Santa Maria Integrated Learning Environment

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

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(November& December 2022)

Theme – Professions and Jobs people do and Means of transportation

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SOCIO-EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT

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

• greeting my friends and teacher in different ways like passing a handshake, fist bump,  giving a hug, passing a high five, saying hello, adab, satsria kal, shuprôbhat, namsate and bonjour.
   

• expressing my gratitude through prayer like ‘walking in the light of lord’, ‘God is so good’, ‘Choti jeevan gadi’,
   

• lighting a lamp singing and wishing my friends on their birthdays.
   

• talking about different professionals like doctors, dentist, architects, electricians, police officer, teacher, firefighters,
  guard, vegetable vendor etc. and jobs they do.
   

• meeting the professionals at school and understanding the work they do.
   

• pretending to be a professionals like an astronaut, fire fighter, an archeologist etc. during roleplay.
   

• listening to news presentation on topics like – Awareness on dengue, Personal hygiene, Children’s day,
  Founder’s day.
   

• engaging in free play at new corners like Vet’s clinic, I am a baker, I am a dentist, I am a botanist, I am an
  astronaut, I am an archeologist and at the construction site.
   

• singing and moving on the theme based rhymes and songs like ’when I grow up’, ‘doctor makes us well’.
   

• Illustrating my Christmas wish for this year.
   

• enjoying cooking without fire activity – making salad
   

• celebrating the festival of Christmas with my friends- cutting the cake and being part of the get together.

           

PHYSICAL AND MOTOR DEVELOPMENT

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

• doing activities like jumping jacks, stretching sideways, jump, jog.
   

• doing PT drills practice on drum beat with numbers and music to co-ordinate my movements in a large group .
   

• illustrating objects corresponding to sound ‘e’ , ‘h’ ,'r', ‘m’ on the worksheets
   

• introduction of number '6’ and ‘7' using sandpaper
   

• illustrating objects corresponding to numbers 4,5,6 and 7.
   

• making Nehru cap with paper folding on Children’s day
   

• marking the 4 cardinal directions north, south, east and west on the map of India.
   

• unbuttoning and buttoning of shirt.
   

• tracing ‘s’ and ‘a’ on the worksheet by sticking sand with the help of glue on it.
   

• tracing different phonic sounds done till now on the sand.
   

• illustrating my observation of the science experiment performed by my friend.
   

• designing a shirt and making an X-ray of my palm.
   

• going for a bug watch and illustrating my observation on the worksheet.
   

• Illustrating ‘ My Aspirations’.
   

• using clay to make the 3D and 2D shapes like a sphere and circle and understanding how are they different.
   

• Illustrating – visit to the Sanskriti Museum
   

• Making eco-friendly gift wrapper and popsicle Christmas tree.       
                                                                                                             

• Illustrating what I saw in ‘winter season presentation’ and Nativity play.

 

LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT

I have enhanced my language by…………

• participating in the circle time and discussing about teachings of Guru Nanak, talking about different
  professionals and the job they
   

• do, tools they use, things we can and cannot do, guessing the riddles related to different professionals and vehicles.
   

• identifying my name slip from the name slips spread on the mat and identifying the sounds done till now in their name.
   

• decoding the first sound in the names of different professionals and vehicles.
   

• listening to the stories
   

• teaming up with my friends to dramatize the story using the puppet theatre.
   

• learning the new sounds ‘h’, ‘r’, ‘d’, ‘m’, ‘o’ and participating in Show and Tell of the objects corresponding to the sounds.
   

• drawing the articles named by the teacher in the correct sound box (i.e. corresponding to different sound) during pictorial dictation.

                                           

INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT

I have developed my intellect by………

• mind mapping - thinking and telling what comes to my mind when I hear the word ‘gardener’, ‘bus’ and ‘aeroplane’.
   

• learning how to add one more with the help of blocks.
   

• understanding the numbers 6 and 7 by various activities like drawing myfavorite objects corresponding to the number.
   

• recognizing the number on the number card and doing the action as instructed. For example, if it’s number 4 card and teacher
  says jump the child will jump 4 times.
   

• going for bug watching, looking for different insects, seeing the bug with magnifying glass and counting their legs and observing
  other parts of their body carefully.
   

• learning the cardinal directions north, south, east and west and understanding them in relation to the map of India.
   

• learning about a pentagon through its properties..
   

• exploring a 3D shape sphere and how it is different from the circle.
   

• exploring the new corners like Vet’s clinic, I am a dentist, I am a baker, I am an astronaut, I am an archeologist and at the
  construction site.       
             

• participating in ‘dry hands’ science experiment as well as seeing and observing the science experiments performed by
  my friend.
   

• analyzing the shape of wheel along with other shapes like triangle, square etc. and trying to understand why wheels are
  round in shape.
   

• building the tower with the blocks as per the subitization card shown.