Middle
School
Reflections-Grade 6
Visit of an Author
We were just on our way to our third period lesson, or so I thought. As soon as I stepped
right outside the Spanish classroom, we were ushered into the neighboring drama room by a
few teachers. A few asked “Why are we here?” and a ma’am replied “We have an author
visiting our school!” I had heard the buzz, and had even caught a glimpse of Ms. Dalmia. But
to hear her speak and ask one of the many tempting questions that were floating around in
my head, this was going to be quite an interesting session!
Ms. Dalmia was lead into the room by Ms. Dimpu Sharma and Ms. Bandana Sen . I
held my pen over my notebook like a gun ready to fire, except my pistol was only going to
be firing words. I waited patiently for the lady to start speaking…
But she didn’t!
Instead, she said that she would love to learn about us first! We passed around the mike
and everyone said aloud their names, favorite books, and favorite movies or TV shows. No
one was missed, and everyone learned something about another person. Or at least I hope
they did! After the ice was broken, Ms. Dalmia began with her long journey from acting out
stories with puppets to writing short stories and books. Along the way, she also explained
to us about publishing houses, as well as editors, and her experiences with them. She also
explained briefly about blogs and protagonists. Ms. Dalmia talked about her published works
as well. She told us a brief outline of the story “Life is Perfect” and even how to start a
story: by first working out characters, then creating scenes and developing dialogue, which
must have helped a few understand the building blocks of a story. The highlight was when
Ma’am gave two very useful tips to the aspiring writers among us:
When you think of a great idea, write it down or store it somewhere. Every idea is
worth keeping. Aren’t they though? They are like precious treasures that we
can’t lose!
It is absolutely okay to copy if you are just going to write a story. You can keep it to
yourself (can’t you?) “Dip into your own life and TV shows and write!” This motivates me to go rewrite my favorite episode… Using ideas from your own lives is
extremely okay!
And that was our session with Ms. Dalmia. She closed by answering a few questions and
gave us her email. It was a fun session. Almost everyone got to speak, some more than
once, but I hope everyone listened. What I loved best are two thoughts Ms. Dalmia shared
with us:
“I like to tell people I was born with a pen in my mouth” Because she loves writing that
much!
“As a writer, trust yourself” Because only YOU know what’s good for your story and maybe
also your editor!
The session closed with a few copies of The Killer App and Other Paranormal Stories, a book which has one of Ms. Dalmia’s stories, available for purchase. Many of us
flocked to the little table, and I don’t think I have seen that many people crowding around
for a single book! Was I one of them? Suprisingly, no. I’m going to wait a while, and Flipkart “Life is Perfect” because it really is!
Ms. Dalmia has published one book, “Life is Perfect” and as many as twenty other short
stories and other works. To a few who were eager, she told us her email. And wouldn’t it
be fun to tell your family you have a real author as a pen pal? So if you wish, email Ms.
Dalmia at [email protected]
Volume 9
Week of 1st
October, 2012
Special Assemblies
Gandhi Jayanti
Middle school marked Gandhi Jayanti
on 1st October. They watched a Power point presentation on Mahatma
Gandhi and his life , followed by reading aloud of excerpts from his autobiography, ‘My Experiments
with
Truth’. Students then watched the
episode on Dandi March from the
movie ‘Gandhi’ .
Reading Aloud from My Experiments with Truth
World Habitat week and World wildlife Week
We also marked the World Habitat Week and World Wildlife
week on 3rd October. The students discussed the meaning of
habitat and saw an animation which projected the steps taken by
different organisations around the world to provide shelter and
support the underprivileged.
The students also a video on the endangered species of animals
and plants around the world and discussed how as students they
can preserve wildlife.
The following AVs were shown to the students :
World habitat week
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiFL_PJ3LDc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0iG1vz7hho
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf2z38u2djA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiFL_PJ3LDc
World Wildlife week
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le2TVCudX54
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpzpYeTe8PM
&feature=related
Inter School Basketball Tournament
Tara Nouri, Niranjani Pandey, Tarini Lal, Ananya Basu and Anshima
Varma were the member of the
school basketball team which participated in Inter School DDA Invitational Basketball Tournament
held from 28/09/2012 to 2/10/2012
for the schools, in Delhi and NCR.
This is a very prestigious tournament in which some of the top
schools compete for the honor and
glory of sports. Some of teams are
GD Goenka Vasant Kunj, DPS
Vasant Kunj, Modern School, and
Pathways School Gurgaon. Girls
won the first match against Heritage School Vasant Kunj with the
margin of 10-0. Tarini Lal was the
highest scorer with 4 points. Then
they moved on to the second
round which basically a quarterfinal
round, wherein they played against
GD Goenka public school Vasant
Kunj. The match was very keenly
contested by the students of our
school wherein, they lost by a margin of 16 -24. Top scorer from our
school in the quarter finals was
Tarini Lal with 6 points.
Our Clubs...
Parental Guidance
English—Ms. Indu
Concluding Week

‘The Best Day of My life’ was completed
and Looking Closely questions were
answered
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Journal Entry, ‘ Describe a day at school
that was exciting’, was submitted

The poem ‘Bush Fire’ is being studied
and the students have been introduced
to simile, metaphor, personification,

Please carry forward the discussion on Climate Change and its
effects on the world.
Starting the unit, ‘Changing
Places’ and the novel by
Deborah Ellis
ELS
Concluding Week
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Projections for next
Week
This week the students learnt to describe people. They learnt related vocabulary like retired, average weight and many more. They also
read about retired Chinese basketball player Yao Ming. To practice
describing people they played a game called “Guess Who??”

The students enjoyed Poetry sessions on the poem “Bush Fire by
Jackie Kay”. In these lessons, the students learnt the difference between stanza and paragraph, they were taught about rhyming words
and to identify rhyming pattern.
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The Students also tried to create their own short poem using rhyming words.
Special Activity
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The students were addressed by the
author Himani Dalmia, on the techniques of creative writing
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The students submitted their Book
Reports for the ‘Reading Log’.
Projections for next Week
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Reading “We are family”, Grammar – Adjectives
and Adverbs.
Math—Ms. Nidhi
Projections for next Week :
Concluding Week :
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Addition and subtraction of mixed numbers
with unlike denominators
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Addition and subtraction of fractions with
unlike denominators.
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Multiplication of fractions
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Addition and Subtraction of Mixed Numbers
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Multiplication of mixed numbers
Activity :
Students played online games using the following links:
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/mathgames/fractions/FruitShootFr
actionsAddition.htm
http://funschool.kaboose.com/fun-blaster/back-toschool/games/game_action_fraction.html
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http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/fractions/
REFLECTIONS – GRADE 6
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VOLUME 8
Humanities
Projections for next week

History
Students will be visiting The Harappa gallery
in the National Museum, to learn about
Indus Valley Civilisation
Concluding Week

Students read about Neolithic age

They brainstormed on the meaning of Civilization as
they will be starting a new Unit
Activity

They browsed through a website which gave them
an understanding about the Indus Valley Civilization.
Geography
Concluding Week

Students completed their sketch drawings
Projections for next week

They used Atlas, Google earth and Ipad application to locate different places around the
world
Spanish
Concluding Week
Projections for next Week
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Numbers from 1- 30.
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Making affirmative and negative sentences.
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Assessment.
Listening and speaking exercises
would be undertaken.

Vocabulary related to classroom
articles.
French
Concluding Week
Projections for next Week

Sentence formation.
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Adjectives

Positive and negative sentences.

Vocabulary of animals

Singular and plural form of sentences.

Introduction of question: Qui est-ce?
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Description of an object with vocabulary
learnt so far.
Hindi
Concluding Week

A guest speaker visited grade 6 and explained about the freedom struggle by
Queen Lakshmibai, Mangal Pandey, Veer
Kunwar Singh etc. in 1857.

They have recited the poem Jhansi Ki Rani.
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The underlying meaning of the first two
stanzas explained.
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The students wrote a summary of it.
Projections for next Week

They will read a new lesson-Saans Saans Mein
Bans and write the new and difficult words.

Suffix and prefix will also be introduced.
Parental Guidance

Parents can take their children to Delhi Hatt to
show the things made up of bamboo that we all
use in our daily life.
Visual Art
Concluding Week

Free hand Portrait sketching

Basic proportions

Handling of pencil tones/shading/
poster colour

Observation study

Students were given different creative task to explore portrait paintings.
Projections for next Week
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Interpretative study:
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Students have been assigned different
topics to imagine and create their own
composition for the same.