Message from our desk
Dear Parents,
As we all know showing gratitude is important for us and for our children. We often encourage our children to say thank you to others frequently. We all know that good manners are important and showing others that we appreciate makes them feel happy. Studies show that gratitude for kids can be very powerful tool with lots of physical and mental benefits such as higher level of happiness, less aggression, less stress etc. So how can we teach them to be grateful. Few activities to practice gratitude can start with reflecting on one thing they are grateful for. Encourage them to help others. Thanking people for the small things they do for us. Look for ways to show act of kindness. A little step of sharing their toys should be noticed and appreciated. Young kids imitate their elders so let's give them something great to imitate.
Rupa Tank
Center Head
Celebrations
Gigi's Birthday
A mascot is any human, animal, or object thought to bring luck or used to represent a group with a public identity, such as school, sports team ,society or brand name.
We are all privileged to have Gigi the Giraffe as a mascot of our school at Olive trails. His birthday was celebrated with great zeal and excitement on 15th Feb. With a theme of Gigi's camping party, A jungle scenario with different animals was created by the teachers to give the learners feel of camping in the jungle to be a part if Gigi’s birthday celebration. Learners virtually went on a camping by preparing Snack and juice under the guidance of teacher and their parents. They had fun in playing the treasure hunt game of finding the hidden snack and juice bottles. Later virtually camping tent was set up for a while as they were all part of his celebration. “ Thank you Giraffe”Story was shown to the learners and song was played for them and had a great time in celebrating his birthday and making his birthday very special.
Classroom Connection
Nursery
ENGLISH:
Children’s reading development is dependent on their understanding of the alphabetic principle. Phonics instruction helps children learn the relationships between the letters of written language and the sounds of language spoken. Letter Xx was introduced to the learners with its phonic sound and phonic song. Letter Xx associated objects and related pictures were shown to to learners .A video was shown to them for better reinforcement. They were also asked to gets some objects related to letter if available at home. Learners showed Xylophone and X-ray. Learners also formed the letter with fingers and using resources like ice-cream cream stick, tooth pic ,spoon etc. Learners were also taught to write letter Q R ,S and T in red and blue line book in proper formation.
MATH:
Recognition of numbers supports the development of other number skills. Number concepts cover the skills of counting and comparing. For learning to recognize numbers different activities like sensory art, hunt for numbers and match it with same number were done with learners. First the learners were asked to trace the number in air and later were taught to write number 7. Teacher presented the liveboard and taught learners to write number in proper box with proper formation.
STORY:
Story brings language learning alive and creates a participatory and immersive experience that allow preschool learners to enjoy hearing stories. It helps child get to know new words and ability to focus concentration and curiosity. A story on modes of transport was shown to the learners .The video showed learners the vehicles that have wheels and move on road and some vehicles fly up in the sky and are fastest means of transport ,some vehicles move in water and take passengers to long distance. Learners enjoyed watching video and were asked related questions.
Curious Explorer
Learners get engaged in curiosity by learning about and experiencing new things. Curious explorer activity add surprise to their routine activity.
Activity no1.
The Grouchy Ladybug
Read a loud story on grouchy ladybug was shown to the learners and later were asked related question on ladybug
Activity no 2.
Lady bug life cycle.
Learners were given information on ladybug . They were shown a video were a ladybug go through different stages of life . They were also asked to draw stages of ladybug after watching the video and were asked related questions.
Activity no.3
Lady bug craft
Learners were asked to get ready with resources and were taught to make a beautiful ladybug. Teacher instructed them and with help and guidance of parents learners made ladybug and then were asked related questions.
Classroom Connection
Jr.Kg
Maths – Learning the shapes not only helps the children to identify but also helps them to organize visual information and learning skills in other curriculum areas. Recap of shapes was done and learners were asked to draw various shapes and objects related to those shapes. Also writing of numbers was done from 1 to 50.
Big and Small concept
Big and small concept was introduced by showing them the power point presentation. Learners were able to identify the size and measurement of various objects shown to them and could categorise them between big and small according to their sizes.
Theme- Introduction of Air transport was done by showing the PowerPoint presentation to the learners and explained them about the importance and different types of airways like helicopter, aeroplanes , gliders and rocketships. Some of the learners also showed air transport toys which they have.
Recap of Railways was done showing the pictures to the learners and teachers asked questions to them and answered very well.
English – Activity was done with clay three letters words of e, am and at and this makes the learning more effective and learners enjoy too.
Picture talk was done on the topic Toys cupboard and recap of story that how should we value your things by showing the video and power point presentation.
Curious Explorer
This week's curious explorer was all about pets.
Activity 1 – Pigeon wants a puppy teacher showed the story video and then asked the learners the questions related to that story.
Activity 2- The Rainbow Fish pet activity was done as the teachers showed the video and asked the kids to draw a fish simple shape and paint the fish with bright colours.
Activity 3 – Pets kid's yoga video was shown to the learners. They excitedly participated in various yoga poses shown during the session.
Celebrations
Gigi's Birthday
Gigi the Giraffe is the mascot friend at Olive Trails. On 15th Feb learners along with their teacher celebrated Gigi's birthday. The theme for party was Gigi's Pajama party. Learners were so excited to celebrate with their pajama outfits. Played many sleep over games while recreating a night sleep over party atmosphere. they danced merrily and enjoyed a snack made by them during the party.
Classroom Connection
English:
1. Introduction of Picture composition
Picture composition generally develops the skill of observation in students and enhances their ability to analyze a given picture and write about it. In order to write an effective picture composition and to understand the basic needs to write about a picture, learners were shown some pictures through Powerpoint and teachers described the picture with describing words and sentences. Teachers taught them how to frame sentences by using some words which spoke everything about the picture. Learners enjoyed this topic, as they could share their knowledge and made that picture look more interesting and informative.
Jumbled words:
Recap of ‘Jumbled words” was taken in different ways. Power Point Presentation was shown to refresh the knowledge of the topic. Writing practice was also taken. Teachers wrote jumbled words along with the picture on live board and children guessed the picture and wrote the correct words it in their notebook. Some few jumbled words were also discussed with the Learners to judge their knowledge on this topic.
Math
Introduction of Greater than, lesser than and equal to (> < and =) :
In math, greater or less than and equal to help the kids to understand how one number is different from the other number. Important symbol or signs used to identify the numbers to understand the bigger number, smaller number and the number that is equal. Learners were introduced to this topic through PowerPoint presentation, flash cards, and different objects. As a recap written practice was also taken. Teachers drew objects in two groups and asked the learners to draw, count the objects and write the correct numbers respectively. They then compared the numbers and accordingly inserted the sign of greater than, lesser than and equal to.
Theme
Introduction of Technology (Use and misuse of technology).
Technology provides students with easy-to-access information, accelerated learning, and fun opportunities to practice what they learn. It enables students to explore new subjects and deepen their understanding of difficult concepts.
To introduce these topic learners were shown PowerPoint Presentation. Through which they learned how important is technology is important and how we can use it in different ways to make our work easy. Simultaneously learners were also exposed to the negative impact of misuse of technology. How it affects our health, mind and body if technology is not used in proper way.
Curious Explorer
We all know that kindergartners are curious, keeping that in mind this week topic was ‘Camping’. To make it more interesting following activities were done in Curious explorer session like-
Activity 1: Maisy goes Camping:
Story was shown through you tube which depicted all about camping. Learners saw how to put up a tent, they learned about borne fire, what all things we have to carry along with us to go for a camping. This activity helped the learners to build their imagination skills, language development and also communication skills.
Activity 2: Lantern craft
Learners made lanterns which can be used for camping. Resources used were colourful paper strips, glue, torch, glue and tape. The paper strips were punched all over, then they rolled the paper and made a beautiful lamp, a torch was kept in the center. The output of this activity was amazing and learner enjoyed making lamp of their own.
Activity 3 : 2D TENT
2D Tents were made by the learners by using resources like ice-cream sticks, To make this tent they were asked to make a triangle shape by joining three sticks. To give more effect this activity and to give a look of camping picture, teacher showed them how to draw camp fire, stars in the sky and a river side by. This activity was kind of a very creative activity and learners enjoyed it thoroughly.
Celebrations
Gigi's Birthday
Birthday of GiGi, the official mascot of Olive trails, was celebrated on 15th February, 2021. This day was full of fun and enjoyment. Theme for the party was Gigi's Day out with his friends. Teachers narrated a story by using puppets of GiGi and other animals and told them how GiGi started celebrating his birthday. Learners were also asked to dress up like animal friends of Gigi. They made the sounds of the animals in which they were dressed as. Birthday song was played for Gigi. While on a day out Teachers took an activity of making yummy snacks, Learners made Giraffe using banana and chocolate shots and enjoyed having it together. The celebration was ended with dance and music. Learners enjoyed the birthday party.
