Theme: Aquatic Life Our goal for this month was to make children familiar with a large variety of ocean-dwelling animals. By understanding how everything is connected in the sea and ocean and how we interact with it as humans, children learnt to care for and to protect the ocean. They also learnt to identify the features of different sea animals. Naturalistic “Reality whistles a different tune underwater” - Tom Robbins The world under the oceans has always fascinated kids as the never-ending water bodies are filled with various aquatic animals and plants that are unique, interesting and mysterious. A little exposure to the aquatic world can teach the kids the importance of the marine life.
Verbal Linguistic Intelligence –English Encouraging young children to engage in reading helps them develop into confident and independent learners. We encouraged children to start reading sight words that further helped in promoting reading comprehension. Children practiced reading sight words such as after, going, with, make, their, think, sleep, brown, yellow, old etc. Our little learners assimilated the concept of ‘Rhyming Words’ and practiced reading and writing words with the help of interactive worksheets. The reading practice of the ‘e’ and 'o' vowel CVC words was also done through video demonstration. Verbal Linguistic Intelligence –Hindi व्यंजन गीत और कहानी के माध्यम से व्यंजन ब, क, र, स, य, थ का परिचय दिया गया। अध्यापिका जी ने बच्चों को इन अक्षरों से शुरू होने वाले अनेक नए शब्द सिखाये और साथ ही साथ बच्चों को भी कुछ और शब्दों को बताने के लिए प्रोत्साहित किया। बच्चों ने भी रोजमर्रा में प्रयोग होने वाले अनेक नए शब्दों को बताया व अपना भाषा ज्ञान बढ़ाया। भाषा विकास एक मजबूत संचार प्रक्रिया की नींव रखता है । इसलिए सनसिटी के छात्रों ने भाषाई कौशल को बढ़ाने के लिए नए व्यंजन ‘ख’, ‘श’, ‘ग’, ‘म’, ‘भ’, ‘त’ सीखे और अपनी शब्दावली को बढ़ाने के लिए शब्दों के माध्यम से इनका उपयोग करना सीखा। उन्होंने इन व्यंजनो को लिखने का अभ्यास भी किया और संबंधित शब्दावली चित्र बनाने भी सीखे । इतना ही नहीं, उन्होंने व्यंजन को जोड़कर दो अक्षर के शब्द बनाना भी सीखा। Logical-Mathematical Intelligence Without mathematics, there’s nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers. –Shakuntala Devi Recapitulation of tens/ones through abacus along with quantification and writing practice from 1-100. Introduction to backward counting (50-1) through flashcards, video and related workbook pages. Introduction of More/Less through concrete objects such as toys, pencils etc Introduction to number names ‘Nine’ and ‘Ten’ through flashcards, related songs, and notebook pages. Children also did a recap of the number names ‘One to Ten ‘through related workbook pages. Recapitulation of the concept of “What comes before/after/in between, Greater than/lesser than/ Equals to” through workbook pages. Children enjoyed ‘Playing with Numbers’ activity page in their SHIN session. Visual-Spatial Intelligence Art is a creative therapy that involves visual movements, imagination skills, aesthetic skills and finger dexterity. Children gained these skills with the help of various coloring and craft activities. In the first week, the educator discussed the water animals, later children made an ‘Origami fish’. In the second week, the educator discussed Guru Nanak Jayanti and how is it celebrated through a video, later children made the ‘ Chaur Sahib’. In the third week, children had briefing session on facts about chacha Nehru and his love for children, later they made ‘Children’s day card’. In the fourth week, the educator talked about the impact of plastic on the aquatic world and emphasized reducing the usage of plastic, later children made a poster with the slogan ‘Say no to water pollution.’ In the fifth week, children did the recapitulation of water animals, later they drew an ocean scene in the sketchbooks. Musical Intelligence Music is the art form that combines rhythm and sound to form a functional melodic line. The music itself transcends time, space, and culture. Indian Music Intelligence Indian music often depends upon melodic movement, that is, the occurrence of tones or musical notes to create a single line of tune. During the month, children attempted vocal warmups and rhythm clapping. Children practiced singing the welcome song, prayers, and animal choirs along with the educator. They also practiced singing the ‘स से संग’ and ‘shake the shaker’ song. Western Music ‘Our music is inspired by nature and nature is what enriches it.’ Children enjoyed singing the ‘Nature Song' and 'Rudolph the red nosed' to the tunes of guitar. Dance (Mrinal Ma’am) Dancing is surely the most basic form of expression. It also improves our physical health. During the month, children attempted warmup exercises and danced to the tune of the ‘Don’t worry be happy’ song. Bodily-kinesthetic Bodily-kinaesthetic learning style or intelligence refers to a person's ability to process information physically through hand and body movement, body control, and expression. Kinaesthetic learning often includes physical repetition of tasks, which builds muscle memory and further boosts information retention. In the month of November, students were able to perform Manipulation Skills: KG A 1) Rolling the ball and walking 2) Skipping on the ball 3) Kicking the ball 4) Rolling a ball 5) Lifting balls 6) Kicking balls Striking Skills: KG B 1) Striking the ball using a plastic bat 2) Striking the ball on hand 3) Striking the ball against the wall 4) Basics of catching and throwing 5) Catching with plastic balls 6) Throwing practice with plastic balls Indigenous Games: KG C 1) Kangaroo Jumps with ball 2) Running (Touch and back) 3) Tag Games 4) Blind man’s buff 5) Tag games 6) In & out (Jumping) Locomotor & Non-Locomotors Activities: KG D 1) Crawling 2) Jumping (Single leg Jumping/Double leg Jump) 3) Side Run/Walk 4) Hopping 5) Walking 6) Hopping from one place to another Non-Locomotor Skills: 1) Stretching 2) Catching on the spot 3) Throwing on the spot 4) Pick up a pencil 5) Jumping on Spot 6) Stretching on the Spot SKATING Skating can be a fun and rewarding activity. It builds strength, balance, and coordination while providing a great source of exercise. Skating can also help in building muscle strength and flexibility. Children practiced attempting the following positions and footwork while skating: Balancing on one leg each (Half camel) Simple sit and one-leg sit Imaginarium Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. -Albert Einstein Children were able to arouse their inner Einstein and spread their wings of imagination to create and play pretend activities at various stations during the Imaginarium session. Children also did some strengthening exercises at the play gym. Storytelling Storytelling helps improve children’s language skills, instills a love of reading, and stirs their imagination. Taking this tradition forward, a story titled ‘A baby hornbill learns to fly’ was narrated in the first week to enhance their knowledge about various species of birds (characteristics, features, behavior, appearance etc.). This was followed by the drawing of hornbill with few easy steps in the second week. The story of ‘The Giving Tree’ was taken in the third week to ignite the feeling of kindness and gratitude amongst the children. Drama To instill these skills, the enactment of various aquatic animals was done by the educator in the first week followed by the children’s learning and performance of the same in the second week. The story of ‘Lion and the Mouse’ was done in the third week followed by the enactment of the story. Interpersonal Intelligence Birthday celebration- Show & Tell Every child is super excited about his/her birthday. Keeping up this spirit, the birthdays of children born in the month of November were celebrated with their friends and teachers virtually. A ‘Show and Tell’ activity took place based on the theme, ‘Aquatic world’. Children came dressed as Aquatic animals along with coordinated props for this much-awaited and loved event. They eagerly waited for their turns to share their knowledge with friends and reiterated the basic etiquette to be adopted while attending a birthday party. KG A Special Assembly Kindness: Kindness is and always will be one of the most beautiful and powerful forces for good that exists in the entire world. It is the sincere and voluntary use of one’s time, talent, and resources to better the lives of others, one’s own life, and the world through genuine acts of love, compassion, generosity, and service. Students of class KG A presented a beautiful assembly on 25th November 2022 on the topic ‘Kindness.’ The assembly comprised a very interesting skit that showcased the children's talent and effectively conveyed the message that kindness is an act of compassion, love, concern, and sympathy. Being kind to others instills a positive feeling and makes this world a better place to live. The skit was followed by a beautiful dance performance. LEAP The world of our little ones encompasses inquisitiveness which leads to zillion questions. To acquire understanding and get answers to these commendable questions, they experience a process of exploration, discovery, investigation, examination, and so on. To hone their ‘Higher Order Thinking skills, the children did 'Unplugged Coding' and 'Decoding Monkey Code' through which they developed critical thinking, problem-solving, imagination, logical-reasoning skills, and communication skills and sharpened their visual thinking skills. Math Week: ‘There should be no such thing as boring mathematics’ In our endeavour to make ‘Math’ fun and interesting for our young learners, ‘Math Week’ was organised during this month. Children thoroughly enjoyed the fun-filled ‘Math Week’ with BINGO game. The children enjoyed recapitulating the concept of ‘What comes After/Before and Backward Counting’ in a play way method. Educator conducted a brainstorming session with our little mathematicians wherein the children were asked a few questions related to their routine. This was followed by ‘Time reading' activity which involved them in a hands-on task of making dummy clocks.
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