Theme-Based Learning in Grade 1 Theme in Progress - The Plant World A family that eats together stays together! We gather to eat breakfast together. This is how school begins!
Look-Listen-Think-Speak Circle time; time to discuss and share important things. What makes us happy? What makes us sad? Do we know what it means to be kind?
Assessment Time Today, it’s our English Unit Review. We ask many questions that help us learn to listen, understand and express ourselves.
Let the Games Begin! We do 15 minutes of PE Fitness using fun games, and exercises to make us strong and co-ordinated on the Adventure Course or the climbing wall, and then our favourite, a 20 minute fast game of soccer followed by a 5 minute warm down /relaxation exercise.
Math in the Real World As part of our theme we learnt how fruits and vegetables grow. Today in Math we are setting up shop to sell vegetables and fruits. The teacher gives us 50 paise, and 1, 2 & 5 rupee coins. We are very busy, making sales, calculating, writing out bills and keeping track of accounts. I discover I am quite good at handling money. Can’t wait to visit the market with my parents!
Art Attack! Ma’am helps us put final touches to our plant journal covers. I love to write my observations in it.
Learning about our Beautiful Environment We went on a field trip to a nearby farm last Friday. Today, in English, we complete our poems on “The Little Seed”. Later we will go and visit the plants we are growing in our little patch near the football field and record our observations in our journals.
The Journey of a Banana This week, we learnt about the journey of a banana from the farm to the table. We pretended we were monkeys and mimed climbing trees and eating bananas. Today we are exploring how bananas grow. Tomorrow, we’re going to try out a recipe for Banana Split in the dining hall!
Competing is Fun! Today we made teams for the upcoming Tournament of Minds. All the houses will compete with each other to win the trophy… music, dance, art, debates and quizzes, elocution, storytelling, clay modelling… each one of us will get a chance to show what we are best at. Snack time and off we go home. Whew! Lots of work…but school’s fun!
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