Scholarly September has been a month of reflective learning as the students recapitulated the lessons and performed sincerely during their continuous assessment process. The monthly value being I AM COMPASSIONATE, the students shared their experience of kindness and compassion. They explored the significance of Healthy Food and Responsible Consumption of various products. The monthly and SDG theme instilled the awareness of responsibility among the learners. They expanded their horizon of learning by actively participating in CBSE activities-Rashtriya Poshan Mah and Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav. They paid their gratitude and regards to their respected facilitators through an eventful assembly. They started their weekly journey with Majestic Mondays and continued till Fascinating Fridays with introspective thoughts and positive words for the day. To strengthen their days ahead, the NIE Newspaper played an immense role by involving them in Global awareness and happenings. The newspaper provided them with their fields of interest developing their divergent thinking process.

​The month commenced with students continuing to practice the operation of multiplication. They learnt and practised to multiply big numbers by a 2digit multiplier. They further worked on real-life situations by practising solving word problems involving the operation of multiplication.
 
In continuation to their learning of multiplication, students got an understanding of the concept of Factors and Multiples. They learnt to list factors and multiples of various numbers and also found the common factors and multiples.
 
To culminate the month, students recapitulated their prior understanding of the operation of Division and the related facts. They used multiplication tables to divide big numbers by 1-digit divisors.
 
Students of grade IV brought their spatial understanding and observation skill to action while doing the Shin Edu Activities. They had fun creating shapes and completing the patterns using the colourful cubes in the kit, as part of two different activities spread across the month.

Students of Grade IV started their month with the learning “How animals survive”. They learnt about different adaptation and the ways through which animals manage to survive in extreme conditions. Children were exposed to learn about extinct and endangered species and to connect the students with the SDG- Life on Land, a poster-making activity was conducted in which our little artists showcased their talent and also realised the importance of saving wildlife and their habitats. The month ended with the assessment of the chapter through MS Forms.
 
Video link :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhrhcsICrE8
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMAS4SdPj-w
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOIRci0CKzg
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Ch.10- Life in Coastal Plains and Island-
As students embarked on the journey of coastal plains starting from the westernmost states and following the coast. The journey was explained with the help of a PPT. Students were shown images and maps related to the different states and they gathered information about interesting facts about each state like occupation, tourist places, industries and Crops.
Interesting facts about Rath Yatra of Puri, Odisha and Auroville, Pondicherry was shared 
Wakelet Link was used as ICT integration to understand the concept better and make the learning fun and interactive.
 
To understand the importance of marine life and following the theme of the Month-I am Compassion, Students made a poster as an art integration activity. They had to imagine themselves as marine animals and had to show their anger, worry about the increasing marine pollution by tourists in the coastal areas. Draw, write a slogan etc.
Students expressed their concerns with beautiful posters.

Reflection was done through Nearpod activity.
Ch. 13 Soils of India- In connection with the Poshan Mah, students were made aware of the importance of soil in agriculture, as it adds nutrients to the crops grown. Different types of soils and their distribution in India were discussed with the help of the soil map of India.
 
SDG Activity- Worksheet 7-Be the Change was done     
 
to explain how irresponsible tourism and pollution is posing a threat to coastal plains and islands and their ecosystem
 
https://wke.lt/w/s/qKpJ5S
https://youtu.be/d20NhSifd7A
 
https://beyonder.travel/india/south-india/interesting-facts-about-auroville/
https://youtu.be/lkwFN6nycDs
 
https://suncityschool37-my.sharepoint.com/:p:/g/personal/anju_suncityschool37_onmicrosoft_com/EdCGOZ4QWVlOiZDu122Cm3wBMBWWjtjXF40e934gKN2lDA?e=JaZ8wK

An interesting topic filled with activities is enough a booster for the students to participate wholeheartedly. 
 
With the same motive, the students continued their learning and practicing of advanced features of Paint 3D. They reflected their learning by participating in the online Quiz held during the month. They further drilled down to understand the unique and amazing features of Windows 10 from Chapter 2 – Managing Files and Folders. They identified the improved Start Menu option, Search Tool – Cortana, Multiple Desktop Support, Windows Snapping and many more features provided to make the work easy and interesting.

The students progressed in their learning by practising the skills of Q3R (QUESTION, READ, RECITE, REVIEW) while closely reading the lessons of ‘Wildfire’, ‘The Mango Tree’ and ‘Robin Hood of Sherwood Forest’. To nurture the 21st Century skills of critical thinking, the students developed the Story-ending using the Story prompts. They enhanced their knowledge in grammar as they were introduced to the types of Pronouns and their usages. The stock of words with ‘silent letters o, h and c’ was strengthened with a fun lesson of a puzzle, word formation and framing sentences with the newfound words. This improvised their pronunciation skill too. The understanding of Pronouns is instilled with Powerpoint Presentation and video. The topic of ‘Adjectives’ has also been taken up during this month with the help of Live worksheets, quiz and Powerpoint presentations. In the end, the learning has consolidated with relevant practice sheets and MS-Form as reflection activity in class.
 
As a part of the CBSE Activity, the grade IV scholars contributed to ‘Rashtriya Poshan Maah’ sharing their idea of SDG 2-Zero Hunger, Nutrition, and Balanced Diet through various vibrant activities -Acrostic Poem, Recipe book, E-poster, Leaflet. Nonetheless, they also celebrated the ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’ by researching various historical places related to the freedom struggle. This act of exploration inculcates the vast and glorious history of India in them.
 
Reference for Quiz:
https://www.turtlediary.com/quiz/identifying-adjective-in-a-sentence-fourth-grade.html
https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/5ee07c735a4e73001bf183a8/adjectives-grade-4
https://play.kahoot.it/v2/?quizId=4276c451-d064-413e-9b94-67b39c446849
https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/5ea757ddc4fb1f001ba1f883/types-of-pronouns
https://www.liveworksheets.com/worksheets/en/English_as_a_Second_Language_(ESL)/Adjectives/Adjectives_zg936209un
 
Video reference for Adjectives and Pronouns:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrbYisPssxI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hghT1W33cY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ED2L0bVf3yY
Story Ending prompt:
https://www.education.com/worksheet/article/complete-mystery1/
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सितम्बर माह में छात्रों को वास्तविक वस्तुओं के विषय में पूछते हुए एक – अनेक वस्तुओं का परिचय दिया गया | छात्रों को कविता व कहानी का विडियो लिंक साझा किया गया जिसके माध्यम से एक वचन व बहुवचन की जानकारी प्रदान की गई | छात्रों को शुद्ध -अशुद्ध का ज्ञान करवाया गया | उनके साथ अशुद्ध कहानी साझा की गई तथा छात्रों ने शुद्ध कहानी दुबारा लिखी | छात्रों के साथ विषय से संबन्धित विडियो लिंक साझा किया गया | हिंदी दिवस के उपलक्ष्य में छात्रों ने मानवीय गुणों से संबन्धित गुण जैसे -परोपकार, दयालुता , मित्रता ,प्रेम पर चित्रों की सहायता से कहानी वाचन किया | छात्रों ने बहुत उत्साह के साथ गतिविधि में भाग लिया | छात्रों को राजस्थान के जीवन , भोजन, किले ,त्योहारों की जानकारी प्रदान की गई | उन्हें मासिक विषय भोजन व पोषण माह से संबन्धित परियोजना कार्य करने को दिया गया | छात्रों ने राजस्थान के संतुलित भोजन पर अपनी परियोजना तैयार की |  छात्रों द्वारा आजादी का अमृत  महोत्सव नामक गतिविधि के अंतर्गत स्वतन्त्रता संग्राम के स्थान जैसे जलियाँवाला बाग के विषय में अनुच्छेद लेखन करवाया गया | छात्रों ने बहुत ही सुंदर तरीके से अपने विचार प्रस्तुत किए | छात्रों के साथ  शिक्षक दिवस व गणेश चतुर्थी विषयों पर कक्षा के दौरान चर्चा की गई | छात्रों को विषयों की पुनरावृति करवाई गई तथा कक्षा परीक्षा भी ली गई |
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhOIXi0R3B0&t=153s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IEOrVD0haw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24BQuKHt_oo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=howWcWSnh8c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fHDqr5Y2ms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdcmsXGJ868
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​In the month of September, the students worked on:
 

• Learning chess with the help of online puzzles.
• Tabata workouts and yoga.
• Bring me something was played which was mixed with different animal walks and other movements.
• Coordination activities with ball & balloon.

Playing chess against different classmates as much as possible.

​In their Indian Dance lessons, the students learnt:
 

• Garba folk and Asamyukta hasta mudras

 
Dance form: Garba (Folk dance)
Song: Mor bani panghat
YouTube link: https://youtu.be/lfm-NIrZyV0

• Students enjoyed learning a beautiful Garba dance choreography for the upcoming Navratri festival.
• Samyukta hasta Mudras (single hand gestures)

 
Navras- Hasya and sringar

In their Western Dance lessons, the students learnt:
 

• Contemporary Dance movements.
• The different types of turns (Pirouette, Chains)

 
Dance form: Contemporary
Song : Let it go - Frozen
Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0MK7qz13bU
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​Forms of Acting: -
 
Students learnt about role play, one act, mono act, skit, comedy, tragedy, melodrama, etc. Children learnt a lot about acting and theatre.
 
Application of their learning :-
Students performed a role play on “The Baker’s Dozen”. It is a tale about Saint Nicholas, adapted by Readers Theatre. Through this, children understood gestures, postures, body language of the characters and also learnt how to modulate voice according to characters. They learnt how to narrate a story.
Additionally, they were made aware of costumes, makeup and props by practising this play. 

​सितम्बर माह में छात्र छात्राओं द्वारा की गई गतिविधिया:
 
गायन अभ्यास: शुद्ध स्वर अलंकार।
गीत: श्री कृष्ण गोविन्द, गीत।
राग- यमन आरोह अवरोह बंदिश।
प्रयोग हुए वाद्य: तानपूरा,ऑडियो ट्रैक।
गायनतकनीक: गायन के अभ्यास की बुनियादी तकनीक, प्रतियोगिता में प्रस्तुति के महत्वपूर्ण बिंदु।
सन्दर्भ वीडियोलिंक:कक्षा-3,4,https://youtu.be/1qmPNot9NJs
कक्षा-5 https://youtu.be/_oG4uIdDnVc

​In the month of September, the students learnt:
 
Vocal warm-up exercises
Song learnt: Teacher’s day song (‘This song is for those’) by Brian Asselin, learnt 2nd part with guitar and recapitulated the whole song
Instruments: Taught the frets and the functions of guitar
Techniques: Learnt vibrato in vocal music (Vocal scaling)

In their Visual Art lessons, students learnt:
Week 1: Folk and Tribal Art of India
      Mandala Art
 
Week 2:  Drawing of fruits and shading with oil pastels.
Week 3: Poster on World Peace
Week 4: Landscape study (introduction to water colours)
 
Composition: Creative & freehand
 
Art Technique: Free hand, pencil shading, colouring, colour mixing, outlining
 
Art tools: Pencil, crayons, oil pastels, sketch pens.

​In sync with the theme of the month “I AM COMPASSIONATE”, students were introduced to the meaning of compassion in great depth with the help of picture reading, video and role plays. Students enjoyed performing role plays and learnt the value of being compassionate. It is explained that compassion is empathy and caring in action. Also, as per NCERT curriculum, the importance of nutrition, physical heath, balanced diet and exercise was explained with the help of a power point presentation. All the sessions were very interactive especially the one on nutrition as students discussed about their daily diet.
 

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1E39jpNN9eQ

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAFq6PcFYgI
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YimuIdEZSNY

Amazing August was filled with colours and festivities. The month proved to be a month of performance as the little scholars explored their skills in performing art - drama, music, and dance during the Subject Integration Week.
 
The month of August gave us a chance to reiterate the Universal Value – Being Respectful. Our lives have become so busy, that we have forgotten what Respect means. It may be respecting elders, respecting friends, respecting animals, respecting our resources, respecting our lives etc.
 
To reiterate the value and strengthen the importance of being respectful, the value was reinforced by way of class discussions, activities and worksheets.
 
The little scholars updated themselves with the happenings around the world by discussing the news from NIE starting from majestic Mondays morning to fabulous Fridays and inspired each other with quintessential quotes.

Natkat Nandalal, the Janmashtami special assembly was conducted by the talented students of Grade IV A. ‘Practice makes a man perfect’ was proved when the students practiced after school hours to put up an amazing assembly performance filled with music and dance numbers. They narrated the significance of observing this auspicious day in the Hindu calendar and shared snippets of information of Shree Krishna’s mischievous deeds.

​"What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child". George Bernard Shaw
One way of discovering the curriculum with the children is integrating it across the board with other subjects and to do that we organized a Subject Integration Week in school during the week 9th August to 13th August. We integrated Language with Performing Arts through an array of activities. Integrated study brought together diverse disciplines in a comprehensive manner, enabling students to develop a meaningful understanding of the complex associations and influences within a topic. ‘Envirophilia-A Fancy Dress Party’ was organized for Grade I students. The little learners looked super excited as they came dressed on the theme of Plants and Aquatic Animals and spoke about the ‘Plant or Animal ‘that they played the role of, using their drama skills. They also carried props to convey their message. They explored the importance of SDG 14- ‘Life below Water’ and SDG 15- ‘Life on Land’ and made other students aware about them through their presentations. ‘The Edible Tales- Story on my Plate’ turned out to be a successful venture for Grade II students as they narrated their yummilicious stories with the help of creatively crafted fruit and vegetable salad using their vivid imagination and creative skills. This approach further developed the children’s ability to transfer their learning to other settings and correlate their sub conscious selves to conscious selves. The class was divided into Performers group and Audience group for these activities. The audience judged their peers’ performance on a Peer Assessment Rubric. This was only possible because they were able to more closely relate to real-world linguistic connections in an integrated curriculum approach. We were amazed by the meticulous efforts shown by the students. It was altogether an amazing week and we loved every bit of it.

​"What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child". George Bernard Shaw
One way of discovering the curriculum with the children is integrating it across the board with other subjects and to do that we organized a Subject Integration Week in school during the week 9th August to 13th August. We integrated Language with Performing Arts through an array of activities. Integrated study brought together diverse disciplines in a comprehensive manner, enabling students to develop a meaningful understanding of the complex associations and influences within a topic. ‘Envirophilia-A Fancy Dress Party’ was organized for Grade I students. The little learners looked super excited as they came dressed on the theme of Plants and Aquatic Animals and spoke about the ‘Plant or Animal ‘that they played the role of, using their drama skills. They also carried props to convey their message. They explored the importance of SDG 14- ‘Life below Water’ and SDG 15- ‘Life on Land’ and made other students aware about them through their presentations. ‘The Edible Tales- Story on my Plate’ turned out to be a successful venture for Grade II students as they narrated their yummilicious stories with the help of creatively crafted fruit and vegetable salad using their vivid imagination and creative skills. This approach further developed the children’s ability to transfer their learning to other settings and correlate their sub conscious selves to conscious selves. The class was divided into Performers group and Audience group for these activities. The audience judged their peers’ performance on a Peer Assessment Rubric. This was only possible because they were able to more closely relate to real-world linguistic connections in an integrated curriculum approach. We were amazed by the meticulous efforts shown by the students. It was altogether an amazing week and we loved every bit of it.

​Mathematics is a subject that the students should build upon and master throughout their educational experience, for it forms a strong foundation and aids in understanding how the world works and is a critical skill 21st century for learners, thereby allowing them to make important connections between these mathematical concepts that are being taught and the real world in which they live. Keeping this in mind the students from Grades 3 onwards participated in an Inter-House Mental Math competition held this month. The students from the 4 houses - Atlantic, Arctic, Pacific and Indian participated in a tough competition held on a virtual platform. There were 2 rounds - selection round done on MS Form application and the Final round (fastest finger first) conducted on Kahoot. Amidst nail biting finish, scores tied - the whole competition gave an insight to the students’ ability to calculate mentally faster.

​The month witnessed students exhilarated to practice for and participate in the Inter House Mental Math Competition. They worked on word problems involving the operations of addition/subtraction, relating both the operations to real life situations around them.
 
The learners recapitulated the terms and key words in relation to multiplication, thereafter learning to multiply by a 2-digit multiplier. They practiced related questions and word problems too. 
 
Students enjoyed doing the Shin Edu Activity, using the coloured cubes, which thereby enhanced their spatial understanding, observation skill, imagination and concentration. Mr.Takehiro Nakamura & Mr.Takanobu Tanaka from the Shin Edu Power program were present to observe the students and were happy with students’ response in class.

ANIMALS AND THEIR YOUNG ONES
 
In continuation to what the students learnt last month, the students continued to learn about Reproduction of animals. Further, they learnt about the two ways reproduction happens in animals – by laying eggs & giving birth to young ones. To understand this, they watched a video on the life cycle of butterfly and were amazed at the different stages they go through.
 
They were introduced to the next chapter, “How animals survive” where they learnt the differences between vertebrates & invertebrates. At present the students are learning to and categorize the animals into these two sub-divisions based on their characteristics. (they will continue to learn about this in the month of September)
 
Video link:
https://youtu.be/F3ElGMVU6SY
https://youtu.be/O1S8WzwLPlM
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The month commenced with an integration activity with the Subject integration week, integrating English where the students enjoyed making a Katputhli and presented a story using their hand made string puppets.
 
In continuation, students started to learn about The Southern Plateau. Students were shown pictures of different landforms that they had to identify and share which state they belonged to by way of pointing the location on the map.
The complete division of Southern plateau into Central Highland and Deccan Plateau was shown on the Map. The extent and location of Eastern and Western Ghats along the plateau was shown with the help of Google map.
 
Students understood more about the division, climate, vegetation and crops of these areas by watching a related video. To assess their understanding, they attempted an MS Form reflection task.  
 
 Ch.8-Life in Southern Plateau – (PBL)
The chapter was discussed using a Sway Presentation and as part of Project Based Learning, students were divided into 8 groups representing 8 states. They were given few guiding topics that they had to find about these states – neighbouring states, tourist places, occupation, dance, dress were some of the pointers that were researched on and shared with the class.
 Ch.9 Coastal Plains and Islands
 
The concept was introduced using the strategy ‘See, Think, Wonder’ where they were shown a related picture and were asked to identify the landform. Taking the discussion forward, they started their inquiry into the Eastern and Western coastal plain. 
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVP0diOqK3M
https://forms.office.com/Pages/ShareFormPage.aspx?id=YVlUmu4VSEinRHZ-zb0eGZJJ749KcEhAq0VnRSFTU_dUQTJPR1NQMDMzRlpWSFRaWDJNNEFRNlZQMy4u&sharetoken=ce8Cf0ra8g6XuYa3C3Z7
 
https://sway.office.com/32M3fKaqBqgGl1ki
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VMA4ixUnK0

​The journey of a computer has gone a long way since 1940 and has emerged as the necessity of our day-to-day life. It is so deeply rooted around us that its existence in the field of space research, medicines, etc. can be directly sensed with the evolution of Human kind.
 
Moving one step further, students learnt how to use the Application Software like Paint 3D, where they were amazed by the features by combining the real world with the virtual world. They learnt several tools of Paint 3D to create 2D/3D objects. This learning helped them to understand how Augmented Reality (AR) works on different platform as compared to Virtual Reality (VR).  

The learners continued to develop their understanding of Tenses and its usage. Their learning was recapitulated by way of playing concept related games, quizzes and activities. Integrating with SDG-14: Life below water, students applied their understanding of Tenses to use it correctly in the sentences related to water and shared it in class.
 
Students were learning about the art styles of Van Gogh in their art lessons. Integrating with Art, they started their inquiry into Van Gogh by finding out information about him by watching the Biography of Van Gogh. The elements of story - characters from his biography, the location of his birth, important dates and events, the highlights from his story were all made note of for better understanding.
 
As part of the Language and Performing art subject integration week, students made Katputhlis (string puppets) which is popular in the state of Rajasthan (integrating with Social Science, where the students are learning a chapter on Rajasthan). Our creative students made their own Katputhli and presented a story using their string puppets.
 
Students were assessed on their understanding of Robin Hood of Sherwood Forest through an MS Form as a reflection activity on completion of the topic. The knowledge acquisition remained consistent as the enthusiastic learners shared their prior knowledge of double consonants (tt, bb) and by sharing few words by spelling it and learnt to pronounce it correctly. 
 
In literature, the little scholars were introduced to ‘excerpts’ of a book, as they read Stig of the dump and Wildfire from Nelson English book.
 
https://wordwall.net/resource/814109/quiz-tenses
https://wordwall.net/resource/1837330/mixed-tenses

​अगस्त माह’ के आरंभ में छात्रों को पर्यायवाची शब्दों का ज्ञान देने के लिए समरण खेल खिलवाया गया | छात्रों को चित्र दिखाए गए  तथा छात्रों ने उस चित्र से संबन्धित अधिक से अधिक  पर्यायवाची  शब्द बताए | छात्रों ने चित्रकला की शिक्षा के साथ एकीकृत करते हुए कोई भी पाँच चित्र बना कर उसके पर्यायवाची  शब्द लिखे | छात्रों के साथ लिंक साझा किया गया जिसके प्रयोग से खेल -खेल में उन्होंने नए पर्यायवाची शब्द सीखे | छात्रों को सतत विकास के लक्ष्य -14 के अंतर्गत सागर व महासागरों की बिगड़ती दशा का      जलीय जीवों   पर बहुत बुरा प्रभाव पड़ रहा हैं , विषय पर चर्चा की गई | छात्रों को “ बस पंद्रह मिनट ” नामक गतिविधि करवाई गई जिसके अंतर्गत बहुत सारे शब्द पूछे गए तथा उनके विलोम छात्रों द्वारा बताए  गए | छात्रों ने हिंदी भाषा और संगीत कला सप्ताह बहुत उत्साह और उमंग के साथ मनाया | छात्रों द्वारा थलीय जीव बाघ पर स्वनिर्मित कविता लिखी गई उसके पश्चात संगीत की अध्यापिका द्वारा उन सभी कविताओं से एक कविता बनवाई गई | सभी छात्रों ने कविता की प्रस्तुति बहुत ही अनोखे तरीके से कक्षा के दौरान प्रस्तुत की | छात्रों ने अपने चेहरे को बाघ की तरह रंगा तथा कुछ ने बाघ का मुकुट बना कर कविता वाचन किया |भाषा सप्ताह बहुत आनंद के साथ समपन हुआ | छात्रों को चंद्रशेखर वेंकटरामन पाठ का पठन करवाया गया तथा उनके साथ महान वैज्ञानिक की जीवनी साझा की गई | छात्रों के साथ उनके जीवन , उनके आविष्कारों व उनके पुरस्कार पर चर्चा की गई | छात्रों को उनके जीवन पर एक परियोजना बनाने का कार्य दिया गया | छात्रों को लिंग विषय का परिचय एक कहानी सुनाकर दिया  गया | छात्रों से कला विषय के साथ अंतर संबन्धित करते हुए कागज का फूल बनवाया गया जिसमे उन्होने पत्तियों पर अपनी पसंद के स्त्रीलिंग – पुल्लिंग लिखे | माह’ के अंत में छात्रों को राजकुमार सिद्धार्थ पाठ का पठन करवाया गया | इसमे छात्रों ने जानवरों के प्रति प्रेम का पाठ पढ़ा |  मासिक विषय पेड़ – पौधों से संबन्धित बोधि वृक्ष की जानकारी दी गई | छात्रों के साथ रक्षा बंधन तथा जन्माष्टमी के त्योहारों के महत्व पर भी चर्चा की गई | छात्रों ने त्योहारों से संबन्धित अपने प्यारे अनुभव कक्षा में साझा किए |

​In their Physical Education lessons, the students worked on:
 

• Chess with the help of online puzzles
• Tabata workouts
• Yoga
• Playing chess against different classmates as much as possible

The learners were also taught Chess Notations.

​In their Indian Dance lessons, the students learnt: Krishna dance and Asamyukta hasta mudras
 
Dance form: Semi classical/ classical (Kathak)
Song: “Govinda alaa re” (grades 3-5)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL46x1yteY8
“Muraliya” (grade 6-9)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F-OI9iWx3g
In the month of August students celebrated lord Krishna’s birthday by learning a beautiful choreography on a Krishna song.
Samyukta hasta Mudras (single hand gestures) were also taught.
 
Navras- Hasya and sringaar

​In their Western Dance lessons, the students learnt:
 

• Contemporary Dance movements dance
• Combination of turns and different positions

 
Dance form: Contemporary
Song : Let it go - Frozen
Video link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0MK7qz13bU

अगस्त माह छात्र-छात्राओं द्वारा की गई गतिविधियाँ:
 
गायन अभ्यास: शुद्ध स्वर अलंकार।
गीत: (अपनी माटी) देश भक्ति गीत, (राष्ट्रीय पशु भारत का), कृष्णा भजन।
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/hYiDSPB1hlI
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​In their Western Music lessons, the students learnt:
 
Vocal warm-up exercises
Song learnt: Teacher’s day song (This song is for those) by Brian Asselin
Instruments: Taught major scale (Draw parts of guitar)
Techniques: Learnt how to sing in low to high (Vocal scaling)

​Forms of Acting :-
 
Students learnt about role play, one act, mono act and skit. (Comedy, Tragedy, Melodrama)
 
Application of their learning :-

• Students did a mono act related to Raani Laxmi Bhai and Bhagat singh
• Students presented one dialogue in nine emotions of the Navarasa.
• Students performed different dialogues in one single emotions
• Students presented a Puppet Show during subject integration week
• Students presented acrostic poems during subject integration week

 
They also learnt dialogue delivery, voice modulation, poem recitation and conducting a puppet show. 

​In their Visual Art lessons, students learnt :
Week 1: Poster on Save Marine Life
The following video was shown to the students on how marine life is being affected by water pollution:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQTUWK7CM-Y

Week 2:  Independence Day memory drawing
Week 3: Rakhi card making
Week 4: Janamashtmi activity
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Composition : Creative & freehand
Art Technique : Free hand, pencil shading, colouring, colour mixing, outlining
Art tools: Pencil, crayons, oil pastels, sketch pens.

“Anger management”
Taking the monthly theme into consideration, the importance of learning positive and what’s the safe way of managing anger was explained to the students. Students learnt that emotions are natural and normal feelings but they also understood when anger becomes unhealthy. Appropriate skills of managing emotions, healthy ways of dealing with anger, being aware of your own emotions, talking about your feelings, coping skills to manage anger and relaxation techniques were the areas covered in this month. This theme helped students to discuss about their anger in detail. Interaction during the sessions helped in learning and role plays, videos, live examples made the sessions more interesting.
                   
​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_FMxPo4xDM

​Jubilant July has seen an enthusiastic start after a refreshing summer break for everyone. They The students reflected their learning by recollecting the exclusive experiences garnered during the fun-filled summer break.
Students acquainted themselves by learning about animals and their importance for an ecological balance. In sync with SDG-15- Life on Land, our enthusiastic students enhanced their learning through class discussions, videos, presentations and various other activities.
From Magical Monday to Fantastic Friday, the eager learners commenced their day with qualitative quotes and newfound news from NIE newspaper edition. Our students shared their thoughts of the day thereby making everyday truly thoughtful. The responsive reflection activities after every lesson made the learning fruitful and beneficial.
The universal theme of the month ‘I am Honest’ was reiterated and inculcated in the Life Skill lessons and by way of stories and discussions.
The complete cycle of 1st Unit Test was conducted. Right from doubt clearing sessions, revisions, discussion of question paper to distribution of answer scripts... all was completed with clockwork precision.

​It was great catching up with all students after the Summer Break. The students joined the sessions with full vigor and excitement. The first week witnessed a detailed discussion of the Holiday Homework and students self-checked their work.
Students also revised the concepts done for their upcoming Unit Test.
 
Students recapitulated 2D and 3D Shapes and the properties of 3D Shapes, they were introduced to the basics of Geometry, the differences between line and line segment, ray, points etc. They enjoyed the Symmetry concept through art & craft activity.
 
They started their learning of number operations – Addition & Subtraction, the key words, practice sums and solving real-life word problems using the RUCSAC method.
 
As a way to enhance their mathematical and logical thinking, students worked on the activities from the SEP Edu activity kit.

Digestion and Role of microbes 
 
The month commenced with the recapitulation of the digestive system. They learnt about the structure of teeth and their parts, and the importance of ‘Dental hygiene’. A class discussion and a video added to their knowledge of on the same.
 
As part of the Universal value, the theme for the month was ‘I am Honest’. Reiterating that fact, students started to maintain a Tooth Diary to record the number of times they brush their teeth a day.
 
Students revised the concepts done through live quizzes and worksheets for their upcoming unit test.
 
Relating to the current COVID situation, the discussion revolved around the impact of coronavirus on them and their family members as an introduction to the concept of Microbes. This was taken up in detail in class, and students shared some facts on good and bad microbes, and also how to protect ourselves from harmful microbes. 
 
https://youtu.be/UYRO9R6Bw2s
 
Quiz link: https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/5c26105b8270ae001a62c1bb/the-excretory-system
https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/5f78297cdb1098001ce42dbe/circulatory-and-excretory-system

The summer break revitalized the students as they shared their new learnings and experience. The interaction motivated the students to participate and share more in the class. The learning continued with a brief recapitulation of the lessons done previously. The concept of Punctuation was introduced and they understood the importance of paying more attention to ‘comma, capitalization, period, and question mark’ while practising writing skills. This helped them construct and express sentences more structurally with appropriate punctuations. They also understood about the Tenses and their usage. The stock of words with ‘ask, ast, ass’ and ‘ur, ure’ was strengthened with a fun lesson using a puzzle, exercises on word formation and framing sentences with the newfound words.
 
The students were highly motivated to explore the golden pages of the famous Folklore-Robin Hood of Sherwood Forest. The reading of the first two chapters gave way for them to share their views with respect to the story. They were stupefied with the archaic diction being used in the lesson viz. ‘thy, thou, thee, perchance, art’ and understanding their meanings.
 
The prior learning of Paragraph Writing was reinforced with the help of ‘Hamburger Graphic Organiser’. The factual writing on Victoria Memorial was brushed up on the basis of the SST topic of Eastern State-Kolkata. (Integrated with SST)
 
 
As part of UT 1 revision, multiple discussions and revision sessions and worksheets were done to reflect on their preparedness for the upcoming unit tests.
 
https://wordwall.net/resource/12970121/punctuation
https://quizizz.com/join?gc=49810566
https://padlet.com/doyel2/k98o6aqlvwg8rtbh

छात्रों को कविता ‘ जीवन की सीख ’ का सस्वर गायन करवाया गया | छात्रों ने बहुत उत्साह और प्रेम के साथ गायन किया | छात्रों ने चाँद , तारे , सूरज के मुखौटे बनाए तथा कविता का गायन किया | छात्रों ने संगीत कला की शिक्षा के साथ एकीकृत करते हुए कक्षा के दौरान प्रकृति से संबंधित कविता सुनाई | छात्रों को क्रिया का परिचय देते हुए उनके परिवार के सदस्यों के काम की सूची बनवाई गई | छात्रों ने बहुत ही रुचिपूर्ण तरीके से  क्रिया के भेदों के उदाहरण दिए । छात्रों द्वारा विभिन्न क्रियाओं का मूक अभिनय किया गया तथा दूसरे छात्रों ने क्रिया बताई | छात्रों को प्रथम इकाई परीक्षा की तैयारी करवाई गई | छात्रों को सतत विकास के लक्ष्य 15 –थलीय जीवों की सुरक्षा से संबंधित जानकारी प्रदान की गई | छात्रों को ‘ बाघ और हाथी ‘ पाठ का वाचन करवाया गया तथा बाघों के संरक्षण के लिए उठाए जाने वाले कदमों पर विचार विमर्श किया गया | छात्रों को बाघ को बचाने के लिए नारा लेखन करने को कहा गया | छात्रों से ईद के त्योहार पर भी चर्चा की गई | सभी छात्रों ने अपने – अपने अनुभव साझा किए |
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFh0MKe-kVk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCW6oYRSK9g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVoX4R8rEro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi0hqLp30uQ

In their Western Dance lessons, the students learnt:

• About Contemporary dance.
• The basic feet positions of Contemporary dance.

 
Dance form: Contemporary (Beginners Level)
Song: Let it go - Frozen
Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0MK7qz13bU

In their Indian Dance lessons, students learnt:
 

• Patriotic dance and Kathak basics
• To express their feelings for the country and pay tribute to the soldiers who lost their lives.
• Hasta mudras used in the dance—pataka, ardh-pataka, chakra, mushthi, hansasya, etc.
• Navrasa—veer and karuna.

 
Dance form: Freestyle (action and expression)
Song: Teri Mitti
Video link: https://youtu.be/wF_B_aagLfI  

 ​MATHEMATICS

The month commenced with the recapitulation of comparing and ordering Large Numbers, also reinforcing the place values of each digit in large numbers. The students had a recap of forming the largest and smallest numbers with 4 digits. They further learnt to form largest and smallest numbers with more numbers of digits given. Furthermore, students practiced applying their understanding of large numbers by rounding-off numbers to nearest tens, hundreds, and even thousands. They were introduced to the basics of estimating numbers by rounding through a PowerPoint presentation. As part of Shin Edu program, they also did few tasks in the SEP Edu activity book to enhance their logical and critical thinking skills.
 
Web links:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djWxGEFzalw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT8gaSKrgtM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IMkWtS0kXM

Ch.4- The Northern Plains
 
Learning is fun when the teacher and students explore together. Using Google Earth in the classroom has been very exciting as the students could locate the Northern plains, understood its extent and the name of the states covering the Northern Plains.
The session progressed with the help of interesting videos which were explained and the students attempted a quiz as a reflection activity.
 
The three divisions of the Northern plains were explained with the help of maps. Origin and mouth of the rivers Ganga, Indus, and the Brahmaputra were shown on Mapmaker and the students were able to understand the path of these rivers. Interesting facts related to these rivers were shared with students to make the lesson more interesting. To make the chapter interesting a map jigsaw puzzle was solved by students on Bookwidget.com.
Communication skills and creative thinking were encouraged by asking students application-based questions.
 
Links used -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTYvOA2pwLg
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwCH_WEYFTo

HINDI

कक्षा चार के छात्रों को अपठित गदयांश के विषय में जानकारी देते हुए लाईव अभ्यास पत्रिका का लिंक साझा किया गया जिसे उन्होने बहुत उत्साह से किया। छात्रों को एक कहानी सुनाई गई जिसमें सिर्फ संज्ञा का प्रयोग किया गया । उनसे पूछा गया कि क्या यह कहानी सुनने में अच्छी लगी या नहीं , फिर उन्हें दुबारा कहानी सुनाई गई जिसमे सर्वनाम शब्दों का प्रयोग करते हुए सर्वनाम का परिचय दिया गया । छात्रों को सर्वनाम की परिभाषा बताते हुए उसका परिचय दिया गया । उनके साथ सर्वनाम के विडियो लिंक   भी साझा किए गए । छात्रों को पी. पी. टी. दिखाते हुए सर्वनाम के प्रकारों की भी जानकारी प्रदान की गई । पी. पी. टी. के अंत में अभ्यास प्रश्न पूछे गए जिसमे उन्हें सर्वनाम के प्रकरों को छाँटने के लिए कहा गया। छात्रों को सतत विकास के लक्ष्य -3 उत्तम स्वास्थ्य व खुशाली से संबन्धित चित्र दिखाया गया व उनका चित्र वर्णन करवाया गया । छात्रों ने बहुत उत्साह और प्रेम से गतिविधि में भाग लिया । छात्रों को १ से ५० तक की हिंदी गिनती को लिखना व पढ़ना भी सिखाया गया । छात्रों के साथ  कक्षा के दौरान माँ दिवस और मजदूर दिवस से संबन्धित अनुभव साझा किए गए । छात्रों ने बहुत ही रुचिपूर्ण तरीके से अपने -अपने अनुभव बताए ।
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro068gi7Wh4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ3knFmvfqA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ypr7Utxz-KE
 
https://www.liveworksheets.com/vp950255rq
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INDIAN DANCE

In the Indian Dance lessons, students learnt about the Lord of Dance- Natraja through Shiv Vandana and an open discussion about the story behind it.
Through Asamyukta hasta mudra’s (single hand gestures) used in Shiv Vandana, students learnt about the hand gestures which describe lord Shiva such as Trishula, Sarpashirsh, Katka, Chandrakala. After that, they performed the dance to a beautiful song named- ‘Jai Jai Kedara’.
 
Dance form: Kathak
Song: Jai Jai Kedara
Video link :https://youtu.be/LRZMKXQ40YE