Grade IV
28th July, 2017
UNIT: Plants and Food
Glimpses of the activities:
Objective –
Students will be able to identify contractions correctly.
Make contractions from two selected words
Apply prior knowledge about contractions about activities. Activity –
Newspaper Activity on Contractions – Students will be encouraged to find contraction cut outs from newspaper articles.
English
To revisit learner’s conceptual knowledge of numbers up to 6 digits
Classroom discussion on various concepts covered so far
Followed by a worksheet
To be able to round off the numbers to nearest 10 and 100
Introduced the concept using number line, a car on the cliff and a
story of a strong and weak neighbour
Children related the story with numbers and rounded off the numbers
in their notebook
Hindi
Mathematics
Followed by worksheet
Suggested Web links:
http://www.free-training-tutorial.com/rounding/rounding-spaceships.html http://www.free-training-tutorial.com/rounding/sharks.html
Learners attempted worksheet no. 8 and 9 on different parts of the
plant and stem modification.
Learners discussed pollination and fertilization and documented the
same in their notebook.
Learners discussed the process of fruit and seed formation.
To identify and locate kinds of forests around the world Recapitulation of cartographic elements followed by identification and location of kinds of forests on the given world map. To make connection between 'Rally for River' and preservation of our
eco system. Students watched video on 'Rally for River' followed by discussion on: o Advantages of afforestation drive along Narmada river o Making connections between saving our rivers and preservation of our
ecosystem o Taking action- students took a pledge to give a missed call on the
number given at the end of the video to show support for the cause Reference Link: Rally for Rivers – Save India’s Lifelines
Science
Social Science
Parents can help by assisting their wards make the phone call and support the cause.
https://youtu.be/R-K-aF94el8
Demonstration of the use of ‘Highlight’ feature. · Explore different highlighting colours and select one for highlighting the heading of word document. Reference link : https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Apply-or-remove-highlighting-1747d808-6db7-4d49-86ac-1f0c3cc87e2e
Introduced subscript and superscript by giving a demonstration on how to write H2O, CO2, 23 in a word document.
Reference link : https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Insert-subscript-or-superscript-text-5c413ee0-0171-40b1-aad5-52a80e05fd10
ICT
Robotics
In the process of creating a ball- catcher
Visual Arts
Learning picture composition by drawing flowers and plants from
observation using Soft Pastels as a medium to blend colours
Introduction to Rangoli art.
Indian Music
Practicing song” Phoolon ka taaron ka” for the special assembly which will be conducted to celebrate ‘Rakshabandhan’
Indian Dance
1. Practice of Urdhva Hasta Chakra with Tatkaar
2. Recap of
a) Naman
b) Utpatti Hastaks
c) Samatal
d) Urdhva Hasta Chakra
e)Madya Hasta Chakra
3. Tatkaar 1x,2x & 4x practice with Naman
Western dance
Practised steps to the ongoing dance choreography
Children encouraged to try their dance in slow, medium and fast pace
WHOTS
Continuation of the Game “Hoppers”
Challenge was to save the red frog (king) from the green frogs
Rules:
Green frog can hop over green frog
Red frog can hop over green frog
Green frog cannot hop over red frog
Learners reached up to challenge -15
Theatre
New Game introduced this week: Whose story is it? or Kahaani
Kiski?
Our
spelling-
bees
Children split up into groups and
discuss an incident or story
from their lives with their
teammates. They all then
individually present it to the
rest of the class. The
audience must guess which
story belongs to whom from
the group.
This helps the children
enact each other’s story.
Each child must narrate the
story like it’s their own.
Also it helps them use
improv skills and think on
their feet when they are questioned about their stories.
Other games played this week included concentration games like
Countdown & Opposite ques.
Events gone by:
Spell-Bee: “Spelling is important because it aids in reading. It helps
cement the connection that is shared between sounds and
letters.” Children participated earnestly in the event. Their efforts and
initiative was appreciated by one and all.
International Tiger Day
Global Tiger Day, often
called International Tiger Day, is
an annual celebration to raise
awareness for tiger conservation,
held annually on 29th July.
Learners from Grade 1-7 got an
opportunity to interact with the
guest speaker, Mr. Kenneth
Augustine, who told them various
amazing unknown facts about
tigers. It was followed by a quiz
and a badge making activity wherein learners took a pledge and wrote a
slogan on tiger conservation.
Upcoming Event
Date Event Grades
4th August, 2017 Special Assembly- Raksha Bandhan For all the grades
Home Assignment English – Do the worksheet on contactions Hindi
Math- Do the worksheet on addition
Science- Attempt the worksheet on root, stem and leaves
Social Science- Do the given worksheet on forests
Regards,
Nomita Motwani
Class Mentor