Grade V Activity: Parts of a Flower

In the activity "Parts of a Flower," students from Grades V A and B dissected the flower and could identify different whorls in the flower like sepals, petals, stamen, and pistil.

Activity on “Area and Volume”

Activity on “Area and Volume” was done on December 27, 2013 with Grade 7 CIE students. Students were divided into pairs to show the difference between “Area of Rectangle, Triangle and Parallelogram”. This activity made them understand how to use formulae and how to find with the diagrams. This activity enhanced their understanding of concepts.

Culinary Skills

Students from grades VII, VIII and IX learnt how to make tasty Palak, corn sandwich.

Activity on Understanding the Characteristics of Plants

Children of Grade 1 were taken for a stroll in the School garden on 19th December. They were shown different kinds of plants, their characteristics and different parts of a plant. They saw trees and learnt that trees are tall and strong and only trees have a crown, trunk, and branches. Small plants have delicate stems and shrubs have woody stems and are close to the ground. Children understood that roots and leaves are common to all the plants. They touched the bark/trunk, stem, and woody stem to feel the texture and understand the difference.

Sand Tracing Activity

Sand tracing is a fun and sensorial method to learn writing and kids love doing it in Frisbees. Sand leaves a mark when we run our fingers through it. Ample amount of sand was taken from the sand-pit, and placed it in the Frisbee. We teachers started by writing the letter on white board and children were given instructions to repeat the same letter on sand and were asked to say how the letter would sound…

Playgroup Activity

Children are always amused to see different prints, be it footprint or hand-print. The little ones were given toy animals and were asked to print their footsteps on a white sheet. This animal tracking activity enables the children to improve their eye-hand co-ordination, fine motor skills, organizing and research skills.

Robotics Workshop Achievers — Oakridgers of Visakhapatnam Campus

Two teams comprising of 5 members each participated in the National Robotics Championship 2014 Zonal Workshop and Competition organised by ARK Technosolutions at Ameya World School held on December 14th and 15th 2013.

One group was selected for the Final Round to be conducted in April 2014 at IIT Mumbai from our school and stood third in the competition. The names of the participants are:

Richa Khanna – VIII CIE, Govind G – IX B, Jahnavi Thomas – XI, Anmol B – IX B and Ganesh Mahanty – VII.

There were also 6 groups selected for the Wild Card entry where they are also eligible to go for another prelim round at IIT Mumbai and 1 team will be selected on the spot for the final round. One group of our school made it in the Wild Card entry.

The members of this Wild Card entry are:

Udgat – XI, Rupali Kotina – XII, Divya Agarwal – XI, Sai Prasad – XI and Tejaswi P – X.

Clay Moulding: PP2’s Reading Activity

Reading is exciting and fun for children and when it comes to clay moulding and using clay to make sight words is even more exciting as they use their thinking skills to form the letter and it improves their eye-hand coordination. Learners were given flash cards of sight words and were asked to make the sight words using clay.

Christmas Tree Decoration Activity

Christmas is joy for the kids. Learners were given the outline of the Christmas tree and were asked to sprinkle colour paper to make the Christmas tree look more colourful. This activity helps to improve their creative and fine motor skills.

Building Blocks: PP2 Activity

Building Blocks is fun as it brings a smile on the little ones’ faces. Children were given Kinder Blocks Garden set and were asked to be as creative as they could by following the directions given in the booklet. This activity develops intelligence, creativity and imagination skills. It also improves the child’s ability to recognize colours, shapes and sizes.