Sharing the Excitement
Issue: February 2013
Form 4A News!!!
Vol:
The highlight of the week was the Early Years Sports Fiesta
wherein the tiny tots had a gala time along with their parents.
There was an ISW Competition (Internet Safety Week
Competition) in which Mitakshi Mathur of 4A stood 1st.The
competition was based on Internet Safety and she drew a
beautiful poster along with a slogan on it.
In this week’s issue:
Welcome note from
the teacher
Unit of Inquiry
Math
Language Arts
PE
Music
Featured work
Reminders
Photo gallery
UNIT OF INQUIRY
After the students researched on the 2nd Line of Inquiry - ‘How energy
is used (transformation)’, they went ahead with the Formative
Assessment in which the students did video recordings of energy
transformations at home and in school. The students were very
excited to video record each other on iPads and they went around
the whole school, observing and recording along with their partners.
They did the same at home and came out with beautiful results
which were shown in the class. They later assessed each other using a
Peer Assessment Web chart. The students were introduced to the 3 rd
Line of Inquiry, ‘Sustainable energy practices’ by Miss Gayatri, the
Science teacher from the Middle School. She spoke about how
energy can be conserved and then the students did extensive
research on it.
This week in maths, the students were introduced to Tessellations and how it is used
in our daily life: from honey combs, to checkers, to spider webs, to walls, patios and
pavements. The students were shown a ppt and then they made their own
tessellation patterns. They understood the concept of how it is made up of only
regular polygons and that different geometric shapes can be used to create
tessellations. The students also identified different tessellation patterns seen in and
around the school. There was Math integration with our ongoing Unit of InquiryEnergy where the students were introduced to Negative Numbers and were very
excited to see how they are used in our daily life, right from measuring temperature
to depicting debt. The week came to end with the Summative Assessment on
Shapes.
In Language the students made funny Limericks on various forms of Energy and were
introduced to another form of Poetry called Haiku, through which they could clearly
differentiate between the two types of poetry. The students had an exciting time
creating their own Haiku poetry and framing it on their ‘Poet –Tree’.
Hindi- Beginner’s Hindi-This week the students learnt new words in Hindi through an
activity. They coloured the picture and then they explained about the picture through
play. Students were able to develop their verbal communication skills. They
explained names of colours also in Hindi. They were introduced to ब alphabet with
sentence making through activity. (बाग , बादल, बंदर )
Regular Hindi-The children gave oral presentation based on the lesson, ‘ जब धरती
कााँपी’ in various groups in the form of role play, news report, poetry. They also did
some written exercises based on the lesson. They were also introduced to ‘कारक
चिह्न’ i.e. की, में , पर, के ललए etc. and also used these words in framing sentences.
I C T- This week, the students took part in an animated video making competition. As the whole previous
week the focus was on Internet Safety, they had to create short animated movies on the same topic. They all
used Go Animate, which is a fun and easy to use online application.
Physical Education:
TRACK & FIELD
ON YOUR MARKS – GET SET – GO
TRACK EVENTS: RELAY & SPRINTS
LONG JUMP
THROW
The Student of the week is
awarded to Paarth and Mitakshi.
Paarth made a beautiful Haiku
Poem and Mitakshi won the
Slogan Making Competition .
CATCH ME AT MY BEST
PHOTO GALLERY
MY WORLD OF NUMBERS
The students were shown a ppt on Tessellations-
The students were shown a ppt on Negative Numbers-
MY WORLD OF WORDS
The students wrote Limericks on ‘Energy’ and also made
Acrostic Poems on it-
The students watched a ppt on Haiku and made Haiku poems
on their own-
EXPLORE THE WORLD FROM MY EYES
Video recordings done in school and at home-
Miss Gayatri from the Middle School taking a class-
Students doing research on the 3rd Line of Inquiry-
Mark Your Diaries…
Sports Day on Feb. 22nd from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Have a great weekend!
Warm Regards
Anuradha Subramani – 9654581289