Pawar Public School
Hinjewadi
SENIOR KG
Math
Subject Activity
Backwards numbers:
In this activity, students learnt how to count backwards in a very fun and exciting way. The lesson includes understanding of the numbers and enabled them to recognize each number. It was hands-on and interactive activity where the students were asked to jump on the numbers in a backward direction.
Rocket making activity:
This activity was planned to teach them backward. This activity aims to develop children's counting skills and to create sequences of numbers. It provides practical opportunities for children to recite numbers in order. Kids enjoyed flying their rockets with the loud countdown and took it as a take away.
Small smaller smallest:
This activity was planned to teach our students basic mathematical concepts. Specifically, they learnt about size, their descriptive names and how things can be compared. Including teaching aids like different sizes of balls and jars also help develop the small fine motor muscles in their hands along with learning about the concept.
Long longer longest:
The activity was planned to make children enable the concept of long, longer, and longest. To explain the concept different objects related to the topic were shown to children to understand the concept. This activity made the children understand how to differentiate the objects in different form like long, longer, and longest.
Greater than, less than and equal to:
The greater and lesser concept is used for comparing two numbers. It is important that children understand how to use and represent greater than and lesser than using signs. They show us which has a higher value and are used to help children get to grips with numbers and their values.
Equal to:
Teacher made students hold books in each hand, both hands had different weights of books, then the teacher kept books of the same weight in both hands and thus they understood the concept. The concept of equal to was stressed with making students have the same amount of weight on each hand. They were given books of the same weight in both hands to assess the weights.
Ascending and Descending Order Activity on staircase:
This activity was taken to teach them about Ascending order. Teachers stuck number cards from 1 to 10 on each stair. They then encouraged students to climb the stairs one by one and say the numbers loudly. This was to make them understand the ascending order.
Addition:
Students were asked to get the fallen leaves from the garden and then asked them to add their leaves with friends and count together. This activity allowed children to explore in the open environment and learn in play way method
Subtraction:
The subtraction activity was taken to give a brief description in the classroom of Subtraction signs along with a few examples, to enhance their knowledge. An activity on buttoning a T-shirt was taken. Students were told to remove one button from the line and count the remaining buttons.
In this way the students were able to relate the numbers subtracted from a given number.
Students enjoyed the subtraction sums on the T-shirt placard. It was a hands-on learning method for the children.
Ordinal numbers:
This was a game for recap of ordinals. The different shapes were arranged in sequence and the children had been instructed to put the strips in front of the shapes where ordinal numbers are written.
Number line:
A number line had been made on the floor to teach the skip counts. Children jumped as per the given count and learnt the topic with self-experience. (DIY)
Best foot forward in back to school season
Offline Education is the original method of teaching where students and teachers have face-to-face interactions while learning. No wonder, online classes have gained significant popularity but nothing can replace the holistic approach of offline classes that has been happening for decades. It is the best mode of learning and helps students learn at a faster pace with a well-planned schedule to follow. The teachers are now able to analyse every student’s learning techniques and behavioural patterns. They keep a hawk-eye on each student and monitor the responses and address them when needed.
There was a minimal distraction in the offline teaching and learning process. They had more clarity to their doubts and gained a better understanding of all the topics. It was good to see more interaction and engagement happening during the learning process and the students getting more engaged in classroom activities. The students got a chance to do hands-on practice of certain topics. There were various activities that were conducted to enhance each topic and make learning more enjoyable.
Sr.KG Section In charge - Rutuja Badadhe
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English
Subject Activity
French fries’ Activity:
Vowels are the glue that stick words together! A few things we do when we talk about a vowel, Sing the vowel song, we use our fingers and say etc. but this time we came up with an exciting methodology to teach students “Word family” consisting vowels in three letter words, where student needs to read the word written on French fries and place the fries in the correct vowel box. This enhanced their reading and comprehension skill.
Rhyming Words:
Developing a child's phonological awareness is an important part of developing a reader. To enhance the phonological awareness of a student teacher made a board game “I can rhyme” as teaching aid for rhyming words. Students enjoyed the game thoroughly and it helped in developing children's skills and understanding of rhyme.
Diagraphs:
A magic bag was used to teach digraphs. Teacher had already hidden the digraph in the bag, she then explained students the rule of digraph, then the teacher spelled the magical words and a whole new digraph came out of the magic bag.
Pinwheel Activity:
Pinwheel activity was taken to make the kids aware of different kinds of digraphs and identify them. Teachers gave students a pinwheel. They were encouraged to spin the wheel and find the word from the list and put the blocks on the word. This activity helped them to identify the digraph words better.
EVS
Subject Activity
Campus Walk:
With an objective to prepare and enable our students to get acquainted and familiarize with the school campus, teachers organized Campus Walk for Sr.kg students. The children were highly enthusiastic learning about different places like Principal office, reception, canteen, Toy room, Medical room and play ground. In an instructive way the tiny tots learnt about their school campus and the significance of keeping the campus clean and impressive too. Nature Walk- Nature walk was planned as an activity so that kids can walk around and observe different types of plants planted around the school. Once the students returned to the classroom, they orally told which types of plants they observed.
My Buddies:
This activity was planned for the students to develop social skills amongst the students. Kids were asked to be with their buddy for the whole day, they enjoyed tying each other friendship band. This activity helped students to feel valued and supported, teach important social skills and create a caring ethos in the school.
Seed Germination:
This year seed germination activity for Sr.Kg was planned in a different manner for the students where teacher placed a wet tissue paper and cotton in zip lock pouch and then placed different soaked seeds of chickpeas or beans and hanged the pouch near the window for sunlight and asked kids to observe the different stages of germination daily. Due to plastic bag all the stages of germination were observed clearly.
My home:
Through this activity student were allowed to talk about their home. The young learners of our school got a chance to draw and make origami paper house detailing their own thoughts, feelings, and ideas about the place they call “home.” Teachers arranged a beautiful display of different types of houses to show the students.
This helped kids to learn about different rooms of the house and its uses as well.
Popcorn Activity:
Popcorn activity was planned to make kids realize the uses of 5 sense organs. This activity encouraged kids to observe the process and it’s taste, colour, texture and its smell.
Transport Activity:
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Boat Making activity: Paper tearing and pasting Activity
Description: It was a fun activity for kids. They were given the cut outs of half circle, square and circle. They first
pasted the cutouts to make a car. Then they tear some white paper and pasted it on the car shape cuout. This
activity helped them to identify the shapes as well as enhance their fine motor skills.
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Aero plane making activity: With teachers help and demonstration, kids made paper planes with basic origami folds. This activity helped them to develop their fine motor skills. They also learnt to follow the instructions step by step.
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Floating and sinking activity: This activity was taken to teach the concept of float and sink. A tub of water was taken. Kids were instructed to put thinks like dry leaves, stones, light toys etc. and observe which were floating and which were sinking.
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Field trip: Live Demo of Vehicles: Kids were taken to school parking area. There they were shown different types of vehicles and how they run. Teachers demonstrated the activity by driving the vehicles.
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Signal making Activity: Kids made toy signals with old toothpaste box and papers. They enjoyed making their own traffic signals. This activity will help them to identify the traffic signals in real life too.
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Traffic Rules Activity: School corridor was used and decorated as roads. Kids enacted as cars and traffic police. Some kids were holding different traffic rule signs. This activity helped them to learn and be aware about road rules and safety.
2.The Rocket making activity:
The picture of solar system was useful to emphasis more the sequence of planets.
The moving rocket in the slit on the print had added the fun in the activity.
3.Water cycle:
The water cycle shows the continuous movement of water within the Earth and atmosphere. It is a complex system that includes many different processes. evaporation, condensation precipitation. To show this a small activity was planned. Teacher placed a glass bowl with hot water in it and covered the bowl with lid. She showed the kids vapors formed in bowl, then she opened the lid and showed water drops collected on lid saying condensation and last she shows water dripping from the drops formed saying precipitation. She also showed a model of water cycle to give the students a better understanding of the topic. In this way teacher explained how we get rain.
4. Life cycle of a butterfly:
Students used clay to make life cycle of a butterfly model, they learnt arranging the stages of a butterfly's life cycle in the correct order. It also helped them to improve eye/hand coordination and build both gross and fine motor skills, including the small muscles in hands and fingers.
5.Animals:
Cat palm print activity with cat face cut outs and leg shape cutout. This was planned as the teachers were teaching Animals topic. This activity aroused their interest in learning the body parts of the animals.
Bird making: This activity helped them to develop their fine motor skills and also helped them to understand the body
parts of a bird.
Fish making:
This activity helped them to arouse their interest in learning aquatic animals. While making fish it was helping them to
understand the shapes of circle, semicircle and triangle.