Santa Maria Integrated Learning Environment

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

 

Aap Aur Hum - November & December 2022

 

Theme – Jobs we do & Means of Transportation (Prep)

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Highlights of the month-

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SOCIO-EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT

I have enhanced my social and emotional skills by…………

• greeting my friends and teacher every day with a warm smile and song like ‘Hello to all the children of the world….’
   

• starting the day with a prayer like ‘It’s a great thing to praise the Lord’, ‘This little light of mine’ etc. to show my gratitude to God. 
       

• listening to the news presentation on Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru, Founder’s day, Children’s day, World Navy Day etc.
   

• participating in theme related discussions during the theme talk and circle time on topics like ‘understanding jobs people do’,  
  ‘problem solving through a situation’, meeting a footwear designer, understanding the role of emergency vehicles, understanding
  safety on road.                 
   

• sharing about ‘My Aspiration’ with my friends in the class.
   

• engaging in free play with my friends and play material of my choice.
   

• playing team games like listen and act with my parents.
   

• Celebrating Christmas with my friends by playing games and enjoying the cake.
   

• Watching the presentation on Gurupurab, Children’s day and Annual Christmas program.
   

• participating in carol singing and donating gifts.
   

• having a cultural exchange on ‘Gurpurab’ and ‘Christmas’ with friends and my family.
   

• enjoying the outdoor visit to Sanskriti Museum with my friends and teachers.
   

• appreciating my friends on their birthdays for all the great things they do.
   

• segregating dry and wet waste in the school to help the environment be clean and safe. 
   

• bonding with nature by watering the plants and observing changes in them.
   

• practicing life skills like dusting, cleaning, re-arranging my workstation and keeping things back in place after use.

 

PHYSICAL AND MOTOR DEVELOPMENT

I have enhanced my gross and fine motor skills by………

• exploring different corners like ‘The sculptor’s corner’, ‘The archaeologist corner’ and ‘Magnet zone’
   

• participating in outdoor activities like Adventure camp, rolling sideways, throwing and catching a ball.
   

• practicing yoga by doing Uttan asana, Adho Mukha Shvanasana and Parvatasana.
   

• participating in drill and coordinating my body movements with the music.
   

• doing finger aerobics before tracing /drawing a number/letter.
   

• learning life skills like tying laces, how to put on a jacket, wearing gloves.
   

• working with safety scissors to cut paper into interesting shapes and cut letters to paste them on the worksheet.
   

• doing a free hand drawing on topics like ‘what I saw during special assembly’, ‘making a sketch of Chacha Nehru’, things I can do/can’t
  do, means of transport I saw in school and outdoor visit.
   

• folding sheets to make figures of different professionals, making rhombus and airplane.
   

• illustrating a given situation and emergency vehicle using paints and brushes.
   

• using leaves to create figures and collage.
   

• making nativity card using shapes.
   

• tracing and drawing the letter with paints ‘x, w and z’.

 

LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT       

I have enhanced my language by…………

• learning how to blend and read the CVC words with the distinct vowel sound ‘i’ and ‘u’.
   

• reading the given CVC word and colouring the associated picture.
   

• using the new sight words – had, was, you, his, her to frame meaningful sentences.
   

• learning new CVC words through the activity listen and draw
   

• reading and comprehending sentences
   

• reading simple phonic story.
   

• making short and simple sentences using moveable words.
   

• learning to read my name in Hindi and look for the given Akshars in it.
   

• Finding new words with प, म, भ, त, द, थ, फ, ब, व
   

• naming and drawing objects corresponding to different Akshars.
   

• Using new words like archaeologist, florist, caricaturist and other words like names of days and month.
   

• identifying my name on the attendance sheet and marking my attendance with a unique signature.
   

• marking my attendance using mental math card.
   

• listening to the story ‘The Goose on  Loose’ and ‘Zookeeper Zoe’ and talking about my favourite character of the story.
   

• sharing my reflections on a given situation related to the stories that I heard.
   

• doing shadow puppetry and  making a puppet of my favourite character from the story.
   

• recalling the story using puppet theatre.
   

• dramatizing the story – ‘Zookeeper Zoe and The story of the first Christmas.
   

• narrating a story to my friends.
   

• interacting with professionals in school .
   

• making stick puppets to narrate story.
   

• creating a word wall of the words that I heard in the story – ‘Zookeeper Zoe’ and ‘The First Christmas’.
   

• talking about what I experienced during the visit to Sanskriti Museum.
   

• listening and understanding the teachings of Guru Nanak Dev Ji to do the best.
   

• warming up my vocal cords by balloon exercise.
   

•  singing new songs  like ‘Here comes the fire truck’, ‘Everybody in everybody out’, ‘We all go travelling etc.
  during my music class.

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INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT

I have enhanced my intellect by…………

• listening to news on ‘Gurpurab’, ‘Founder’s Day’, ‘World kindness day’, ‘Hornbill festival of India’ and
  other interesting topics.
   

• making interesting observations while doing and observing my friends doing science experiments.
   

• making a graph using the available information.
   

• counting in tens using blocks and ten frame.
   

• counting till number 15.
   

• understanding number bonds till 10 and doing related activities.
   

• reading simple sentences with mathematical vocabulary (more/less), writing the answer and drawing corresponding objects.
   

• looking for the means of transportation in school and talking about them.
   

• matching pictures with corresponding akshars.
   

• pictorial dictation on akshars प, म, भ, त, द, थ, फ, ब, व
   

• learning to play Swar Tarang.
   

• Creating best out of waste.
   

• solving a pictorial crossword.
   

• creating my own art work.
   

• solving problem in a given situation.
   

• observing an insect through a bug catcher and illustrating it.
   

• understanding the 3 elements of Earth and means of transport using the 3 jars.
   

• revisiting the properties of a rhombus with paper folding.
   

• understanding different kinds of fingerprints like arch, loop, whorl.
   

• sharing my reflections on a given situation like "If you could be a zookeeper, which animals would you like to take care
  of. What would you do for them?"
   

• making a water filter to understand the process of filtration.
   

• observing changes in the adopted tree due to the winter season and illustrating it.
   

• discussing about alternate means of transportation such as a sled and making a sled on my own
   

• understanding how an airplane works, the history of aviation and making an airplane with paper folding.
   

• discussing the emergency vehicles like an ambulance, fire truck, etc 
   

• learning about the numbers to dial for emergency vehicles 
   

• marking the birthplace of Guru Nanak Dev Ji on the map of India.
   

• using my tactile sense to feel and name the tools used by different professionals.
   

• revisiting number concepts through various worksheets on number sequencing, count and colour/stick, spot the odd one
  out, maze etc.
   

• knowing and marking neighbouring countries of India like 1. China 2. Pakistan 3. Nepal 4. Bangladesh 5. Bhutan.
   

• discussing the planets in our solar system and sharing the planet I would like to visit.
   

• solving 8-10  pieces theme related puzzles. 
   

• revisiting 2D shapes and knowing their application by making crafts such as Nativity card,

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