Monday, 4th May, 2015

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LABOUR DAY CELEBRATION AT KANAKIA PARIS

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A SUCCESSFUL MED-MONDIAL SESSION

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GRADE 5 EXHIBITION ROLLERCOASTER!

Grade 5 students have been buried in the deep inquiry, trying to unravel and comprehend their trans-

disciplinary theme “Who we are”, which they‟re doing in readiness for their grand finale – The exhibition!

Their chosen topics are culture and cuisine, history and religion and nature and environment. They are

addressing discrimination in society due to religious differences, obesity, other diet related health issues

and cultural degradation and pollution in their investigation.

The excitement at the action stage of their inquiry is at an all-time high. Enthusiasm, nerves, creativity,

thinking skills, is all infused into the cocktail of their conclusion of their primary years.

They have visited the Sanjay Gandhi national Park, N Grill restaurant in Chembur which graciously taught

them about the spicing of Indian food, the nutrition elements of menus and the importance of conscious

healthy living and environmental conservation. They had visits from two reputed surgeons Dr Sonal

Jomraj, and Dr Sharma, they also had a sit down with the school resident Pandit Mr. Kripa Singh and they

will soon hopefully have the previldge of visiting a recycling plant.

Lots of work done, yet lots more demanding their time and attention, but all is done in the IB way of real

life situations and practicality all in great fun!

See you at the exhibition, soon!

The Pandit imparting the wisdom of the ages and historical facts on Hindu!

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Dr Sonal Jomraj’s rule of thumb “Don‟t eat until you‟re satisfied, eat until you‟re no longer hungry”

Dr Sharma says that “eat everything in moderation, play outdoors a lot and avoid junk food.”

Mr. Wong, The manager at N Grill, allowed us into their kitchen, (after covering our hair) and explained

the environmental conservation idea of using clay bowls to serve food and improve taste.

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At Gandhi National park, we just had to

meditate, at the serene ancient Buddhist

caves. Respect for History and Religion!

Mr. Wong, with the head chef, explained the importance of nutrients over good taste in their menu as

we enjoyed a tasty snack!

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REFLECTION ON PROJECT ‘AFRICA’

W e learnt about the five themes of geography, the geographer‟s tools, our planet earth, forces shaping

earth, climate and weather and how climate affects vegetation. In earth's human geography we

learnt about population, migration, economic systems and political systems. Africa's physical geography,

history and cultures of Africa. In this we acquired a great knowledge of regions, climate, vegetation, natural

resources, land use, civilizations, European colonization, current issues, religions, customs and traditions in

Africa.

I made a PowerPoint presentation on „The Peshawar Attack‟ and condemned terrorism. Our journey

through Africa was an incredible one. We jointly made a setup of the four regions of Africa. Each one of us

contributed by making ppt's, models and charts. I contributed by making a chart on Robert Mugabe and

focused on recent issues of Africa. I gained a lot of knowledge of Africa in this way of learning under the

able guidance of our teacher. We had also made a scrap book on a few countries in each of the regions of

Africa. I had selected the East Africa region and described the land forms, rivers, climate and incredible

places of visit in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. The oral presentations in the class gave me a lot of

confidence. We had done many writing activities too in which we had to really think and write.

Mam it was a great learning experience and the difficult issues were simplified and taught to us.

- RAKESH THAKKAR

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OUR TASKS IN ENGLISH ARE CHALLENGING ALL THE WAY!

There was no particular favorite task of mine as each task was equally interesting and fully enjoyable like

the others. Since I liked all, I want to tell what I liked about each task. I adored the story writing mainly

because I got to be creative and create my own little Short Story, it was fun (and slightly difficult too) to

present my ideas in words. The one where I had to write my own folktale was also pleasurable. I chose to

do a tall tale full of exaggeration! To five the hyperbolic effect!

Reviewed book:

Percy Jackson and the battle of the labyrinth.

Author:

Rick Riordan

I liked the book review because I had to research, collect

information about the book and author and actually think deeply

about what I liked in the book, which I normally do not do; it was a

challenging task too! For the book review I chose the book "Percy

Jackson and the battle of the labyrinth". The thing I cherished about

this book is the way they portray Greek Gods. According to the book,

Poseidon is cool; he wears Hawaiian shirts and a cap that says

''Neptune's lucky fishing hat''. Another thing I love about this book is

the characters. My favorite character in this book is Rachel Elizabeth

Dare. She's full of spirit and she is daring, kind and loves nature and

charitable too! According to me, the author wanted to tell us about

Greek mythology in a humorous way; a mix of ancient and modern and he has done that wonderfully.

Read and enjoy!

— AARYA MENON

To review, I chose a book called "The Diary of a Wimpy Kid" and the author is Jeff Kinney. I liked all

the tasks but the one I liked the most was "Writing a short story on your own”.

— DHRUV CHABRIA

I reviewed a Book: Robinson Crusoe-Author: Daniel Defoe.

The activity I liked the most was Task on: Writing a short story on your own as we had to write our own

story based entirely on creative thinking.

It was also interesting for me to think of a gripping topic to base my story on it.

— SRIYA SRIVASTAVA

I enjoy all the tasks in our English lessons but I adored the Task on: Writing a BOOK REVIEW. I had to

choose an appropriate book and read it thoroughly before I reviewed it. My Book: The Wizard of Oz and

the author is Frank Baum. I look forward to completing tasks like this!

— URJA HANSRAJ

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For English Language & Literature, some of the tasks designed were: To write a short story on our own,

a book review and write a folk tale on your own. These tasks made me think outside the box! To write

the book review, I had to pay good attention to what I was reading, including the book jacket. For the tasks

on folk tale and short story, we had to imagine a lot. This demanded that we read more to write creatively.

These tasks were indeed challenging!

— NITIKA NARAYAN

I enjoyed the Task on: Writing a BOOK REVIEW of our choice. All of

us were interested in knowing about the books which others were going to

read and review. We found that we all had different books, different views

and perspectives. While preparing for the task, I got to know that many

things like how to research, how people suggest books for others and how

others write reviews.

— KINJAL PARIKH

I liked doing all the tasks that Meera ma‟m gave us. They were fun to work

with but some were indeed challenging! I reviewed the Book: The

inventions of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick. While writing a book

review gave us information about the author and publisher too. We needed

to focus on the format, the theme, the plot, the characters, suspense if any

and of course, the style in the content!

— RIYA DAMA

I reviewed Percy Jackson and the sea of monsters by Rick Riordran. I enjoyed all the tasks that ma'am

made us do, but I am a little disappointed as I could not finish the task on story in the class in the limited

time frame!

— NAVYA SHAH

Reviewed Book- Just in case

Author-Meg Rosoff

I enjoyed all the tasks that we did in the English classes!

— SURINA PAREKH

Reviewed Book: Anca's journey

Author: Ruth Siburt

Illustrator's name: Gabhor Usomo

The task I like the most was writing a fairy tale or a fool’s tale or any other tale, all on your own. I liked

it the most because from childhood we listen to stories, folk tales or fairy tales like Cinderella and many

more! This time it was my chance to write a tale on my own and I enjoyed writing. The part I value is when

the elves, the super heroes in my story help the pirates.

— SHREE SENGHANI

I enjoyed all the activities; especially I liked writing a BOOK REVIEW for: The Secret of the Old Clock

—KANKSHA MAITRA SANYAL

TITLE- SECRET GARDENBY- FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT

The best task was on Book Review. The finest part was when I started to review, I really felt I was

professional reviewer and I had already reviewed many books. I liked this book because it showed me a

variety of scenes: happy, sad, exciting. I felt as if I was a character in the book.

— HOSHIE VIKAMSEY

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All the tasks given to us were very different and new. I developed writing

skills during these tasks. The task which I enjoyed the most was the

BOOK REVIEW for The Voyages of Doctor Do little-Author- Hugh

Lofting. I learnt to use a lot of new vocabulary and my language

understanding improved during this task on book review.

—KHUSHI PARIKH

Reviewed Book: Where the mountain meets the moon-Author - Grace lin

The task I enjoyed was the story writing task, it was fun as we had to

plan a story exactly at that moment and just be very creative! I love that

task!!!!!

—SHRAVYA GOWDA

I enjoyed all the tasks! I reviewed the Book: Harry Potter and the Chamber of secrets. But, I like the task on

Folk tales the most because it was very interesting and I had never written something like this before. It

was a lot of fun with learning!

— JANHAVI PANDIT

I reviewed the book - I‟m not a supper mouse

Author - Geronimo Stilton

I loved the part when we wrote are own story! It was a great chance for me to show how creative I‟m!

— SAUSHTI KAMBLE

I did a Book Review on Wimpy kid long haul. Well, I liked all the tasks, but my favorite task was writing

a folk tale of my own. I wrote a tall tale!

— SHOURISH KOTHAWALE

REVIEWED BOOK: THE 39 CLUES CAHILLS vs. VESPERS BOOK FIVE TRUST NO ONE

I enjoyed the task of writing our own short story because I have written and

practiced how to write short and long stories when I learnt International

English while I was in Singapore.

— KARSH MEHTA

I reviewed this novel: Artemis Fowl by Eosin Colfer .This story is about a

detective who tries to fight demons and tell them not to attack the people in the

real world.

— DARSHIL VIRA

My favorite task- Folk tale

I had fun writing my own fool‟s tale. I came up with a very hilarious way to

get money when you are grounded!

—DHRUV DAVE

My favorite task is story writing because it was challenging! We wrote it in

just 2 periods! The name of my story is “Undefeated man”!

—ISHAN SINGH

My favorite task – BOOK REVIEW

I liked the task because we have to read the book carefully and only then can write the review!

— JAY SENGHANI

I liked all the tasks! I reviewed the book, “The Emperor's new clothes" by Hans Christian Andersen.

— RAKESH THAKKAR

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Note: All salads served will be boiled

- Ms Payal Sinha

Consultant Dietician

PARTICULARS

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THURSDAY 07.05.15

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MONDAY 11.05.15

PRE-PRIMARY

SHORT BREAK

LUNCH

SPECIAL MEAL

GARLIC BREAD

WITH SWEET

AND SOUR

VEGETABLES

WHEAT

FLAKES WITH

MILK /

SPROUT AND

CORN BHEL CHAPATI PLAIN RICE KACCHI KAIRI

IN ARHAR KI

DAL STUFF

TOMATO KATHAL KA

KOFTA BEETROOT

SALADSALAD BUTTERMILK

VEGETABLE

FRANKY

DAL KHICHADI

WITH

BEETROOT

RAITA

LAPSI

PORRIDGE /

WHITE

DHOKLA WITH

CHUTNY PLAIN

PARATHA SPRING ONION

RICE WHOLE MASUR

DAL MIX

VEGETABLE PALAK MATAR VEG RAITA AAM PANNA

VEG NOODLES

WITH

MANCHURIAN

VEG ADAI

WITH

COCONUT

CHUTNY

OATS WITH

MILK /

BROWN

BREAD PIZZA CHAPATI TOMATO

RICE SAMBHAR BRINJAL

POTATO

CURRY FRENCH

BEANS

PORIYAL SPROUT

SALAD DUDHI RAITA

VEG TIKKI

BURGER

VEG SAMOSA

WITH

KETCHUP

CEREALS

WITH MILK /

RAGDA

PATTICE

CHAT

PAV /

CHAPATI BHAJI KACHUMBER

SALAD BUTTERMILK SHEERA

VEG BIRYANI

WITH

CUCUMBER

RAITA

METHI

PARATHA WITH

VEG RAITA

CORN FLAKES

WITH MILK /

MASALA DOSA

ROTI ZEERA RICE DAL MAKHNI PANEER TIKKA

MASALA MOTH BHAJI GREEN SALAD BUTTERMILK

VEG PASTA IN

TOMATO GRAVY