ENGLISHIn the month of October, students got familiar with the concept of recycling in the chapter - Reduce, Recycle and Reuse. The problem of generating tonnes of garbage and dumping triggered a discussion in the class. The students focused on understanding the details of informational text and attempted comprehension questions along with a Sentence Spellcheck. In an attempt to understand different genres, students also learnt about the elements of drama which was discussed in the chapter ‘The Chinese Play’. The text was in the form of a Playscript which the children thoroughly enjoyed. In Grammar, students worked on the concepts of Conjunctions, Preposition and Singular Plural. In writing, students tried their hand at writing their own short play. Hindiकक्षा चार के छात्रों को खिलौनों की अनोखी दुनिया की सैर करवाते हुए ‘लक्खू चाचा के खिलौने’ पाठ का पठन करवाया गया। छात्रों से चर्चा कराते हुए प्राचीन काल और आधुनिक काल के खिलौनों में अंतर स्पष्ट करवाया गया । पाठ के शब्द-अर्थ, प्रश्न-उत्तर और वाक्य-रचना करवाई गई। छात्रों से अपने साथियों , कक्षा और विद्यालय की विशेषता पूछते हुए विशेषण शब्दों का परिचय दिया गया । अलग- अलग वस्तुएँ दिखाते हुए विशेषण के भेदों का परिचय दिया गया। छात्रों की समझ की जाँच करने के लिए अभ्यास-कार्य करवाया गया । छात्रों में जानवरों के प्रति प्रेम और दया की भावना का विकास करने हेतु ‘सोन मछरिया’ कविता का वाचन करवाया गया। कविता में से पठित पदयांश करवाया गया ।छात्रों के लेखन कौशल में वृद्धि करने के लिए ‘अनुच्छेद लेखन’ करवाया गया जिससे छात्र अपने विचारों और भावों को प्रकट करने में सक्षम हो सकें । SCIENCEForce, Work and Energy Though there is no force more powerful than the determination to rise yet the students experienced different types of forces that exist in nature and learnt about them through various activities. ‘Tug of the War’, ‘Throw the ball’, ‘Catch if you can’, ‘Dunk the ball in the basket’ were the foremost attractions of them and were thoroughly enjoyed by the students. They experienced Gravitational force while throwing the ball upwards and concluded that all things in nature exert force on each other via the force of gravity. The amount of the pull depends upon the mass of the object. They felt the force of friction while playing ‘Tug of the War’, writing on note-book, erasing the board with a duster and many other hands-on activities. They enhanced their knowledge about the types of simple machines and their importance in daily life. They used recyclable and reused material to make models of simple machines viz pulley, inclined plane and lever. MATHStudents understood the Test of Divisibility of numbers and attempted to use the strategies learnt in a related worksheet. They were introduced to fraction through Jodo-Gyan kit quiz in class. Their prior-knowledge was assessed when the teacher called out a fraction and students had to assemble using the Jodo-Gyan kit. They studied the different types of fraction and learnt to identify them amongst the numbers listed. Adding and subtracting like fractions, conversions of mixed to improper fractions and vice-versa, fraction word problems were some of the things that the students are learning in this concept. SOCIAL SCIENCEPrevious knowledge of students was provoked by asking queries that helped them correlate transport with geographical landforms. This helped in engaging students through a class discussion which helped them to identify the different modes of transport used in different geographical landforms. Students learnt about the ‘National Highways’ and ‘Golden Quadrilateral’ in the class through a class discussion. Their pre-knowledge on the topic ‘Indian Rails’ and ‘Metro’ was tested by asking their experience of the journey through these modes of transport. In the class activity students learnt to make a ‘Boarding Pass’ in their notebook, they mentioned the date, time, arrival, departure, destination city etc. Students realised the importance of all the people who make commuting easy for us through interesting example. To enhance their research skills students were asked to research about famous ropeways used in our country (they were asked to research the place, distance covered, year of construction of the ropeway). Students were introduced to the meaning of ‘communication’ and its importance in our daily lives through a class discussion. They learnt to differentiate between personal communication and mass communication through examples involving newspaper, radio television, internet (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc) ROBOTICSUNIT TOPIC: ELECTRICITY Activity 1: LIGHT IT UP In this session, students explored energy and how can we use it, they also classified different types of energy in our surroundings. They also studied about the circuit and various components required to design a circuit by creating a prototype of a LED LANTERN: Appliances that lights up with electricity by designing a simple light circuit. Activity 2: CLIP IT TOGETHER In this session, students were explained about the role of a switch in a circuit and function of the switch. They also learnt conducting and insulating property of different materials by creating a switch in a circuit which can activate the light circuit. ICTThe students of grade 4 were introduced to Programming Language Scratch 2.0, which helped them understand how real world objects can be mapped into the virtual world using animation software. They learned several features of Scratch such as its components, adding a new sprite, working with two sprites, setting the sprite position and rotation style, changing the pen shade etc. WESTERN MUSICIn the month of October, the students learnt Name of the song: ‘One Love’ by (Bob Marley) Instruments taught: Piano, Guitar Exercises done: C major scale, finger warm up exercise (Guitar) INDIAN MUSICIn the month of October, the students learnt Name of the song: ‘Humko Man Ki Shakti Dena’, ‘Itni Shakti Hume Dena’ ‘Jai Raam Raam Raam Bhajan’ Instruments played: Combination of Harmonium, Tabla, Tanpura Exercises done: Vocal warm-up with sargam. Presented melodious songs during class assembly on Gandhi Jayanti and Dussehra:
DANCEStudents of Grade 4 learnt basics of Kathak dance form. They learnt how to emote different gestures, posture through body language and facial expressions. They also learnt tatkaar (basic footwork), Hastak (basic hand-movements ) of kathak. Apart from that they have learnt the choreography on deepawali song “deepawali aayi re”. Few students from Grade 4 participated in the Inter-School Dance Drama competition held at DPS School sector 84, Gurugram on 17 th Oct 2019 and were adjudged 1 st amidst tough competition. LIFE SKILLSIn the month of October, students studied ‘emotions’ in detail. They made a booklet “Inside-out” which included 4 to 5 pages. Students learnt different emotions interlinked with each other. They also drew and coloured different emoji’s illustrating different emotions (page1 & 2). PHYSICAL EDUCATIONFOOTBALL, SWIMMING AND GYMNASTICS 1. Understanding dribbling, trapping of football 2. In group dribbling and kicking of the football. 3. Swimming: learnt head up breathing and back floating. 4. Gymnastics: Cartwheel, handstand followed by forward roll and dive roll MATHEMATICAL LOGICAL CLUBMathematics is described as ‘the Queen of the Sciences and the King of the Arts’. The Math club functions as a fun-based activity for the middle classes basically to eradicate their phobia for the subject in their formative years. It helps the middle school children to enjoy, appreciate and acquire a basic knowledge of the subject by organizing competitive group activities, puzzles. Through the club, to develop a positive attitude towards learning Mathematics, a myriad of activities was conducted in the club: · Puzzle time. · Fun with arithmetic operations · Number and operations puzzle · Vedic Math tricks for multiplication · Shape rotational patterns · Number series · Odd one out series · Number patterns · Shape counting in multi grouped figures VERBAL LINGUISTIC CLUBOratorical skills, extempore, retelling stories, etiquettes, poetry recitation were some of the activities that were done in the Verbal-Linguistic club in Term 1 Students were introduced to the techniques of oratorical skills. They were given age appropriate topics for impromptu speech. Students were introduced to various board games which acted as icebreakers for our young Suncitizens. They were given props and were asked to speak few lines on it. They were also shown a picture on the smart board and were asked to describe it in their own words. They gave their reflections on the ‘Teri Gram Visit and made a poster on Green India. Students tried to retell the stories that were already shared by the teachers. Students were introduced to the story building techniques with the help of Spin-a-yarn game. They were given story prompts for it. Students were introduced to various English talking books and were asked to read with proper fluency, expressions, articulation, pronunciation and voice modulation. Social skill / Etiquette : Students were also briefed about social manners & etiquettes through a role play. Students were asked to have short conversations on a given situation e.g restaurants, shopping mall etc. Poetry recitation : They learnt the skills of Choral Poem Recitation with the nuances of expression, pronunciation and clarity. ROBOTICS CLUBSTEAM Learning integrates Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts & Mathematics, with key skills such as problem solving, strategic thinking and collaboration. Digital & Design Technologies aims to develop the knowledge, understanding and skills to ensure that, individually and collaboratively, students develop confidence as critical users of technologies and designers and producers of designed solutions, and they design, create, manage and evaluate sustainable and innovative digital solutions. Keeping that in mind, our young scientists, engineers, mathematicians have collaborated with peers and learnt how to Design, Make and Learn. Some highlights of what the kids have learnt in the Robotics club are given below:
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In sync with the ongoing theme of the month-‘Food’, the students integrated their knowledge about food with the grammar concept of adjectives. As a class activity, they brainstormed and listed adjectives related to it in groups and came up with a lot of new vocabulary. They also learnt about the different types of adjectives. They also learnt about ‘Conjunctions’ and its usage by attempting workbook exercises. In literature, the students discussed the biography of Robert Louis Stevenson. A video clip about the author enabled the visual and auditory learners to associate with it more strongly. They learnt about the elements of biography and wrote a biography of their peer. One of the author’s famous works was taken up through the chapter ‘Treasure Island’ where students could easily make connections. The vocabulary of both the chapters was discussed and students further wrote about the synonym, meaning, antonym and part of speech of few new words. The chapter ended with writing the book review of their favourite book after the discussion of story elements. Hindiकक्षा चार के छात्रों को अच्छी सेहत का महत्व समझाते हुए सेहत है अनमोल खजाना पाठ का पठन करवाया गया।पाठ के शब्द-अर्थ, प्रश्न-उत्तर और वाक्य-रचना करवाई गई। छात्रों से अच्छी सेहत के लिए जरूरी खान-पान की चीज़ों के चित्रों का कोलाज बनवाया गया । अपने भावों और विचारों को सही प्रकार से बोलने व लिखने के लिए विराम चिह्नों के महत्व को समझाया गया। विराम चिह्नों से पहचान करवाई गई। विराम चिह्नों के सही प्रयोग की जानकारी अभ्यास-कार्य द्वारा दी गई । छात्रों को राजस्थान पाठ का पठन करवाया गया। पाठ के माध्यम से छात्रों को राजस्थान की संस्कृति , खान-पान ,कला और ऐतिहासिक स्थलों की जानकारी दी गई। छात्रों को शुद्ध- अशुद्ध शब्दों और वाक्यों में करवाए गए जिससे छात्र सही वर्तनी का अभ्यास करते हुए लेखन में सुधार कर सकें । SCIENCEIn sync with the theme of the month ‘Food’, the students were involved in various activities to have in-depth clarity of the concepts. The students were shown videos related to effects of various types of foods. The same was followed by ‘Let’s Make Healthy Choices’ activity, wherein they preferred healthy items over unhealthy. They designed a ‘Healthy Birthday Party Menu’ for themselves. The students discussed various ways of using leftovers and explored more about food preservation. Their research on the same was presented meticulously in the form of a project on ‘Food Preservation’. Food chain enactment was also held in the class. The students made stick puppets, sashes, headgears and masks for the enactment. Their creativity knew no bounds. The students understood the importance of cleanliness and hygiene to prevent spreading of germs through ‘Sparkle Handshake’ activity. To commemorate ‘World Peace Day’ on Sep 21, a myriad of activities was organised in the class. They brainstormed on various topics like ‘How Peace Begins with Them’, ‘How Peace is related to Food’ and what all steps can lead to sustainable development goals like ‘People-Planet-Profit’ and ‘Zero Hunger’. The students made startling posters and wrote catchy slogans. They also pledged not to waste food. MATHStudents were divided into pairs and were given a Tic-Tac-Toe chit. They enjoyed playing this game with their peer and learnt what are multiples and factors. Their understanding of these two concepts were strengthened when the students wrote the factors and multiples of a given number. Finding factors of a number is easier if the students know when a number is divisible completely. To understand this, students learnt the “Test of Divisibility” where they learnt the rules and strategies to test and find out whether a number is divisible by a particular number. They also understood the types of numbers – whole numbers, prime and composite numbers. Towards the end they were assessed on this topic. S0CIAL SCIENCEStudents learnt about forests, resources obtained from forests through a class activity and created their own “Forest Dictionary”. They also learnt how climatic conditions play a vital role in upkeep of forests and how different trees grow in forests based on the climate of that place. This also made the students understand the importance of forests and to appreciate the natural resources that are available to us. Understanding of forests was done as a class research activity. Students were divided into 5 groups to start their research on a particular type of forest. They found about the location, climatic conditions, types of trees grown and their special features. Students presented their findings with their peers in class and were assessed on a rubric. The theme for the month of September was ‘Food’. They learned about the importance of food and were able to identify the various sources of food. They also learned about staple food and also co-related food and meals consumed on special occasions / festivals. Through a class discussion, students were introduced to the agriculture in India and the major crops grown in India. They learned about the Green Revolution and the steps taken under the green revolution initiative. They were able to differentiate between Small Scale and Large Scale Industries ROBOTICSAIR FOR FLYING –Maker Session Challenge : In this session, students were introduced with a problem statement with the help of videos and images Problem Statement : What kind of solution is possible to design and build a shock-absorbing system that will protect two “astronauts” when they land. In this challenge, they had followed following engineering design process. They: - designed and built a shock-absorbing system out of paper and straws; - attached their shock absorber to a cardboard platform; - improved their design after several testing result to get success in their mission. The main focus of maker session was to see what students can actually think of building, after learning the basic concepts of Aerodynamics force. ICTStudents learned to check each step of programming sequentially by the process of step-by-step thinking. They were introduced to MS PowerPoint. They prepared the presentation based on festivals and food by adding text, pictures, animation, transitions and word art to beautify their documents WESTERN MUSICIn the month of September the students learnt Name of the song: ‘’ One Love ” by (Bob marley) Instruments taught: Piano, Guitar Exercises done: C major scale in Low octave INDIAN MUSICIn the month of September students learnt Name of the song: ‘Ram Gun Gao’ bhajan, vaishnav janto , Durga astuiti. Instruments played: Combination of Harmonium, Tabla, Tanpura Exercises done: Vocal warm up with sargam. DANCEStudents learnt basics of Kathak dance form. They learnt how to emote different gestures, posture, mood through body language and facial expressions. They also learnt tatkaar (basic footwork), Hastak (basic hand-movements ) of kathak. Apart from that they have learnt the choreography on garba and dandiya folk “hey shubhaarambh” and dhooni dance “ya devi sarvbhuteshu” with live music for the special assembly performance on Dusshera. PHYSICAL EDUCATIONFOOTBALL, SWIMMING AND GYMNASTICS 1. Football - Understanding dribbling, trapping of football in group dribbling and shooting of football. 2. Swimming - Students are learning head up breathing and back floating. 3. Gymnastics - Students are learning cartwheel, handstand followed by forward roll, dive roll. DRAMAStudents learnt about sound , moment, appearance, body moments and voice modulation as per the character also introduces Drama games like as the Creature and i am jack. so that student understand more about Drama and also they did situational acting so they can break their hesitation, also did wonderful one act related to Ramayana ,students did silent acting on voice over it was very good experience for students and the they done beautifully in special assembly.
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