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.

1. Eat healthy food

2. Learn to share

3. Help each other

4. Play outside

VALUE EDUCATION:

1. Conservation of paper

2. 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:

1. Do not waste paper

2. Love animals

Life Skills:            

1. Know coin values

2. 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

1. Division – Relation between multiplication and division.

2. 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

1. Geometry and Patterns

2. Length

3. 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