Poetry

Students were introduced to different forms of poetry. They made a concept map on the elements of poetry and wrote their understanding of what a verse or poetry means.

Students learnt about similes and alliterative verses. They attempted worksheets on similes. Students also enjoyed watching videos on alliteration.

SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT- UOI

 To assess students’ understanding of the central idea, ‘the choices we make can keep us healthy & disease free’; students planned and created a logo to showcase their understanding of the central idea along with the write up. It was a celebration of their learning; they shared their learning about the five factors that affect our health and different kinds of diseases and ways to prevent them. The students also created health related quizzes, riddles, jumble words, word search along with the street play and role plays in Hindi. 

Ms Tareeta Arora's Session

Ms Tareeta Arora, the School Counsellor, spoke to the students about physical, mental and spiritual health. She taught them wonderful relaxation exercises to help them overcome stress, and understand their own thoughts, feelings, emotions and behaviour pattern in a better way. They reflected on their health practises and identified elements they would continue doing or start doing in an effort to stay healthy.

Yoga teacher Ms Vratika Arya's Session

As a provocation to the third line of inquiry the Yoga teacher Ms Vratika Arya talked about the importance of exercising and doing yoga asanas to keep oneself disease free.  She also talked about the precautions one needs to take while performing the asanas as the exercises need to be performed under expert guidance.

Prefixes and Suffixes

Students undertook formative task on letter writing and were assessed by their peers. They were introduced to the grammar concept of prefixes and suffixes through a power point presentation. Later on they came up with words containing prefixes and suffixes. They  played online games related to the concept. They also read reader “ Odysseus” and attempted questions on the same.

Talk Session by Ms Caroline Gowlett

A talk session by Ms Caroline Gowlett threw light on the different diseases that can affect us due to various reasons. Students researched on different diseases: communicable, non-communicable and life style diseases.

Healthy Day

The students shared their ideal healthy day with their friends. They created a day with a fine balance of food, recreation, exercise, play and hygiene. They watched a power point presentation on keys to a healthy life style and discussed about a healthy life style as well as stress, over consumption of anything and other aspects which result in an unhealthy life style.