Bubbling Questions

Bubbling Questions

Our new unit is Re-discovering Myself. The transdiciplinary theme is Who We Are. It explains us about the people, how we are and how we should be. The central idea is: “Preparing for inevitable growth and change contributes to our well-being.” What we know about the unit is that we will learn about growth and change. Some changes will be inevitable and others will be man-made. We will learn about preparing for the forthcoming changes in ourselves too. Some questions that come to our mind are:

·        If there was no growth or change, how would life be?

·        How will our body systems change and function as we grow?

·        How/ why is the growth inevitable?

These are questions about the unit. We hope that the unit will be informative enough to answer these questions and many more .

Shweta

Experiments

Experiments

Today is the third day of our unit. Our unit is all about our body systems and how they change. We started our new unit on Tuesday 20^th November, 2012 .We began our unit with the introduction of the TD theme, Central Idea, lines of inquiry (LOI), Key Concepts.

On Wednesday we were given scenarios: a lion cub grows into a lion, a caterpillar becomes a butterfly, ice melts into water etc. we found a common concept in all of them was “Change”.

Today it was really interesting we conducted few experiments and found about physical and chemical changes, Changes which are reversible or irreversible.

Eesha Mathur

Halloween

Halloween- Origin and celebration at school

Origin

Halloween, also known in Europe as All Hallows Eve, was celebrated by the Celts to celebrate the end of summer and the coming of a new year. It was celebrated on 31^st October. In recent years, we wear scary costumes according to a Celtic belief. The Celts believed that on this day, evil spirits came to take them over. They lit bonfires and wore costumes resembling the spirits. The tradition of ‘trick or treat’ began in Christian churches. It was then called going ‘a-souling’. Poor people begged at houses for ‘soul cakes’ to remember their ancestors. Soul cakes were bread with currants inside.

How we celebrated Halloween at Pathways

At school, on Friday, 2^nd November 2012, we had a Halloween parade. Every child had dressed up as a scary or fantasy character. One by one, each class paraded around the amphitheatre stage, and showed off the lovely costumes they were wearing. It was a really memorable experience and we shall never forget it.

Shreya Mozumdar

World Citizens

World citizens

We are currently doing a unit on World Citizens. It is under the TD theme Where We Are in Place and Time. We have learnt about the culture of our home and host countries and how it influences us. It is important to learn all this because it teaches us how to be world citizens. A world citizen is someone who knows his culture and his host country’s culture. He is sensitive towards other cultures and mingles with them. Till now, I have learnt a lot and had a lot of fun. I have learnt how rich and diverse Indian culture is. This has been an important bit of knowledge for me!!

I think…

Culture, culture

The way we think, feel and do,

Why every person says to his country,

WOO-HOO!

(This really is true.)

Shreya Mozumdar

International Peace Day

‘Peace is something you cannot wish for. It is something you make’. On 21 of September  the world celebrated ‘Peace day’. On that occasion we saw a video on how did the Peace Day start and who initiated it. We also wrote peace messages , thoughts and slogans to give it to the United Nations (UN) peace makers who will be coming to our school next week. We will be celebrating the ‘ Joy of giving week’ where we will  give gifts to the students of the village schools. 

Spread peace , love each other and be happy.

By- Dhruv Narula

Dhruv Narula

Literacy Week

Literacy week has been a week of expressing ourselves in different ways. There were various fun activities planned throughout the week.

Through the week we explored facts about North Africa, Korea, Japan, India and read folk tales from around the world. We also made a collage, book jackets and dressed up as characters from different stories. We also celebrated Hindi week and had some interesting special assemblies with various Hindi performances.  I think that the best part was when an illustrator came in to show his drawings and sketches in a comic book. Next time, as a part of the literacy week, I would also like to go on a treasure hunt around the school.

I am quite sad that it only lasted a week and not forever. We had a very exciting week with lots of fun and activities and I would love to do it again. 

Celebrating Roald Dahl's birthday during the Literacy Week

Roald Dahl was born on 13^th September, 1916. I like Roald Dahl’s books because they are funny and sweet. The characters are whacky, disgusting, or funny. On his birthday, I remember him and read some parts of his books that I own. Today I finished one of his books called ‘The Twits’. When I got to know that it was Roald Dahl’s birthday I thought it was the perfect day to read The Twits. I was really happy to know that I finished a Roald Dahl book on Roald Dahl’s very own birthday! Some books of his are: Charlie and the Chocolate factory, James and the Giant peach, Matilda, The Twits, The witches, The BFG, Fantastic Mr. Fox, and Esio Trot.

Shreya Mozumdar

Samosa Activity

Samosa Activity

In class we played a game called ‘Samosa’. The rules of the game are:

<!--[if !supportLists]-->·  Choose a multiplication table and whenever a multiple of the number approaches, say ‘samosa’. (e.g.: Table of 2: 1, SAMOSA, since 2 is a multiple of 2)

<!--[if !supportLists]-->·    If you call out the multiple and forget to replace it with ‘samosa’ or take a long time to say samosa or the number, you are out. We use this game to learn our multiples. We can also use it to learn divisibility rules. We can skip count using this too. In my opinion this is a very educative game and it helps us revise multiplication tables in a fun way. This is why I like the Samosa game.

Shreya Mozumdar