UOI

​​Students were asked to reflect on their daily routine and habits. Student identified and wrote about healthy and unhealthy habits they may follow  throughout a day, on a T chart and illustrated the same in their journals. Students were assessed on their first line of inquiry ‘Daily habits and routines' through a formative assessment. Students interviewed other students/staff members in the school community to find out about the various health factors and healthy habits and discussed the outcome of the same in their classes.

ENGLISH
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​Students were divided into 2 groups and formed two concentric circles. Those in the inner circle said a phonogram and the student standing opposite in the outer circle said a word starting with that phonogram and vice-versa. This was followed by revisiting different vocabulary words with pl, cl, sl, bl phonograms. Students read ORT books according to their level and were assessed through a rubric. They played the sight word bingo, wherein the facilitator said the sight word aloud and the students have to colour the sight word with specific colours. Students were assessed on their spellings through a spell bee. 

MATH
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Prior knowledge assessment of place value concept was done through ‘golden bead material’. To consolidate on the concept of place value, bundling and grouping strategies were used with golden bead material. This was followed by each child representing two numbers using place value blocks. To further enhance understanding each student was assigned  different numbers and they represented them using  place value blocks in their process journal. Students were assessed on their understanding of numbers through a formative assessment. 

​HINDI
During their Hindi classes, they watched a video ‘बढ़ने का रहस्य' and attempted a ‘listen and answer’ activity. They also recited a poem ‘सेब है फलों में सब से न्यारा'.  

​ART
Students created a fruit composition displaying all the essential elements of line, shape and colour in their work.

​ICT
Students explored brush, text and pencil options on MS – Paint and made the Indian Flag to mark the occasion of Independence Day. 

​MUSIC
Solfege and sargam for Vocal Warm-ups were practiced. Students were provoked to inquire about the lifestyle of a musician to lead a healthy life, They discussed the kind of food the musicians consume and the regime they should follow to be able to sing well. An activity for enhanced listening skills was conducted in the class where the students were played various sounds of the musical instruments which they identified along with their names. They also inquired into the category of various musical instruments. They also sang a motivational song as a group.

DANCE
During their dance classes, students worked on direction, space, and size with the different style of music. Dance routine introduced students to meditation techniques too.

Welcome to your new class!!
It's time to start with a lifetime of learning, growing, making friends and a lot of fun filled activities and memories.

Students easily settled into their new classes and enjoyed the first two days getting to know each other by sharing their vacation stories and by participating in many ice-breaking activities. They made the essential agreements and revisited the Learner Profile attributes, inquiry cycle, concepts, skills and action in UOI.

Unit of Inquiry:
Transdisciplinary Theme: Who we are
Central Idea: Leading a balanced lifestyle can help us stay healthy

Lines of Inquiry:

• Daily habits and routines
• Food and its impact on our body
• Reflecting on choices and their consequence

Tuning into the unit was done through a mystery box game wherein students felt the objects placed in the mystery box related to health and wellness by using their senses such as touch, taste, smell etc. After the students announced their predictions they were asked to infer connections between the items through guiding questions. Students wrote the central idea highlighting the words balanced and healthy. They also related the word ‘balanced’ with the learner profile attribute. They further shared their understanding of health through discussion on the five factors of health (recreation, hygiene, rest, food and exercise)followed by group activity of making a picture collage using cut outs of fruits and vegetables in which they represented what it means to be healthy.

 During their English classes students were welcomed with a fun ice- breaking activity ‘Snowball' in which they answered the questions like their favourite cuisine/hobby/place etc. They further enjoyed creating photoframes byillustrating themselves on a coloured sheetand pasted the photo frames in their respective cubbies for a sense of belongingness. Further, in "My Name” game they were provided with pre-cut letters to find letter cut-outs to spell their names and later glued them together on a card. Letter recognition was done through a task sheet about ‘secret message from their teacher'. Their understanding of letters sound & formation was done through ‘Fish bowl activity'. Students wrote upper and lower-case letters in the process journto make CVC words using the medial sound of vowels (a,e,i,o,u) assigned  to their group. Each group presented the words made by them.
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