Updates of Week 3 (8th to 12th August2022)

 

Hindi updates by Nasr Syed Talal, ,Anika Gupta and Ms Meena

We read short stories and then we acted them out. We shared our understating of the moral of these stories. We made some essential agreements. Ms Meena gave us flashcards to read at home every day.

Library updates by Rishith Sama and Siddarth Bharathan

This week in our library session we read books and connected AKA learner profile attributes with them. We also learned about AK strands. We discussed and drew essential agreements and connected them to learner profile attributes.

In our library we also celebrated  J. K Rowling’s birthday, she is the author of Harry potter, we made posters & birthday cards

  PE updates by Ms Vajravani 

This week we had team-building activities and developed communication teamwork leadership etc. Students played a football match and they participated in running races.

 Telugu updates by Edya Jupally , Divisha Barli and  Shreeram Kandula

This week in Telugu, Miss Kasturi gave us Telugu journals. In the 1^st lesson, we decorated our journals, and all of us made them super colourful. Soon we started doing tasks in our journals.  We wrote varnamala and hope tomorrow it will be as fun. 

Unit of Inquiry(UOI)  updates by Faiz Dobaria and Anagha Brahmanapalli

We did an activity where we had to enact a situation, and others had to vote it as good or bad.

Ms Vidhya asked questions about healthy and unhealthy practices.   

 

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We reflected on them and had discussions; we put 👍 if we agreed and if we did not agree, we had to put a 👎.  

 

Music updates by Aashrit Kolla and Janvi Tulla

This week we learned how to play drums and we had to decorate our Music book

English updates by Virat Madugula andArjun Paladugu

This week we made sentences, we learned complete sentences, and we learned what is a predicate and subject.

 

We had our Guided reading, and we read the different levelled books and did reading reflections.

We get to take our Guided-reading book home and read with our parents or read to our parents.  

Maths updates by Edya Jupally and Divisha Barli

In Math, we are learning all types of number forms until 100,000. This week we did an activity on numbers in the form of a mind map. We had to make a number and had to show such as Place value, Expanded form, Number names, Forward counting and backward counting. Our next task was number counters known as a pictorial method; with the number counters in our groups, each one of us had to make a number and write it down in words. 🔢➗➖✖️!!!!

Enrichment Updates by  Zayden Merchant and Chaiitra Kondapally

In Enrichment, we played volleyball and learned the basic types of skills.

In dance, we practised the Vande Mataram song for the Independence day assembly

 

 Social Emotional learning (SEL) Updates by Ms Vidhya

Mr Abhimanyu read a picture book  tilted "Along came A different'  by Tom McLaughlin . Later students tried creating stories around artifacts that looked different, they identified the uniqueness of them and described  it in their story.

 

 

Updates of Week 2 (1st to 5th August)

 UoI- Updates by Faiz Dobaria and Anagha Brahmanapalli
 

This week in UoI, we learned about health and well-being. I learned about how to balance physical and mental health. Ms Vidhya jumbled the central idea and in groups, we had to figure out the central idea. We did a reflection on what I know, what I learned, and questions I have.

 

 PE-Swimming -updates by Siddharth Bharathan and Zayden Merchant
This week, we had team-building activities and developed communication, teamwork leadership etc. Throughout the week in swimming, a few of us were learning freestyle, and others were preparing for the Inter-school swimming competition. We were diving and jumping from the diving board into the very deep pool and from the not-so-deep pool, and the best thing was after we were done preparing, we got free time and playtime.

Music- Updates by Aruhi Pitti and Nasr Syed Talal
This week with our teacher Ms December we were learning about music notes and rests, crescendo, and were also learning sharps and flats. We learned a song called 'One small voice'. And we will be playing on the keyboard from next week. We also did a test about music, the teacher gave us a row of notes, and we had to perform that by clapping. We also discussed rest and what would happen if we had no rest. We also learned about the minim notes and half notes

Art- Updates by Varshini Dara and Divisha Barli
In art class, we were doing asymmetrical faces. On the first day, we were drawing on a hard sheet of paper, and then we coloured in. The other day we finished and now we are on our real piece. Then we painted it and finished our final piece. That was our first task. It was fun step-by-step learning.

Hindi- Updates by Inaya Lakhani
We wrote about learner profile attributes, we read stories we also did a drama,
We drew pictures of what we did in the holidays. 

 

Telugu- Updates by Atharv Kolluri and Hemanth Thatisetti
We are learning tiru tiru gaanadah song in Telugu class and to read upto bndeeraa. We played ice ball and we also learned today a guninthalu we learned somavaram boodavaram (names of week days) and numbers in Telugu and also participated in debate and we also scared Ms Kasturi with snakes.


English- Updates by Edya Jupally  and Aadhya Kumbam
This week in English, we did an activity in which we had to use words to describe ourselves, write about what we love, list our family members, write about our feelings, and favourite places and we also did dear time and we read a lot of books.

 

Maths- Updates by Virat Madugula and Shreeram Kandula
This week in Maths, we used numbers counters to understand the place value system.  We had to make 5-digit numbers and then write the numeral form and then in words.

 
Enrichment- Updates by Aadhya Kumbam and Ashrith Kolla

During Enrichment session, we are learning Zumba and preparing a dance to perform. 

 

SEL: Updates by Divisha Barli and Varshini Dara
In SEL time we talk about things that we don't talk in class. We shared are feelings on using Rose, Bud and Thorn routines, rose are something positive we did, bud is something that you are looking forward to next week. Thorn is something that you need help for next week. We also saw a cartoon video in which we learned about positivity. It was a fun-filled learning

 

Library ( Updates by Ms Veena) –

Students were involved in celebrating J. K. Rowling’s birthday. They made cards  and wrote a letter to JK Rowling during the session.

 

Curriculum Updates

 

I'm sure you are eager to know more about how our classroom works and the curriculum this year. Below is a brief outline:

Inquiry - Our very first Unit of Inquiry is based on examining Health and Well-Being, under the transdisciplinary theme, ‘Who we are’. This will be a year long unit and we will touch upon various aspects of health and well being throughout the year.

Central Idea: A balance of factors can contribute to health and well-being.
Lines of Inquiry
•    Factors that contribute to health
•    How these factors can contribute to health and wellbeing.
•    Ways of maintaining health and well-being

Reading
•    Students will be using the Oxford Reading Tree Programme and will be given books as per their reading needs. Students will be regularly assessed to monitor progress.
•    In addition, we encourage students to issue books of different genres from our Junior School library. They can also request Ms Veena, our librarian, to help them in choosing their books.
•    We recommend that students read books of their choice daily to experience the joy of reading.

Play-Based Learning
In the Junior School, we believe in play-based learning and hence, this will be integrated into our engagements and experiences.

Assessment
•    Assessment of, and for learning will be an ongoing process and achieved mainly through regular feedback and feed-forward.
•    Students will be encouraged to work on their personalised learning goals and challenge themselves.
•    We shall have scheduled PTMs throughout the year to discuss students’ progress and goals.

Homework
Students will be asked to work on research projects, practice language and mathematical concepts or conduct interviews, surveys, etc. as per individual and class needs. Reading for 20mins is for every day.

Thanks to all the parents who attended the Virtual Culture Circle, and I really appreciate your valuable input during the session.  I really understand that others would have loved to be part of it but missed it due to unavoidable reasons. Please find the Presentation of the Virtual Culture Circle, below.