Understanding the organisation of the school

This week we began by understanding what is the common mission that Edubridge International and its team is trying to achieve. We looked at the school mission statement to understand what the school goal is.

We had Ms. Pramila come in as a guest speaker and explain to us what the IB mission statement is and how our school mission is also aligned with the IB mission statement.

  We then looked at the two statements together and tried to highlight the similarities in the two.

While we were looking at the mission statement our inquirers began wondering as to why we have a 'diya' in our school logo. The sparked curiosity got us to invite Mick sir to class to  inquire why we had the 'diya' in our school logo.

Mr. Mick explained that the school wanted to find a symbol that would represent India and education. So they froze on the symbol of  the 'diya' as it spreads light and enlightens its surrounding out of darkness. Similarly, the school envisions to take its students away from ignorance and towards the fountain of knowledge. The wanted a symbol that associates itself with giving light which is knowledge. At Edubridge, we want to enlighten i.e. open the light in the minds of the students.

We then brainstormed of what are the different things that need to be done in order to organize a school.

Taking it forward from there we went on to meet Ms. Nirmala our school librarian to learn how she organised our school library that has made it so easy for all of us to find books we need so easily. We also wanted to know how the library contributes to help attaining the school mission. Thank you for all the time and information you gave us Ms. Nirmala. Thank you to Prashant Sir too to help us go through the process a book is put through before putting it on the shelves of the library.

In Language,  we continued to look at rhyming poems. We read a number of rhyming poems and identified the rhyming words in them. 

One of the poems we read was  - 

"TEAMWORK"

 One little ant in such a good mood,                    

Came outside to search for the food,                

  She had to get some food to store,

Got a little bit and wanted some more,

 Little ant found a big piece of bread,  

Tried so hard to push it by head,                                                    

  But she left it in the mid way,      

Poor thing turned back and ran away,

Little ant could not make it up?

Did she lose it and gave up ?

  Oh no! she is back with a bang,

Look , she comes with big ants' gang,                                                 

Task that  looked so hard and tricky,

Effort and teamwork made it easy.                             

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Once we were confident we understood rhyme in poems, we began writing a rhyming poem as a class. We went through the steps that a good writer goes through . We brainstormed words for the chosen topic. Then we planned our writing. Once we were done we finally got to writing our poem.

Here is a peek at the process and the poem that we wrote -

We attempted to write poems on 2D shapes after reading a few. This is what we wrote -

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I am Penny Pentagon 
 Subtract 5 sides

        And I’m gone                 

 I’m your house,

           in which no one can hide.

I am Howard the Hexagon,

Make me up with sides six

Join 2 triangles and a rectangle

and me you will fix.

Harry Heptagon is my name

I have seven sides to tame

Don't get confused

because hexagon and I look the same!!

 
 
When you see an octagon

     You stop and then go on

the shape of a stop sign is the same

I’m the 8 sided,Olive the Octagon

After working as a class we got to writing a rhyming poem independently. 

It was challenging but we came through with rhyming colors!!!!

In Math, we began with reviewing the properties and names of 2D shapes. We made a poster for the same.

We moved on to look at symmetry in 2D shapes. We began by understanding what a line of symmetry is. We understood that symmetry is when both sides are exactly  the same when split in half. The two sides are the mirror images of each other.

To explore the same we used mirrors to understand symmetry and line of symmetry better.

As our understanding got stronger we went on to explore how many lines of symmetry can a shape have. We folded and unfolded shapes to see how many lines of symmetry we could find.

Here is a glimpse into how we found out how many lines of symmetry does a square have -

                                     

We then built symmetrical figures using tangrams. We kept in mind that whatever we put on one side of the line, we had to put in the other side to so that the figure was symmetrical.

B.U.I.L.D. time

This week our little friends from Skg put up an assembly on friends and family. They taught us how our harsh words can hurt a heart and no matter what a crushed heart cannot be restored to its original condition. You have truly inspired us to use our kind words. Thank you Skg , Ms.Tapaswini and Ms. Saloni for the lovely message.