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Iqra English School Yearbook 2015 – 2016
Our Class
Class Photo
Missing: Ujefa, Tohie, Anash, Uvesh
Students,
We’ve had a fantastic two years. We did science experiments, STEM projects, started businesses, did a hip hop dance, and many more things. I will miss you all very much and love you a lot. Keep working hard in class, stay in school, be happy, and make me proud. I expect to see your names in the newspaper one day! If you ever need my help, contact me and I will help you if I can :)
Yashwanth Dhakshana
9243 Piatto Lane
San Diego, CA 92108
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Engineering
Kiran Bhaiya came to our class in January and we made houses using
biscuits and cream. It was really hard but lots of fun too. Kiran Bhaiya
tried making the houses as well. Everyone loved the activity.
The welcome banner that my students made for Kiran Bhaiya. Tohie and Naeem putting cream on their biscuits.
Students building their houses. Kiran Bhaiya building his
house. Jabir and Rushan making
their house.
Alina and Zainab adding a roof to their house. Love their faces :D
Fashion Show
For Republic Day, we did a tribal fashion show. We dressed up as different tribes peoples from
across India. I liked the activity because it stopped our class from seeing India’s tribes people as
being dirty and bad to a people who should be respected. And yes we made all the costumes
ourselves.
Angami Tribe.
Siddi Tribe.
Jarawa Tribe.
Mizo Tribe.
Khonds Tribe. Group photo!
Students taking a bow at the end of a wonderful performance.
Rushan, Jabir, and Adnan shooting arrows, playing flutes, and
beating drums.
Riyan and Naeem waving to the crowd as they make their
entrance.
Musrifsa, Misba, and Alisha dancing. Jupisha, Zainab, Maheenor, and Alina finishing up their part of the
show.
Harish finishing up the show.
Value Activities
Our class learned many values this year so that everyone would grow into good
human beings. The values included respect, integrity, compassion, being
considerate, and teamwork. All of the activities below are about teamwork
however as those are only the photos I have of value activities.
The students had to hold their hands
together and keep a balloon in the air
without letting go of their hands.
Students trying to keep their
balloons in the air. Students chasing after their balloon.
The students were given circles made of
string. Their goal was for all of them to
get into the circle. Riyan’s group trying to get into
the circle.
Jabir’s group standing in
their circle.
Students had to hold their hands together and pass a circular piece of rope
over their bodies without letting go of their hands.
Students passing the rope
over their bodies.
Business
We learned business for one month in November. At the end of the business class, our class was told to make
their own businesses. Many of them sold pencils and rubbers to the other students at our school. One of the
things I said was that a good business not only makes money but helps the poor too. It was amazing to see each
business in our class give money to the poor outside.
Musrifsa and her friends making a plan for their business.
Adnan selling items to students at lunch time. This group made over 350 rupees on their first business day!
A business group advertising their business to the 2nd std class. Rushan and Jabir making a spreadsheet.
Mishba making a face :)
Makers Lab
A key focus in our class was innovation. One of the ways we learned this was
through Makers Lab where we took trash and turned it into different things like
roads, houses, hats, and whatever else we could think of.
Anash and Ujefa showing off the gun they
made.
Adnan and his robot.
One of my most favorite things made
at Makers Lab: a mechanical hand.
Ujefa and Rushan typing their baskeball hoop
to a water pipe.
Jabir’s hand and Harish’s hammer.
The most creative student in my class,
Tohie, displaying his balance.
Dominos
Our class went to Dominos where we got to make pizzas (and eat them
too). Easily my most favorite trip this school year.
A Dominos worker telling the children the importance of washing
their hands before they cook pizzas.
The boys wearing their pizza making hats.
Uvesh pressing out his pizza dough into a
giant circle.
A fully cooked pizza which the
students made. Was very tasty!
The girls making pizzas.
Maheenor and Jupisha learning how to make pizza dough into a
giant circle.
Students displaying the certificates which Dominos gave
them.
S.T.E.M.
We did many Science (S), Technology (T), Engineering (E), and Math (M) in class this year. The
activities were not just fun but useful too as most of the students in our class want to become
engineers, doctors, and scientists.
Took three studens to Purvee Didi’s
school where they helped me perform
two experiments for her school.
A girl displaying a water pump
I made. You put it in a cup of
water and spin it and water
shoots out.
Jabir, Tohie, and Rushan standing with a boy
they made friends with.
This is a computer science activity, where the group of students
had to move Jabir around the board using computer code.
Students planting garlic plants to learn about how sunlight helps
plants grow.
Maheenor, Rushan, and Maheenor’s sister using paper to
make a paper wheel.
The completed paper wheel. Students
raced with these.
Alina’s group making
their paper wheel.
Hip Hop Dance
Did a hip hop dance for the Annual Day Function where our class danced to
the song Bye Bye Bye. Took over 3 weeks of hard work, after school dance
practices, and a few broken legs to do this. But it paid off as the dance turned
really well.
Students posing for a photo before dance practice. Students practicing a new dance move I taught them.
More practice. Students posing with their dance costumes.
Students watching other classes perform during practice
for the Annual Day Function.
Students posing one last time before they went to dance
at the Annual Day Function.
Parent Teacher Meetings
Rushan and Jabir holding the
piggy banks I handed out to
everyone during the PTM on how
to save money for college. Purvee Didi teaching the kids how to dance to the song Bum Bum Bole.
The kids performing the dance they learned for their parents.
Jabir’s mother giving her advice
on how to be a great parent.
Seconds before she had been
named parent of the year.
Maheenor’s mother reading her life map. Riyan and Alina’s parents reading their life maps.
Had numerous parent teacher
meetings where I was able to
interact with the parents.
Vikram Science Center
Students pulling on weights to learn about how pulleys work. The Headmaster and I talking
about Vikram Sarabhai.
Tohie standing next to a
chromosome.
The Headmaster performing a
gravity activity. Students writing with sand.
Jupisha looking at whale and human bones. Students running to see a famous house built into
the ground.
Took students from our class as well as a few
students from 5th standard to the Vikram
Science Center to get them more interested in
science.
Home Visits
Visited the homes of many of our class students over the Holi holidays. Had a
memorable time talking to the parents and seeing how my students live. I
seriously wish I had visited their homes sooner.
Showing Tohie’s mother his marks on the NGO exams. Rushan showing Adnan’s parents the Magic Pot books.
Rushan talking to Mishba’s mother. The kids eating food that Mishba’s mother provided.
Selfie!
Me talking to Rushan’s father
about this marks on the NGO
exam.
Lunch at Harish’s house. Harish’s mother serving Jabir some food.
Anash, Tohie, and Harish eating
dinner at Uvesh’s house. Uvesh and his family listening to my presentation.
I visited a Mosque with a few of my students after
the home visits were over. Photo with Jabir and Rushan at the Mosque.
Autographs
It’s because of my parents that I am alive but it’s
because of my teacher that I have a good life :)
