- Dr.Vikhe Patil Foundation
Newsletters – February 2016
Jr. KG
Subject/ Unit
Topic
Activities
Conversation
Oral/Reading/written work
Eng
Life around me
Chirpy birds
Story-Grand mama, the Gardner
Song-Ten little monkey
The little seed
The Tree
Story-The Thirsty crow
Song-The little bird
Baby chick
Discuss on living/nonliving things
Needs of living things
Discuss on Plant/animals
Kinds of bird
Characteristics of bird
Parts and habitat of birds
Uses of feathers
Rhyming Words
Revision of a-z
Writing letters serially a-z
Writing initial sound
Positional words
My world in picture-Life Around Me and Chirpy birds
Two letter words related to vowel “e”-en,ed,et,eg,eb
EVS
Sight Words
Animals,living,plants,non-living,tree,shade,home,food,branch,trunk,leaves,fresh air,big tree,small tree,brown,bush
Bird,beak,feather,wings,tall,claws,nest,egg,hatching
Talk on real/artificial plant
Parts and uses of plants
Types of beak and birds feet
Sound and movement of birds
Talk about bird food
Math
Numbers
Seriation in sizes
Sorting of different trees and parts of tres
Count and put seeds
Concept of heavy/light
Concept of half/full
Measurement
Measurement of height
Sequencing
Oral-Rote counting 11-30
Backward counting 9-0
Creative
Feather painting
Decorating head bands
Colouring the cutout of bird foot
Drawing favourite bird
Sowing seeds(coriander)
Gross motor
Fine motor
Running back, ,jumping in and out of hula hop,jump like a bird,
Sand play, Fill mug with water and pour into container
Hindi
Recognition : ए, ऐ, ओ
र्ह्य्मेस :लाल पिली मोटर, चंदा मामा, रंग बिरंगी तितली, तिरंगा प्यारा, चाँद पर घर
Life skills for the month of February 2016
Encourage your child to follow the life skills mentioned below.
Eat healthy food
Learn to share
Help each other
Play outside
VALUE EDUCATION:
Conservation of paper
Recycling of paper
Sr. KG
Subject
Topics
Classroom Activities
Stories and Poems
Notebook, Pattern book and Workbook
Eng
Money Magic
“Ch” words
“Th” words
Opposites
Sight Words
Money, spend , cost, money, shop, shopkeeper ,customer, pay, change, less all, coin, treasure, gold, rupees
Who, what, want, new, buy, sell.
Toys
Sight words.
Blocks, ball, doll, rattle, yo-yo, kite, teddy, drum ,balloon, smooth, rough,
Soft, hard, rattle, noisy.
Concepts:
More & Less
Fast & Slow
Sink & Float
Singular Plural
Conversation:
Discussing different stories
Discuss the currency.
Talk about the value of the currency.
Talk about importance of money.
Discuss how to buy and sell with the help of currency.
Discuss about the favourite toy.
Pretend and play and discuss about the toy shop
Reinforce on sharing of toys.
Talk about dolls and doll house.
Stories:
Sikka,s coin.
King Midas and his golden hunt.
The “TH” story.
The Golden Hen. The coin Jar.
The Treasure hunt story
Poems
1.Th “TH” rhyme
2.Incy wincey spider
Stories :
Pinocchio, My favourite toys, My wonderful toys.
Poems:
Tem Tin soldiers
1.1,2.2,2.3,3.1,4.1,5.2,6.2,7.1,8.1,8.2,
10.1
“Th” words
“Ch” words.
EVS
STORY FUN
Weather chart
Discuss about different seasons.
Observation of shops in different areas.(Discuss)
Ask children to set up a toy shop and roleplay as seller.
Ask children to talk about what do they see when they go to different malls or shop.
Ask children how they feel about their own toy house.
Math
STORY FUN
Concept :
Number value: 91- 100
Number Names 91-100
Oral skip counting by 2& 5.
Value of currency
Creative :
1.Making a model of different kinds of Transport.
Talk about number and its values.
Read out the number names.
Talk about skip counting with the help of number line.
1.Coin etching
2.Pasting different shapes.
3.Making of stretch dog
4.Making of doll house.
5.Making a rag doll.
2.1,5.1,6.1,4.1,5.1,7.1,8.1.
Hindi
Hindi Vitan Book
Reading and writing
त थ द ध न प फ ब
भ म य र ल व
Pgs. 54-65
Value Education:
Do not waste paper
Love animals
Life Skills:
Know coin values
Understand that money is earned by working
Std. I
Subject/ Unit
Topics
Classroom Activities
Content Book (Green) and Student WB (Red)
Note book work
Eng
Ls The biggest pie
Poem – Flying
Writing a narrative using a graphic organizer, Pair work
Rearrange words to form a sentences, Arrange according to the alphabetical order.
Content Book Pg . no 69 to 83
Workbook pg. no S 28.1
Content Book Pg . no 84 to 96
Singular and plural, Phonics words , sight words, opposites
EVS
Ls Weather
Observe and draw a picture of the weather outside, observe the shapes of the clouds,draw a rainy day,colours of the rainbow, recitation of poems on ‘rain’, making a paper boat.
Content Book Pg . no 79 to 87
Workbook pg. no S.1.1 to S 7.1
Spelling, Question and answers ,True or false.
Math
Ls .Geometry and Patterns
Ls. Length and Weight
.
Sorting things according to their shapes, draw shapes , form shapes using ice- cream sticks and clay, patterns using shapes and ice – cream sticks
Group activities for the concepts of near and far, long and short and thick and thin.
Work book S.12.1 to S 22.1
Content book – Pg. no.
Work book S 2.1 to S 5.1
Shapes – Sides and Corners
Fill in the blanks
Hindi
उ और ऊ की मात्रा और उसके के शब्द
६. लाल गुलाब ७.नटखट झपटू
चित्र देखकर उसपर बात करना|
कविता बोलना |
अक्षरलेखन
चित्रों को निरीक्षण|
मौखिकपरीक्षा
कविता याद करना|
कार्यपत्र करवाना|
शब्द लिखना|
सभी वर्णों पर उ और ऊ की मात्रा लगाना|
पाठ से नए शब्द लिखवाना|
Marathi
शब्द लिखना|
सभी वर्णों पर उ और ऊ की मात्रा लगाना|
पाठ से नए शब्द लिखवाना|
listening skill activity based on , वाक्य – वाचन व लेखन अक्षरे ग , फ , ज दुसऱ्या उकाराची ओळख, काना एक मात्रा ची ओळख व उजळणी
माझे पुस्तक भाग २ घटक ३
पान क्र . ८ ते १३
ग ,फ , ज अक्षरे वहीत लिहिली. शब्द वहीत लिहली.
VEd./Life Skills
Value – Self Control
Activity- Experiment, Videos and songs
Journal work-Tree diagram
Life Skills- Discipline
Std. II
Subject/ Unit
Topics
Classroom Activities
Content Book (Green) and Student WB (Red)
Note book work
Eng
Collective Nouns – Animals, Picture Description, Unseen Comprehension, Punctuation Marks , Verb Agreement and review , Alliteration , Making Inferences – Gadagada Gudugudu and The trees grandma did not plant, Writing instructions , Framing questions , Adverbs , Adverb of time , Past tense , Drawing conclusions , Homophones , Writing in a diary
*Use of flash cards for sight words. *Group Activity – Describe and draw the settings, characters, events from the lesson – The Trees Grandma Did Not Plant. *Writing Instructions – How to brush your teeth. *Framing sentences with the words cut from the newspaper.
WB – Pg no. 5 to 31.
Content Book – Pg no. 71 to 76 and 78 to
Notes on Homophones.
Exercise on Punctuation marks.
EVS
L11. Air and Water – Warm up, Air can move things, Importance and types of winds, its uses, Water – forms, Fresh and salt water, understanding the usage of water, Calculating water usage, Soluble and Insoluble.
L 12- Earth and its Neighbours – Sun , moon , stars , phases of moon, first man on the moon.
Experiments performed in the class :
Air can move things (glass and balloon), wind can dry wet things (wet handkerchief), water can change its form on freezing and heating, shapes of different forms of water is different, fresh water and saline water tastes different.Perform any activity based on air/ water (skill test )Observe the phases of moon daily.
Content book (pages 68to 85 )
Workbook ( pages 2 to 22 )
Notes on types of wind ( wind, breeze, gale, storm )
Notes on properties of water, different forms of water, uses of water
Math
Division – Relation between multiplication and division.
Geometry and Patterns – shapes – describe them. Identify the lines, Different ways of drawing lines, Identify objects by their shadows , 3- D shapes , Patterns – complete the sequence , Fun with Patterns , Pattern Creation.
*Group Activity – Describe the plane figures and draw different things of the same shape.
*Counting the standing , sleeping , slating lines in the given alphabets.
*Drawing lines with the help of a string , ruler , book , freehand.*3 – D shapes activity.
*Join dots activity.*Shadow activity.
WS – Pg 26 to 49.
Most of the activities were done in the note book,
Notes on plane and solid shapes.
Hindi
पाठ – चिड़िया नहाई
*शब्द भंडार
* चित्र का वर्णन अपने शब्दों में करना | * * मौखिक परीक्षा
* कविता याद करना|* कार्यपत्र करवाना|
* चित्र को निरीक्षण करके उसके बारे में बताना| मौखिक परीक्षा * कविता — तारे
नए शब्द लिखना|
व्याकरण
Marathi
माझे पुस्तक भाग २ घटक ४
listening skill activity based on , वाक्य – वाचन व लेखन अक्षरे ख , उ, थ ,इ , ए अनुस्वाराची ओळख व वाचन , चित्राखाली नाव लिहणे.
माझे पुस्तक भाग २ घटक ३ , ४
पान क्र १६ ते २१
,ख ,उ, थ , इ , ए अक्षरे वहीत लिहिली. उजळणी वहीत लिहली.
V.ED/Life
Skills
Perseverance
Activity – Song and Video
Journal Work – Goals and stories
Life Skill– Working hard and never givig up.
Std. III
Subject/ Unit
Topics
Classroom Activities
Content Book (Green) and Student WB (Red)
Note book work
Eng
Lit: Ls. 8 Malik the clever little mosquito.
Grammar: Articles (contd.), suffixes – ish, -ful, Tenses- revision, continuous tense, prepositions.
Creative Writing: story writing
Comprehension and handwriting practice.
Exploring characters and story elements, creative stories.
CB: Ls. 8
WB: what do you see? Animals and their young, zoo manners, story sequencing, contractions, pronouns, prepositions
Lit: Ls.8
Grammar: Articles, prepositions, tenses.
Writing: story writing
EVS
Ls.12 – Earth and Its Phenomenon
Ls 13- Waste We Generate
KWL chart, Globe making model
Globe activity(light), Role play
KWL chart, Venn Diagram, Game
Shape of the Earth, Day and Night, Pointing directions.
Waste all around, waste waste, journey of a shoe, journey of waste
Notes on Ls. 12 and 13.
Venn diagram
Flow chart
Math
Geometry and Patterns
Length
Perimeter and Area
2D shapes and patterns, symmetry, 3D shapes, patterns, tessellations, measuring length of strips and arranging in ascending order, tangrams, folding a square and counting sides and corners
3D shapes- edges, faces and corners
Making patterns with tessellations
Finding perimeter and area of the given figures.
Story problems on area
3D shapes- edges, faces and corners
Making patterns with tessellations
Finding perimeter and area of the given figures.
Story problems on area
Hindi
पाठ ९. मैंहूँरबड़
पाठ का वाचन|
नए शब्द जानना|
व्याकरण
प्रश्नोत्तर
पाठकेनीचेकाव्याकरण
व्याकरण – सर्वनाम
नए शब्द लिखना|
प्रश्नोत्तर
Marathi
माझे पुस्तक भाग ४ घटक ८ व
उजळणी
उताऱ्याचे वाचन व लेखन , गोष्ट तयार करणे , विरामचिन्हे ( स्वल्पविराम ) समजून घेणे.
पृष्ठ क्र . २० ते २४
जोडाक्षरे शब्द व वाक्य वहीत लिहली. गोष्ट लिहली.
उतारा लिहला. उजळणी लिहली .
V.Ed
Std. III
Class: III Month: February