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Contents Editorial ................................................................................................................................................... 5

Principal’s Message ................................................................................................................................. 6

PYP Coordinator Musings........................................................................................................................ 8

Honours and Achievements of Silver Oaks Staff. .................................................................................... 9

Venkatappaiah Vallabhaneni Merit scholarship ................................................................................... 10

Professional Development Sessions ..................................................................................................... 11

Assesment in PYP .............................................................................................................................. 11

Earth Science by International Geo-science Education Organization’s ............................................ 11

Art of Oral Storytelling by Bangalore Storytelling Society ................................................................ 11

Making MYP Happen ......................................................................................................................... 11

Tiny Tots of the Pre-Primary ................................................................................................................. 12

Festivals at Silver Oaks .......................................................................................................................... 14

Academic Excellence ............................................................................................................................. 15

Intensive Programme ........................................................................................................................ 15

Assessment of Scholastic Skills through Educational Testing (ASSET) .............................................. 17

Olympiad ........................................................................................................................................... 17

In-House Competitions ..................................................................................................................... 17

MUN Conference .............................................................................................................................. 17

Presidency Challenge 2015-Spell Bee ............................................................................................... 18

Camlin Art Contest 2015-16 .............................................................................................................. 19

Field Trips .............................................................................................................................................. 20

Visit to fire station ............................................................................................................................. 20

A Visit to Lal Bagh Botanical Garden ................................................................................................. 20

Post Office and Park trips by Grade 1 ............................................................................................... 20

Visit to “Samarthnam” ...................................................................................................................... 21

Guest Lectures ...................................................................................................................................... 23

Musical Session by Ms V Aravinda: ................................................................................................... 23

Emotions through Music: Ms Mahalakshmi: .................................................................................... 23

Saving Our Planet: Ms Victoria Smith ............................................................................................... 23

Good Reading Habits: Anvit Kelkar ................................................................................................... 24

Illustrating a story by Cartoonist, Mr.Balraj ...................................................................................... 24

Author Visit: Ms Srividya Srinivasan ................................................................................................. 25

Earth and the Changes it has undergone: Ms Tsae ling Kwok .......................................................... 25

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Crucial Conversations: Mr Vineet .................................................................................................... 25

Events .................................................................................................................................................... 26

Yoga Day – 21st June 2015 ................................................................................................................. 26

100 Days Exhibition ........................................................................................................................... 27

FRENCH NATIONAL DAY .................................................................................................................... 29

Independence Day ............................................................................................................................ 30

ಕನ್ನ ಡ ರಾಜ್ಯ ೋತ್ಸ ವ ....................................................................................................................... 32

UNIVERSAL CHILDREN’S DAY ............................................................................................................ 33

Stirring Session by Ms. Khyrunnisa ................................................................................................... 34

Potpourri ........................................................................................................................................... 34

Dear, Dear D. E. A. R. is Here!!! ......................................................................................................... 35

Thunder Cake! ................................................................................................................................... 35

Annual Opera -Alice in Wonderland ................................................................................................. 37

Hindi Diwas ....................................................................................................................................... 39

STUDENT LED CONFERENCE - Grades IV-VIII .................................................................................... 40

Activity Day ....................................................................................................................................... 42

Inter House Spell bee Competition ............................................................................................... 42

Inter-House Senior Football Competition in January .................................................................... 43

Inter house art competition .......................................................................................................... 44

Inter house sports & cultural day ................................................................................................. 45

Me and My Country Grow Together! ............................................................................................... 47

Students Teachers Articles .................................................................................................................... 48

Budding Artists .................................................................................................................................... 113

Class Photos 2015-2016 ...................................................................................................................... 119

Notes: .................................................................................................................................................. 127

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Editorial

Dear Readers,

Greetings to you!

Character creates self-respect which in turn leads to high self-esteem. We, the Silver Oaks

community, believe in promoting such values. We also believe that learning is not confined to the

four walls of the classroom; it is not about providing bookish knowledge but it is about developing

‘International Mindedness’ so that the child transforms to be a confident and compassionate world

citizen.

We are pleased and exuberant to present to you the school annual magazine “Milestones” for the

year 2015-2016 which is a sincere attempt from our side to showcase the creativity of our budding

talents. Through Milestones, we aspire to give shape to their creativity and learn the art of being

aware because we believe that success depends on the power to perceiving, observing and

exploring.

Milestones is a reflection of the school spirit, its thoughts and aspirations. It unleashes a wide

spectrum of creative skills ranging from writing to editing and even in designing the magazine. We

hope that this memoir of Silver Oaks helps you in recapitulating eventful journey of our acorns

during the academic year 2015-16.

We, the editorial team, would like to thank our respected Principal, Ms. Shanti Badrinarayanan, the

Management, the teachers & all the students for their contribution and support. We hope that you

will enjoy reading this souvenir as much as we have enjoyed in bringing it together for you.

Happy Reading!

The Editorial Team

The Editorial Team Teachers: Students: Ms. Sarika Mehta Anvit Kelkar Ms. Mangala Aarush Mehrotra Ms. Amritha Rao Sneha V Kumar

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Principal’s Message

Greetings and warm wishes to all

As the editorial team came pounding into my office asking me for editorial from principal’s desk, I

took time to reflect on education, more precisely education at Silver Oaks.

Here education has no end, be it the Staff, Parents or Students. We are all in the process of

enrichment.

True to our motto “Character first competence next”, we are mindful of our actions, our thoughts,

and our behavior. Creating efficiency and qualitative work are our values.

We seek to develop and nurture goodness and greatness in our students through rigorous scholastic

programme based on the learner attributes of character development. A committed and supportive

management, dedicated teachers, caring and co-operative parents, blend harmoniously to create a

happy atmosphere to enable each child to work on her/ his potential.

Our ideal structure of education follows the IB methodology and focusses on aesthetics and skill

development and lays emphasis on strengthening linguistics, computational ability and scientific

thought process. Through speakers at Silver Oaks, Human Calculator, science fundas and spell bee

children are encouraged to be risk takers, knowledgeable and reflective thinkers.

By fostering a conducive and caring environment, we instill in our children a desire to learn at the

same time have social, emotional, physical and intellectual development. Students learn to be open

minded and creative.

Thus we at Silver Oaks truly follow Herbert Spencers “The great aim of education is not knowledge

but actions”.

Students of the “Gen Next” should be equipped with character and competence, and it is our

earnest endeavor to equip them with the right aptitude required for academic excellence and also

ready to face life’s challenges in a balanced and harmonious way.

Each issue of our school magazine is thus a Milestone that marks our growth; unfold our imagination

and gives life to our creative skills. I am happy that the students have used 'Milestone' as a spring

board for their budding journalistic and artistic skills. The compilation of second edition of milestone

was a mammoth task. The editorial team had to cull out the best original stories, poems and art

work from the house magazines.

Thus this Milestone exceeds expectation as it produces a comprehensive representation of best

work and hope it will open a window of imagination, ignite pleasure. I congratulate the entire

editorial team for their hard work and dedication in making this annual chore a hall mark

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Many years ago I read the book 'The Three Questions’ by Jon Muth based on a story by Leo Tolstoy. The story takes you through the adventure of a young boy Nikolai, as he makes animal friends. Nikolai's is uncertain about the right way to act. He wants to be a good person but don't know the best ways to do that. "If only I could find the answers to my three questions, then I would always know what to do."

Who is the most important one? What is the right thing to do? When is the best time to do things?

He learns from his experiences during the adventurous trip that: There is only one important time, and that time is Now The most important person is always the one you are with. The most important thing is to do good for the one who is standing at your side.

These are the answers to what is most important in this world. I wish you my dear students abundance of good luck and God speed to always be ready to be a good person. Wishing all of you joy on this day and every day.

Regards

Ms. Shanthi Bhadrinarayanan

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PYP Coordinator Musings

IB VERIFICATION VISIT

We have successfully completed our IB verification visit and

impressed the team with our foresight, planning and

implementation.

I am happy that the PYP team worked very well to raise the bar

and set a high benchmark.

The IB team were thoroughly impressed with our students and

complimented them as exemplary communicators and thinkers.

Parents understanding of IB philosophies and awareness of school’s policies and programme

alignment to the IB system was much appreciated.

We teachers have been fortunate to be backed by a team of very motivated and dedicated

colleagues of Admin Depts. who know their job and result oriented. Above all I thank the school

management for being supportive and encouraging me which enabled me to carry out this

responsibility to the best of my ability.

Ms. Sailaja Vittaldev

PYP Co-ordinator

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Honours and Achievements of Silver Oaks Staff.

We are proud to share that MPVM group of schools

honoured Ms. Seetha Murty, Director of Education Silver

Oaks –Bangalore, with the Lifetime Achievement Award

for Excellence in Education to recognize her instrumental

contribution in the field of education. To do the honours,

Dr DY Chandrachur, Chief Justice Allahabad High Court

was invited as the chief guest.

Ms. Seetha Murty also received Women Achievers Award

from Lioness Club in Hyderabad she is a source of

inspiration to many people and students across the Nation. She strives to usher in innovative

applications in teaching and learning practices that benefits students.

We are happy to share that Ms. Sailaja V. PYPC & HRT of Grade 5 was

awarded with TAFIT 2015 and, Ms. Rachana K HRT of Grade 4 and

Ms.Kiran Somani HRT of Grade 1 received the certificate of

participation for reaching the final selection round of TAFIT.

TAFIT accordingly aims to recognize and acknowledge the contribution

of the teachers who demonstrate exceptional subject knowledge,

inspiring teaching methodologies, innovative use of technology,

assessment and authentic pupil learning are awarded.

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Venkatappaiah Vallabhaneni Merit scholarship

We are very happy to announce that we are instituting “Venkatappaiah

Vallabhaneni Merit scholarship” award of ₹ 50,000/- to students who

have exhibited proficiency in academic skills.

Late Sri Venkatappaiah Vallabhaneni (1912-1997) hails from Kopalle

Village, Tenali taluk, Guntur District, Andhra Pradesh. Late

Venkatappaiah Vallabhaneni is widely respected for his tenacity and

steadfastness. He took up agriculture from a young age and tirelessly

worked to bring about many innovative methods in farming. He is

admired as a self-made man. Mr Dhanunjaya Vallabhaneni, MD, is the

adopted son of late Sri Venkatappaiah Vallabhaneni.

The criterion for selection for the merit scholarship is based on performance in the assessment of

scholastic skills conducted by an independent external body. We are happy to say that we have

chosen ASSET scoring as the benchmark as we believe ASSET (Assessment of Scholastic Skills through

Educational Testing) is a scientifically designed diagnostic test that focus on determining the level of

conceptual understanding in students. All our students Grade 3 and above take the Asset in English,

Math and Science. We are happy to say many of our students won appreciation with participation,

outstanding, creditable or distinguished remarks.

This prestigious award for the year 2015-16 is conferred on three of our talented scholars from

Grade 5. They are Soham Lohakarey, Meha Porwal and Shankar Subramaniam, each of them were

awarded a certificate and cash prize of ₹ 50,000/- on the Graduation Day.

1912 - 1997

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Professional Development Sessions

Assesment in PYP All Teachers along with our Principal Ms. Shanti

Badrinarayanan had a workshop in school on “PYP Assessment”

in the month of January. The work shop was conducted by IB

Educator Mr. Yan Yulius from Indonesia. The workshop enabled

the teachers to strengthen the assessment patterns and to

bring in innovative changes.

Earth Science by International Geo-science Education Organization’s Ms. Rachana Kothapally and Ms. Sarika Mehta attended 4 days’ workshop on Earth Science hosted

by Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology (KSCST) and International Geoscience

Education organization on July 12-15th, 2015. The purpose of the workshop was to improve the

methodology of teaching the topics related to Earth Science. The workshop was based on inquiry

based learning about Earth System. It's provided hands-on training keeping in mind the adjusting of

the learning for learners of differing abilities.

Art of Oral Storytelling by Bangalore Storytelling Society Ms. Khyati Solanki and Ms. Jyoti Surana attended a workshop of Art of Oral Storytelling held on

August 28th, 2015. Bangalore Storytelling Society hosted an International Storytelling Festival,

'Under the Aaladamaraa’, in association with a Chennai-based venture Kathai Kalatta. There was a

dynamic team of storytellers of international repute who shared their expertise and stories through

the workshop such as Dianne Ferlatte, Jeff Gere, Craig Jenkins, Sheila Wee, Randel McGee, Antonio

Rocha and Jeeva Raghunath. These storytellers bring a unique style of Storytelling like Mime,

Shadow Play and Ventriloquism!!

Making MYP Happen Ms. Shanti badrinarayanan and Ms. Seetha Murthy attended a three day workshop to understand IB-

MYP as the silver oaks schools will be bringing MYP into their classrooms from the coming academic

year.

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Tiny Tots of the Pre-Primary

Our little acorns are Open Minded youngsters who are happy to listen to stories of happenings

around the world and their joy comes during celebration as they learn more about other cultures

and societies.

My Learned World

On 7th Nov. 2015, our vibrant little acorns showcased their

confidence and clarity of their conceptual knowledge. It was an

interactive session between parents and the acorns which shared

the process of learning happening in the class.

Universal Children’s Day

Universal Children’s Day has been held on 20th of Nov to

promote mutual exchange and understanding among

children and to initiate action to benefit and promote the

welfare of the world's children. Our energetic little acorns

celebrated this day by actively participating in all the games

organized for them as well as they made a headgear for

themselves as a take away….

Annual Opera – “Alice in Wonderland”

The annual opera held on 19th Dec. 2015 was a grand event where all

the acorns of Silver Oaks performed on the stage. Our lively little

acorns performed a colourful and mesmerizing show by dancing to

the tune of “Tooty – Ta”. We were really amazed to watch them

perform and everybody enjoyed the spectacular show put up by the

little ones.

Sports Day

Sports day was held on 4th Mar.2016. We saw our sporty little acorns on the field- in action. They

participated in 50 meters track event and Sorting game. They enjoyed each and every moment of it.

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Joy of Christmas Eid Mubarak

Onam Raksha Bandan

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Festivals at Silver Oaks Festival Celebrations at Silver oaks have become an integral part of joyful learning, community

building and thought provoking processes. Religious festivals from across religions, national festivals

are celebrated with great enthusiasm, fervour and pride. Children are exposed to the essence of

festivals through stories, music, dance, discussions and a variety of hands-on activities and projects.

The festivals are not only connected to our social and environmental context but to one's inner

world too.

Good Habits Festival Christmas

Dandiya Bombe Habba

Ganesh Chaturthi

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Academic Excellence

Intensive Programme Intensives are 3-hours Science and Math based intense

sessions conducted in Silver Oaks for the students from

Grades III to VIII, in order to enhance the scientific skills,

conceptual understanding, critical thinking, reasoning skills,

logical understanding, metacognition, and subject

knowledge of the matter in students with unique learning

abilities. Since these are hands-on sessions, there is more

sustenance of understanding of the concepts, better

interest, adaptability and creativity in students.

The concepts of Math and Science were explored through inquiry,

to provoke scientific thinking in students. The students were

divided in into multi-aged groups to develop peer learning and

teamwork. The concepts were explored more in depth as per the

understanding and the curiosity of the students. Adequate

reading material and video support were provided to make

understanding clear. The students performed extensive

experiments that hands-on-experience and encouraged them to

DO-SEE-LEARN (self-learning) approach.

Various research topics such as Mechanical Science, Sports

Science Magical Science and Aerodynamics in Science and

Exponents, in & out boxes, Analytical and logical questions,

Math projects during Math classes were covered.

To make learning more exciting we had Fundamentor (for

math) and Butterfly Fields (Science).

Fundamentor is an innovative web application that

enhances the Quantitative, Verbal, Data inference &

Creative thinking aptitude in students. It uses methods

which students enjoy, ensuring effective aptitude development.

Butterfly Fields is hands on self-explanatory kit which comes with an instruction booklet which

guides the kid to conduct the experiment. It also provided with challenging questions which tests the

understanding of concepts.

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Consolidation of learning was showcased through INTENSIVE exhibition which

displayed students’ learning and research. The exhibition was divided into

four stations with themes Aerodynamics, Mechanical Science, Magical Physics

and Math. Under each of these themes, the students displayed various

models and live experiments. Students explained the scientific mechanism of

through models of simple pendulums, types of bridges, paper planes,

parachutes, friction, kite, reverse engineering, see-saw with confidence and

clarity. The Math station was also quite stimulating with students

demonstrating their conceptual understanding about area & perimeter,

exponents and power, In-out boxes and, analytical and logical skills through

interactive mathematical exhibits.

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Assessment of Scholastic Skills through Educational Testing

(ASSET)

Silver oaks conducts ASSET winter round test. All are our students from Grade 3 take this exam. Its

heartening to note our children performing very well and get qualified to appear for advanced level

of ASSET Talent search.

We are proud to announce that Anvit Kelkar, Soham Lohakarey, Meha Porwal and Shankar

Subramanim from Grade V were selected for ASSET Talent Search. Soham received special

recognition as being the ASSET Talent Scholar. All the three candidates from grade V are eligible to

apply for Northwestern University CTD-GLL.

Olympiad At Silver Oaks we conduct Cyber, Science, Mathematics and English Olympiads. The results are

shared on a timely basis. Students gain additional knowledge and develop confidence.

In-House Competitions Creative Writing: Tapping the mind through Creative writing. Students are encouraged to write

fictions, poetry and their own unique experiances. We are very happy to see the imagination flow of

our young readers every week.

Spell Bee: At the turn of every week, the acorns from Grade1-6 get ready to participate in the spell

bee. It is a competition in which contestants spell a broad selection of words. It is works as an

invaluable tool for language improvement. A healthy competitive spirit builds self-confidence and

helps them to reach their full potential.

Human Calculator: Individuals develop their mental agility in terms of accuracy and speed through

human calculator. It makes mathematics a fun-filled exercise which helps in building mastery in

Maths.

Speakers at Silver Oaks: All students participate, receive feedback and improve their skills in

speaking, expressing their opinion and debate during Speakers at Silver Oaks Event.

MUN Conference Model United Nations (MUN), is an educational stimulation sessions that aim to achieve sustainable

progress in the knowledge of current events and also to equip the students to be capable of taking

over as future responsible global citizens. It’s an effective platform for the students to learn about

diplomacy, international relations and the United Nations.

On 11th & 12 of December, students from Silver Oaks, Bangalore attended a stimulating MUN

session hosted by Canadian International School. Aarush and Sneha from Grade VI and, Anvit from

Grade VII were part of the UNHRC and discussed the possible solutions to the Syrian refugee crisis.

They had thought-provoking discussion which tested the ability of the group to solve the sudden

crisis that had come up. It was definitely an enjoyable learning experience.

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Presidency Challenge 2015-Spell Bee

Siddharth Arun of Grade V bagged the second position in the inter school Literary fest ‘Wordsmith

Spell Bee’ at Presidency Challenge 2015; an Inter-school literary fest. Over 100 schools across India

participated in the event.

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Camlin Art Contest 2015-16 Our Students participated in Camlin Art Contest at the beginning of academic session.

The artwork of some of our winners:

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Field Trips It was a wonderful and exciting academic year for Silver Oaks as our acorns had the opportunity to

visit different places for field trips during the inquiries to enrich their learning. Field trips are a great

way for students to put skills they learn in the class into action. There are three different types of

learning- visual, auditory and tactile. The field trip was very informative and it exposed learners to

new experiences which led new interests and reflection.

Visit to fire station Pre Primary-1 had a fire station visit on 1st October 2015 as part of their

inquiry “How we organize ourselves”. The children were exploring how

Community helpers organize our safety and wellbeing. Children were

very excited about the visit and joyfully sang fire engine song. On the

way, they noticed many community

helpers like shopkeeper, mason,

mechanic.... In the fire station

children saw live demonstration of

different methods of putting off

the fire. They saw fire engine and its

compartment with various tools in it and even the fire bike

named ‘Agni’. Children were quite impressed with the firemen

and they started addressing them as superheroes. The acorns

thanked the firemen by offering them a card expressing their

gratitude for making the community a safer place to live.

A Visit to Lal Bagh Botanical Garden The children of Pre Primary I & II visited Lal Bagh in connection with

their inquiry ‘Sharing the Planet’. The children were able to see the

beautiful array of flowers that were on display for the Annual Flower

Show during Republic Day. Fascinating decoration of flowers in the form

pretty fairy made the children full of wonder .They saw huge trees, the

lake and a fountain too!

Post Office and Park trips by Grade 1 The Academic Session of 2015-16 was a great learning

experience for the acorns of Grade 1. Experiential learning was

one of the highlight of the program where acorns explored &

observe various concepts that enhance their learning to a large

extent. To provide a visual learning, learners were taken to

various places. These trips were not just fun-experiences for

learners, but also stimulate learning beyond what books and

videos can provide to the learning environment. In connection

to this, Grade 1 visited Bannerghatta National Park, Post office

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and Rose nursery.

Field trip to the Koramangala Post Office was associated with the Theme ‘Where we are in place and

time.’ Children understood the importance of address writing and explored how letter reaches

home. They made connections to what they had learnt in the class and loved identifying different

signs/symbols and landmarks. As a part of ‘action

taken’ they enthusiastically shared their

understanding with classmates and teachers. Going

further, the explanation given by the Postmaster,

buying the stamps and finally posting the letters were

the most thrilling experiences they had.

Field trip to Bannerghatta was another captivating

experience where they squealed and squirmed with

joy at the sight of the animals and birds in the park.

They were thrilled to find out various facts about living

things and played, learnt & rejoiced under the blue

sky. Learners en route the inquiry by wondering on

how few animal crocodile and alligator, turtle and tortoise look similar but called with different

name. Further, this student initiated inquiry facilitated learners to explore more about the distinct

features of living things.

Inclusively, Field trips are an integral part of our school curriculum. Adventurous and diverse trips

help children have rich and memorable experiences which expand their horizons, build their self-

confidence and support their sustainable learning.

Visit to “Samarthnam” A field trip is a visit to a place outside the regular classroom which is designed to achieve certain

objectives, which cannot be achieved as well by using other means. Taking students on a field trip

makes learning more effective as they will be able to gain vast ideas on the topic. For a successful

field trip, the students need to know why they are going there and what they will learn and bring

back with them before they even board the bus.

In connection to our inquiry

“How we express ourselves”

which was about the different

forms of communication, the

Grade 2 acorns of “Silver Oaks

School” had the opportunity to

visit a NGO for differently abled

people named “Samarthanam”

near HSR layout wherein they

had a chance to explore,

observe and learn about the

methodology followed by them

to read and write.

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Differently challenged people use various ways to

communicate. They use sign language (adapted

to fit their visual field), tactile sign language,

tracking, tactile finger spelling, print on palm,

Braille, speech, and speechreading. The

communication methods vary with each person,

depending on the cause of their vision and

hearing loss.

Our learners had a very interactive session with

the students of “Samarthanam”. They tried

picking up all the alphabets from them by using the sign language method that they follow.

There were Braille printers, keyboards for typing, software of the kind that aided the visually

impaired kids with computers. There was this one software called “JAWS” that converted whatever

was on the computer into audio to help the visually

challenged. Our children spelled out their names and

it was just amazing to see the Samarthanam children

typing it for them.

These children answered all our questions and

pushed the shadows away with confidence,

perseverance and enlightenment. Seeing their

positive attitude towards life made our learners

realize that eyesight cannot be greater than inner

vision.

The Alumni of “Samarthanam” have many jobs and roles: teachers, professors, counselors,

homemakers, business executives, government workers, and others. Parting these new friends was

hard. We were honoured to be a part of their lives although for few hours.

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Guest Lectures

Musical Session by Ms V Aravinda: On Monday, 11th December, 2015, Grade 1 had a Musical

session by our guest speaker, Ms V Aravinda, for the inquiry

‘How we express ourselves.’ Ms V Aravinda (Software

engineer by profession and a trained classical singer), mother

of Aniruddha Grade 1A, conducted an interactive & engaging

session with the children. Children enjoyed and experienced

different feelings through music. They identified the

difference between sound & music and also understood that

music describe the situations and feelings. Children

experienced the same with different musical role plays and

dramatization. It was fun learning experience for teachers as

well as for children.

Emotions through Music: Ms Mahalakshmi: Grade 1 had organized the ‘Guest lecture’ on different emotions

through music for the inquiry ‘How we express ourselves’ on

Wednesday, 18th November, 2015. Ms Mahalakshmi helped

children exploring about various expressions with the help of

songs & rhymes. They sang and enacted the various sounds and

emotions related to the music. It was a good provocation to

proceed to a fresh inquiry.

Saving Our Planet: Ms Victoria Smith Earth is very good at recycling waste, but we are generating far more than earth can cope with.

Pollution occurs at different levels and it doesn't just impact our planet, it impacts all species,

including mankind, who dwell on it.

Only humans can think and act to make positive

changes in the environment but unfortunately,

humans are the most polluting species on the planet.

Children of today will inherit a planet that isn't very

healthy. There is nothing we can do to change the past;

we can only try to create a better and brighter future.

Ms Victoria Smith is a certified eco-therapist, who

works on improving the relationship between human

beings and the environment.

The Grade 2 children of Silver oaks had a wonderful opportunity to have an extraordinary start to

their last theme of this academic year “Sharing the Planet” with Ms Victoria Smith. Nature instils in

everyone a sense of beauty and calmness. It exposes us to things that are alive and growing, and

promotes curiosity and exploration. This is exactly what Ms Smith tried to provoke in the young

learner’s mind. She tried to motivate the children of Grade 2 to love, care and protect the nature

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through her amazing story telling session which included nature based activities, eco art and clay

modelling.

The Grade 2 acorns of silver oaks visited the Kaikondrahalli Lake for a Nature walk. In spite of the

burning heat, children still made whole way around the lake, scavenging for treasures of the nature

items for their activities back at school which

Ms Vicky had planned.

After coming back to school, Ms Victoria

started her story telling session and it was

amazing to watch how imagination just

started flowing as children recreated the

Kaikondrahalli Lake and other clay models

using those natural items. All senses became

engaged and the children started interacting

with the natural world.

There can never be too much nature inside a

classroom. We must make sure the next generation has the opportunity to have meaningful

encounters with nature, because they cannot grow to love nature if they do not experience it.

Protecting the environment today will help us to have a better tomorrow. If kids can play a role in

helping to save the earth, it will be great and we can together strive towards a cleaner and greener

Earth.

Good Reading Habits: Anvit Kelkar As a part of the inquiry, ‘How We Express ourselves?’ Anvit Kelkar from Grade 7 was invited as a

guest speaker to grade 3 to promote good reading habits. He gave some valuable tips to students on

how to choose a book and be a lifelong good reader.

Illustrating a story by Cartoonist, Mr.Balraj In connection with our fourth inquiry “How we express ourselves” we invited Mr.Balraj, a cartoonist

and an illustrator by profession. Mr Balraj’s cartoons and illustrations are published in well-known

newspapers like Bangalore Mirror and The Hindu. The

students got an opportunity to explore and create a

story by illustrations. According to him, the best way

to draw is to observe, absorb and having your own

creativity and style in order to catch people’s

attention and interest. Mr Balraj also introduced the

students to draw panels for a comic strip, express

their stories through cartoons.

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Author Visit: Ms Srividya Srinivasan On December 8th, Children of Grade 3 along with their teachers had a fun filled interactive session

with an author of “A thick fat finger and other stories”,

Ms Srividya Srinivasan, in connection with the inquiry,

‘How we express ourselves.’ The theme of the

discussion was - how people develop imagination and

learn through stories and rhymes. Ms Srinivasan told

the students that story is an interesting way of

expressing through varied forms like pictures, rhymes,

music, dance, writing etc. All of us think and perceive

things differently therefore even if we see the same

thing we make up different stories. She encouraged the

kids to concentrate on their own ideas and have fun while writing.

Earth and the Changes it has undergone: Ms Tsae

ling Kwok In relation the theme “Where we are in place and time” and inquiry

into “Earth and the changes it has undergone” Ms Tsae ling Kwok was

invited to interact with learners about ‘BALI AND LOMBOK’. It was a

great learning experience for learners to get deeper understanding

about continental drift of these islands and about Wallace line.

Learners also explored the cultural aspects of these Islands.

Crucial Conversations: Mr Vineet For the theme ‘Sharing the Planet’, a presentation was showcased

on crucial conflicts. The guest speaker, Mr Vineet Mehrotra, talked

about how crucial conflicts can be recognized and resolved.

Students learnt that one of the easiest way to resolve a conflict is

to relax, and talk it out and reach mutual understanding,

eventually to solve it. The presentation experience was really

informative and entertaining as Mr Vineeth added humour to the

presentation to make it more interesting.

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Events

Yoga Day – 21st June 2015

Silver Oaks School acorns participated enthusisatically in the

Yoga demonstration with Surya Namaskar which was

followed by 12 other postures. Yoga is an important part of

our teaching and clearly reflected in the acorns of our school.

Ms.Noble Vijay, Yoga Teacher

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100 Days Exhibition

Having a glimpse of a child’s routine at school is

always been a point of eagerness for any parent.

They love to witness their child’s progress in a

systematic environment. On 7th November, the

students from Pre-primary wing till Grade III

hosted “100 Days Exhibition” respectively to

showcase the routine and the learning during the

first 100 days of our session.

‘My learned world’ theme was celebrated for the

Pre-Primary wing. The students enjoyed a break

from their normal routines and were quite ecstatic that their parents were involved and were an

important part of the event. Various stations were arranged that related to different parameters of

learning. Children displayed their learning with great enthusiasm at math station, language station,

inquiry station through games and various

activities. There was also a creative corner where

the children displayed their creativity using

crayons, paper and clay. All this activities gave

parents a good sense of understanding of teaching

methodology in school. The entire event helped

children to enhance their skills – communication

skills, social skills, thinking skills and self-

management skills. Children felt a deep sense of

pride in showing their parents all that they could

do!

Grade I students were quite enthusiastic about the exhibition. Various displays in the classroom

exhibited clear conceptual understanding of the

learners. Learners took lead of their own learning

and presented different stations confidently to

their parents. Children loved to work on the

Paper cup castle making and compared theirs

with their friends. Demonstration on save water

was also quite appreciated by the parents the

hands-on experience helped to register the

concepts in the minds of the student at a deeper

level. Mathematical place value, Words sorting

activity, Addition centre etc. were fun for the

children.

It was a wonderful view in Grade II classroom as the students got into the spirit of the day, took

pride in leading the exhibition and sharing their learning experiences with their parents. It was a

perfect platform to showcase the learner’s understanding of the five essential elements—

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knowledge, concepts, skills, attitudes and action. It was

quite fulfilling to see the transition of some students

who were usually passive observer to bloom to be the

leaders of the conference. Parents also got a chance to

assess their own child by putting forth probing

questions, listening and spending time with their child

and the most importantly seeing what school is like

through the “eyes of their child”.

100 days exhibition is an effective platform for Grade III students,

to present their Inquiry Cycle on the 3 themes and interact with

their and friends parents. It provided an opportunity to the

students to reflect and share on their learning, set goals for

continued growth, and demonstrate their 5 Essential skills and the

Attributes of the IB Learner Profile to their parents and teaching

community. The day involved talking about the inquiry cycle,

activity demonstrations through music and dance. Students

prepared Math, Language and Science stations to exhibit their

hands on learning activities. The day culminated by pinning the

attribute badges by the parents to students.

We express our gratitude to all the parents who turned up and

helped in making the event successful.

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FRENCH NATIONAL DAY The French National Day or The Bastille Day

commemorates the beginning of the French

Revolution with the Storming of the Bastille on 14

July 1789, which celebrated the unity of the French

people on 14 July 1790. Celebrations are held

throughout France.

Because of this, Bastille became a symbol of the

oppressive monarchy and was the reason why it was

targeted by the people of Paris when they stormed

the fortress on July 14, 1789. Though there were

only seven prisoners held in Bastille that day, the

revolt was hugely symbolic of liberation of the

French public, which continues to be a central part of France’s core ideals which are represented by

its three-color flag: Liberty, Equality and Fraternity for all.

The French military make their way along Champs-Elysees from the Arc de Triomphe to the Place de

la Concorde and thousands in Paris gather along the streets of Paris to watch this.

French National Day was celebrated by the students of Grade I to VIII on 17July 2015 at

Silver Oak, Bangalore little more lighthearted but still carried a great deal of tradition.

The aim to host this celebration by the students was to

make them think, and to prepare about this important

day of France, from a global perspective and to learn

about a country, its culture and people.

The students presented their topics very well in a

hilarious style and this kindled the curiosity of the

audience in knowing the culture and civilization of

France. The highlight of the program was the superb

performance of Grade II children who exhibited their

talents in the dance for “Je m'appelle Funny bear" and received good applause from the audience.

To signify the importance of this day all the students in the school pinned the French Flag on

their chest. In a very unique way they expressed their global thinking truly reflecting their learning of

the IB Philosophy in Silver Oak Bangalore. Kudos were given to these children who staged a fantastic

show and the curtains were drawn.

This day was cherished by all students and they took back home the happy memories of their show.

Ms. Rukmini

French Teacher

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Independence Day

"A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new… India discovers herself again."

- J. L. Nehru

Independence Day is celebrated with utmost joy and happiness to pay a mark of respect to our freedom fighters because of whom we are breathing an air of freedom.

It was fun and frolic at Silver Oaks School as the children celebrated the Independence Day here. Our theme for the 69th Independence Day was “International mindedness.”

While occasions like Independence Day kindle interest in the students as well the teachers. To mark the celebrations, an assemblage of events took place such as patriotic songs, a thought provoking skit, dances and much more.

The Independence Day event commenced with the hoisting of the Indian flag by our honourable chief guest, Ms.Anitha Kurup who is a Professor in The School of Social Sciences and Anchor of the Education Program at the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS). This

was followed by an endearing performance from Pre Primary children who manifested the glimpses of leaders of our country and the Indian culture through the theme ‘Unity in Diversity’. Our melodious Choir group inspired us with the Kannada song ‘ Vishwa Vinuthana Vidya Chethana’. By highlighting the linguistic communities and societies in India, acorns spring to the patriotic song ‘Mile Sur Mera Tumharaa’.

We have seen many great leaders, freedom fighters and spiritual leaders but some of the leaders have

had not only been an influence on their own countries but made a difference in the whole world. To pay tribute to these leaders, Grade 1 jogged our memory with the inspirational quotes of The Great Leaders of the World.

We as a school want to make the goals of education as harmony with oneself people, society and nature. We look for a role model and idealistic philosophy and we found our answers from our father of nation. As a school we want to

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bring congruence in our academic curriculum with the value curriculum as given by Gandhiji. To validate these views, the students of Grade V to VIII presented the skit “Mantras of Mahatma”.

International mindedness is an ability to understand and interact with others, knowledge of other cultures and histories, and the ability to speak in more than one language and consider issues from multiple points of view. Acorns of Silver Oaks showcased these aspects through Halls of Fame which were inaugurated by our chief guest Ms.Anitha Kurup. The Hall of Fame showcased our theme of International Mindedness through three Galleries.

The Freedom Movement Gallery depicted how ordinary men became the heroes of our country and world over, faced the toughest challenges and fought for their cause with unmatched courage, perseverance and an indomitable spirit have faced toughest challenges

Historical Perspective Gallery gave a glimpse of historical perspective and significance of celebrating Cultural and National festivals of countries around the world.

“Change is inevitable “is the key aspect of the Social Renaissance Gallery. This gallery helped us to understand the essence of lives of the world famous leaders during the movements that helped in re-birth of the societies.

This 69th Independence Day was event to rededicate ourselves to

the fundamental culture of our country. We believe in harmony with the universe, emphasized freedom and not be restricted to a particular region. We believe that behavior of an individual as a member of the society namely non- violence in word and deed, truthfulness. We, the Acorns of Silver Oaks, everyday strive to live the same through actions believing that one should not differentiate on the basis of caste, language and religion.

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ಕನ್ನ ಡ ರಾಜ್ಯ ೋತ್ಸ ವ

ಕನ್ನ ಡ ರಾಜ್ಯ ೋತ್ಸ ವ, ಹೆಸರೇ ಸುಂದರ! ಇದು ಕನ್ನ ಡ ನಾಡಿನ್ ಉತ್ಸ ವ! ರಾಜ್ಯ ದೆಲೆ್ಲಡೆ ಸಂಭ್ರ ಮ-

ಸಡಗರ! ಎಲೆ್ಲಲೆ್ಲ ನೋಡಿದರೂ ಕನ್ನ ಡ ಬಾವುಟದ ಹಾರಾಟ. ಕುಂಪು ಮತ್ತು ಹಳದಿ ಕನ್ನ ಡ ಧ್ವ ಜ್ಗಳು

ರಾಜ್ಯ ದ ಎಲೆ್ಲಡೆ ಹಾರಿಸಲ್ಪ ಡುತ್ು ವೆ.

ಮೈಸೂರು ರಾಜ್ಯ ವು (ಈಗಿನ್ ಕನಾಾಟಕ)

೧೯೫೬ರ ನ್ವೆುಂಬರ್ ೧ರಂದು

ನಿರ್ಮಾಣವಾದುದುದರ ಸಂಕೇತ್ದುಗಿ

ರಾಜ್ಯ ೋತ್ಸ ವವನ್ನನ

ಆಚರಿಸಲಾಗುತ್ು ದೆ. ದಕಿ್ಷಣವಾ ಭಾರತ್ದ

ಎಲೆಾ ಕನ್ನ ಡ ಭಾಷೆ-ರ್ಮತ್ನಾಡುವ

ಪ್ರ ದೇಶಗಳನ್ನನ ವಿಲ್ಲೋನ್ಗೊಳಿಸಿ ಒುಂದು

ರಾಜ್ಯ ವನ್ನನ ಘೋಷಣೆ ರ್ಮಡಿದ ಈ

ದಿನ್ವನ್ನನ ಕನ್ನ ಡಿಗರು

ನಾಡಹಬಬ ವನಾನ ಗಿ ಆಚರಿಸತ್ತು ರೆ.

.ರಾಜ್ಯ ಸರ್ಕಾರದಿುಂದ, ಕನಾಾಟಕ

ರಾಜ್ಯ ೋತ್ಸ ವದ ದಿನ್ದಂದು ವಿವಿಧ್

ಕಿೋತ್ರ ಗಳಲೆ್ಲ ಗಣವಾನಿೋಯ ಸೇವೆ ಸಲೆ್ಲಸಿದ ಸಾಧ್ಕರಿಗೆ ರಾಜ್ಯ ೋತ್ಸ ವ ಪ್ರ ಶಸಿು ಗಳನ್ನನ ಪ್ರ ದಾನ್

ರ್ಮಡಲಾಗುತ್ು ದೆ. ರಾಜ್ಯ ೋತ್ಸ ವವು ಬರಿೋ ಕನ್ನ ಡ ನಾಡು ಹಾಗೂ ಕನ್ನ ಡಿಗರಿಗಷೆಟ ೋ ಸಿೋಮಿತ್ದುಗದೇ,

ಇದನ್ನನ ಭಾಷೆ- ಧ್ಮಾಬೇಧ್ವಿಲೆ್ದೆ ವಿಶವ ದಾದಯ ುಂತ್ ಎಲೆ್ರೂ ಒುಂದಾಗಿ ಆಚರಿಸತ್ತು ರೆ. ಈ ಪ್ರ ಯುಕು

ಎಲೆ್ಲಡೆ ವಿವಿಧ್ ಸಾುಂಸಕ ೃತಿಕ ರ್ಕಯಾಕರ ಮಗಳನ್ನನ ಹಮಿಿಕೊಳಳ ಲಾಗುತ್ು ದೆ.

ನ್ಮಿ ಶಾಲ್ಲಯಲೆ್ಲಯೂ ಕನ್ನ ಡ ರಾಜ್ಯ ೋತ್ಸ ವವನ್ನನ ವಿಜ್ರ ುಂಭ್ಣೆಯುಂದ ಎಲೆ್ರೂ ಸೇರಿ

ಆಚರಿಸಿದೆವು. ನ್ಮಿ ಪ್ರ ುಂಶುಪ್ಲ್ರು ಕನ್ನ ಡದ ದಿೋಪ್ ಬೆಳಗಿಸತಿರಲು, ”ಹಚ್ಚ ೋವು ಕನ್ನ ಡದ ದಿೋಪ್

” ಹಾಡು ನ್ಮಿ್ಮ ಲೆ್ರ ಹೃದಯುಂತ್ರಾಳದಿುಂದ ಮೂಡಿತ್ತ.

ಮಕಕ ಳು ಕನ್ನ ಡನಾಡಿನ್ ಸಂಸಕ ೃತಿಯ ವೈಭ್ವಗಳನ್ನನ ಎಲೆ್ರುಂದಿಗೆ ಹಂಚಿ ಸಂಭ್ರ ಮಿಸಿದರು. ಕನ್ನ ಡ

ನಾಡಿನ್ ಪ್ರ ಸಿದಧ ಸಥ ಳಗಳ ಸೊಬಗನ್ನನ ಪ್ರಿಚಯಸಿದರು. ಪ್ರ ತಿಯೊಬಬ ರೂ, ಕನ್ನ ಡದಲೆ್ಲ

ರ್ಮತ್ನಾಡುವುದು, ಕನ್ನ ಡ ದಿನ್ಪ್ತಿರ ಕಗಳನ್ನನ ಓದುವುದು, ಕನ್ನ ಡ ಬರವಣಿಗೆಯನ್ನನ

ಪ್ರ ೋತ್ತಸ ಹಿಸವುದು, ಕನ್ನ ಡ ನಾಟಕ ಹಾಗೂ ಚಿತ್ರ ಗಳನ್ನನ ನೋಡುವುದು, ರ್ಮಡಿದರೆ ರ್ಮತ್ರ ಕನ್ನ ಡ

ಭಾಷೆಯ ಮಹತ್ವ ಹಾಗೂ ಅದರ ಶ್ರ ೋಮಂತಿಕಯ ಬಗೆೆ ತಿಳಿಯಲು ಸಾಧ್ಯ ಎುಂಬುದನ್ನನ , ಮಕಕ ಳು

ನೆರೆದವರಿಗೆಲೆ್ರಿಗೂ ಮನ್ವರಿಕ ರ್ಮಡಿಕೊಟಟ ರು.

ಕನ್ನ ಡ ಭಾಷೆಯ ಅರಿವನ್ನನ ಮೂಡಿಸಲು, ನಿತ್ಯ ಬಳಸವ ಕನ್ನ ಡ ಪ್ದಗಳ ಪ್ಟ್ಟಟ ಯನ್ನನ ಪ್ರ ದಶ್ಾಸಿ,

ರಸಪ್ರ ಶ್ನನ ರ್ಕಯಾಕರ ಮವನ್ನನ ಸಹ ಏಪ್ಾಡಿಸಿದೆೆವು.

ಹಳದಿ-ಕುಂಪು ಬಾವುಟದ ಸಂಕೇತ್ದುಗಿ ಹಂಚಿದಂತ್ಹ ರ್ಕಗದ ಹೂಗಳು ಶ್ಕ್ಷಕ-ಶ್ಕ್ಷಕ್ಷಯರ ಕೈಯಲೆ್ಲ

ಶೋಭಿಸತಿು ದೆವು.

ಸಾುಂಸಕ ೃತಿಕ ರ್ಕಯಾಕರ ಮದಲೆ್ಲ , ಮಕಕ ಳು ಕವನ್ ದುಚನ್, ಹಾಡು, ನಾಟಕ ಹಾಗೂ ”ಜ್ಯ ಭಾರತ್

ಜ್ನ್ನಿಯ ತ್ನ್ನಜಾತೆ’ ನಾಡಗಿೋತೆಗೆ ನೃತ್ಯ ರ್ಮಡಿ ಎಲೆ್ರನ್ನನ ರಂಜಿಸಿದರು.

ಒಟ್ಟಟ ನ್ಲೆ್ಲ ಸಾುಂಸಕ ೃತಿಕ ರ್ಕಯಾಕರ ಮಗಳು ಸಭಿಕರೆಲೆ್ರನ್ನನ ಮುದಗೊಳಿಸಿತ್ತ.

ಸಿರಿಗನ್ನ ಡಂ ಗೆಲೆ್ಲ | ಸಿರಿಗನ್ನ ಡಂ ಬಾಳೆ್ಗ |

ಮಂಗಳಾ ಗಣೇಶ್ ಗರ ುಂಥಪ್ಲ್ಕ್ಷ

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UNIVERSAL CHILDREN’S DAY

‘Children are the future citizens of the country. The future of the country depends upon the present children. If the children do not develop in a proper way, the country's future will be ruined.’ These were the words of our late Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. Since 1956, his birthday, 14th of November is observed in India as the Children's Day. November 20th is also a special day for children as Universal Children’s Day is celebrated on this date.

Silver Oaks celebrates Universal Children's Day to as a tribute to all the children in the world and also to pay respect to the beliefs of Pandit Nehru. It was fun-filled day for children full of surprises and action. The students came in colored dress, and it was quite nice to see everyone in their best attire.

The first surprise was classes to be taken by shuffled teachers i.e. different teachers came to teach classes that were not theirs’. It was quite fun to see how we could learn the same thing, but in a different way!

After our first break, we went for a special assembly for grades 3 and up to discuss why we were celebrating Children's Day and what its significance was. The best part was that our principal, Shanti Ma'am, made it very interesting and interactive.

We, the students of Grades VI to VIII, went to teach the junior grades some fun things. My friend Rusheel and I went over to the second graders and taught them how to draw some cool optical illusions.

There was an Inter-house Spell Bee Contest for classes III-VIII and junior classes. It was now time to indulge in some fun games conducted by teachers like Geography Search, "Stack the cones," Tangram, Slingshot, Amazing Angles, Will you able to pick me up?, Colour world word magic!, Balance it! Whirl! Swirl! Twirl! Feed the monster!, Fix a tail and many more. Craft ideas made children very much thrilled about their head gears with googly eyes and curly horns! Wall Mural activity buttressed our young tiny artists. Teachers made the day, “Fun day” for the acorns!

We concluded the day with a short assembly in which the winners for the Camel Art Contest and those who qualified for the national level in the Romain Rollande French exam were given their awards. We ended the day with a short party. The entire day was fun and educative. We all enjoyed ourselves and at the same time, learnt a lot. What a nice day!

Aarush Mehrotra,

Grade VI

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Stirring Session by Ms. Khyrunnisa Authors are the creators of the imaginary world! I had a prodigious dream to bring an author who specially writes for children, who would motivate our acorns about reading and writing to our school. We were honoured to have a visit from renowned author Ms. Khyrunnisa. Creator the popular comic character butterfingers for the children’s magazine ‘Tinkle’ and prize-winning author of children’s fiction, Ms. Khyrunnisa enticed the children with her witty jokes and interesting description of the characters from her series Butterfingers. She also shared her thoughts about what inspired her to become an author, what motivated her to write the stories on games. She introduced her books by narrating the thrilling segments of the story books. After the mind-boggling session, our acorns were keen to take an autograph from the author!

Ms.Khyrunnisa’s books reached 67 readers within a week at Silver Oaks!

Readers really enjoyed it!

The feedback from our acorns - “Wonderful session by the author and her books are Awesome! It was a great pleasure to have an author autographed book! Loved it!”

Potpourri The noun ‘Potpourri’ can refer to a mixture or collection of seemingly unrelated items, an unusual assortment. Our ‘Potpourri’ is a miscellaneous compendium of stories and poems to encourage our young writers and young artists. We received wonderful thrilling stories and fascinating.

Poems from our acorns! On 29th January we released our first edition of ‘Potpourri’. During the book release, young writers introduced their stories and illustrators about their pictures! Our

‘Potpourri’ has been shared in our Silver Oaks Facebook page. Have a look and comment, we appreciate your feedback about it!

You can also view it at

http://bangalore.silveroaks.co.in/potpourri/

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Dear, Dear D. E. A. R. is Here!!!

Drop everything and Read time, known as D. E. A. R. time. D.E.A.R. Is an effective programme, a great way to get everyone reading! A DEAR session consists of getting the whole school to stop, drop what they are doing and to read, for pleasure.

D.E.A.R. programs have been held on April 12th in honor of Beverly Cleary’s birthday, since she first wrote about D.E.A.R. in Ramona Benefits of being part of DEAR Programme:

The reader improves his reading skills in a unique and fun environment.He tries to achieve new limits by developing a “can do” attitude and in the process boosts the confidence.It improve oral skills. It helps in providing individualized mentoring for each child it provides a personalized environment for reading. It complements the existing literacy program Flexible, cost-effective program that is easy to implement in any settings Silver Oaks, Bangalore celebrated DEAR programme by making the programme

all inclusive. A special bell was rung and as the word

DEAR says Drop Everything and Read, that’s exactly what every member of our school did. They would leave everything and engross their next 20 minutes into the world of reading. This unique

programme was indeed quite effective in creating a wonderful reading atmosphere!!

Thunder Cake! “Close your eyes! Open your ears!!

Very soon the Thunder will crash!

The Lightning will flash!!

We will bake a thunder cake!!

But not in a bakery!!

It’s in our Library!!!

All are welcome to bake a cake!”

These lines were on the board to lure everyone, the students and the teachers, to join our Read aloud session in our library. The library was filled with darkness and created an atmosphere of suspense in the minds of our curious readers. The cloudy weather and absolute darkness with flashes of lightning here and there…..The students had to find their way around in the darkness to settle down in a shady library, really the readers were in special ether.

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‘Thunder Cake’ by Patricia Polacco had been chosen for the read aloud session. During the read-aloud session, lightning flashed, thunder sound crashed, rain sound effect made audience to go through the feelings and shivered, frozen in the library for a while!

Students enjoyed the suspenseful and thrilling session!!

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Annual Opera -Alice in Wonderland

On 19th of December, 2015, Annual Opera, one of the most special and awaited event of our session was hosted by Silver Oaks. It is a dynamic platform where the whole school becomes part of the theme chosen for the Opera. This year, we chose Alice in Wonderland as our theme which is a story of a young girl and her adventures in a world of fantasy. This is one of the most popular stories with children and adults alike, bringing together the ideas of adventure, exploration and philosophy.

The protagonist of the story, Alice, takes us down a rabbit hole (literally and figuratively) and introduces us to talking animals, card soldiers and magically creatures that help her explore the world around her and understand her better. She, finally, emerges as hero saving the fantasy world from a dictatorial queen.

The Annual Opera started with the School song. This event is also the time to reflect on the last year’s achievements and challenges. To share this, our Principal, Ms. Shanti Badrinarayan presented the Annual Report of the School. The students had put up an amazing show where they played their characters with full commitment and honesty. There were many melodious songs along the

way on which the students performed peppy and graceful dances. Just as Alice learns from her experiences and ultimately becomes responsible, the event helps the students to understand the importance of curiosity, exploration and adventure as key learning tools in life.

Working tirelessly and maintaining a great balance between classes and practice Silver Oaks acorns and teachers put together a fantastic rendition of the 3rd Annual Opera “Alice in Wonderland”.

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As a culmination of our unit of inquiry “How We Express Ourselves”. Students reflected upon their characters and the entire drama -

“In the play, I was the king of hearts, who was short heighted. He persuades the queen who was bossy and unkind not to harm Alice. I learnt about that opera helps you to express your feelings and story becomes very interesting and real with stage and characters.” Nikhil Grade III

“In the opera, I was one of the five Alice’s, playing the role of Alice in the scene 3 and 4. I was happy to be one of the main characters. This play has helped me understand my facial expression—happy, sad, angry etc. It helped me reading scripts with voice modulation and improved my reading skills. It was my first opera, which I enjoyed alot.” Aanvi. Grade III

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Hindi Diwas

Silver Oaks celebrated Hindi Diwas on 14th September with full zeal. Hindi, the National official language of India brings harmony and understanding between all the Indians.

We celebrated Hindi Diwas by having a special assembly where the true spirit of belonging to our country was instilled. The celebration started with lighting the lamp by our Principal, Ms. Shanti Badrinarayanan and the students paying tribute to the God with graceful Bharatanatyam dance performance. The various literary and cultural performances were presented, during the special day to pay respect to the language and inculcate

in the students, a sense of belonging towards this language. Grade I, recited short poems using colorful props which stole away hearts of many. The melodious recitation poems and dohas of Veer Ras, Surdas , KabirDas and Tulsidas and many renowned and inspiring poets mesmerized the listeners. Our senior students delivered a vibrant speech about the rich traditions of this language. The celebration of joyful event which helped in developing a feeling of pride that we are Indian not to any specific religion. It also enriches us, culturally as we become aware of our heritage.

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STUDENT LED CONFERENCE - Grades IV-VIII

Student led conference is a great opportunity for learners to showcase their learning throughout the year. The proactive acorns transformed into student teachers and led the conference to give an experience of INQUIRY based LEARNING to their parents. In the process, the students took the ownership of their learning and planned the learning engagements for their parents. Every Grade had its unique style of showcasing their learning-

Grade IV had chosen the theme “Sharing the planet”. The students of the class guided the parents through the whole of inquiry.The classroom was divided into stations. The inquiry started with PYP BLOBTREE- “Where is your understanding of inquiry process” This was followed by TUNING IN where they guided to test their prior knowledge. They have to, then, proceed to next station that encouraged parents to find answers for some questions they asked in tuning in stage. Stations such

as “SORTING OUT” and “GOING FURTHER” helped the parents to sort their learning by building food chains and webs and, assess their understanding so as to take the next step in their learning about Food chains. Once this understanding is established they advanced to a stage where they ‘make connections’ like integrating learning with math by showing energy flow in food chain through Fractions. The Inquiry concluded with “TAKING ACTION” where, learners encouraged parents to

take a personal pledge to safeguard the ecosystems and make their learning Fruitful.

Grade V students wanted to give an experience of their learning to the parents by planning the strategies to teach the parents and preparing for the board presentations. Each student judged his/her parents’ presentation by using six thinking hats and provided the suggestions to improve and appreciated the best part of the presentation. Parents were impressed to see their children as the student-teachers and took part enthusiastically during transdisciplinary approach of the individual subjects especially Student Led Conference had given an opportunity to the students to become confident communicators and parents had an understanding of the inquiry process.

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Grade VI shared their learning of the unit “How the world works” with their parents. Before starting the inquiry the students gave the parents chits to guide them to their respective group; Alpha, Beta,

Gamma and Delta. Ganya who helped the parents make their name tents. Once this was done, Viswa introduced the blob tree to the parents and made them place themselves on it. Subsequently, Aarush and Dhwani came in and helped the parents crack the central idea. Later on, Karthik and Shrutha displayed their presentation on simple machines and refreshed the memory of the so called students about simple machines. Inference sheets were given to the parents for better understanding. Rusheel did a Powtoon presentation which was

applauded by all. Sneha and Sahana shared the application of a few experiments.Parents were taken through the real life applications of a few scientific principles around us. To give the better idea of transdisciplinary approach, they were taken through a ride of the maths inquiry.

The theme of Grade VII and VIII was “Interconnectedness”. Anvit and Varun explained their understanding of grade 7 whereas Vyjayanth, of Grade VIII, explained ‘going further’ of the concepts. They started preparation of this conference with ‘Begin with End in Mind’ i.e.begin with what they have learnt and end with making connections between disciplines. This ‘interconnectedness’ was shown through concepts like , the architecture of mughals with measurements and angles;learning of vegetative reproduction as a part of going further and connecting it with various methods of doing agriculture ; the origin of democracy to the origin of various phrases ; and disaster management with campaigning for a cause. The experience of preparation and ultimately leading the conference was an incredible learning experience. It not only motivated them but helped them to develop better clarity and depth of the topic. They were able to understand the practical application of the concepts.

Students made the sessions interesting with some working models and displayed charts.Students have showcased good Communication skills to make an interactive session. They have also discussed their smart goal, in which they were made to identify their weakness in each subject and work towards making it one of their strengths. Through the plethora of the inquiry experiences that the parents had no other words they had for ‘Student Teachers’ except “WOW!!”

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Activity Day

All work and no play can make Jack and Jill dull. Here the ‘acorns of Silver Oaks’ know how to

balance themselves with work and play. Our acorns know how to explore every opportunity and

develop themselves into Inquirers, good communicators, knowledgeable people and above all try to

become the greatest risk-takers.

This year, the Inter school houses made our sports day more challenging and exciting as every effort

added points to our house. We have been keeping the record of the performance of each house and

constantly monitoring the tally board for house points.

In team sports there are - Basketball and Football, while individual games include Tennis, Table

Tennis and Chess. There was the same enthusiasm on the the track and field events.

Through all these events we had a clear view of our strength, stamina and the spirit needed to stay

strong and focused on the field. We won great appreciations from all for exhibiting true

sportsmanship and exemplary character. We stood true to our ideology; ‘character first, competence

next.

Inter House Spell bee Competition

An inter house senior spell bee competition was conducted

during the children’s day celebration on 20 th November,

2015. Five people from each group were selected from each

house (seniors) for the competition. There were three

rounds in total.

The first round was a

written round. This

round was for 10 points in total. All of us got all the words

correct. The second round was an oral round. The judge

would give us a word and we had to discuss in our group and

then one person had to answer it. Next round was the last and

was a rapid fire round.

We quickly finished this round and our scores were as follows:

Caring-180, Communicator-190, Principled-60, Balanced-170. By just ten points Communicator won

the competition. This is how our spell bee competition.

As the saying go SOMETIMES YOU WIN SOMETIMES YOU LEARN AND WINNING PROVIDES

HAPPINESS, LOSING and PROVIDES WISDOM!

Article by CARING HOUSE

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Inter-House Senior Football Competition in January

Silver Oaks, The School of Bangalore held an Inter-House Senior Football Competition in January .

The Students in our school are grouped in four houses namely, Communicators, Caring, Balanced

and Principles. Our team (Communicators) played against Principled team.

We commenced the event with a short

assembly. And after that, we charted out

pairing of the teams playing opposite to

each other and the sequence of the

event. When we had the time to

ourselves, Anvit and I, the captain and the

Vice-captain of our team, decided to start

off with the DA1 formation: a formation

that was mostly defensive and also

focused on attacking with midfield being

given less importance.

The game started off with a quick goal

scored by Arnav of the Principled team from which our team was never really able to recover. A little

before half-time, they were able to score another goal. The score was now 2-0! Half time came a bit

too fast. I could seriously have done with 5 more minutes to try and score a goal. During the break

we decided to switch to the formation A1: a formation that gave importance to attacking. Also, we

had Anvit as the goalkeeper in the second half of the game.

After half-time Principled team got the ball again, came close to our goal, shot, and by a stroke of

luck one of us was able to kick the ball only to be intercepted and have the process start again. The

Principled team used the same tactic they used at the beginning of the game, and were able to score

a goal against Anvit. The time passed, and pretty soon it was obvious that the ball would need a

miracle to get out of our half.

I was mostly hanging around as a defense player, as I had got a good plan that I knew would at least

increase our morale. After yet another almost goal, Anvit kicked the ball, but instead of the usual

cycle, I intercepted the ball and kept running. The Principled team, which had been lulled into a false

sense of security, started struggling when faced by a rested me. Once I was in the D, I kicked the

ball. If the kick had been a few degrees off, it would have been a miss. A little ways in the other

direction, and it would have been an obvious interception. But it wasn’t! The ball went straight to

the goalkeeper, who by some stroke of luck had his legs open, and just barely missed his feet by a

few millimeters on each side, and went straight into the goal!!! I don’t know what was better: seeing

the stunned look on the faces of everyone, the cheer of the crowd, or seeing the ball bounce around

in the goalpost a few times before being tangled in the net. However, it was too late. We had just 90

seconds to get at least 2 goals, and though the tide had started changing, it had definitely started

changing a bit too late. Soon we heard the whistle, and left the field after a few handshakes. The

Communicator’s senior football team was held to a 3-1 loss by the senior. team of Principled, who

went on to win the finals.

We all knew we had been eliminated, and to all of us, it was a little too harsh to take in after we had

given our best into the entire game. The truth that we had lost was even harsher for Anvit and I,

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because after all of our planning, it had been of absolutely no use because we realized (very late,

around the last 90 secs) that we just had to be a team and attack or defend according to the case.

Inter house art competition

First of its kind in silver oaks school, Inter house art

competition was held on March 5, 2016 on the Activity

day. Students showcased their artistic side, thinking and

communication skills, art techniques in this event. The

competition was open to all the students from Grade I to

VIII. The topic of this competition was ‘MY PLANET AND

RESPONSIBILITY’ to develop creative instinct and

awareness for saving Earth and Energy amongst students.

Topics were given two weeks in advance so that students

Participants were judged on different measures like,

relevance to theme, neatness and presentation,finishing

in given time and message they want to convey. House

incharge teachers encouraged the get enough to plan,

design and discuss in their respective school house.

Acorns to keep their energy level; up throughout. The

judging team comprised of Mrs. Janeeta, Mrs. Thyba,

Mr. Kartheek who had a challenging job deciding on the

winners. As it was a very close competition. Each house

was a winner in its own way.

Students enjoyed the competition and gave their best.

Results are as follows:--

1st Position: Communicator

2nd Position: Balanced

3rd Position: Principled

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Inter house sports & cultural day

March 4th, the pre-primary students tested their

physical, emotional and psychological endurance

and they result is obvious...a perfect 10/10.

On 5th March 2016, we celebrated culmination of

sportsmanship, creativity and aesthetic skills in our

Activity Day. As rightly said by Ralph Waldo

Emerson ‘Nothing great was ever achieved without

enthusiasm’, our acorns showed a best of their

ability to perform well on the field and stage. Like never before, four enthusiastic houses - Balanced,

communicators, Principled and Caring put their best foot forward from the inaugural soccer match.

Points were added to their houses and individual athletes as we moved on from Soccer to Tennis,

Chess, Table Tennis and Basketball. Meanwhile

the track and field events were also

commenced to keep the spirit high. By looking

at the house points, the captains made

different strategies to take a lead in points tally.

There were pep talks to the athletes by

captains and house teachers to make sure the

enthusiasm going high. This also paved the way

for showing leadership qualities among the

house captains.

Some of the Track and field finals events held on 5th March amidst the huge crowd of parents. The

races decided the fastest athletes and best athlete of the year in each category and relay event

showed the spirit of teamwork.

Individual champion in different categories as follows.

Grade 1 Boys: Chirag Shibu

Grade 1 Girl: Gunashree Seegahalli

Grade 2 Boys: Aneesh Saranu

Grade 2 Girls: Nesara Reddy

Grade 3-4 Boys: Fahim Bawahir

Grade 3-4 Girls: Greeshma V

Grade 5-8 Boys: Anvit Kelkar

Grade 5-8 Girls: Dwani Mothay

“You earn your trophies at practice. You pick them at competitions” was the mantra of acorns from

Grade 1 to Grade 8 who actively participated in Inter House Dance & Music Competition on the

Activity day.

Acorns of each house were excited and thrilled imagining the whole idea of Inter House

Competition as this was the first time they were about to showcase their talent through Dance &

Music in an Inter House Competition. Acorns along with House Teacher In-charge came up with

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different and vibrant choreography and Vocals for the

Inter House Competitions. As rightly said by Warren G.

Bennis, “There are two ways of being creative. One can

sing and Dance, or one can create an environment in

which Singers and Dancers flourish. ” Our acorns from

Grade 1 to Grade 8 proved that how creative they can

be in each and every activity they participated in. The

Dancers used various props like Korean hand fans,

earthen pots & umbrellas to spice up their Dance

performances.

Inter House Dance Competition results:

1st Position: Caring

2nd Position: Balanced

3rd Position: Principled

Inter House Music Competition results:

1st Position: Balanced

2nd Position: Caring

3rd Position: Communicator

Balanced house won the rolling trophy for the year 2016 for accumulating the highest tally

throughout the year in various activities.

All’s well that Ends well, the 2016 Sports and Cultural meet marked the first Milestone to Success.

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Me and My Country Grow Together!

We want to groom our young acorns as caring

hearts and independent minds with respect

for human values and the home planet and

enforce them to develop their civic virtue

towards the society. Accordingly, we

developed a belief in our young acorns that

‘Me and My Country Grow Together”. Our

acorns save, earn and collect money to help

the underprivileged people in the society. The

Silver Oaks team and our parents decided to

convert all the hard work into a meaningful

contribution towards a community

development. Last year we have started with the piggy bank collection Rs.20,000/- for the social

cause. This year’s our piggy bank collection is Rs.71,172/-! This year, we have identified ‘Mathru

Foundation’* which serves the physically

challenged children to achieve our social

cause.

*1995 Arjuna awardee Ms. Malathi K Holla

launched “Mathru foundation” in 2005 in

an apartment provided by HAL

management.

Mathru foundation is serving for the

physically disabled children by providing

food, shelter and medical support along

with their holistic development. All these

services are given to them free of cost.

The contribution or donations are the only source of income from the public who have recognized

and appreciated her work for 11years.

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ROHAN AND THE DRAGON TAMER

Once upon a very long time ago, there was a kingdom that had rested in peace

for many years. All the people were prospering and loved their king until one

day… a dragon tamer came with all his dragons to attack. The king sent many

soldiers to defend his beloved people, but it all failed and the kingdom was

burned to cinders. No one survived except for a young boy named Rohan.

Feeling very sad and depressed, he walked around the entire kingdom looking

for anyone; anyone who could be with him and help him escape his loneliness.

However, finding no one, Rohan vowed to take his revenge on the evil dragon

tamer.

He started thinking up a battle plan to fight the dragon tamer when he finally

decided which version he should follow. He started going around looking for

animals to help him, for he knew if you don’t have gold, you may have silver.

Having the second best thing did not bother Rohan one bit, since he got

everything second hand from his brother. The animals also wanted to help

Rohan since they had lost their homes to the dragon tamer. Every day Rohan

would train the animals and help them, never pushing too hard, always using

them to their strengths and therefore making for himself a strong army.

After months of hard training, the animals were ready to find the dragon tamer.

Rohan sent the birds to know what was going on in the skies; the worms to

know what was happening under the ground; and the rest of the animals

searched the Earth fruitlessly. They searched and they searched. They looked

and looked. They scoured the North, the South, the East, and the West. They

found nothing.

Finally, one day, the worms heard noises. The birds saw smoke. The rest of the

animals found footprints. Rohan told the elephants to sound their call, for the

animals were ready to take their revenge. They charged.

During this time, the dragon tamer had been attacking other kingdoms and

ruining those lands. He never expected there to be any survivors who would

fight Verno the Mighty Dragon Tamer. And so, when the elephants sounded the

battle cry, Verno had no idea what to do. He had attackers, but not defenders.

He knew how to attack, but had no idea how to defend. So he had to take a big

risk and attack the attackers.

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Rohan led them all, heightened their spirits. All the animals followed their hero,

Rohan, and fought as bravely as him. The injustice they had experienced

became their energy. The dragon was judged for mercilessly attacking the

people of various kingdoms and punished accordingly.

After the long fight that ensued, with Rohan’s animals winning, Rohan went

straight to where Verno was. Each drew their sword. Each fought with all their

might, knowing what was at stake. They fought into the night. They continued

to fight the next morning. Finally, the overworked Verno was left with no

choice. He had fought hard, but he had taken too many risks. He had

overestimated himself too much. He surrendered to Rohan and told him that his

fellow friends and family from the kingdom were actually in his castle and told

Rohan where the castle was.

Rohan went on to free everyone trapped in Verno’s castle and give Verno

another chance. When his kingdom was rebuilt, Rohan was chosen as the next

king and went on to rule his kingdom fairly and efficiently. He was known as a

hero for his great character and for the way he saw the good in everyone, never

was partial, and always worked for the whole.

Aarush Mehrotra Grade 5

(Published in the Times of India, NIE newspaper on 13.2.15)

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Gold ring

On a sunny day, I and my friend head outside to play.

In my yard, I have noticed something sticking out from a pile of

melting snow. Without our parents’ permission we both started

digging.

” Look!” exclaims my friend. “It’s a ring!”

When we observed the ring closely, we noticed it was made of

tiny diamonds with a big diamond at the top. I immediately

thought this was princess twinkle’s ring. To confirm this, we

took the ring outside in the starry sky. The ring glowed like the

brightest star with a yellow circle and my

thought was proven right! To give the ring back,

I had to say “Abracadabra Gilligilli Chhoo ringy

Twinke billy joo”. This had to be said under the

brightest star wearing a yellow crown. When I

said that, Princess Twinkle appeared. She let

me know that the ring was now mine. She said

this ring was called the ring of stars. So now, I wear the ring

and make the stars twinkle.

Ameesha Grade 2

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An investigation into the lifecycle of a butterfly

As a PYP educator, I have always wondered how we could develop scientific temperament in the young learners’ mind. Scientific skills are very important as they promote observation skills and curiosity. Curiosity has a major role in many scientific processes. I just recall what I read “Young Children are Often Called Natural Scientists.” They have a natural proclivity towards the world they live in. Their day starts with asking-how, why, where, who and what. Developing scientific temperament in early years will allow them to understand how the world works and how we share the planet with other living beings and eventually allow them to develop refined understanding.

It all started with the day the caterpillar came visiting …..

All the children of my Pre-Primary II were agog with excitement when they saw me bringing something to class. “Ma’am, what is it? Show me; show me…” excited, curious and eager, they swarmed around me.

I told them it was a caterpillar and after the initial excitement died down we found a safe spot to place it. Every few minutes you would see excited faces kneeling down and looking at it. We had several discussions on where caterpillars are found, what they eat, etc. Children became responsible and collected fresh curry leaves every morning and watched the caterpillar devouring them! The greatest interest and excitement was when they saw the droppings. “Ma’am it is doing potty “. In this process they understood that once the food is digested, the undigested food comes out as potty!

The young scientists watched the caterpillar become bigger and fatter day by day. One day it stopped eating leaves, became brownish and then curved its body like a ‘C ’just before it became a pupa!!!. They used to watch the pupa every day and ask me why it did not need leaves anymore. So many queries…so many doubts….

“When the caterpillar was small, how could it breathe? Does the pupa breathe?”

“Ma’am, will it become a butterfly now?”

“Ma’am, I wonder how the caterpillar which was soft, became a hard pupa!”

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Their questions were endless…

One morning I was greeted with shrieks of delight when I entered my class!

“Ma’am, the butterfly has come out!!!” It was a BEAUTIFUL sight indeed to see the butterfly – the Common Crow, black with white spots.

“Ma’am, how did such a big butterfly come out from such a small pupa?”

We showed it proudly to all the children in the school and left it amidst the marigold flowers in the school garden!!!! Whenever we see a Common Crow flitting around the flowers the children ask me, “Ma’am, this is our butterfly, no?”

I was amazed to see the traits of learner profile developing in the children. They were curious, reflective and knowledgeable!!!

It fostered conceptual understanding and a sense of curiosity in understanding a complex topic like the “life cycle of a butterfly”. Unknowingly the children have developed vocabulary too and they were able to make up their own story which they named “Sweetie the beautiful butterfly.” This experience motivated and allowed me to rethink my planning and was instrumental to create a scientific inquiry corner in the class room. I started keeping artefacts like an empty nest, live earth worms, a millipede, the caterpillar of a moth, germinating seeds etc. Nature is the best teacher to create enthusiasm and develop observation skills in children.

This set a mood to our theme ‘Sharing the planet’ and to understand our Central Idea: ‘Caring helps plants and animals to be healthy’ and in turn to comprehend one of the lines of inquiry – ‘Growth of plants and animals’. It has also helped the children to develop a love for Nature, to become good observers and inquirers!!

Mahalakshmi.

HRT, Pre-Primary II B

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The Legend of King Arthur

Once upon a time in a magical land, a boy named Arthur lived with his

grandfather in Dimsdale Valley. He liked dragons a lot. At the age of 18, he

thought he would become a dragon trainer! So, he set off to find a dragon.

After a lot of hard work and searching all the lands, he finally found a dragon!

He named it Victrius. He trained Victrius so much that he evolved into an icy

cold and very mighty dragon. Victrius and Richard became good friends along

the way, too! They both trained themselves for any scenario, and then set off

to the Valley of Dangers.

Before they could leave, however, they had to fight with the dragon Ellandus,

the mightiest dragon of all time! And, not to mention, there was his trainer

Dillandes, too! This was the battle of the opposites. Ellandus the dragon was

attacking with fire and Victrius’ breath was icy cold. They had a very big fight

and Victrius hit Ellandus out cold! Ellandus could not recover. Arthur and

Victrius had won the battle!

At the age of 22, Arthur set out for another long journey again, but this time

to the Valley of Dragons. He took Victrius with him. It was a very hard journey.

They finally reached after a long time. By now, they were very hungry. After

some searching, they found some golden apples! They were so tasty that

Arthur thought that he could take a lot home and sell those golden apples for a

good price. He took it back home and showed them to his grandfather. He sold

for a good price, and they all became very rich!

One day a couple of months later, the villagers saw that a stone sword was

embedded in the centre of Dimsdale Valley. The villagers shouted fearfully,

“Let’s call the mayor!” The mayor came and said, “There is a message written

on the sword. Whoever pulls this sword out will be the rightful king!!!” The

villagers shouted, “God has finally given us a sign!” The next day, the mayor

arranged a competition, and so the royal messenger spread the word around!

Everyone got excited as soon as they heard the news, and people started

boasting that they would become king. Many noble men tried, but all failed.

Pretty soon, Arthur tried! He held his right hand on the sword and yanked out

the sword with ease. Everybody in the village saw that, and bowed down to

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their new king! Arthur lived with prosperity and led a happy life, and made

sure that the villagers in Dimsdale Valley were also happy with their new king!

Parthiv Syammohan

Grade III

Lonely Night

It was a lonely night. I was reading when my doorbell rang. I got up and looked

through the eyehole. There was no one. I went back to reading my book. I

heard footsteps approaching near me. I looked behind, but there was no one. I

was wondering whether I was alone or whether there was someone. I just

went to bed to sleep. Everything looked weird around me. My lamp was on the

other pillow and not on the table. My phone was on the fan and my blanket

flying! Not only this, I went into the bathroom and there was soap all over the

floor; the broom was moving by itself and cleaning off the floor by itself; and

all the taps were open and the water was flowing upwards!

It took me long time to rearrange everything. By the time I was done, it was 12

A.M.! The clock was saying DING-DONG, DING-DONG, DING-DONG. I tried to

sleep, but I couldn’t. I watched a movie instead. However, watching that made

me more scared. I went back to reading my book and I slowly fell asleep.

When I woke up, it realized it was nothing but…my dream!!! All of this was just

a dream! Woo-hoo! The best part was that now I was not alone! There were

my parents, my brother, and some cousins too! Later that day, we went out

and enjoyed with our cousins. It was a great day!

Jaahnavi Katha-Grade 5

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A Boy

Once upon a time, there was a boy. One day his teacher asked him to write

four sentences at home and bring them the next day. When he came back

from school, he saw his mother in the kitchen. He went to her. She was cutting

vegetables. She asked him “You want to have some food?’ He wrote ‘want to

have some food’ as one of the four sentences.

Then the boy went to his father. His father was watching cricket. Father said,

“What a shot?” He wrote ‘what a shot’ in his list. He went to his sister and she

said,” Okay, let’s meet now.” He wrote ‘let’s meet now’ in his list. Then he

went to the watchman. He was singing a song, ‘In the jungle, in the jungle.’

The boy wrote down ‘in the jungle’ in his list.

Next morning he went to school. The teacher asked his the first word. He said,”

Want to have some food!” The teacher got upset and slapped him. He said,

“What a shot!” The teacher got even more upset and said “Let’s meet the

Principal.” The boy said, “Let’s meet now.” The teacher took him to the

principle and asked her to send the boy home. The Principal asked the boy,

“Where is your home?” The boy replied, “In the jungle.”

Just then the teacher realized that this boy was not being naughty but actually

telling the four sentences. She told the Principal and then all of them had a

good laugh.

Akshidha, Grade 3 ‘B’

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MICKTIMES

Long ago, there lived a poor farmer

named MICK TIMES. He used to live

with his wife. He had to work hard to

make their living. Then came a very

bad year when all the crops had

fallen one by one. To earn money he

had to sell the farm animals. At last there was a

cow left. After 3 months, things were so bad

that he had to sell the cow too. He had to sell it

to his friend named Minx so that he gets money

to eat. Two months later, when the weather

conditions were all right, he grew more crops

earned money. He also got all his farm animals

back and lived happily with his family.

Mohak

Grade2

THE END

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THE EVIL MAGICIAN AND THE MIGHTY PRINCE

Once upon a time, in a faraway land, there was an evil magician filled

with hatred named Acrazino. There was a prince called Jason

Manizone whom, Acrozino had captured and trapped him in palace.

Acrazino was greedy and he wanted to loot the royal palace. There

was also a teacher named Ms. Harkness. One day Ms. Harkness was

going geocaching and told her students that she would be absent the

next day and that they would have a substitute. The children wailed

and said, “Please don't go, Ms. Harkness”.

The next day the teacher was very excited to go geocaching. The

kids were unhappy with a substitute. Acrazino got a wicked idea

when he saw Mrs. Harkness looking for the tap to fill her

waterbottle. He started saying, “Whoever needs water come here,

whoever needs water come here.” Once she went in the fort to fill

her bottle he trapped her. He entered in from the roof access. She

wondered what happened. Then she started to think she might never

get out. Then the magician gave an evil laugh. She said in a brave

voice but scared, “Who's there?”

Next the magician put a spell on her and she became evil. Then she

said in a robotic voice, “I am under your control.” The evil magician

told her to loot the palace because he didn't want to face the prince

and get in trouble. He was thinking about the prince's last laugh, but

at the same time he was scared, what if the prince escaped. By the

time he thought of all that Ms. Harkness reached the palace.

Acrazino was wondering how she reached so fast. She barged into

the palace and started fighting with the watchmen, but the prince

didn't notice. One soldier informed the prince and the prince also

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started fighting and when she got defeated she was like, “where am

I?” The prince was puzzled. Then Ms. Harkness explained everything

to the prince. Meanwhile, Acrazino was enjoying his time. At the

palace the prince made arrangements and prepared to attack. He

screamed, “Guards, prepare to attack!” Then they all started

shooting arrows at his fort then his fort came down. Then Acrazino

ran for his life. And... When Ms. Harkness returned to school, the

children all made a surprise for her. I won't tell you but it's your

imagination.

Nikhil

Grade 3 ‘A’

The Torn Painting

Once there was a king who loved to spend his free time in painting.

Once he went on a hunting trip. After hunting for hours and hours he

got tired so he took his canvas, colours and paint brushes and went

up on a small hill. From there he saw a beautiful sight of sunset. He

started painting it. Soon he had completed the painting. He started

admiring his work from side to side. He moved a step to the right to

look at it and then a bit to the left. He stepped back to view his

work. He kept stepping back without realizing that he was nearing

the edge of a cliff.

On the hill slope a little shepherd boy was returning home with his

flock of sheep. As he was passing he saw that the king was stepping

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back and realised he fall off the cliff anytime. He rushed up the hill

and tore off the beautiful painting which was obtructing his way.

Seeing this, the king ran to the painting to save it. He smacked the

boy on his cheek. “How dare you tear my beautiful painting?” The

king cried in anger.

“Sir, I did it to save your life. Turn around and see, if you had taken

a step back then you would have fallen to your death”

At this the king looked back and was shocked. Then he thanked the

young boy. He took him to the palace where he was taught by

teachers. When he grew up as a young man he was appointed as the

chief minister.

Moral: Presence of mind helps when great plans fail.

Dua Maryam

Grade 4 ‘A’

What did she see?

It was only midnight, when I awoke with a silent shiver. I was

confused at first but then longed to know what gave me that shiver.

All of a sudden, the moon twinkled and wolves howled. I looked

around only to find all the other trees asleep. Prickles ran up my bark

and goosebumps grew on my leaves. I could feel then fright down to

my roots! Then there was a cold breeze and along with it came a foul

smell.

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I saw, by the edge of my eye, a dark figure walk by. It was covered in

white, had long blond hair and was surrounded by fog.

I quickly took a long blink followed by an extra-long breath and saw

nothing but trees, the moon and…and the FOG!! Where had all the

fog come from? I looked back in front of me and…I was awestruck!

The figure was standing there; right in front of me, so close that I

could feel its breath. It had a face…a face that would get anybody

paralyzed… but me. It looked more like a woman; with one eye that

was purple and the other…there was no eye! She had fiery red lips

and a long thin nose. Her ears were hidden by her hair and her face

was covered in stitches, scars and…something you wouldn’t want to

know about. She didn’t have a single tooth and her jaw was moved

to a side. Her appearance was probably worse then what you are

thinking.

She stood right there staring, staring into my eyes as though she saw

something…something else but a tree in me…

Sneha V. Grade 6

MY TRIP TO GOA

In winter vacations, I went to GOA. Let me share some of my

experiences. We went to Goa by car. We started from home at

8:30 a.m. and we reached at 12:00 a.m.

We started our sightseeing with SHANTADURGA temple. The

temple had amazing carvings.

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After that we went JESUS BOM CHURCH, I saw the body of ST.

FRANCIS. There was a museum opposite of the church. I saw

many popular Portuguese people’s painting, and I got to know the

Goa’s actual name was GOVINDAPURAM but the Portuguese

changed the name to GOA.

In the evening, we went to AGUADA FORT and SINQUERIM

BEACH. I had my dinner and I went to sleep. The next day I went

to VARCA beach and played there for 4 ½ hours. I had fun playing

in water with my family.

We also got the chance to visit MANGESHI temple which is one of

the largest temple in Goa. Our concluded our tour by watching

breataking scenic views in OLD GOA .

At night, we celebrated our New Year, and had lots and lots of fun.

In this journey I also made a new friend, VERONICA.

I HAD LOTS OF FUN IN GOA!!

Jahnavi

Grade 4

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AN INTRODUCTION TO BLACK HOLES

Have you ever wondered what black

holes are? Or how they work?

This report will tell you all about it.

Black holes are ‘singularities’ (matter

packed so tightly that has almost no

volume or in a space as big as an atom

or less.) with intense fields of gravity

surrounding them anything that goes

near will be torn apart at first to such an extent that only THE BUILDING

BLOCKS OF ATOMS will be left near the singularity. After that nobody

knows.

Black holes are formed when a star collapses and the layers of hydrogen press

down into the space of an atom or less. This is when a black hole is formed.

When black holes suck in matter and gets it inside itself it adds to gravity. So

much matter compressed into a tiny space makes a humongous and intense

gravity field. Also more density (matter in a single space) adds to gravity

making the black hole 10 times stronger.

A black hole’s collapse is actually very complicated and is caused by its own

event horizon.

That’s all for this report and thanks for reading!

Mihir Talati,

Grade 5

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FROGGIE CAN

Beginning

Middle

End:

Reflection: Keep trying never give

up!

Saqib Grade 1

There were two frogs hopping around the kitchen. Their names were froggie can and froggie

cant There were two frogs hopping around the kitchen. Their

names were Froggie Can and Froggie Can’t

Suddenly, when they were hopping, by mistake they

fell into a bowl of milk. They started swimming in

the bowl. While they were swimming they both became

tired. After sometime Froggie Can’t gave up and

stopped swimming. He drowned in the milk. Froggie

Can kept on swimming and did not give up.

Suddenly, something happened.

Froggie Can found himself sitting on a piece of

butter.

He happily hopped away.

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RAIN

I don’t have pain,

When I look at rain,

And I look at the green meadows

Which fills my heart with glee.

Rain does a lot of things,

And helps to grow seedlings.

Then I go out and shout-

YEAH! And get wet in the rain.

When it rains rainbows form,

And on it are leprechauns.

Carrying a pot of gold.

Across the rainbow,

High and low,

They lie down beneath an oak tree,

With a mountain of gold.

Shankar Subramaniam-Grade 5

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The Shoe in Ka – boo

In the land of Ka-boo

There lived an old shoe

Each and everything he do

Was unnoticed, while true.

A superhero realized

That that shoe was traumatized

And decided to cheer it up.

The shoe in Ka-boo

Nearly went to the loo

As he saw the strange sights

Of a hero in tights

Coming out of the sky

With a big birthday pie.

That shoe got cheered up

Ate all the pie up

Got warm and cosy

And was not at all nosy.

The next day it woke up

Gave itself a smoke up

Polished and bright

That shoe began to shine.

by Siddharth Arun, Grade V.

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My MOTHER

MY Mother’s name is Deepika

She is very beautiful

She is kind

She makes tasty food

She takes care of me

She helps me in my studies

She loves me

I love her

Komya –Grade I

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Gauri and Ganesha festival

Gauri and Ganesha festival is a festival that is celebrated

every year. The story behind the Gauri and Ganesha festival

is- when goddess Gauri comes to her native she stays there

for 3-9 days in her native. On the day of Gauri festival,

they make different kinds of sweets and foods.

Goddess Gauri, wife of Lord Shiva, the mother of Lord

Ganesha and Lord Subrahmanya is worshiped throughout

India for her ability to bestow upon her devotees power. On

this day, women and young girls are in new and grand

traditional attire. People bring goddess Gauri to their house

and do the rituals.

Along with this festival another festival is celebrated. This

festival is the Ganesh Chaturthi festival where lord

Ganesh/ Bappa is brought to the house and people worship

him. People make modakas, sweets and delicious food and

rejoice. All the family get together and celebrate the

festival. This festival is celebrated in September/October.

Ganesha, the elephant-headed son of Shiva and Parvati, is

the supreme god of knowledge, wisdom, prosperity and good

fortune. He is the Lord who is first worshipped before any

holy occasion or puja.

Niranjana Simha -Grade 4

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Yes for Yoga!

Yoga is an ancient practice which originated in India. Earlier people were used to

practicing yoga and meditating in their daily lives to line a healthy and strong life.

However, practice of yoga was declining day by day in such a crowded and hectic

environment.

The world Yoga day is a beautiful day to remind us of what we need to remember every

day. It reminds us of ‘UNITY IN REALITY.’ Yoga comes from the root word ‘yuj’ that

means union. Unfortunately, most relate yoga to only ‘asana’ and ‘posture’- we need to

learn to differentiate between the form and essence.

The asana needs to get into the body while most just use the body to get into

the asana. Just spending 5-20 mins a day will not cost you much…at least

DO IT FOR YOUR HEALTH!

Doing yoga- Just close your eyes and watch your breath

coming in and out. This alone will take you to levels;

higher and higher.

My job is done…the rest is up to you. Now it’s your job to follow this and

write the rest.

Sneha-Gr 6

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It was a rainy day for Amelia and Max. Some of their friends called Jake, Emily

and Kate came to their house to play with them. Two of their cousins called

Emily and Emma also came to play with them. They were playing cards in the

living room.

“I am bored,” said Kate “We have been playing cards for more

than two hours!”

“That’s true,” said Emma, thinking of some other game to

play . “If only we could play outside”.

“That would be fun,” said Amelia glumly.

Suddenly brightened up and said, “I have an idea! Let’s go to

my room. I have something to show you all.” So they went

up-stairs to Amelia’s room. Amelia went to her cupboard and

took out a box and they all sat on the ground as Amelia

opened the box.

“This,” said Amelia “This is what I got for my birthday. It has 50 games! So

choose between yourselves and play any game you want!”

So they each chose a game to play. There were all the games which they had

never played before. All of them together played a new game called Horse

Derby.

When they were playing they suddenly heard something.

“Amelia,” said Jake, “Is that your dog barking?”

“Croncer!” cried Max and Amelia together, “He is outside on this rainy day!

Why is he barking so loudly?”

“Let’s find out!” said Kate. So they all went to the window to see what was

happening.

Croncer was out on the road where the road was flooded and he

was trying to reach John.

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Postman’s daughter Dotty was struggling in the water. And John was calling to

his daughter but he could not go to her as he himself was struggling in the

water in his van.

Amelia and the others went out of their house in their raincoats and stood

near the closed gate. “Croncer!” cried Amelia as the poor dog went under the

water. “He is going to drown!”

“Don’t worry,” said Emily “I am sure he can manage. He is trying to save Dotty.

Look! Dotty is going to drown! The water is so high! Just about three feet!”

“Croncer is going to drown too if Dotty is going to drown!” said Emma “He is

going to really drown if we don’t do anything about it”

“Croncer!” said Max “Come back!” but Croncer did not listen he went over to

Dotty who held onto him very tightly.

Croncer went over to her father’s van and Dotty climbed on to the seat right

next to her father. “Thank you, Croncer,” said Dotty shivering. “You saved me

from drowning.”

“Wuff! Wuff! wuff ! ” said Croncer, which meant you’re welcome.

Everyone cheered and Dotty got hold of Croncer and Croncer brought her to

Amelia’s house. John got down and walked to their house.

And they had a fun rainy day surprise sleepover. What a rainy day surprise!

Zaina- Grade5

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The Time Travelling Machine

When I travelled

back in my Time

Travelling Machine,

I saw a kingdom

ruled by a king. The

king was talking

about the aliens. I

saw that king was

wealthy and has

golden pyramids.

There was something going on.

There was a fight between aliens and kings’

army. Army was fighting with swords, arrows and

aliens were fighting with guns. When I was

watching all of these it felt like a movie.

Kings army was losing the war because aliens

can change their shapes. King brought the

mummies from pyramids to defend them. King has

made a strategy to win the war and he won it.

King saw me and called me for dinner. I was not

able to eat anything because they are eating

raw vegetables and meat. I felt really hungry

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and wished to come back home. I reached home

using my time travelling machine!

Aneesh-Gr 2

Recycling

Recycling is the reprocessing of waste materials into new products

hence reducing valuable raw materials, wastage, energy and pollution.

Recycling has three basic processes:

1. Recycle

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2. Reuse

3. Reduce

Some of the products that we recycle are plastic, glass, and paper,

metal and wood. Below are a few advantages of recycling:

1. Reduces pollution

2. Saves Earth and environment

3. Reduces energy consumption

4. Conserves natural resources

5. Reduces amount of waste to landfill

At home we segregate waste on recyclable and non-recyclable

materials. We reduce the use of plastic and paper. For example,

instead of a plastic spoon we use a steel spoon. In school minimize

waste and have a stationary policy to avoid wastage.

Nikhil

Grade 3B

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ALIEN INVASION

Sector 12 was a happy place with enough resources to keep it running

day and night. It was powered by a transformable cube which turned into

a life size surfboard. The cube was hidden in the principal’s backyard.

The aliens were looking for the cube too, so they could also keep their

planet running for a long time. They looked for it everywhere but they

could not find it. So, they decided to go to sector 12 to find the cube. They

packed their gear and started the investigation.

The people on sector 12 heard an alarm. They

saw a weird spaceship on the principal’s

backyard. The aliens started looking for the

cube but just then the principal appeared! He

was armed with a battle suit and guns but was

still in his shirt and pants- not in a superhero

suit. He took out his laser guns and shot the

alien’s space ship. He took the transformable

surfboard, started flying and shooting the

aliens. The leader alien had 2 heads, 8 arms and

6 legs. Even he took out his guns and started

shooting at the principal and the surf board but the principal managed to

escape.

He went to the other side of sector 12 . Feeling quite relieved he said,

“Now that I have destroyed their space ship, they cannot find me.” But

what principal said was not right. The aliens had escape pods which were

faster than principal’s surf board. Suddenly, the aliens appeared in front

of the principal with escape pods which were actually UFOs

(Unidentified Flying Objects).

The alien leader started shooting at the pricipal.

“UH–oh laser bullets! I must move!” said the principal.

Then the two aliens came out of the UFOs and held the principal's

surfboard to take it to their planet and investigate about it. The aliens

tried hard but instead they broke it. "gouble gunk goosy poosy!" -all the

effort we put in getting this surfboard is wasted!

And by the way that's the alien language, zouble zouble.

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The aliens were sad and went back to their planet in their UFOs. Leader

alien said “na planeto zha parr bom bouchi" (now we don’t have enough

power for our planet). Principal was happy for stopping the fight and

said "Phew! At last those aliens left sector 12!"

Pranav Vishwas

Grade 3

NUT CRACKER

Steps:

To crack a nut, I used 6 simple machines

The ink falls on the screw

The screw gets loose and hit the bunch of grapes

The grapes fall into the syrup, the syrup gets splashed to the wall.

The bug moves to drink the syrup and also makes noise

The dog thinks it is a bell and runs towards the door

The bat turns and hit the bug and the bug falls down

The fish wants to eat the bug and it jumps into the net

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Because of the weight of the fish the shoe hits the nut and the nut is

cracked.

Pranav - Grade 4

HARDEST BUILDING BLOCKS

1. Knowledgeable – We discover and wander through forests of ideas, trees of facts and shrubs of dense possibilities. We look at many different things whether around us or far away, it does not matter.

2. Reflective – we look back on our discoveries, our thoughts and ideas and we see how they have changed throughout the course of the subject. We always look ahead of the present, considering what we will do in the future.

3. Communicators – we share our knowledge with who we need to. We express and understand our own ideas as well as others. We make sure that the knowledge we have (and others) have, does not go to waste.

4. Balanced – we do not put play before work, but we do not do more work than play. We balance out the forces in our life, making sure that we get enough, not too little or too much, just enough of everything in our life.

5. Caring – we do not, not make friends as other people are all integral part of our own life. We show empathy to people when

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they have a problem and comfort them while helping them find a solution.

6. Courageous – we are not scared to step outside our comfort zone, the firm foundations of our own knowledge. We do not fear finding we are wrong; neither do we be guilty. Because we maybe! We stand up for our beliefs if we think they are right and if they are proved wrong, we do not complain.

7. Inquirer – we do not shy away from new knowledge. Instead, we seek it out. We dream to know more things than we do right now. We explore new possibilities, find new facts, and do it all with enthusiasm.

8. Open mindedness – we accept other ideas freely, without enforcing our own over others. We know our responsibilities within our culture. We do not discriminate by race or gender.

9. Principled – we act with integrity and follow the rules. We do not break rules and do not lie. We are honest and don’t use unfair means to accomplish our ends.

10. Thinker – we apply the fullest of our extent to figure our problems ahead of us. We solve any problem that confronts us, creatively and without doubt. We always check to see whether our ideas are correct (unlike philosophers)

-Siddharth Arun, Grade 5

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The Foolish Crow

Once upon a time there was a foolish

crow called Kako, who lived in

Pachaihara forest. The crow always used

to trouble all he animals. Lion, the

king of the forest, got very angry with Kako

and ordered him to go away and never return

back.

Kako was very sad and left the forest. At night

Kako got very scared and started feeling cold.

He saw a house and on the door it was written

Chiruvee. Kako started pecking

on the door. Chiruvee, who was

the owner of the house, came out

to see who it was. He saw Kako

and asked him why he was

pecking. Kako told the whole

story. Chiruvee took pity on him

and said, “You can stay with us.” He said, “You

can sleep here where my babies sleep.”

After he left, Kako started feeling hungry. He

saw so much food stored by Chiruvee and made a

mess. When he heard a sound of someone coming

there, he ran. Chiruvee came into the room and

found that Kako had made a mess of the whole

place. When Chiruvee looked out of the window

and he saw Kako flying away.

Kako started missing his home. Next morning, he

went back to his jungle and asked the king to

forgive him. The king said he would give Kako

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one last chance. Kako happily flew to his tree

but was shocked and sad to see that his nest

was all messed up. Kako understood that how

others might have felt when he troubled them.

Now he decided not to trouble others.

Moral: Whatever you do , you get it back.

Kriish Tyagi,

Grade 3 A

My Elder Brother (Story with Idioms)

My name is Anvit and I am in middle school. Whenever my

brother (Advait) comes over, I am a nervous wreck, I just

can’t do anything right! For this reason he calls me a

peabrain. I didn’t like that, so I HAD TO find and insult

for him too, but I am just so powerless against him! He

pretends to be nice to other people but he is so mean to

me, he is just a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

One time when we went to Auroville to visit the

Matrimandir, I was so excited! I ran to go to the

viewpoint, but my brother shouted, “Hold your horses

brother! We don’t know the way and we need to watch this

video first.” I was not interested in the video so I got

MY Rubik’s cube for playing, of course my brother

snatched it. I got annoyed, because he didn’t bring his

own. Then again he HAD TO spoil it more, so he said “Stop

making a mountain of a molehill! It’s just a cube. “I

mean what is his problem?!

Every time I take my cube out for playing, he keeps

giving me tips I DON’T want to know, but he likes putting

bugs in my ears. My brother loves playing with the cube

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and the lubricant in it is like icing on the cake as it

allows him to move the cube really fast. God he annoys

me!!

Everyday I ask him why he calls me a peabrain, and he

says “ If you act dumb, of course I’ll call you a

peabrain! It’s in the bag, peabrain.”

Sometimes he is actually nice! I don’t know whether I

like him or hate him, I have mixed feeling about him.

Anvit Kelkar,Grade VII

Child labour

Child labour is employment of children in industires,

business, using them as domestic owrkers or in any other

jobs. It has been an aspect of international concern because

it damages the future of the children by adversely affecting

their health, persoanal development and also, depriving

them of basic right of education . The problem of child

labour is a serious matter not only in India but also in many

developing countries. It is serious social problem. Children

are the hope and future of a nation, yet there are millions

deprived children in our country and other countries who

have never known, and probably never will know, a normal

childhood.

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Main CAUSES of child labour:

• To have or increase the income of a poor family

To reduce the labour cost in a production organization.

In a developed society where every citizen counts and all

citizens have to have proper education, health care

supports, games and entertainment and complete their

education so that when he is a fully grown adult he can get

a full employment with standard salary.

SOLUTIONS to child labour:

• All child labour laws need to be strictly enforced by

the Government

• The general public needs to be made aware of the

severe consequences of child labour.

• An increase in employment opportunities for adults

would help in overcoming the problem of poverty and

child labour.

• Governments should ensure that every child gets the

opportunity to go to school.

• The owners of factories and mines should take the

pledge of not engaging child labour in their place of

business.

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Child labour is a global and social issue that needs to be

solved on urgent basis by the people as well as the

government. As a citizen of our country and the whole

world it is our duty that we spread the awareness of the

issue and motivate and support people to help in eradicate

the problem from the roots.

Ganya Dinesh, Grade 6

My trip to Rajasthan

In my vacations, I took a trip to Rajasthan. It was a really good

experience. The main cities I visited in my trip were Jaipur, Ajmer

and Jodhpur.

Jaipur was full of beautiful heritage sites like forts and palaces. We

went to Ajmer Fort. It was a beautiful place and I saw many

interesting things, including Man Singh’s palace.

At Jodhpur Umaid Bhavan At Hawa Mahal

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I went to Jantar Mantar (tt was

constructed in 1724 by the Maharaja of

Jaipur) where we saw a lot of sun-dials

and other time instruments. We also saw

Hawa Mahal, which is a beautiful and

unique palace which has lots of windows.

Due to the windows there is incredibe

cross ventilation so it is alo kmwon by the

name ‘Palace of Winds.’

Next day, we went to Ajmer. In Ajmer, we went to Pushkar and saw

the Brahma temple, which is the only temple of Brahma in the world.

We also saw Dargah Sharif. Both places of worship werebeautiful

decorated with fresh flowers but were really crowded.

Our last destination was Jodhpur. The city is known for its beautiful

palaces. We saw Umaid Bhavan, which the last and biggest palace is

built by any king in the world. We went to Meharangh Fort, which

was really nice too. Some people in the fort were playing folk music

of Rajasthan which was lovely.

I enjoyed this trip a lot!

Aanvi Sharma Grade 3 ‘A’

Jantar Mantar, New Delhi

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Flower Basket

Materials Required: Chart paper, Thermocol, coloured cloth bag(s),

string, sticks, gift wraps, foil, stick & ribbon

Steps:

1. Take an old cloth bag, draw and cut

petal like shapes from it.

2. Tie these petals to the end of the stick

using a thread. With hand turn the edges

of the petals outwards.

3. Repeat the same to make different

coloured flowers.

4. Take foil and make small balls. Fix this

on small sticks. Now use gift-wrap to

cover the foil balls.

5. Take 10 inches long green ribbon. Take out its threads

lengthwise. Once few stands are out, the ribbon will have half

woven part and half brush-like part. Wrap it around a stick.

6. Make a paper basket or use any spare basket and wrap paper

around it.

7. Fill the basket with thermocol.

8. Now, stick/poke the flower and all other decorations into the

thermocol.

9. Your flower basket is ready!!

Greeshma

Grade 4

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25 AMAZING Facts to Blow Your Mind !

1. There is a water bay floating in the space which is bigger than all oceans and water

bodies on Earth!

2. The reason for lego-men having holes in their heads is to allow air to pass through, so

incase any 3 year old swallows it, he/she can still breath!

3. IF the human eye was a digital camera it would have approximately 576 megapixels!

4. There is a woman named Veronica whose eyesight is 20x an average human’s eye.

She can IDENTIFY people from a distance of 1.6km, she also hold the guinness

world record for it!

5. Indian women hold more than 18,000 tonnes of gold, for comparison, that is twice the

amount of gold in the US federal reserve and also more than 11% of the world’s gold!

6. Norway allows any student from anywhere in the world to study in their public

university for free! Why don’t you go join there? I am!

7. The English word ‘orange’ was a name for the fruit 100 years before the colour was

named, orange the colour is actually known as yolerene (pronunciation-wise).

8. Your mobile phone carries 10x the bacteria than your clean commode!

9. There are 12 people in the world with a condition called hypothermesia, which helps

them remember every single detail of their life!

10. Voldemort in French literally means “flight of death”!!

11. There is a lake in the United States called

“Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg”!

12. Google is actually a mathematical term “googol” which is 10 to the power of 100!

13. There is a restaurant in New Jersey called “soul kitchen”, which has no fixed prices

but asks the customers to donate the money their meal deserved!

14. Mt.Everest has over 2000 dead bodies, which is used as a landmark to get to the top!

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15. There is a type of fish known as Anabantidae that have the ability to climb out of

water, breathe oxygen and even walk for short distances!

16. The entire PIXAR staff had to take graduate in fish biology before making “Finding

Nemo”!

17. Bubble wrap was originally invented in 1957 and was sold as wallpaper!

18. The famous Killer Whale is actually from the dolphin family!

19. In 1997 “Yahoo” turned down the chance to buy “google” for 1 million dollars, and

now google’s approximate value is 160 billion dollars!

20. There is a lake in Western Australia that is called “Lake Hillier” that has water

naturally pink!

21. One of the most oldest and famous roads in Rome is Abian way, it was built in 312

BC and is still used today!

22. The “Sahara” is an Arabic word which literally means “The great desert”, so if

someone says “The Sahara desert”, it would actually mean “The the great desert

desert”!

23. In real life a road runner can only reach speeds of 32 kmph whereas the kyote can

reach 69 kmph!

24. The current American flag was designed by a 17 year old, as a high-school project for

which he received a B- !

25. The word “verb” is actually a noun!

By Anvit Kelkar,

Grade VII

Source(edited)- Matthew Santoro 50 amazing facts

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Digital Footprint

Pros

No logging in repeatedly

Not resubmitting personal details

Cons

Privacy is lost- people can find out what you search for

on which sites

Who your friends

are

DIGITAL FOOTPRINTS: BE CAREFUL!!!

What is a digital footprint?

A digital footprint is basically a mark left by you on all the sites that you visit.

You can compare this to the footprints you leave when you go trekking to a

muddy place.

Digital footprints can range from your browser history, the things you “Like”

on FB, and basically almost everything you do on the Internet. Thinking

they’re all bad? Well, they have pro’s and con’s. Let’s see them.

The most common thing that happens is if you have multiple tabs, and one of

them is an e-retail site, an ad will come for a product similar to the one you

were looking at!

Also, companies can make detailed profiles of you from all of the online

activities you do, and by commercializing it, gain money! This can lead to

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many consequences, like misguided assumptions about you! Also, this kind of

stuff has led to the rise of many tracking companies, who can gain loads and

loads of money from this business. Here is just an example of what can happen

to you if you are not careful: If you use a credit card to pay for a bunch of

drinks at a restaurant on behalf of a group of your friends and then use the

same credit card to pay for your parking ticket, the tracking company may

believe that you drink and drive. And if this information is bought by your

insurance company, you may lose your plan or have an increased premium.

And remember, while you are confused about why your insurance premium

was suddenly hiked, the tracking company has also gained money. Though

these kinds of incidents have happened many a times, I feel that the media

does not give enough importance to these crimes and the mistakes of

innocent people. There are a couple of ways you can prevent this from

happening to you. While they do have small disadvantages, they will protect

you (and in some cases, your money!)

❖ Use Private Browsing mode on and iPad or Mac

❖ Go Incognito on Chrome

❖ Try not to stay signed in on Google, Bing or any other browser.

While it will allow you to quickly check your mail, it can have disastrous

consequences!

❖ Try to keep as little tabs open as possible. Remember, this will

make sure that the tracking companies will have a much smaller chance

of creating a detailed profile of you!

❖ Avoid putting your pictures on the Internet. Again, all of this just

may go into your profile!

While these are just small things you can individually do, I suppose that you

should also spread the message, and bring this topic up in the government so

as to allow all Internet users the safety that should be a right.

Aarush Mehrotra

Grade 6

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Thinking about Thinking – Making Thinking Visible

Being IB educators, we all give prominence to the conceptual understanding as it

facilitates the students to think out of the box. As teachers we strive to teach our

students the skills, and strategies along with the knowledge, to mould them into

critical thinkers and active learners. It’s imperative that students are enabled with tools

that empower them to critically contemplate about what they are learning. If they

make connections with their learning, then the actual “Teaching for understanding”

happens.

During the theme “where we are in place and time” students were inquiring about the

migration across ages, wherein they have to investigate the impact of exploration and

technology. At the end, as a part of summative assessment they were required to

reflect on their learning. To this end, I have implemented the “6 thinking hats” strategy

to synthesize their learning and to promote their thinking in the right direction and also

it induces the students to think in different directions to get the ‘big idea’.

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The Six Thinking Hats “thinking strategy” was developed by Edward de Bono (1987).

This popular strategy is deployed to promote parallel thinking and to help students

look at a problem or decision from many different perspectives. It is used in education

and a variety of industries and businesses for training and decision making.

My students have developed excellent skills in deploying this methodology of thinking

and used it extensively to assess their peer presentations without any biased

judgement.

Mihir and Soham have advocated that we club KWL strategy and six thinking hats

strategy to acquire a precise thinking of the topic. Soham has taken interest in

designing a template and shared it to me with much enthusiasm. I was amazed to see

their connections with what they have learnt and experienced. If they sustain such

thinking levels, I am sure that they would become lifelong learners.

To end this I would like to recall the words of Professor David Perkins - "Learning for

understanding requires not just taking in what you hear. It requires thinking in number

of ways what you heard”.

Ms.Sailaja

PYPC & HRT Grade5

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The best laid schemes of women and cats gang aft

agley...!!!

Sheba and Happy, as different as chalk from cheese. She, regal,

golden-eyed, distant; he of the odd-colored eyes, as plebian as they

come despite his pure-bred Persian blood. When first we got Sheba,

she was as nervous as a thoroughbred horse, she would slink into

the dustiest corners of the house, (for eg. under my son's bed) and

gaze at us with wide-eyed

suspicion. I suspect she was

maltreated at her former home

(she was 7 months old when

she arrived in an outsized,

dusty cardboard box chez

nous). Now half a year and 3

litter-boxes later, she snuggles

up to me and puts her paws

over my hand in a strangely flattering gesture of trust. Her eyes as

wide-eyed as ever, now show trust and even overt friendliness and

(dare I say it), affection!

Even my husband, with his so-called ''cat allergy'' syndrome unbent

enough to actually stroke her silky soft fur one day while sharing a

sofa and TV time with her! Happy cat is a dad now!!! Three

beautiful white kittens with squashed faces like their goofy papa.

He is curious about them, tries to sneak into my son's room where

the kittens are under his bed guarded over by Sheba. Yesterday I

introduced them to Happy one by one; he snuflled at each and

looked at me with his black rimmed odd-colored eyes as if to say

'Hmm, interesting!!' All the internet sites say not to let the male

alone with the kittens, but personally I don't think Happy could

hurt a fly despite his Iago-like aspect. In fact he eats nothing

except dry cat-food, even the Whiska's treats he 'treats' with

disdain and as for chicken liver ( that Sheba loves), it doesn't even

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merit a passing glance. Once I tried him with lightly steamed fish,

he gave it a curious lick and backed away horrified. Hmph!

Mornings when I open my

bedroom door, there he is, sitting

just outside. The minute he sees

me, he jumps up with a heart-

rending ammiaoooow and rubs

against my legs with a curiously

arched spine. Then he runs on

ahead of me to the kitchen where

he knows I'm headed, and heads

for the balcony door, wanting to be let out.

The dipper of water I keep for him outside is 'stale', so he knocks it

over with a naughty paw!! Only fresh water for Happy. And heaven

forbid if we forget to clean the

litter box, all our mattresses still

bear faint odours of tomcat-spray

despite liberal applications of

baking powder, vinegar, and

carpet- deodorisers!! What a cat he

is!

Par Thyba Mohamed French Fecilitator

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My Pondy-Pondicherry holidays!

My holidays started on Christmas Eve. I was excited to go to Pondicherry but

I didn’t know everybody would have to wake up at 5:15 (though only my

mother and I actually woke up at that time); I would have to squeeze as we

were going by car and we would be there only for four days.

We left off at 7:00 am, and around 11:00 am we realized that we didn’t wish

each other a ‘Merry Christmas’!

We reached ‘St. James resort’ around 3:15 pm. My dad was happy as there was a

bar, a sea-view restaurant and a parking lot. We came to know that this is the

only resort in Pondicherry that was located at the beach.

In the room, once we settled, I started my Christmas hunt! I almost gave up

after five minutes of my search. Then I had this crazy idea that the present is

inside the pillow stuffing; so I checked every pillow and finally found my

gift! I un wrapped the gift and saw an “Artemis Fowl” book, which made me

wonder whether that gift was from the previous people that were staying in

our room. I noticed there was something wrong with the pages, so I opened

the book, and it was hollow! I had a speed cube in it! (Basically a Rubik’s cube

but much faster.) It was a 3X3 YJ Guan Long! Due to the “keyhole” method

(that my brother taught me) and the speed cube, I got faster by nearly 2

minutes (which is a lot to do just in four days).

The next day we visited the Matrimandir which was like a huge golden dome

used as a meditation spot.

Afterwards we ate at an Italian restaurant called “TANTO” which had fresh,

delicious, hand-made pizzas! Funny part about the restaurant was that is a

unit of the Matrimandir.

Earlier, I though four days was too less for any holiday but by the 2nd day, I

was already bored. I was happy when we reached home but it was four days

to go back to school………

Anvit Kelkar, Grade 7

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Que faire au cours de l'été

Lire les nouveaux livres :

Essayez de lire de différents types de livres. Lire des romans, des livres

d'histoire, des encyclopédies. Explorer le monde des livres et acquérir de

nouvelles informations.

Communiquer avec l'artiste à l'intérieur de vous : Dessiner quelque chose

d'intéressante. Cela permettra d'améliorer vos talents artistiques.

Construire quelque chose :

Faire sales vos mains et commencer à construire quelque chose qui vous

intéresse. Les possibilités sont infinies, de démarrer un jardin à la

construction d'un robot de base. Parcourir une collection de projets de

bricolage en ligne et bricoler chez vous: vous ramasserez de grandes

compétences, passerez le temps et enfin vous aurez quelque chose à montrer

au monde lorsque vous avez terminé.

Faire le quiz de mathématiques, de sciences ou des langues :

Maintenant est le moment idéal pour saisir les concepts que vous avez

trouvé difficiles au cours de l'année précédente, sans pression et à votre

guise. Faire autant ou aussi peu, que vous le souhaitez ; tout va à

l'amélioration de vos forces dans votre compréhension de ces sujets. Un peu

de temps passé étudier maintenant pourrait juste plus tard verser des

dividendes importants.

Par Meha Porwal

Grade :5

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La création

Rouges comme les lèvres d’une jeune fille

Orange comme le ciel au couchée du soleil

Jaunes comme de belles bananes mûres

Verte comme l’eau fraiche et pure

Bleue comme la mer de la journée ensoleillée

Indigo comme la nuit veloutée et étoilée

Violet comme de petites fleurs de l’été

Quoi donc est aussi plein de beauté ?

Est-ce un rêve ou est-ce la vérité ?

C’est un arc-en-ciel en réalité !

Qui donc l’a fait, qui est son auteur ?

La pièce-de-résistance de Dieu, le créateur.

Par Thyba Mohamed

French Fecilitator

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PAR AARUSH

GRADE 6

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French Idioms

French Idioms are fun and so useful to express a whole concept in a short sentence - here

are several common ones, using hens, a bear and a Spanish cow among others!

1 - Quand Les Poules Auront Des Dents

Literal meaning: When hens have teeth. means there’s not a chance of this ever

happening. The English idiom:“when pigs fly”. Pigs, hens... it’s all in the barnyard!

Moi, sortir avec Paula ? Quand les poules auront des dents !!

Me, going out with Paula? When pigs fly!

2 - Parler Français Comme Une Vache Espagnole

Literally, this means to speak French like a Spanish cow. Well, a cow doesn’t speak French

to start with, so imagine a Spanish one!

This means to speak French very poorly.

In older

French, both vache and espagnol were

negative terms. So combine both, and it makes

quite an insult.

Nowadays, it’s not that bad, but don’t use

it lightly.

Ça fait 5 ans que Peter apprend le français,

mais il parle comme une vache espagnole :

son accent est si fort qu’on ne comprend

pas un mot de ce qu’il dit.

Peter has been learning French for five

years, but he speaks terrible French: his

accent is so strong that you cannot

understand a word he says.

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3. Faire l’andouille

Literal translation : to make the sausage.

Meaning : to do something ridiculous.

“Une andouille” is a smoked sausage made of pork and

that’s also how you call a person who does something

ridiculous in French.

How to use “faire l’andouille ?”

Il n’arrête pas de faire l’andouille He doesn’t stop

acting the fool.

4. Chercher la petite bête

Literal translation : to look for the little beast.

Meaning : to always look for something to complain about/ splitting hairs.

We all know someone who always finds something

to complain about and pays attention to the most

insignificant details. In French we say that this person

“cherche la petite bête”.

How to use the French expression “chercher la petite bête” ?

Il cherche toujours la petite bête, c’est énervant.

He is always splitting hairs, it’s irritating.

5. Donner un coup de main

Literal translation : to give a knock of hand.

Meaning : to give a helping hand.

And very similar to English at the end.

How to use the French expression “donner un

coup de main”?

Peux-tu me donner un coup de main s’il te plaît ?

Can you help me out please?

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Mesmerize your taste buds and fasten up for some

experiments.

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Apple Bites

INGREDIENTS: 4 APPLES, 1 CUP ALL-PURPOSE FLOUR, 1 EGG, ½ CUPS MILK,1 LEMON,

CINNAMON 2 TSP, OIL(FOR GREASING), SUGAR(FOR DUSTING)

METHOD:

STEP 1: PREHEAT OVEN TO 200 DEGREES CELSIUS.

STEP 2: TAKE ALL 4 APPLES AND CUT THEM INTO PIECES. LEAVE A FEW SMALL

ONES ASIDE FOR GARNISHING.

STEP 3: TAKE THE WHISTLE OFF OF A PRESSURE COOKER AND FILL IT ⅛ WITH

WATER. TAKE A SIFT, OR ANY FLAT VESSEL WITH HOLES IN IT THAT FITS IN THE

COOKER. PLACE ALL THE PIECES OF APPLES ONTO THE FLAT VESSEL, LOCK

THE TOP ON AND PLACE IT ON A STOVE. LET THE APPLES STEAM FOR ABOUT

5 MINUTES OR UNTIL YOU SMELL AN AROMATIC SCENT. REMOVE AND LET

THEM COOL.

STEP 4: TAKE THE FLOUR AND SLOWLY ADD MILK AND EGGS UNTIL IT

TAKES UP STRETCHY DOUGH LIKE TEXTURE AND CAN BE ROLLED OR

PATTED OUT.

STEP 7: TAKE THE STEAMED APPLES, AND GRIND THEM INTO A PASTE (WITH THE

PEELS).

STEP 8: TAKE THE PASTE AND MIX IN SUGAR, CINNAMON, AND LEMON TO TASTE.

STEP 9: TAKE A SMALL BALL OF DOUGH AND PAT/ROLL IT INTO A SMALL SHEET ABOUT ¼

OF AN INCH THICK. TAKE THE PASTE AND PLACE IT IN THE CENTER OF THE SHEET.

ENCLOSE THE SHEET AND SHAPE IT INTO THE DESIRED SHAPE.

STEP 10: ONCE THE OVEN IS PREHEATED, PLACE THE BITES INTO A GREASED BAKING

TRAY AND LET THEM BAKE FOR 8 MINUTES, THEN POKE THE BITES WITH A KNIFE. IF THEY

CRUMBLE EASILY REMOVE THEM, IF THEY ARE CHEWY, LET THEM BAKE FOR LONGER.

STEP 11: LET THEM COOL, GARNISH, AND ENJOY!

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Potato Pomegranate Salad

Ingredients

1. Potatoes-4

2. Onion –I/2

3. Pomegranate-I/2

4. Lemon- 1 table spoon

5. A little chat masala

6. Coriander leaves-a little and finely chopped

7. Salt to taste

Materials

1. Spoon

2. Knife

3. Chopping board

4. Bowl

5. Serving bowl

Method to prepare

Step 1- Boil the potatoes and cut into small pieces.

Step 2- Cut the onions into small pieces.

Step 3- Take the bowl and put the potato pieces, onion, pomegranate,

coriander leaves.

Step 4- Add the salt, chat masala and the lemon juice. Stir it carefully

Now it’s ready to eat...

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Flower Basket

Materials Required: Chart paper, Thermocol, coloured cloth bag(s), string,

sticks, gift wraps, foil, stick & ribbon.

Steps:

1. Take an old cloth bag, draw and cut petal like

shapes from it.

2. Tie these petals to the end of the stick using a

thread. With hand turn the edges of the petals

outwards.

3. Repeat the same to make different coloured

flowers.

4. Take foil and make small balls. Fix this on

small sticks. Now use gift-wrap to cover the foil

balls.

5. Take 10 inches long green ribbon. Take out its threads lengthwise. Once few

stands are out, the ribbon will have half woven part and half brush-like part.

Wrap it around a stick.

6. Make a paper basket or use any spare basket and wrap paper around it.

7. Fill the basket with thermocol.

8. Now, stick/poke the flower and all other decorations into the thermocol.

9. Your flower basket is ready!!

Greeshma

Grade IV

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How to make Loom Bands

Do you want to learn how to make a fishtail bracelet?

So here are the steps to make them-

1. Twist first rubber band to make a figure eight,

and place on 2 pegs.

2. Add the second colour of rubber band.

3. Add the third colour of rubber band.

4. Using the pick tool, grab the rubber band on the

bottom.

5. And pull it over the top two rubber bands.

6. Repeat for the other side.

7. This is how it will look after both sides are pulled. Push down the rubber

bands to keep them tight on the pegs.

8. Add another rubber band.

9. Repeat pulling the bottom bands with the pick tool.

10. Continue the process – add a rubber band and pull the bottom band over the

top two bands.

11. To finish the bracelet – remove from the pegs and pull out the rubber bands

that were attached to the peg.

12. Attach the “C” Clips to one side.

13. Attach the other side to the “C” Clip.

Dhwani

Grade VI

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Experiments --- Be An Inquirer And A Scientist

Experiment 1: HOLES IN WATER

Stage I: Form a hypothesis

Stage II: Perform experiment

Things needed for the experiment:

· Talcum powder

· Water

· Soap, liquid

· A large bowl

What to do:

1. Fill the bowl with water.

2. Add the talcum powder on the water, making sure the powder does not sink.

3. Dip your finger in the water, trying to make holes in the talcum powder. You are not able to.

4. Coat your finger in soap, and then try again.

Stage IV: Observe

Stage V: Record your observations in your notebook. Was your hypothesis correct?

Experiment 2: WATER RISING UPWARDS

Stage I: Form a hypothesis

Stage II: Perform experiment

Things needed for the experiment:

· A stick of celery complete with leaves

· A glass see-through jar

· Ink

What to do:

1. Put the water in the jar, and color it with ink.

2. Put the celery stick in the water, with leaves upwards, and put the setup somewhere warm.

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Stage IV: Record your observations in your notebook. Was your hypothesis correct?

Experiment 3: TO MELT OR NOT TO MELT

Stage I: Form a hypothesis

Stage II: Perform the experiment

Things you need for the experiment:

7 glasses of water

1 tsp of salt

1 tsp of Sand

1 tsp of Sugar

1 tsp of Rice

1 tsp of Honey

1 tsp of Ground coffee beans

1 tsp of Instant coffee What to do:

1. Fill all the glasses with water

2. Put each substance in the glasses

3. Mix the substances with the water using the teaspoon

Stage III: Observe

Stage IV: Record your observations in your notebook. Was your hypothesis correct?

Experiment 4: SATURATION LEVEL

Stage I: Form a hypothesis

Stage II: Perform experiment

· Two glasses

· A teaspoon

· Sugar

· Hot and cold water

What to do:

1. Half fill one of the glasses with cold water and the other half with hot or boiling water

2. Count how many teaspoons of sugar you can dissolve in each of them.

Stage III: Observe

Stage IV: Record your observations in your notebook as a bar chart on the amount of sugar you van dissolve… Was your hypothesis correct?

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