Action Cycle

Children attempted an Action cycle choosing an issue which was bothering them, acting on it to make things better and then reflecting on the actions to understand what changes it would bring to the country. Important issues like pollution, global warming, animal rights, child rights and rights of a girl child were taken up and actions suggested. Surely these children will bring in the change that is required.

 

Our rights and responsibilities

Children were engaged in an animated discussion as they tried to identify the rights they have as students of Pathways. Promptly they identified their responsibilities that came with those rights. As these responsibilities took shape of essential agreements , they realised life was not going to be easy as ‘ rights would come only when they were responsible enough’.

Guess My Name

Students were geared up for learning mathematics. Maths class started with an activity called ‘My Magic ATM’. Students were required to solve the sums based on the concepts of addition in pairs of 100 and 1000. They also tried a new way of solving the story word problems by depicting it through drawings. To add more fun to their learning we also planned a multiplication bingo session. To revise the multiplication facts, we used a strategy called ‘Guess my name’ in which badges were given to the students with a multiplication fact e.g 7X5 written on each badge. The answer of the multiplication fact was supposed to be their name e.g Mr. 35. All the children thoroughly enjoyed learning in their new grades. 

Dinner for six

Showing their understanding of the three arms of the government, here we have our students engaged in important discussions during the ‘dinner for six’. They not only discussed important issues like theft, education for girl child, poverty, animal rights and female foeticide but also passed bills and made laws. They even identified punishments if the laws are broken.

Kinds of sentences

The students inquired into different kinds of sentences through play and Power point presentations. They were able to understand the four different kinds of sentences- Interrogative, Declarative, Exclamatory and Imperative sentences. They practised the concept in their English notebook though various activities.