Weekly News

Weekly News
Week of 18th February 2013
Knowledge, skills and concepts acquired
Unit Of Inquiry– How we organise ourselves
Central Idea
Public places serve the needs of the community in an organised
way.
Lines of inquiry
Services needed to support a community
Structure and functions of public places
Responsibility towards public places
Key concepts
Form, function and responsibility
The students:
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went on a school tour to understand how
their school is organised and structured to suit the needs of the community
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discussed form—the school structure,
function (the way it works) and responsibility (our responsibility towards it)
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read the book “Shopping” and discussed how and why shopping malls and
markets are organised to serve the needs
of the community
read the book “Jobs People Do” followed by oral comprehension
Summative Assessment—
Knowledge based worksheet
Inquiry in Language
introduced to the vowel sound– ’ir’
and ‘ur’ and formed sentences
were pre-assessed on the usage of
question mark
introduced to the use of the question mark(?) through a sentence
strip activity
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Hindi: (Standard)
PPT on pashu aur pakshiyon ke naam (Names of animals
and birds)
Pathan aur lekhan abhyas (Read and write words and sentences using and ki matra)
Activity:- Identified matra through a kavita 
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(Abnitio)
Sabjiyon, phalon, pashu aur pakshiyon ke naam (Names of
vegetables, fruits, animals and birds)
Revision of two and three letters words without matra
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Numeracy:
read the book ‘Tick Tock’ reinforcing the
concept of time
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rehearsed reading and writing time using both analogue and digital clocks in a
time booklet
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Ordinal numbers up to 20 were introduced through a book– “Henry the Fourth”
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Glimpses of the week
In the ICT Class….
In continuation with the lessons on MS Word, students explored and practiced the functions of the following tools in MS
Word:
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Inserting text and editing it
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Page colours
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Page borders
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Word Art
Collaboration with the UOI
Students were taken on a tour of our school, to show them different technologies at use for smooth functioning of an organization.
In the PE Class….
The students practiced :
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forward and backward running on the
tracks
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how to catch a ball with one bounce
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soccer
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obstacle race using hurdles and hoops
In Music Class….
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Students rehearsed the song “Holi
Ayee Re” for the approaching festival of Holi
HOLI
Holi ayee re aye re holi aye re
Sa Re Ga Ga Ga ,Re Sa Re Re Re
Pa Ma Ga Re Sa
Khele gulal sab gaalon pe lagaye
Rang bhar bhar pichkari se nehlaye
Holi ayee re
Collaboration with the UOI
Gali gali me dafali baaje
In accordance with the current Abir gulal bhar bhar ke udaye
Unit of Inquiry on ‘how we organise ourselves,’ students were introduced to the concept of singing
in harmony and
how human
voices are broadly
divided into
‘soprano,’ ‘alto,’
‘tenor,’ and
‘bass’ singing
parts, according
to different pitches.
The popular
western classical
song “Ode to Joy” (L.V. Beethoven) was taught in
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Spelling Challenge
The next
spelling challenge will be on
Friday, 1st
March 2013 .
The words for the week are:
shirt, dirt, circus, giraffe, fair,
hair, first, airport, bird, inquiry
Suggested Activity
Encourage your child to
find words with ‘ir’
and ‘ur’ from the newspaper
To Do...
English : Task sheet on punctuation and the
vowel sound ‘ur’
Numeracy : activity sheet to recap the use of ordinal
number
Please note that as a part of the unit of inquiry “How we organise ourselves”, the students of Grade I will be going on a
field trip to the Delhi Zoo on Wednesday (27/02/13), during
school hours. Feel free to call for any further information
Warm Regards
Priya Jose and Priya Sharma
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