Weekly updates for the week of 23rd to 27th Jan

 Guest session
Aruhi Pitti and Shreeram Kandula    This week we had a guest session. We learned about being an entrepreneur. We had a better understanding how to look at doing what you are interested in and sell your art online. Mr Visweswara has a website to sell art online and he decides the price of the artwork based on time and creativity.

Weekly updates for the week of 9th -13th Jan 2023

 

Visual Art

Textured-paper Weaving            

 By Ms Florance James
The students have expressed their opinions towards this task with wide ranging emotions and vocabulary…. Wow!...what!...I love this!....it’s torture!....Why are we doing this anyway?....Actually I think I can do this…..I can’t do this!...I think I get it now!.... Somebody please tell me why I have to destroy this beautiful work by chopping it up!......Amazing!......etc
However, the students have responded to this task, it’s important to note that there have been record numbers of grade 4 students voluntarily coming into the art room during break and lunch times, to work on this. Why is this? The textured-paper weaving is fun, beautiful, challenging, and to some extent quite addictive. Unlike most tasks, which are one continuous process, this one is split into three distinct stages: creating abstract textures and outlining them with a sharpie, cutting the textures into strips and then weaving the strips into one piece. During these stages, the students are learning or reinforcing various skills and concepts. This can be fairly demanding on fine-motor skills! Some of the students describe this as torture, whilst others think it is gratifying!
For grade 4 students, this is one of the tasks, which demands the most perseverance, patience and stamina.  They are practising exactly that!

Edya Rao Jupally  and Aadhya Kumbam

This week in art, we did a new project called paper weaving. In paper weaving we textured our papers and then outlined every coloured and white space with sharpies.Then we cut them in to strips and put them over and under each other and stuck them  a fun activity and  taught us to be patient because it took quite some time.

Library 

Shreeram Kandula and  Virat Reedy Madugula

This week for library Ms Latha told us to read more books and asked us whether we like reading or not. She told us that she likes books.And she told us that she loved being a librarian.She told us when she visited an other country she used to explore the library. And we did scavenger hunt in the library. 

Swimming

Hemanth and Nasr

This week there were selection competition and I was selected but Nasr wasn't and  and we all did   breast stroke  and today we watched Ashirith swim and he also got selected in relay. 

UOI - 

VARSHINI DARA  and ANAGHA  B
 This week we learned about a new unit Economic system. We also did an activity in which we did trading up and we had make money and sell the products we have..then we try to find out the central idea .  We also made our question using question starters. Then we learned 4 types of economic systems which are traditional system,market system , command system and mixed system then we read an article about it . 

Maths 

Anika Gupta  Arjun Reddy

This week we did  addition and subtraction and number bond and number line. We even did a few practice sheets.

 

 

English

Ashrith Kolla and Zayden Merchant
This Week in English we had a deeper learning to understand how picture is different from an advertisement,. We had to search up online for an advertisement or a photograph And put it in a slide and we had to complete Three sentence starters Like: Image is a photograph or an advertisement,   
I know this because,  and I like/ do not like that the image
 

Hindi

Inaya Lakhani
In Hindi we read a poem on Sankranti and mam took a assessment on it. We also wrote 1  to 50 numbers in Hindi. 

Telugu

Divisha Barli and Chaiithra Kondapally
This week finally everything came back to normal. Because the musical is over, there are 2 groups group 1 and group 2 group one is presently learning gunimta gurthulu. And group 2 is learning some stories read and write.other wise we see some stories or Ms Kasturi ( telugu teacher ) will make us the Telugu numbers and the Varnamala. Other times we play quizzes like opposites and singular and plural.

Enrichment

Aruhi Pitti  and Siddarth  Bharathan

 In Enrichment we are learning soccer and we did penalty kicks and passes and we were talking about soccer. ER and FIFA World cup.  Sir told us some positions  and answered some questions about soccer

PE

Divisha Barli  and Chaiithra Kondapally
In PE we are practicing for sports day. Last class we were told who came 1 2 and 3.There are also 8 selected runners who are gonna run on sports day.There are also these things to do like dance and drums.  

  

Weekly Updates for the week of 7th -11th November

 English updates by Chaiithra Reddy,Aadhya Kumbam

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This week we learnt descriptive writing. In descriptive  writing, we  looked at a  picture and we  described  the picture using the five sense strategy,  what we saw ,heard, felt, smelled,touched and put them all together in a paragraph.
In reading, we continue our Author study on Roald Dahl. comprehending  for the chapters that we read  is also one the task that we did after reading. In guided reading, we read new set of books, we have to reflect about it  online in our home reading  journal. 

 Unit Of Inquiry updates by Divisha Barli and Edya Rao Jupally

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 In this unit we have been learning about  characteristics of Civilizations. Now we are focusing on the process like what an  archaeologists does. Some facts about archaeologists. Archaeologists have great organisation skills. Archaeologists dig by mapping the place using drones or satellites to make sure they don't damage the artefacts they find. They also use grids to make sure they know which artefact comes from where. We looked at analysing the credibility of a source of information. We enjoyed this learning and hope we can continue.

 

Maths updates by Faiz Dobaria and Aruhi Pitti

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 In In Maths, we did geometry and learnt about angles and how to measure them. We also have been doing a lot of practice on how to measure angles. We also did an online task about measuring angles. We can now identify and measure an acute,obtuse,right angles.   

  Library updates by Atharv Kolluri and Anagha Brahmanplli

 This Week in Library we read books and connected it to an AK strand and grouped ourselves and explain what was the book we read and how we connected to the specific AK strand and sub-strand. 

 Swimming updates by Shreeram Kandula and Virat Reddy Madugula

We defeated the sixth grader’s in a pool race. We also learnt backstroke without kicking and by using the Pull Buoy. we did six laps of backstroke using the Pull Buoy.

Hindi updates by  Zayden Merchant and Nasr Syed Talal

    
 This week in Hindi we started doing literature study and we had to read any story from Maple kids books and write 5w1h and then today we had listened to a story and  act it in groups.

Telugu updates by Varshini Dara

This week during our Telugu sesssion we went to boulevard and Ms Kasturi gave everyone a chance to speak about a story in turns .Then we did a presentation in our Telugu book about Ekalavya's story.

Music updates by Inaya Lakhani, Anika Gupta and Janvi Tulla 

We learned Robin hood songs for the musical. We learned ten songs like Robin Robin Hood, Out In The Forest, and What A Man What A Guy. We learnt how to vocalise our voices, and also we practised the musical bass cliff notes space. We relearnt lyrics because some of us forgot and jumbled up ‘Out in the forest’ finale with ‘Out in the forest.

Art updates by Rishith Reddy and Arjun Reddy

In art, we made the animal collage. To make this we used paper strips and from all  the types of  strips.  This one is a different way of making a collage.

 
Our playtime

Social Emotional Learning session: presenting different scenarios of being Empathic. 

 

Shake out Drill

On Thursday, Junior school participated in Shake out drill. The three words "Drop, Cover, Hold" the mantra to be safe during an earthquake was shared with them.  

Funzone