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Week At A Glance 12 February 2016

Inside From The Director

News From Classrooms

An update from every teacher on what your children have learned over this week.

Article: Looking Forward

Let us meet and discuss how to best help our children do even better…

Dear parents, Our children are engaged in a school curriculum that is as diverse and challenging as can be. They have academic success, sporting participation, cultural engagement, creative endeavour, computing acumen, social responsibility, confident language skills and a sense of caring for their friends and peers. They are truly balanced young citizens with self-knowledge and sensitivity. Here is what we would like you to do – give yourself a huge round of applause. Here is what we plan to do – keep improving! It is easy to get complacent, but, with your support and feedback, we plan to continue our journey towards excellence. Looking forward to meeting you, next week. Kind regards, Usha Lamba Director

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News From Our

Classrooms

An update from the teachers

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Explorers And Adventurers

‘The most valuable asset is not a head full of knowledge, but a heart full of love, with a ear ready to listen and a hand willing to help’.

Teaching children about kindness is an important step in their development. And this week was all about kindness, grace and courtesy. With stories on being kind, lovely songs on politeness and flashcards on the magic words, the children understood the importance of good manners and how one must always help those in need. We also had a few skits on good manners enacted by our teachers. The culmination of the entire week was however seen on Friday when all children came dressed in lovely hues of Blue and Pink.

Artwork comprised of some interesting activities this week, from colouring and sticking, the class thoroughly enjoyed themselves as they used their imagination

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and experimented with colours while at the same time learning about the month’s UOIs. The class of Adventurers were also involved in a worksheet where they had to match pictures of objects found in a park.

This Special Thursday was cooking and the children got together to make some yummy Bhelpuri with lots of healthy ingredients. An activity enjoyed by all, it was great to see them relish their creation.

With the Sports Day just around the corner, the children are now enjoying the regular practice sessions. We wish them the very best!

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Discoverers

This week we continued with the topic of Insects and Birds. During circle time we discussed their features and distinct characteristics. The children worked with the models of insects from our school resources and watched multi media presentations on Birds and their habitats and worked on a number of worksheets related to this unit.

This week we also celebrated Kindness Week to make them understand how important it is to be polite and kind to everyone around.’

The children shared their experiences and excitement when they discussed the topic- ‘In the Park’ in the class with their friends. They very cheerfully and enthusiastically told us about the different types of slides they enjoyed going down. The toy tunnel however, fascinated them the most. In the ‘Park’ seemed to be the most exciting topic for the class of Discoverers.

In Montessori we revised the sounds of the two vowels 'a' and 'o' and traced sand paper letters. The children have now been introduced to the sound of ‘i’. They worked with the colour tablets, the pink tower and a few exercises of practical life like transferring using tongs and pouring beans.

For our Special Thursday cooking activity the children were helped in making chatpata mouthwatering bhelpuri.

Sports practice continued through the week.

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Enquirers

“The fire fly at night goes blink blink blink "

Presenting this wonder of nature to children through a song was an experience by itself. The little enquirers learnt about this wonderful insect, along with " The ants that go marching" and " fluttering little butterflies “.

We matched and counted different insects and birds in our work sheets. We also coloured dragonflies and birds, and merrily brought to life a picture of the park with vivid greens, reds and blue.

In our group activity, the Enquirer's mixed and tossed up a tasty bhelpuri with healthy carrots and cucumbers. They loved their snack and came back for more.

LANGUAGE:

This week have introduced "et" words. For e.g.: jet, let, met, set. Also the revision of "ot" and "at" words will be done.

Alphabet writing is done daily in the class in the Language Book. The concept of "Count and Write Numbers" will be done this week in the Math book.

In the Montessori class, the children worked with cards and counters, and the Seguin board exercises with beads.

As part of courtesy week, the children were introduced to the finer nuances of politeness with skits and songs sung by all of us. On Funtastic Friday we all came dressed in Blues and Pinks to celebrate Kindness Day. A fun day packed with lots of interesting activities and audio-visuals on the importance of being kind, the week went by on a positive note!

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Rangers/ Rangers I

This week we continued with our inquiry into the amazing world of 'Birds' and children are now able to name most birds and are well aware that there are more than 10000 species of birds, the smallest of them being the humming bird and the largest of them being the ostrich.

They know that birds are warm-blooded creatures and why most of them fly and some do not. They were also introduced to aquatic birds and nocturnal birds and learnt that birds migrate to protect themselves from seasonal changes.

The Class was encouraged to solve worksheets and art work comprised of making a colourful peacock and a hand print flamingo and colouring pictures of birds.

For Special Thursday cooking children enjoyed themselves by cutting onions and tomatoes, grating carrots, mixing it up with puffed rice and flavoring it with salt and masala to make delicious bhel puri.

In Geography we learnt about the Seven Wonders of the World and revised the solar system. I

In the area of science we learnt about Gravity and watched a video on the same.

In the Montessori area children have been introduced to blends and are working on multiplication boards.

This week being the Grace & Courtesy Week at TLC, emphasis was laid on reinforcing the P’s and Q’s through exercises and small skits on the importance of using the three magic words 'sorry, please and thank you'.

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Rangers II

Young children are naturally curious about birds and insects, and all animals, and are delighted when they can observe birds and insects up close. This UOI offers several activities for observing birds and insects and learning about their habitats, their foods, and their behaviors. The investigations includes 1. What do you know about birds and insects? 2. What are feathers? How do they help birds? 3. How are beaks useful to birds? Why are they different? 4. What sounds do birds and insects make? Are they all the same? 5. What are nests? How are they made? How do they help birds? 6. How do birds survive? 7. What is migration? Why do birds migrate? Do all birds migrate?

LANGUAGE

Children revised three letter words through Dictation. Blends shall be introduced in class.

MATH

We will introduce addition of two and three digit numbers and number names from 20 to 30 in writing. Oral counting from 150 to 200 and skip counting in 4’s and 5’s will be done in class on daily basis.

SONGS

The most beautiful and loving way of learning is music. Songs sung this week included -A fly is on my toe, Quick quack quick, I’m a little worm, Flutter (2) butterfly, Tota hu main tota.

MONTESSORI

Children revised Phonograms and The Multiplication board. They have been

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practicing reading sentences and phrases phonetically. They will be introduced to Division this week.

SCIENCE

Children were taught the Life Cycle of a Butterfly. Worksheets on the same were done.

GEOGRAPHY

Children were introduced to the Seven Modern Wonders of the World. They will be introduced to Chechen Itza, Petra, Great Wall of China and Christ the Redeemer. Worksheets based on the above were done.

For Special Thursday cooking children enjoyed themselves by cutting onions and tomatoes, grating carrots, mixing it up with puffed rice and flavoring it with salt and masala to make delicious bhel puri.

Scholars

Children are formally instructed in social skills they will use throughout their lives, for example, saying "please" and "thank you, "interrupting conversations politely, requesting rather than demanding assistance and greeting guests warmly. These small little gestures are very important in our day-to-day life.

Geography

Last week we spoke as well as did a group art on Seven Wonders of the modern world. This week we discussed the modern Seven Wonders of the World with the ancient Seven Wonders of the World. All the Wonders of the World are man-made monuments.

Due to natural calamities, most of the

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ancient Wonders of The World were ruined and the only remaining wonder that remains is the Pyramid of Giza.

Science

This week we discussed the formation of the solar system because of the Big Bang Theory.

English

Sentence structure, homophones and revising blends were covered dictation and notebook writing continues in class. Worksheets were also done in class.

Math

In math children continue to write number names from 550 to 600. We continue to revise simple addition and subtraction as many of them are forgetting the basic concepts. In multiplication children revised the tables for 2 and 3 and learnt the table for 4.

Hindi

Children continue to write in their Workbooks. This week they were taught simple Hindi poems.

This week our Scholars decided to rustle up the all-time favourite street food, bhel puri.

Next week we shall learn about the Petra in Jordon and revise about the Great Wall of China and in Science we shall talk about the phases of the moon. Even though the weather is getter hotter by the day, the children continue to practice harder as an amazing line up of events awaits the parents on sports day.

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Many TLC parents believe that education is the best investment we can make for our children. Investing in early childhood education is especially important because it sets a strong foundation for future learning.

We do ensure that every child feels respected, cared for, listened to and valued for who they are and what they offer. We give them many experiences to help them explore, think and become independent learners.

We have no idea what the future will be like, 20 years from now, when our TLC-ites will be ready to begin working, which is why our curriculum is based on skills, concepts and attitudes that give them a strong foundation, that makes them resilient, adaptable, sustainable, building on the wisdom drawn from Dr. Montessori’s research.

TLC graduates are compassionate and principled citizens of the World, the leaders of tomorrow.

I am looking forward to meeting many of you, through a very busy schedule over the next week. Please do make the time to be there, so you can share information and express your ideas of how your child is progressing.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for allowing us to share your journey with us… and, we are here to make it a huge success.

Looking Forward…

This Newsletter is written and compiled by our Director and

CEO, Usha Lamba. Please send your Feedback and comments to:

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