Reflections– Grade 6

Middle
School
Reflections– Grade 6
Volume 12
Week of 2nd
November, 2012
Cybermania at Blue Bells Model School
Saturday, 20th October was unlike other Saturdays. It was a morning filled with
excitement as 16 Middle School students and 4 seniors school students boarded a bus to participate in an Inter School Competition ‘Cybermania’ at Blue
Bells School, Gurgaon.
Middle School students participated in multiple events.
Tara Nouri and Aashna Singh participated in ‘Cyber Artist’ where they had
to create a poster in Photoshop,
Parth Ahluwalia and Yash Dhume participated in ‘Cyber Crusade’ where they
had to create a Flash Animation.
Sameera Pant and Shaimay Shah took part in Tech talk where they debated on
the topic : ‘Social Networking: An Addiction to the Virtual World’ .
Vineet Grover and Armaan took part in ‘Majestic Mosaic’ where they created
a poster in Corel Draw. In all the events the topics were given on the spot.
The last event ‘ Rock IT’ was based on a dance presentation. Students danced
on various themes based on Technology. The team from our school comprised
of Yajur, Preksha Rinka , Shivyaan , Devin , Pallavi , Meghna from grade 6,
Koma from grade 7 and Bhavya from grade 8. Our team of dancers were the
youngest among the participating teams.
Senior school participated in two events. Gayaatri Bhardwaj and Sakshi Dagar
of grade 9 participated in ‘Scribble Splash’ where made a collage and a jingle.
Arjun Dadhich and Kush Wadhwa participated in ‘Director’s Cut’ where they
edited a movie.
The proud winners!!!
It was a proud moment indeed when the awards were announced
1st position in Cyber Crusade went to Parth Ahluwalia and Yash Dhume of
Grade 8.
2nd position in Scribble Splash went to Gayaatri Bhardwaj and Sakshi Dagar of
grade 9.
Well Done Pathways Gurgaon !
Gearing Up...
Poonam Kakkar– ICT Teacher
Rock IT
Debate on ‘Social Networking’
Halloween –Trick or Treat...
On 31st October, Middle School celebrated Halloween. The whole school
was a riot of colours , as many students and teachers arrived dressed as
witches and ghosts ! On display was creativity , imagination and the immeasurable differences in thinking ! In their classes, children received candy
from their teachers. At the end of the day , there was an ‘Inter house
Weird Fashion Show’ and an ‘Inter form Room Decorating contest’.
The Fashion show was judged by Ms Jenny, Ms Anvita and Ms Kanika and
the winners were Arman Goyal, closely followed by Parth Ahluwalia. In
the girls category, Suramya Bapna as the spider lady was placed first followed by Prachi Sharma.
After the fashion show, the Head of our Design and Technology department, Mr. Andrew Mcloughlin, paid each form room a visit to judge the
contest. He declared Form 7 Y as winners for the eerie Black Mass atmosphere they had created , followed by form 7 X with their spider decorations and the music they played and 8Y for their weird and imaginative decorations !
Ms Indu concluded the session and spoke about how the term ‘Halloween’
is a distortion of ‘All Hallows Eve’, celebrated earlier in the Catholic world
on October 31. November 1 is the ‘All Hallows Day’ i.e. All Saints Day, followed thereafter on November 2 by All Souls Day.
Though the origins of this festival are Celtic, from Ireland, the Roman Catholic Church adopted it for celebrating All Saints Day and All Souls Day with
the official heralding of the ‘dark part of the year’.
According to folklore the souls of the recently deceased, all had to leave
earth for their new realms by November 2, and in the days prior the ‘bad’
souls roamed around wreaking havoc by seeking vengeance. To counter
them the people started dressing up in scary costumes to drive them away.
Halloween, as celebrated now, is a mixture of the two streams; Catholicism
and Celtic, for commemorating its Saints and the dead.
It is indeed interesting that the timing of Halloween almost coincides with
the Hindu festival of ‘Shradh’, praying for the souls of its dead!
English—Ms. Indu
Concluding Week :
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The unit ‘Changing Places’ introduced
Discussed the words ‘emigration’,
‘immigration’ and ‘migration’
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Special Activity
Projections for the
next week:
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Continuing with the
unit, Changing Places
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Halloween related activities.
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The students submitted their Book
Reports for the ‘Reading Log’.
Discussed briefly Rousseau, the French Revolution and the American Revolution
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Parental Guidance
Briefly discussed the history of Europe in the
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early twentieth century and the reasons for
the mass immigration to the US.
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Please discuss the terms ‘immigrate’,
‘emigrate’ and ‘migrate’
The ‘Statue of Liberty’ – and its symbolic
meaning
English—Ms. Elena
Concluding Week
Projections for the next week:
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This week some time was devoted to the middle school annual publication
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Tom Fool – a play by Renata Allen
“Expressions” – the students have selected the best of their written work for publishing
and wrote second or third drafts if necessary.
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Novel “The Breadwinner”
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As a part of the cultural aspect of learning, we have read and talked about Halloween,
it’s origins and traditions, followed by a celebration involving the entire Middle school.
That day’s classwork was writing an autobiography of their Halloween character. The
structure and main features of an autobiography were revisited for that purpose.
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To add a few finishing touches to the unit “Climate” and make connections to the upcoming Diwali celebrations and the environmental issues that come with it, new vocabulary was introduced and used extensively in class. The students were divided into
groups and given one topic each, in order to write paragraphs using the questioning
strategy.
ELS
Concluding Week
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The students revised the topic email writing and had an
interesting speaking session. The speaking session focussed on correct tense usage and stressed on audibility.
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Projections for the Next Week :
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Grammar -Adjectives and Adverbs
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Email writing – Extended exercises
REFLECTIONS – GRADE 6
Humanities
Projections for the next week :
History
Concluding Week
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Students watched a Powerpoint presentation to under-
They will complete the Unit and have a formative on the
Indus Valley in the coming week
stand the location, town planning and drainage of the
Indus Civilization
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They also watched an animated video
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They created mind map and marked the location of
Harappan sites on the map of India
Geography
Concluding Week
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We revised the different steps involved in
conducting an enquiry
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Environment Survey...
Students conducted an enquiry on environ-
Projections for the next week :
ment of the school in groups and prepared
a report
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As assessment will be conducted on whatever has
been covered in Geography in the coming week.
Math—Ms. Gagan
Concluding Week :
Students were introduced to/discussed:
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Division of Fractions
Word problem on fractions.
Projections for the next week :
Activity :
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Decimals
Worksheets on division of
Fraction.
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VOLUME 8
Math—Ms. Nidhi
Concluding Week :
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Application sums based on fractions
Introduction of decimals
Projections for the next week:
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Conversion of fractions to decimals and vice-versa
Addition and subtraction of decimals
Science
Concluding Week :
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Characteristics of the living organisms
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Identifying examples from our environment related to -stimulus, response and homeostasis, metabolism, reproduction and heredity
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Discussed necessities of life through a PowerPoint presentation
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Display of Collage prepared on necessities of life
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Concluding the results of fat test using paper
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Chemical building blocks of life- Discussion, illustration and written
work.
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Use of specimens and illustrations to build the concept of matter, density, mass and volume
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Matter-An introduction to the concept
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PowerPoint presentation on Matter
Projections for the next week:
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Properties of matter
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Physical change and chemical change
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Conducting starch test using rice
Elsa at work
Activity:
Parental guidance:
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Reinforce the importance of balanced diet, and encourage intake of vegetables by children as healthy
food provides raw materials in building the body.
Spanish
Concluding Week :
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Indefinite Articles.
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Tener verb.
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Speaking and listening exercises.
Projection for the next week:
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Listening and speaking exercises would be undertaken.
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Vocabulary related to classroom objects.
Hindi
Concluding Week :
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Exercises from Saans Saans Mein Bans( lesson) will be continued.
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They will have a summative assessment from
the syllabus completed till date.
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A new lesson –Anand hi Anand will be started by the beginners.
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They also did picture writing.
Projection for the next week:
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They will practise picture writing.
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Continue with the exercises from the lesson Saan Saans mein bans.
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The students will make a power point presentation about the use of bamboo.
ICT
Concluding Week :
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The Parts of CPU—Arithmetic and Logic Unit , Control Unit.
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Function of these parts.
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Memory—Primary, Secondary and Registers.
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ROM and ROM
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The resources are uploaded on Veracross and Edmodo.
Projections for the next week :
Assessment based on Input, Output and
Processing.