Santa Maria Integrated Learning Environment

Santa Maria Integrated Learning Environment
4 Green Avenue Lane, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi

 

Aap Aur Hum – February 2021

Theme – ‘The Animal World ’ (Prep)
 

I am enhancing my gross and fine motor skills by…
 

• Learning body percussion and using my body to create rhythm.
   

• Feeling energized while doing the actions to the song, ‘Rail gaadi, I have a pet’, The 7 continents, and the Planet song.
   

• Learning how to walk in rhythm – ‘dheemi gati’, ‘tez gati’.
   

• Keeping my body and mind agile while jumping over the agility ladder.
   

• Learning body coordination during P.T. drill.
   

• Continuing doing activities like dribbling the ball, warming up my body, spot jogging and simple stretching.
   

• Practicing tapping the ball in sitting position.
   

• Doing side roll, thereby enhancing my body control and balance.
   

• Learning new games such as Khelo khelo body rhythm game during music class.
   

• Doing simple exercises to strengthen my tripod grip. This helps me learn how to hold the pencil correctly to draw numbers ‘5’, ’6’, ‘7’and ‘8’.
   

• Drawing letter ‘f’,’ j’ free hand in step-by-step method. First, by tracing followed by using paints on the drawing sheet.
   

• Drawing letter ‘l’,‘t’,’ r’, ’n’ on the worksheet using pencil.
   

• Learning how to weave strips of paper into a useful table mat.
   

• Recycling waste material to make a beautiful musical instrument called “Maracas”.
   

• Handling the materials like sand, pebbles, twigs independently to create interesting things like a miniature forest.
   

• Using diverse materials to make stick puppets of animals such as a snail, woolly mammoth etc.

                                           

 

I am developing and enhancing my language by…
 

• Learning rhythmic beats and working out on my vocal cords through sangeet and sargam activities.
   

• Learning new songs in my music class, such as “The Planet song”, and building my vocabulary through singing.
   

• Learning about the new theme “The Animal world”, talking about my pet animal, animals that exist and the ones which are extinct or endangered.
   

• Listening carefully to distinguish between different sounds like those of
  animals and birds.
   

• Using new words to express my emotions and feelings.
   

• Making a word wall and constructing meaningful sentences.
   

• Learning to read new CVC words with ‘e’ blends.
   

• Playing word games like “Bingo” and “Word Detective”.
   

• Reading and comprehending phonetic stories.
   

• Reading action words like, crawl, jump, dance, hop, jog,left, right and doing the appropriate actions to match them.
   

• Tracing new Hindi akshars, ग/ ज / ड / द/ब/ ल/ घ/ झ, on sandpaper with a firm hand to feel the correct formation.
   

• Identifying Hindi akshars and drawing corresponding objects while taking a pictorial dictation.
   

• Learning to read simple two letter Hindi words by blending the akshars.

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I am developing my intellect by…
 

• Thinking critically in a given situation with regards to new traffic signals, like “No horn”, “No left turn”.
   

• Mapping various geographical features of our country such as Western ghats, Eastern ghats and Yamuna River, on the map of India.
   

• Learning more about the world, like names of 7 continents and marking them on the world map.
   

• Listening to the new story ‘The Snail and the Whale’ and articulating thoughts about it.
   

• Listening to the news presentation about ‘spring season’ festivals, traditions related to it.
   

• Learning about extinct animals, hibernating animals, why animals hibernate followed by creating a hibernation station.
   

• Discussing the pre-historic animals like woolly mammoth, dinosaurs and knowing their names.
   

• Learning how to represent numbers in different ways by using words such as twice, thrice, four times, two times etc. 
   

• Playing games like Spin and count and understanding terms like 2 more than 3, 1, less than 5 etc.
   

• Discussing the planets in our solar system and numbering them.
   

• Observing birds around my environment and watching interesting videos like “Birds in Action”.
   

• Making geometrical patterns with leaves of various sizes.
   

• Learning how to use paper money through enriching games such as shop play.

 

 

I am enhancing my social and emotional skills by…
 

• Greeting my friends and teacher every day with a warm smile and sharing my experiences with them.
   

• Waiting for my turn to talk, and listening to others when they are talking.
   

• Expressing emotions and enhancing flexibility of my body by practicing yoga asana such as “Grateful Giraffe, “Caring Koalas” etc. while maintaining a good body posture.
   

• Talking about pleasant and unpleasant experiences with animals.
   

• Celebrating birthdays with my peers and sharing at least one good thing about him/her with everyone.
   

• Being creative and environment friendly by recycling waste materials to create “My dream Vehicle.”
   

• Creating a collage with parts of a tree, such as fallen leaves and flowers, without
  harming nature.
   

• Relating to the emotions of a tree by imagining how it would
  feel in different situations.
   

• Sharing my fears and my deepest emotions with my peers about when I feel scared.
   

• Creating a web chart for the needs of animal I would like to have as a pet.
   

• Acquiring a new life skill, such as, “How to pack my tiffin independently”.