Girls day

Girls day

Celebrated on the 2^nd of February and also on the 11^th of October.

 

Girls are like abstract painting.

Even though you can’t understand them, they are still beautiful.

 

Having a sister in your life can either be a wonderful or terrible experience, depending on your relationship. If you have an older sister and you are a girl, she can often show you how to navigate the way through some of the more difficult areas of growing up. This is also true if you are a boy. Your older sister can help explain to you how to interact with the opposite sex. Younger sisters are a joy as well. They often worship their older siblings and it can be a nice experience to be admired. Relationships with sisters, like any relationship depend on the people involved.

All girls wants is to feel beautiful, be loved, and to be treated with respect.

A special assembly at school was held to celebrate – GIRLS day.

A lovely and heart-warming video was shown on international day of girl called – Because I am a girl.

Teachers and girls involved in the assembly went an extra mile to even make badges for girls and decorated them. The badges were distributed to each class for every girl to put it on with a sense of pride and enjoy their day.

Rhea Kapoor of Grade 4 gave a wonderful presentation talking about the importance of girl child. Well done Rhea!!

When and why do we celebrate Girls day?

We celebrate Girl’s day on 2^nd February and also on the 11^th of Oct to recognize the importance of equal treatment, respect and opportunities for girls and the unique challenges girls face in accessing education, health-care and economic opportunity.

 

In 2011 the United Nations General Assembly established the International Day of the Girl.

 

BACKGROUND

 

While girls have made significant progress in recent years, the fact remains that in many societies, girls are still valued less than boys. Worldwide, two-thirds of the 130 million children who are not in school are girls; more than 25,000 girls under the age of 18 are married every day, and in the developing world, one-third of girls are married before they turn 18.

 

Why are girls important?

 

Girls throughout the world face higher rates of violence, poverty, discrimination

Investing in girls is a moral imperative – a matter of basic justice and equality

Support for girls and their basic human rights is key for healthy communities.

The United Nations is focusing on the issue of child marriage. Child marriage takes girls away from various opportunities.

 

World Cancer day - February 4th

World Cancer day

February 4^th

A special assembly at school was held to observe this day. Certain facts were shared by a Grade 4 students; Vedika who also shared her personal testimony about her Grand-father who suffered with cancer and how the family stood by him and supported him all the way through. Thanks for sharing that Vedika.

•        What is cancer day?

World Cancer Day is celebrated on 4^th of February Every Year. This day is a chance for us to spread more General Knowledge on cancer and dismiss all misconceptions about the disease.

 

•        Why do we observe this day?

We celebrate this day to spread awareness and stop cancer. It is also to spread messages on how you can stop yourselves and your family and friends from getting cancer.

 

Cloudy with a chance of a Meatball

Provocation

 

Second line of inquiry

 

The Inventions and their impact on our lives.

Cloudy with a chance

of a Meatball

 

Students watched a really cool movie; Cloudy with a chance of a meatball. They absolutely loved it!!

 

SCAMPER

SCAMPER

Formative assessment

First  line of inquiry

Scamper activity

Students were given a paper cup each and were asked to come up with a useful invention using it. They were asked to divide their sheet into seven equal parts, each part representing each letter

 

S-C-A-M-P-E-R

S: Substitute

C: Combine

A: Adapt

M: Modify

P: Put to another use

E: Eliminate

R: Rearrange

 

Students came up with many different ideas to modify and rearrange the paper cup.

Gadget in the bag

Gadget in the bag

INTENDED & INCIDENTAL Invention

 

A gadget from a bag was shown to the students, they were asked why they felt it would have been invented, thus helping them arrive at intended and incidental inventions.

Students were very keen and interested to try for themselves after learning that a simple invention like a pencil can also be used in many other ways which makes it an incidental invention. They then reflected their learning on sheets by trying on other intended inventions into incidental invention. It was fun learning!!

 

BAR-Graph - Subject Link ~ MATH

                   BAR-Graph

 Subject Link ~ MATH

Students collated their learning by drawing a bar-graph clearly differentiating between life that was 50 years ago and now. Their sorted their learning under four major headings –

                      Communication

 

 

 

 

Travel

 

 

 

 

 

Entertainment

Inventions

 

 

Life 50 years ago - INVENTIONS

Tuning in;

Students have been introduced to “wheels” as a new learning strategy.  They were asked to PREDICT/GUESS and write about life in school, home and market etc. 50 years ago. Students were asked to use “MEANS” wheel to reflect on their learning.

 

 

 

As a weekend Prep, students interviewed their parents and grandparents to validate the previous day’s activity. They were able to find out from their parents and grandparents about life in their times.

 

They then presented their understanding to the class.

Provocation to the first line of inquiry

Provocation to the first line of inquiry;

The need for inventions

Students were shown 3 advertisements of Central Bank of India suggesting that “Necessity is the mother of invention.”

Subject Link - LITERACY

Subject Link - LITERACY

A story book on life of Albert Einstein

An odd boy out

 

 

Students were read a story book on the life of ‘Albert Einstein’ called ‘an odd boy out’. Students were keen to know about his life and the inventions he did besides being different. As a class we then reflected on his life by a brainstorming session in the class. It was wonderful to see that many of them knew about his inventions.

 

Prior knowledge

Prior knowledge

Inventions alphabetical-wise

 

Students in groups were given alphabets and they were asked to think and write and draw as many inventions beginning with the particular letters assigned to each group. Students did a marvellous job like Q – quilts, X- xylophone, x-rays, z- zebra crossing, zips etc.

 

Difference between

DISCOVERY & INVENTIONS

Students were shown a video to help them understand the difference between an invention and a discovery. In the brainstorming session they came up with – Discovery is something that already exists. Whereas, Invention is something that comes as a solution to a problem to make our lives easier and better.

 

Students were then given an A4 card sheet to take home and write and draw at-least 5 discoveries and inventions each. They then presented their findings to the class. Well done kids!!

 

Prior knowledge

Prior knowledge

Inventions alphabetical-wise

 

Students in groups were given alphabets and they were asked to think and write and draw as many inventions beginning with the particular letters assigned to each group. Students did a marvellous job like Q – quilts, X- xylophone, x-rays, z- zebra crossing, zips etc.

 

Difference between

DISCOVERY & INVENTIONS

Students were shown a video to help them understand the difference between an invention and a discovery. In the brainstorming session they came up with – Discovery is something that already exists. Whereas, Invention is something that comes as a solution to a problem to make our lives easier and better.

 

Students were then given an A4 card sheet to take home and write and draw at-least 5 discoveries and inventions each. They then presented their findings to the class. Well done kids!!

 

Prior knowledge

Prior knowledge

Inventions alphabetical-wise

 

Students in groups were given alphabets and they were asked to think and write and draw as many inventions beginning with the particular letters assigned to each group. Students did a marvellous job like Q – quilts, X- xylophone, x-rays, z- zebra crossing, zips etc.

 

Difference between

DISCOVERY & INVENTIONS

Students were shown a video to help them understand the difference between an invention and a discovery. In the brainstorming session they came up with – Discovery is something that already exists. Whereas, Invention is something that comes as a solution to a problem to make our lives easier and better.

 

Students were then given an A4 card sheet to take home and write and draw at-least 5 discoveries and inventions each. They then presented their findings to the class. Well done kids!!

 

How the world works - CENTRAL IDEA

How the world works

Central Idea

Inventions impact

the way we live.

 

Students were given jumbled up words to assemble them in an appropriate sentence and all the groups got it right in no time.

How the world works - INVENTIONS - TD Theme

How the world works

INVENTIONS

Trans-disciplinary theme

An inquiry into the natural world and its laws; the interaction between the natural world (physical and biological) and human societies; how humans use their understanding of scientific principles; the impact of scientific and technological advances on society and on the environment.

 

Students were introduced the TD theme through a slide show where they were asked to link the slides with the strands of the TD theme. Students in groups reflected on the strands of this TD theme. After brainstorming in their groups they then presented their understanding to the class.