Happy Birthday Dr Seuss!!

This week we celebrated Dr Seuss's birthday. We put up puppet shows to present stories written by him.

We began with a puppet show. The puppeteers told us about who Dr Seuss was.

Reading other books by Dr Seuss.

Identifying the middle, beginning and end of the stories

Learning how to turn a story into a play script

Working on making the play scripts of the stories we read

Creating the settings and paper bag puppets of the characters in the stories for the puppet show

Practicing for "The performance"

Light...... camera ........ action 

We assessed our peers on their performances

Ms. Julie and Ms. Kinjal put up a  puppet show to explain to us the benefits of choosing healthy food over junk food.

Thank you Ms. Julie and Ms, Kinjal, Ir was very entertaining and informative.

In Math, we have been learning about mixed fractions.

This week in the assembly our little friends from JKG and nursery taught us the importance of being together.

                                                   
                                                     We did some team building activities

Happy birthday Dr Seuss!!

Reflecting on our thoughts before the trip next week

Stay tuned for the updates on our trip next week!!!

Going further

We began the week by looking at the box puppets we created to identity the details we had added to make the box come alive as the character we wanted it to look like.

                                                 Exploring expression through our bodies.

Trying our hands at exploring making the puppets come alive through our voice modulation and movements.

Working with our partners on a short script. 

Our friends had to identify what feeling were we trying to show through the performance.

We experimented at story telling using puppets.

A sneak peek into two of our performances.

A surprise performance by the girls - Naira, Isha, Meeshaa and Drishti.

This week we learnt how to make marionette puppets. 

As we have been focusing on expression and feelings, in Language we looked at character traits.

inspired from pinterest.com

We played charades to enact different character traits 

Using -  http://www.wordle.net/ to make our character traits wordle.

Our character trait wordles

                                         

   

                 

We looked at what characters say and do to show their traits.

Beginning, middle and end in stories kept us hooked too.

In Math, we have been learning about fractions. We looked at a cartoon (another form of expression) and thought about what we could learn from it.

Exploring simple fractions

As this unit is all about being creative, we thought of bringing it into our Math lessons too. We designed our fraction pizzas and identified the fractions of toppings on each.

In Art, We have been learning about weaving in our art class. We had the freedom to cut our warp and weft strips however we wanted to and could use whatever color we desired. We quite grasped the concept of alternating layers and enjoyed pulling the paper through the slots. Just wanted to share some of our amazing pieces.