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While pursuing their journey under the current unit ‘Civilization’ the students travelled back to the past and researched the different civilizations. They gained an insight into the first line of inquiry ‘Kinds of Civilizations’ and third line of inquiry ‘Influences of past civilizations ‘. They identified the famous civilizations and collectively explored and discovered different aspects of each civilization. Students were able to relate to each civilization and they recognised their contributions to the present-day world. Students enjoyed the experience they had while making clay models, diagrams specific to each of the civilization and presented their work in the form of an exhibition. They also took their understanding further by presenting an exhibition to the students of other grades and their parents too. A glimpse into the Ancient Civilization exhibition Field trip visit In their English classes, students were introduced to formal letter writing and a mind map was created to understand the need of formal letters. Their vocabulary was enhanced with spell bee words related to the unit. Usage of few words were discussed and written in process journals as sentences. They read a chapter from ‘At least a Fish ‘and answered questions related to it.
In Math students were able to recall the various units used for measuring distance, weight and capacity. They reflected on the techniques employed for conversion of bigger units to smaller unit and vice versa. They continued solving simple word problems related to distance and weight. In their Hindi classes students read a text related to the unit - ‘Sindhu ghaati ki sabhyata’. They read the poem ‘Koi lake mujhe de’ and expressed their wishes. Children enjoyed listening to the story ‘Thapp roti thapp daal’ In their French classes the students have started revising the concepts done so far. They had a quiz on numbers and a question answer round on classroom objects. In their Spanish classes students revisited the names of classroom objects with the definite articles. During their ICT classes students researched on general information related to internet and played a quiz on Kahoot. In Music students played percussion band and learnt carols . In their Dance classes students continued to learn Hip-Hop and its elements. They have also learnt basic down rock hip-hop movements which are used in old-school hip-hop choreographies. In Art students are studying about ancient cave paintings. After studying the characteristics of cave paintings children are trying to create their own ideas by using poster colours. They are also trying to learn water colour application. In their P.E classes students participated in intra class hurdle races and shuttle relays.
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February 2017
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