Fun with Circles: Std. IV Mathematics Last week I taught my std. four students, concepts related to a circle. My objective was for children to identify and name the different parts of a circle, namely, radius, diameter, chord, arc and circumference. The pandemic has forced us to become more creative teachers. We are constantly thinking…
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The Alchemy of Nature: Reading for Meaning Prose texts are often taught in rigid and boring ways. The teacher reads out the text, she reads it again and then explains each paragraph in great detail in the hope that students ‘understand’ it. What we don’t teach children is that the meaning of a story, poem…
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On March 24th, 2020 India went into a state of complete lockdown. Our students were a week away from beginning their term-end assessments and in most likelihood eagerly looking forward to their summer vacation. We never imagined then, that we would slide into the summer break without meeting each other for a long, long time. We…
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World Read Aloud Day 2020: Kicking up a storm in the library Since our school library opened up in July 2019, our students have been actively borrowing books. But as a library educator, I wasn’t sure if they were really reading. What were they borrowing and what were they taking away from the stories they…
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Here, I would like to share one strategy that I recently used to teach a prose text named – Unke Munke Timpetoo, from the grade 7 Balbharati text. This strategy is called The Five-S Prose Strategy. The aim of teaching language as a subject is to enable the students to be proficient in skills like…
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उद्दिष्ट्ये :- विद्यार्थ्यांना हास्यचित्र व व्यंगचित्र या दोघांमधील फरक समजणे. सामाजिक प्रश्नांची जाणीव असणे. मला नेहमी वाटते की शिकविणे हे कंटाळवाणे न होता ते मजेशीर कसे होईल? याचा प्रयत्न मी नेहमी करते. त्यामुळेच इयत्ता नववीला ” हास्यचित्र व व्यंगचित्र ” हा स्थूलवाचनाचा कंटाळवाणा पाठ मी विद्यार्थ्यांना त्यांच्याच कलेने म्हणजे उपक्रमांच्या माध्यमांतून शिकविण्याचा प्रयत्न केला. त्यासाठी…
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Ever since we opened up the new library space earlier this academic year, we have been trying to do little acts of curation in the library. Every few weeks we put together a book display in the library to make books more exciting and appealing for students. Curated book displays allow children to discover, sample…
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Food for Thought, a blog special for Healthy Food Week at Sharon School Schools are in a unique position to provide students with opportunities to learn about and practice healthy eating behaviour. As food helps in the growth and development of our body, we decided to let the children of grade 1 know the importance…
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A blog ‘My Journey To Storybooks’ narrates a journey of standard IX student Palak Khatira “Books are our best friends” This proverb was just nonsense to me till a few months ago. My mother often told me to read books and I always used to put it off or procrastinate. When she forced me a…
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दर वर्षी प्रमाणे जूनला शाळा सुरु झाल्या बरोबर जुलै महिन्यात फुटबॉल स्पर्धा आणि चेस स्पर्धा ठेवण्यात आल्या. ह्या वर्षी प्रथमच शाळेने चेससाठी सिलेक्शन ठेवले. फुटबॉल स्पर्धा २०१९-२० आढावा दिनांक – ७/७/२०१९ ठिकाण – एन.इ.एस स्कूल चे टर्फ ग्राउंड मुलुंड निअर स्वप्ननगरी वेळ – सकाळी ९:०० ते दुपारी १:०० वाजे पर्यंत इंटर हाऊस फुटबॉल मैच सौ.स्नेहा…
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