Santa Maria Integrated Learning Environment

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

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Aap Aur Hum– March 2022

Theme – ‘Aquatic animals’ (KG)

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First Runner Up – Rabbit

Second Runner Up – Goat

Third Runner Up – Honey Bee

Fourth Runner Up - Rooster

 

PHYSICAL AND MOTOR DEVELOPMENT

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

• participating in physical activities like jumping over the hurdles, hopscotch,
  balancing, running ‘zig-zag, agility ladder to keep fit.
   

• doing yoga-like turtle pose.
   

• doing PT drill and PEC.
   

• playing number game like ‘Mr. Wolf’, what time is it?
   

• energising my mind and body through action songs like – “-God's love is so wonderful...,
  “1,2,3 God loves me”,” Listen to the water”.
   

• Illustrating the life cycle of a butterfly.
   

• Going on a bug watch.
   

• going on a mindful nature walk with my friends.
   

• doing a freehand drawing of concepts related to numeracy and literacy.
   

•  doing a worksheet on water animals.
   

• making an animal collage using materials collected during nature walk.
   

• making animals using blocks.
   

• Using paper to create animals like octopus and spider.

 

 

LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT

 

I have enhanced my language by………

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• participating in a theme talk to discuss about caterpillar and discuss the life cycle
  of a butterfly.
   

• Matching aquatic animals with their name card.
   

• talking about insects and comparing their characteristics with animals.
   

• making CVC words using movable alphabets.
   

• narrating a story with objects and props.
   

• recalling new words from the story ‘My amazing Dad’ to create a word wall.
   

• associating numbers to the properties of shapes like what is a 3-sided shape called.
   

• matching objects with their name slip focusing on the first sound.
   

• doing a pictorial dictation to internalise the phonic sounds and objects associated
  with them.
   

• doing mind mapping of theme-related words like aquatic animals.
   

• singing new songs like ‘listen to the water’ and walking in the jungle.
   

• talking about candidates to vote for in school elections.

 

 

INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT

 

I have developed my intellect by ….

• listening to news presentation on, ‘Holi’, ‘Padmashri award’, ‘Introduction to the
  elections’ and other interesting topics.
   

• Identifying odd one out from the given pictures.
   

• learning about interesting facts about spider, and octopus.
   

• talking about special characteristics of Aquatic animals like blue whale - biggest
  animal on earth, dolphin-friendly fish, tortoise - shell, sea horse.
   

• observing insects, birds, and other animals in my surrounding to understand their
  living and eating habits.
   

• listening carefully to riddles on animals and solving them.
   

• picking up an animal card from the feely bag and talking about.
   

• classifying animals on the basic of their habitat.
   

• learning properties of the 3D shape cylinders.
   

• making an octopus with a cylinder to understand the dimensions.
   

• learning simple mathematical vocabulary to do mental math.
   

• applying math concepts while working with math materials in the math basket.
   

• making my own subitization cards to recognise the number in the patterns.
   

• doing science experiments.
   

• illustrating what I recall from the story and experiment.
   

• pretend play while ‘being a palaeontologist’.

 

 

SOCIO EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT

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I have enhanced my social and emotional skills by…

 

• observing good practises like greeting teacher/peers, saying thank you and please.
   

• participating in discussions on topics like my feelings and why they change, growing
  up e.g., moving on to the next level.
   

• learning to wait for my turn during the discussions and team games.
   

• collaborating and cooperating in team activities like nature collage with my friends.
   

• talking about a unique quality I would like to take from an animal and why?
   

• expressing my emotions by picking up an emotion card and talking about ‘how I am
  feeling today’.
   

• participating in various well-being activities such as ‘gratitude moment’.
   

• lighting a lamp and saying good things about my friends on their birthday.
   

• doing activities on my own to experience a sense of achievement.
   

• learning to keep my surroundings clean and arranging the food mat back in place.
   

• using a dustpan to clean the food that my friends and I dropped while eating.
   

• Celebrating festivals like ‘Holi’ with organic colours.
   

• learning to be independent by practicing life skills like how to answer a phone call and the door.