31st August

The next step in writing to socialize is making greeting cards. The students began to work on their cards today. They have planned and drafted their greeting note and will be creating the cards tomorrow.

Moving on with the unit of Inquiry, the students were grouped according to the art form they usually use to express themselves. We have five groups: Verbal communication, Music, Dance, Drama and Visual Art. The children will be inquiring deeper into these from tomorrow.

30th August

The day went on very brisk....

In the morning, all the students shared withe rest of the class how their weekends were... This gave an opportunity to every one to 'express themselves' and enhance their communication skills as the children usually feel most comfortable when they speak about themselves!

We then went ahead with our Math assessment. It was a very interesting way of assessment through differentiation. The students were paired level wise and they were asked to create questions for their partners based on the pattern of questions given to them. It was amazing to see how this assessment not only gave a clear picture of how much the students knew but also portrayed their critical thinking skills; as you might know, the highest order of thinking is when a child evaluates!!

I would also like to bring up a point here.. a lot of parents were unsure what binary, octal and hexa - decimals numbers were and you might be wondering if it was appropriate for the children to be learning about the same. I would like to mention that this topic was done only to challenge the students' thinking abilities. Only when they learnt that there are various ways of grouping the numbers, did they begin to appreciate the Base 10 system (that we usually use!). It was a topic done also to foster academic rigor in grade 5.

Let me know what you all think... we can always use this medium as a "Forum" for parents too... :)

27th August

We revised number systems in math today. We looked into conversions in Hexa - Decimal, Octal and Binary numbers.

The children watched the movie 'Fame' today. This was about how people express themselves through Dance, Dance and Music. It linked very well with our unit of inquiry.

Unfortunately, the day ended a little abruptly as some children were late from a Football match. Due to this, I was unable to explain the home work to the children. Here is an explanation for the same. You can still call/email me for further queries.

Math: Assessment on Monday. Refer the worksheets given earlier. It will be very simple one. Revision was done in class today. The children are thorough with the concept.

UOI: The children have been asked to interview 20 different people about how they express themselves (Speech, Dance, Drama, etc.). The students have to then represent this data in the form any graph.

English: Based on the book the children have read, the children need to do activities given in the reading bingo (Bingo is a game where you form lines through the blocks in any direction; here, since there are 9 blocks, you need to form 3 lines - that will be a minimum of 7 activities). This is due on 31st September (Tuesday)

I hope this will help you all to get a clearer picture. Please feel free to get in touch with me any time.

26th August

Today the students presented their UOI work from yesterday in groups. There was a discussion on the definitions of "Art", "Feelings" and "Expressions" and the connection between these.

We also began watching a movie "Fame" as it sinks in very well with our unit (how we express ourselves).

We also gained a deep understanding of punctuation in English Grammar.

We discussed the Math assignment on doubles and halves. The students have an assessment on 'Place Value and Number systems' on Monday (30th August). There will be revision for the same in the class tomorrow.

HINDI

25th August

Based on the pre unit assessment in UOI, the children were grouped according to their understanding. They then used a graphic organizer (Hexa-drant) to come up with definitions for "Art forms", "feelings", "Expressions" and the connection between them.


The children also presented their visual representations, which was very interesting.


The drafts for the informal letters were corrected and the children wrote the final copies.

MI test - 25th August

http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks3/ict/multiple_int/questions/choose_lang.cfm

Click -> Take the test -> Note down the code you receive/email the same to your teacher.