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PrepStudents of Prep A enjoyed planning for acamping trip and had fun making their own tenthouses. Through this activity, students learnedabout temporary houses and camping. Theydecorated and equipped their tent with dailysurvival kit that they can use during camping.

Prep B students were introduced to theconcepts of spellings, numbers, days of the weekand fruit names through the different kinds ofpaintings made by them in the form of a picturestory book. The activity capped off by preparingand learning about the life cycle of a butterfly.

The students of Prep C made a fish as an artintegrated activity. They ornamented the fishwith bindis and counted them, which added totheir number sense and aesthetic development.

Students celebrated Ganesh Chaturthi virtuallywith their teachers, family and friends. Theyenjoyed the day by chanting hymns, narratingstories and expressed their devotion by makingcaricatures and clay sculptures of Lord Ganesha.

The month of October was full of fun andlearning for Nursery kids. Various activitieswere taken up to enhance differentconcepts. Object counting was recapitulatedthrough leaf printing and vegetable printing.Ravana was created with thumb printing andshape cutouts. A class assembly wasconducted in which all students presentedtheir views about different festivals throughnarration, dance, poems, chanting mantrasand dramatization.

Nursery

The students of class II penned down the qualitiesthey would like to impart in themselves when theybecome a grandparent.This activity helped them inunderstanding the love and care theirgrandparents have been showering upon them foryears. Even grandparents shared how spendingtime with their grandchildren is the most joyfulmoment in their lives.

Different kinds of shapes were examined bystudents by making different animals.These tinyhands dexterously put together shapes to createtheir favourite animals which resulted inintegrating the concept of shapes and animals withcreativity.

Class I

Class II

With Diwali right around the corner, studentswere taught about individual responsibility toensure a clean and safe environment.Theyprojected their learnings through a funcollage-making activity.

Pre-lesson activities were taken up forsubjects like English, Maths and EnvironmentalScience.

The students of class I had an interestingdiscussion on the precautions that one mustfollow to remain safe during the pandemic. Toinculcate a sense of creativity and innovation,students designed slogans and posters tospread awareness about Covid-19.

The children of Class IV prepared posters on thetopic 'Say No to Crackers' with the aim of creatingawareness among the masses about thetremendous air pollution caused due to burstingof crackers.

An interesting task was provided to students inHindi. They were assigned creative writing with atwist in which they had to change the ending of astory. Children came up with fantastic ideas. Theyshared their endings with the class and theactivity was thoroughly enjoyed by the children. Itwas an amazing way to express themselves andenhance vocabulary, writing, speaking andlistening skills.

Students made scrapbooks on famous travellers aspart of the EVS project. Few of them presented itbeautifully with the help of PowerPointpresentations.

Class III

Class IV

The students presented magic showsfor the English lesson 'Aladdin andThe Magic Lamp'. They also madecreepy crawly creatures that frightenthem at night while learning thepoem 'Seeing Things'. Children madebookmarks and decorated them withseeds and planted a fruit seed whilelearning the poem 'Don't Throw TheSeeds Away'.

Class VIStudents were encouraged to draw real-lifecorrelations for the song 'Saathi Haath Badhana' for theHindi activity. They made different pictures and gavereal examples of unity and cooperation with referenceto the song which helped them in enrichment ofwriting skills and creative thinking skills.

'English Charades' was organised as an English activityfor the students. A keyword from a chapter was givento a student and they needed to enact the word usinghand and facial gestures for the whole class. Thestudent who recognised the word first would get thechance to act next. This activity helped in learningimportant keywords and their meaning and lead toenrichment of their speaking and creative thinkingskills.

Students made a PowerPoint presentation for Scienceon 'Living Organisms And Their Surroundings' tounderstand about different species of animals, theirhabitats and special adaptive features.

In Social Science, students collected information andpictures about their favorite rock/ stone. This activityhelped the students in learning about different types ofrocks in different geographical locations.

An activity was organised for class V,students wherein they wrote letters totheir grandparents in English, expressingtheir unconditional love and feelings forthem. This letter writing activity not onlyenhanced the students’ social skills but alsoimproved their communication andhandwriting skills.

Students took part in terrace farming.Terrace farming is carried out on the slopesof the mountains. This is useful as it slowsdown the speed of water running down themountains. Through this EVS activity, thestudents learnt about the importance ofterrace farming and how it helps inconserving soil and preventing soil erosion .

Class V

Class VII

To make Science classes more engaging, acampaign was organised to take precautionsagainst COVID-19 during the festive season.Students presented posters and videos to spreadawareness.

Students performed an activity in Mathematicswhere they found the area of a trapeziumpractically. They were instructed to cuttrapeziums and place them in a way whichformed a parallelogram. The students were thenable to relate the shapes together toconceptually derive the area of a trapezium.

A debate was organised in Hindi where studentswere actively engaged in a discussion on thetopic 'Virtual classes vs Attending school -Which is better?' .

An interesting activity on rotationalsymmetry was conducted forMathermatics. They made a ninja starusing origami sheets and wrote therotational symmetry and order ofsymmetry. The second activity inMathematics was on congruence oftriangles where they had to draw twotriangles in a squared sheet that haveequal areas but not congruent.

The students made posters as a SocialScience activity. Attractive posters wereprepared on major causes of waterpollution with slogans and captions tospread awareness about saving water.

Students playfully enacted the skit ‘PapaKho Gaye’ during their Hindi classes. Class VIII

Class X

The students of class IX prepared a collage for English onthe chapter 'No Men are Foreign'. The collage conveyed astrong message that people all over the world are thesame, no matter what race they belong to.

'Dharm ki Aad me' is a thought-provoking chapter inHindi. Based on this chapter, a debate- "Dharm logon kojodta hai"- was organised as the activity of the month.

In Sanskrit, students memorised and recited shlokaswhich poetically described virtues one must cultivate tobe a righteous citizen of the society.

Newton's first law (the concept of inertia) was practicallydemonstrated to students in Science using coins. A set upwas created using coins, a card and a glass. The coins stayat rest unless acted upon by an outside unbalanced force.When a jerk is provided to the card, it slides away and thecoins fall into the glass, showing that coins resist thechange in their state of rest.

Students created caricatures in Social Science about the'Model Code of Conduct'. The cartoons were drawn forguiding political parties or candidates during elections.The students were taught about the election laws and themodel code of conduct in the chapter and were asked toexpress the same with a touch of humour.

‘A Reader’s Theatre’ was conducted for class X forthe English activity. The Reader’s Theatre scriptswere adapted to the themes of social welfare. Theactivity was intended to bring out the latentexpressions of students and improve their fluencyin language while voicing their opinion on socialissues. Additionally, students were asked to makeposters to showcase their perception ofpatriotism. It was integrated with art to give animpetus to their self-confidence and appreciationof their creativity.Students presented PowerPoint presentations and3D models on 'The Need and Methods of WaterHarvesting', a topic which has been covered inScience. An innovative 3D digital model on thetopic was created by Jatin Yadav of X-C. In French, a virtual tour of the city, Lyon, wasorganised for the students of class IX and X on 10October, 2020, exhibiting monuments, social lifeand the new-normal lifestyle of the people of Lyon,in this pandemic.

Class IX

Commerce and Humanities sectionsencouraged their students for practicalapplication of important concepts. An elaboratediscussion on real-life market mechanisms wasintroduced to develop critical thinking skills byincluding several examples of perfectcompetition markets. Cartoons were used toexplain the market as part of the Economicsproject. Integrating art skills with creativity,students made cartoons on the topic 'Indiaduring election time'. Students compiled a list ofimportant amendments so that they wereupdated on the current governance.

Science sections conducted various activities onMathematical concepts like subsets, Venndiagram, relations, degree and radian etc, todevelop a Mathematical approach in students.Digital learning being the new normal, virtualpracticals were conducted on various topics ofhuman physiology followed by a discursivesession on the importance of strong immunityand exercises to protect one from variousdiseases.

Virtual practicals were conducted for Sciencestudents on various topics of Biotechnology. Studentswere asked to verbalise their views on diseases likeCovid-19. Various activities were conducted onMathematical concepts like graphs of sin^-1x, rate ofchange, etc. to help the students comprehend thetopic. Computer Science students presented slideshows as part of a group activity. After thepresentation, a question and answer round wasorganised to boost the overall participation ofstudents.

A role play activity was conducted for Commercestudents on various Business Studies conceptshelping them grasp the concept through visualisation.Students were asked to prepare PowerPointpresentations on various topics of Accountancy.

Humanities students were asked to conduct acomprehensive study on Sikkim and showcase theirresearch as PowerPoint Presentations for PoliticalScience. Students were encouraged to create artforms used to ameliorate effects of psychologicaldisorders.

Class XI

Class XII

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