Newsletter – August 2016

Jr. KGSubject/ UnitTopicActivitiesConversationOral/Reading/written workEnglishLand Transport

Air Transport

Water Transport

HolidaysStory: The Car Wash. How sati travels. Sati’s holiday. Inu and Ila. Nuts in nikki’s nest. Carrie wants cookies. Kenny flies a kite. Elly and the engine ride. Hippy’s hair problem. Roli and the race. Millie’s mango milkshake. Dino and the drums. Golu’s birthday party.

Songs: Wheels of the bus. Aero plane, aero plane. I am a helicopter. Rhyme of number 1. Row, Row, Row, Your boat. The big blue ship. Let’s count number 2. If you are happy and you know it. Ten little fingers.It is ____(Name the day)

It is ____(Name the month)Oral-phonic drill N, C, E, H.

Writing capital letters- I, N, C, K, E, H, R, M, D, G.

Reading-Picture Dictionary “Land Transport”, “Air Transport”, “Water Transport”, “Holidays”.EVS

1. Land Transport

2. Air Transport

3. Water Transport

4. HolidaysSight words: Directions, in-out, over-under, up-down, front-back, car, bus, nightingale, nuts, needle, nine.

Sight words: Aero plane, helicopter, hot air balloon, rocket.

Sight words: Boat, row, cat, ship, houseboat, motorboat, yacht, sea, raft, kite, kit, kitchen.

Sight words: Holiday, suitcase, elephant, engine, egg, family, hamster, hair, horse, hat, picnic, pictures.Discuss about different land vehicles, their uses, parts of vehicles, and their size. Discuss about safety rules.

Discuss about different air vehicles, their uses, parts of vehicles, and their size.

Discuss about different water vehicles, their uses, and their size.

Discuss about holiday with their family, different activities they do with families on a holiday, places they would like to visit.Festival Independence day, Raksha Bandhan

Matching worksheet and Activity pagesMathJobs People do

HolidaysPositional directions game, sorting the shapes/objects on the basis of colour and size, sequencing of leavesConcept of up/down, in/out, front/back, over/under, small/big/biggest, big/small/smallest.Oral-Rote counting 1-50

Numeral recognition 1, 2, 3

Writing Numerals-1, 2, 3HindiSongs- सड़क की बतिया, राखी,हाथी

Hindi oral- आCreativeGross Motor Skills

Fine Motor SkillsPretend play, running, obstacle course, jumping (forward/backward),

Blocks and puzzles, drawing, tearing and pasting, threading beads, play dough/clay, paper folding, leaf printing.

Month of August 2016:

1. Encourage your child to follow these life skills mentioned below:

2. Take care of belongings.

3. Learn to be a good listener.

4. Follow directions.

Value Education

1. Healthy living habits.

2. Respect for elders and self.

Sr. KGSubjectTopicsClassroom ActivitiesStories and PoemsNote book, Pattern book and WorkbookEng

1. Look What I Can Do

2. Clean  And Healthy Me

3. Jobs People Do

4. Phonic sounds

5. 2 and 3 letter ‘a’ words

6. Emotions- sad, happy, angry, surprised, amazed ,crying

7. Introduction of

8. “ et “ words   eg ; net , vet , let , set

9. “ en” words   eg : pen ,ten, hen

10. “ed”  words   eg:  red, bed, led

11. “eg” words eg: peg ,leg,

12. Rhyming words – Sentence making with rhyming words.

13. Introduction  of

14. “ig” words  eg : fig , rig , wig

15. “it “ words  eg : bit , pit, sit

16. “ip” words  eg : lip, nip, tip

Sight words:

Short, long, same, this, is my, jump ,

crawl, clap , dance, skip, run, slide, read

paint , I , can , net , pet , vet , get , let ,

wet , yet, ten ,pen , hen , fed, wed , led,

leg, beg, peg., red.

1. Draw a place or an animal.

2. .Fix  puzzle

3. Game  for  reading words

4. Imitate actions of body parts

5. Identify helpers with pictures

6. Draw what they saw in the post office

7. Letter writing with illustrations

8. Post lettersStories:

9. Pati , Pati

10. Helpers

Poems

1. Clean  up song

2. Nicky,  Knacky , knocky , noo

3. Head ,shoulders , knees , and toes

4. Yum Yum Yum SongNote Book

Vowel  “ e “    3  letter words

Vowel “  I “     3 letter  words

Rhyming words  – eg : pet – net

fig – wig

Pattern Book

Vowel  “ e “     –  3 letter words

Vowel   “ i “    –  3 letter words

Communicate in English

Pg  12 , 13 , 22

Reading Express

Look What I can Do

My Body

Jobs People Do

Workbook

Look What I Can Do – WS  S4

Clean and Healthy Me –  WS  S3 , S4, S5EVS

1. Weather Chart

2. Sentence construction

3. Daily  routine

4. Making  healthy rules

5. Practice good habits to stay healthy

6. Healthy / unhealthy habits

7. Favourite  Food

8. Different kind of jobs

9. Functioning of post office(Sorting mail , delivering and picking up mails ,selling stamps and envelopes, producing stamps and envelopes )

Sight words:

milkman , driver ,

postman,  junkman,  washerwoman, gardener, newspaper boy.

1. Missing game

2. Stretching , curling, shaking actions

3. Game – Tisket , Tasket

4. Game – The – Turn Around

5. Draw – Favourite  Food

6. Favourite  Food  Table

7. Visit to the post office

8. KWHL Chart

9. Post office set up

10. Pretend  Play – Post  office

11. Postman  bag  and capStories

12. Pati ,  Pati

13. Pia  Fell Sick

14. HelpersWorkbook

Look What I Can Do –  WS   S3

Content Book – Tales and Tunes- 3Math

1. Concept of  long / short / same

2. Concept of taller/ shorter

3. Concept of heavy / light

4. Concept of more / less

5. Concept of fast / slow

6. Introduce  “ 0”

7. Comparison to know which activity takes more time

8. Bundles of 10 and   sticks

9. Before Numbers  –    1- 10

10. After Numbers    –     1- 10

11. Between Numbers  – 1 – 10

12. Numerals  –

13. Number Names – Six , Seven , Eight

14. Number Values  – 11 – 20

15. Compare length with strips of cloth

16. Draw  heavy / light objects

17. Sequence  daily routine cardsNumber Rhyme – Five little monkeysNote Book

Numerals from  21 – 30

Number Names  Revision of 1- 5

Six , Seven , Eight

Number Values – 11 – 20

Before numbers

After numbers

Between numbers

Workbook

Look What I can Do – WS : S2

Jobs People Do – WS :  S1 , S3 , S4 , S5HindiHindi  – letters  ऋ ,  ए  , ऐ  ,  ओ , औReading and listening skills

Practicing on slatesHindi Vitan Book

Grafalco  practice writing  book

Std. ISubTopicClass Room ActivitiesContent Bk (Green)/ Student Wk Bk (Red)Note Book WorkActivities to do at homeENGLISHMy friend Shelly

letter teams ‘sh’,’ch’, extending poems,

words ending in ‘ck’ , ‘ng’

The only Elephant in school, using pictures to read, tongue twisters

Grammar – Using full stops, writing sentences, one and manyReading, discussion, reciting poems, game – find your partner, game- one and many, story telling, making thank you cards, drawing pictures.Reader : 37 to 54

W/S : Block 5, 6 and 7Notes on : My friend Shelly,

sh and ch words, one and many,

words ending with ck and ng,

Notes on: The only elephant in school.Reading the lesson, making rhyming words, making sentences, making poems, underlining naming words and doing words, revising the notes given in the notebook.EVSB 6 – We are different

B 7 – Sense organs

B 8 – Sounds I hearSinging a rhyme, introduction and plating game with puppet, discussion, group activity for sense organs, questioning.Textbook : 39 to 56

W/S: Block 6, 7 and 8Spellings, notes on 3 lessons, sticking pictures of “when I was a baby”Making a chart on “My sense organs”, write about: how you look different from your parents,

Write about “different tastes” in your mother tongue.MATHB 6 –  Introduction to comparing

B 7 – Numbers 20 to 49

B 8 – Introduction to additionpair activity using rajma beans,

activity using hundreds chart poster,  rajma beans – bangle activity for addition.Textbook : 39 to 56

W/S : Block 6, 7 and 8Bigger – smaller tabular form, numbers and number names from 20 to 49,skip counting by 5 and 10, addition sums (1 digit )Practising how to find more – less using rajma beans, practice adding using rajma beans and on fingers.HINDI* वर्णलेखन

* मात्राओंकापरिचय

* बिनामात्राकेशब्द

* गाने/ कविताशब्दों का उपयोग करके चित्र का वर्णन करना|

चित्र में रंग भरना|

वर्णलेखनऔरशब्दलेखन|पुस्तिका में दिया गया कार्य करना|

आ और इ मात्रा का उपयोग करना|वर्ण लेखन|

नए शब्द लिखना|

वर्णों को मात्रा लगाना|वर्णमाला का याद करना|

वर्णमाला को लिखना|

कविता याद करना|MARATHIमूळाक्षरे वाचन लेखन सराव,रंगांची नावांची ओळखनोटबुक मध्ये उभ्या आडव्या रेषा यांचा सराव.अंकलिपीगाणे कविता वाचनशब्द उच्चारणे उजळणीV.EdPatienceActivity – Role play on learning how to be patient.

————————Journal work – Making banners, collages on “Being patient”Life Skill – Exhibit manners, learning to wait for own turn.

Std IISubTopicClass Room ActivitiesContent Bk (Green)/ Student Wk Bk (Red)Note Book WorkActivities to do at homeEngPoem : Something New, Cricket!

Ls-3 Pranav’s FriendsRecitation, identifying the rhyming words, writing a poem, use pictures to tell a story, Using describing words in sentencesCB- Pg Nos. 31 to 52

WB- Pg Nos.31 to 50Describing words – adjectives notes, blend words, word meanings, questions and answers etcRead aloud different poems and stories, speak about things around you using describing wordsEVSL-2 Plants( Block 6,7)

L-3My Body (Block-8,9)Sort using picture cards, nature walk, gardener’s visit, play a game reinforcing sense organsCB Pg Nos. 39-62

WB – Block-6,7,8,9Types and parts of Plants, Uses of Plants, Body parts, Sense organs,Visit a botanical garden/park, Take care of the plants, Visit to NGO’s (differently abled people)MathAddition

Block 3,4Addition facts

Making 10 by using ten frames

Game on additionCB Pg. No – 22 to 30

WB Pg. Nos.19 to 32Addition facts, Making 10, Addition using expanded form, Addition using column method(with/without grouping)B3- Playing Games, Writing the addition facts of numbers(2 to 30)

B4- Students can roll a dice to form 2 digit and 1 digit nos. & add them by using both expanded form & column method.Hindi५. साहसीबालिका

६. सयानी चींटी

व्याकरण – एकऔरअनेकवचन

लिंगशब्दभंडार , चित्र का वर्णन अपने शब्दों में करना|

पाठसेनएशब्दढूढ़नाऔरलिखना|

प्रश्नों के उत्तर लिखना|

चित्र में रंग भरना|कवितायादकरना| मौखिक परीक्षा

पाठ के नीचे दिया गया कार्य करवाना|

व्याकरणपाठ से नए शब्द ढूढ़ना और लिखना|

प्रश्नों के उत्तर लिखना|

व्याकरणकविता याद करना|

पाठ घर पर पढ़ना|

नए शब्द याद करना|Marathiअक्षरे ओळख म.क.इ॰

मूळाक्षरेलेखनसामान्यज्ञाननोटबूकमध्येमूळाक्षरेलेखनवाचन

सराव

अंकलिपी

गाणेवाचनलेखन

शब्द उच्चारणे उजळणीValue Ed and Life skillsPatienceLife Skills : Interaction with othersJournal work – Quote, Respond to the situations, Making boards

Std IIISubTopicClass Room ActivitiesContent Book / Student WorkbookNote Book WorkActivities to do at homeEngLITERATURE- Annie’s Ant Adventure, The Lion and the Mouse

GRAMMAR-Present Continuous Tense, Past tenseStory map, Writing a fantasy story, Peer ReviewContent Book –Annie’s Ant Adventure, The Lion and the Mouse

Workbook –Block 6– S1, S2, S3, S4, Block 7- S1, S2, S3, S4, Block 8– S1, S2, S3, S4,Literature – Spell Drill, Word Meanings, Questions & Answers

Grammar –  Present Continuous Tense, Past tense (-ed, verbs, irregular past tense verbs)Reading of the lesson. Parents can ask their children to retell a story using –ed words, describe their dreams with imaginative details.  Students can read other fables with family members and parents can ask questions about the story to check their comprehension.EvsScience- Block 5- Creepy crawly animals.

Social Science-  Block 3 Fun with family

Block 4 Home and shelterObservation of the parts of the insects. Playing board games, reading books, picture observation and discussion, reading stories. Map of India for discussion.Content Book:Lesson Creepy crawly

WB – Creepy crawly animals S1-S4

Social Science– Fun with family S1-S4 and Home and shelter S1-S4Spell drill, Fill up, Drawings, Questions and Answers.Reading of lesson, spell drills.  Parents can   take children for a walk in a park to see birds, know what they eat ,observe insects at home or in a park ,spending time together, playing games, going for picnics or museums together, Children can be taken out to see the different types of houses.MathBlock 4-Reviewing Addition and Subtraction.

Block -5 Adding 3 DigitsRegrouping with the help of Abacus.

Beans and counters of any 2 colours for adding and subtracting.

Workbook: Block 4- S1 to S4, Block 5- S1 to S4

Content Book: Additional Practice Set 1 to Set 4 in Block 4.

Additional Practice Set 1 to set 4 in Block 5.Recap  and  Revision of  Place Value blocks , Number Names , Expanded form , Word Problems , Adding and subtracting , Subtracting using columns, Regrouping  ones by expanding, Regrouping Tens by expanding .Regrouping ones on the abacus. Numerals and number names up till 90000.Parents can ask their child to draw four playing cards to make 2 digit numbers and add and subtract them.

Parents can ask children to do some addition sums using different strategies.Hindiकविता ५ नन्ही बूंदे, पाठ – ६ आज मेरी छुटटी है

प्रोजेक्टकविता पठन्तर,  प्रोजेक्ट पूर्ण करनापाठ्यपुस्तक में दिया गया स्वाध्याय (Textbook Exercise)वाक्य बनाना | प्रश्नोत्तर लिखना |Revision of lessons, reading practiseMarathiमूळाक्षरेवाचनलेखनवाचन

सरावनोटबुकमध्येशब्दलेखनवाचनसरावअंकिलपीलेखन वाचन सरावशब्द लेखन सामान्यज्ञान

सरावValue Ed and Life skillsPatienceWatching of video clip, Discussion based on the videoLife skill- Wait for your turn, be a good listener,Journal-Quote on politeness, questions based on videoImportance of Patience in our lives