MUSINGS AT GRADE 2A
During their UOI classes, students concluded the unit on lifecycles with a field trip to the ‘Kegg farms’, later they did an end of unit reflection and attempted a Summative assessment. Students tuned into their new unit ‘Natural resources’ through an interesting activity wherein they sorted the various items into natural and man-made. Going further students wrote their understanding of resources and gained knowledge on the different natural and man-made resources through various interesting interactive activities and educational videos. There was a group discussion on where to find these natural resources with students illustrating the same in their process journals. Students also tuned into the concept of renewable and non-renewable resources and recorded their understanding. An English language activity was also integrated with the unit wherein students listened to the story ‘The red moon’ , took notes and illustrated the same. Students were tuned into language concepts like genders, singular and plural. They enhanced their listening and thinking skills by attempting a listening activity wherein a passage was read aloud to them and they had to draw and spot the prepositions therein. Students also attempted the spell bee dictation wherein they had to correct the misspelled words. During their Math classes students tuned into the concept of multiplication through a relay race activity and further continued to practice multiplication sums. They also practiced patterns and attempted a formative assessment on the concept. Students were also introduced to the concept of symmetry and enjoyed illustrating the same in their process journals. During their Hindi lessons students watched a video on the process of paper making and attempted a ‘Listen and answer’ activity. They picked up new vocabulary from the video. They enhanced their verbal skills by reciting a poem ‘Kaagaj’ with our special guests Mrs Mukti Agarwal, Mrs Komal Dua and Mrs Deepti Mishra in grades 2A,B and C respectively. During their Hindi Ab-initio lessons students learned to practice‘o’maatraa by speaking aloud words using the same. They also revised Falo ke naam, Rango ke naam,Ango ke naam . For their ICT students enjoyed playing Kahoot, an online quizzing tool on the topic ‘basics of computers’ and loved it. They were very excited and truly engaged. During Music classes, students have started learning the rhythm system in western music. They gained knowledge about while, half and quarter note. They also inquired about the speed of the songs according to these symbols. They sang the song ‘Count on me’ with karaoke track individually. In their Art classes the students learned paper mosaic art , they coloured their drawings using pencil colours , they learnt to cut small pieces of paper with scissors and pasted the pieces to complete their mosaic art. During their PE lessons students continued with their skating classes. They practised for the proper start when racing and participated in intra class competitions too.
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Shefali
5/10/2017 09:42:11 am
Curriculum is wonderful. Exposure on so many topics will give a great start to learning.
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