MUSINGS AT GRADE 2A
Students pursued the first line of inquiry as they explored different kinds of emotions and expressions like happiness, sadness, fear, anger, exhaustion and confusion. Students did an interesting activity wherein they took turns to pick up chits with different scenarios and expressed themselves. They also read out stories and identified the protagonist in accordance with different situations in the story. A research to find out about emoticons and understand their role in conveying information and feelings was also undertaken. Students brainstormed and shared their knowledge of research work on the past and present communication. Students learnt about different communication devices used in past such as smoke signals, carrier pigeons, early telephones and letters. A guest lecture was conducted by Mr. Tabrez wherein he talked about International maritime signal flags. Students also gained knowledge about forms of modern art and paintings through a guest lecture conducted by Mr. Mehta. Students enjoyed their field trip to ‘Sanskriti Kendra’ where they inquired and gained knowledge about different Indian textiles, terracotta art, sculptures and figurines from the tribal areas of India. During English lessons, students gained knowledge about adjectives, synonyms and antonyms. They also gained insight into writing a character sketch. They enhanced their reading and comprehension skills through the study of the novel “Getting Granny’s glasses”. Students used their thinking skills while describing granny’s character and sketched using adjectives to describe the character. Students participated in different activities to measure capacity and distance while exploring Math. They also attempted a formative task in which they estimated the weight of different objects followed by actual measurements to cross check their guess. They practiced conversion of units through interesting task sheets. Students gained knowledge about importance and role of the element mercury (Hg) in the thermometer. In their Hindi lessons, students watched ‘kathputli Ka naach’ (Puppet show) and attempted a ‘listen and answer’ activity .They enhanced their verbal skills while reciting a poem ‘Suraj jaldi aana ji’. They were introduced to ‘Sanyuktaakshar’ through textual matter. Hindi Ab-initio lessons students helped to revise ‘aa’ maatraa and students wrote words in their process journals. Oral gintee (counting) for numbers 1 to 25 was undertaken . Students also learned and wrote new words using ‘Vayanjan’ (letters) ‘ta’, ‘ha’, ‘cha’ in their process journals. ICT classes focused on collaboration. Students reviewed infographic for peer in order to learn, complement and give inputs about each other's work. In the Music classes, students practiced to play the scales of "Twinkle twinkle" on the Xylophone. They also tried singing “The Earth” song by Michael Jackson. Students learned about the famous music maestro Mozart and heard his compositions played through the recordings. Dance classes focused on practicing the routines for their UOI presentation. During PE lessons, students gained knowledge about the rules of cricket and practiced skills like batting, bowling and fielding.
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Shefali
2/13/2017 07:28:22 am
Sanskriti Kendra gave great boost to the kids interest in art forms.
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