter with the help of a live worksheet and quiz. Later, they learnt about some natural phenomena like “Evaporation” and “Condensation” and understood how all states of matter can be converted into one another.
 
Video link:
https://youtu.be/r8M7mah_QaY
​

“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.” 
 
Welcoming the students after the Diwali break, they shared how they contributed to the environment by not bursting crackers in turn celebrating an eco-friendly Diwali. Integrating the topic of the Environment with ICT, students located the Hindon river using ‘GOOGLE EARTH’ and researched the impact of industrialization and human activities, giving it the status of a “Dead River”.
 
Taking the topic further, students learnt about the non-living components of the environment such as air and water. Integrating the topic of Air with Science, students conducted ‘EXPERIMENTS’ to understand the properties of air. They learnt about the composition of air through the ‘PIE CHART’ and the role of various gases in the air. Making connections with real-life, the students were acquainted with the ‘Air Quality Index’, the alarming effects of air pollution resulting in the closure of schools and how we have got back to online mode. An MS Form Quiz was taken up by students as part of their revision of Transport and Communication prior the unit test.
Students learnt about sources of water, uses of water, inter-conversion of the forms of water, water cycle, and ways to conserve water through interactive discussions, PowerPoint presentations, real-life connections, and visual snippets. They learnt about and the role of dams in generating electricity in an hydroelectric plant. Students also shared how they would save water as part of their responsibility to save the environment.

“The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you.”
 
With the festive mood in the month of November, the students learnt the unique features of MS Word. They implemented it by creating banners with beautiful quotations on the ‘Importance of Education’. The motive behind that was to pay tribute to Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad on his birthday for being the first education minister of free India.
 
The students further learnt several ways to select the text using mouse and keyboard. They made the use of built-in dictionary and set of grammatical rules to check the spellings and grammar of the text document by writing text based on their English lesson. 

“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collien
 
Opulent October, with all the festive fervor, opened gateways to navigable November during which the students navigated their way towards the second cycle of Unit Tests. The month was mostly marked the rigorous revision of topics to be covered in the unit test.  
 
Literature:

• A thorough recapitulation of Unit-2 ‘Would you like to live here?’ was done for the UT including Nelson English and Nelson Workbook. Later, Unit-10 ‘The Sound Collector’ was initiated which took the children into the wondrous world of sounds that we find in our homes. Students learnt to investigate the features of a poem by recognizing onomatopoeia, rhyming words and the rhyming pattern/ scheme used in the poem. A unit from the GK book ‘Sound Words’ was also integrated with this unit to ensure that the young learners fully enjoy the magic of onomatopoeia. Consolidated written work was done in the notebook which encapsulated further comprehension of the poem in detail.

 
The following video link was shared with the students so that they could relate to all the sounds referred in the poem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zD44jGNRm5U
 
Grammar:

• The topic of Conjunctions was already covered in the month of October. To reinforce the concept, written practice was done in notebooks during the class. In this manner, revision of the concept was done for the upcoming UT.

 
Writing:

• Students practiced Paragraph Writing as a part of written skill development. A paragraph on ‘Causes of Air Pollution in Gurugram’ was integrated with the monthly SDG 13 Climate Action. Focusing on a particular geographic area aided the students’ awareness of their own region and surroundings, and motivated them to think of a solution at individual level with which they concluded their paragraphs.
• Another paragraph was given to students to express their feelings of patriotism with the prompts “If I had been (name of the gallantry award winner), what would I have done for my nation? OR (name of the gallantry award winner) motivates to... Children had to write on any one of the topics. This topic was taken as a part of CBSE’s initiative of the Veer Gatha Project in the honor of Gallantry Award Winners.

 
Needless to mention that both the topics were thoroughly discussed and Key Points were provided to ignite creativity in students’ young minds. 

छात्रों को त्योहारों का महत्व बताते हुए कविता ‘आओ दीप जलाँए’ का पठन करवाया गया जिससे छात्रों को बुराई पर अच्छाई की जीत की प्रेरणा मिली | छात्रों को उनके बहुमुखी विकास के लिए कविता के शब्दार्थ, प्रश्नोत्तर व वाक्य-प्रयोग करवाया गया | चित्र बनवाकर समय पर सभी काम करने के लिए प्रेरित करते हुए कविता ‘जागो और जगाओ’ का पठन कार्य, शब्दार्थ, प्रश्नोत्तर व वाक्य-प्रयोग करवाया गया | छात्रों को एक शब्द के कई नाम हो सकते हैं इसकी जानकारी देते हुए व्याकरण में विडियो और मासिक विषय-‘हवा और पानी’ से एकीकृत करते हवा, पानी आदि पर्यायवाची शब्दों का परिचय देकर उनके शब्दकोष में वृद्धि करने का प्रयास किया गया | विडियो की सहायता से मुहावरों का ज्ञान देते हुए बताया गया कि कैसे हम मुहावरों का प्रयोग करके भाषा को प्रभावशाली बनाकर वाक्य की सुंदरता को बढ़ा सकते हैं | समूह गतिविधि में नाट्य कला के साथ एकीकृत करते हुए छात्रों ने मुहावरों का सुंदर अभिनय किया और बच्चों ने उत्तम प्रदर्शन करते हुए उसे पहचानने का प्रयास किया | छात्रों को ‘आज़ादी का अमृत महोत्सव’  की गतिविधि में स्वतन्त्रता सेनानियों पर आधारित कुछ प्रश्न पूछे गए और ‘सतत विकास के लक्ष्य-१३ जलवायु परिवर्तन’ से एकीकृत करते हुए छात्रों को बदलते मौसम पर एक अनुच्छेद लेखन करवाया गया | छात्रों को ‘हिंदी ओलंपियाड’ में अच्छे अंक प्राप्त हो सके, उसके लिए अतिरिक्त कक्षाएँ आयोजित की गई । छात्रों ने उत्साह के साथ कक्षाओं में भाग लिया ।
लिंक-
https://youtu.be/yHCbBNi69eI
https://youtu.be/o4og5f-53zY

In their Visual Art lessons, students learnt :

Modes of transport- Draw any favorite mode of transport. Students learnt how simple shapes can form complex objects.

• Cool color composition
• Clay Activity (Emoji Face showing different expressions)

Composition : Creative & freehand

Art Technique : Free hand, paper craft, color mixing, geometric patterns (with tools), coloring, outlining

Art tools : Pencil, sketch pen, crayons, oil pastels, scale, craft paper, tissue
 
SDG: Good Health & Well Being (integrated with the clay activity)