GRADE 6 NEWSLETTER 2019-2020Term I [JUNE – October]

National

Academy

For

Learning

Dear Parents

We are happy to welcome you to this exhilarating new academic year! We at NAFL

believe and strive in providing child-centric environment through numerous learning

opportunities and best teaching practices. The students learn the nuances of team-

work, problem-solving and critical thinking through various activities and events.

CARE, COURTESY and CREATIVITY are the highlights of this fun-filled and power-

packed year!

Welcome to Grade 6

Where great minds grow !

WELCOME TO OUR NEW ENTRANTS

Dasariraju Hemish Dhruv C Rahul Hashica Raaj Satvik

Akshay R Amogh Raghavendra Sanika Suresh

SCHOOL NEWS!Our senior school students from grades 9 and 11 visited the United Nations, New York, in February 2019 as part

of the Future Leaders Programme and presented their community outreach projects to a rapt audience.

MORE SCHOOL NEWS!MORE SCHOOL NEWS!

MORE SCHOOL NEWS!Students from grades 11 and 12 visited the CERN Institute, Geneva, in June 2019 for a

Master Class and thrilling visits to the Antimatter Factory, the Syncrocycloton and the

Compact Muon Solenoid or CMS experiment site.

INTERNATIONAL DAY OF YOGA

NAFL Elections 2019-2020Elections @ NAFL was conducted using a software developed

by our own students. The project was developed during a student

training collaboration with CISCO, Bengaluru. On Election Day

this June, students from grades 6 to 12 used the smart app and

voted for their leaders!

THE NEW STUDENT COUNCIL members !

Head Girl: DISHA JAIN Head Boy: SHREYAS S IYER

Sports Captains: PRAKRUTI RAGHAVENDRA ABHISHEK SATNUR

Nihal House Captains: ANANYA TALWAR ADITYA ANANTH RAJAN

Kamal House Captains: GITANJALI RAGHAVENDRA MAANITH S SHRIYAN

Vishal House Captains: SIMRAN SHARMA RAHUL CHAKRAVARTI

Prize day !

BEST HOUSE FOR 2018-2019NIHAL House !

MEET THE EDITORIAL TEAMFEATURES: Meghana Krishna, Shweta Ullala,

Vanshika Arora, Suchintha Divakaram

PHOTOGRAPHY: Simran Sharma, Kavana Rao

TECHNICAL: Prajwal Nandkishore

SEND US YOUR ORIGINAL IDEAS TO WWW.THEWRITEWAYNAFL.WIXSITE.COM

NAFL GREEN An endeavour to achieve carbon neutrality and to care for Planet Earth.

Congratulations, GANESH BANNUR (12ISC) and PRANAV RAO (AS)!

2017

2018

2019

Adding to the host of leadership badges,

here are the newly elected Choir Leaders . . .

Junior School: CHAAYA BASAWARAJ & RISHITH PRAVEEN

Senior School: AMAN MAKHIJA & MANASI RAGUNATH

NAFL SCHOOL CHOIR

As part of this year’s French Day Celebrations, French students of grades 6, 7 and 8 recreated the famous Cannes Film festival. They competed for the most coveted award , The Golden Palms, by bringing alive on stage scenes from three nominated films.

The Pink Panther

Le Malade Imaginaire

Le Petit Prince

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Comprehension/Application/Analysis/Synthesis

Interaction…Discussion…Collaboration

THE NAFL WAY…

A HOLISTIC WAYFor a confident, bold, fearless

NAFLer!

E Independent … Original thinking/work

ANew strategies -Teacher Training Academy (TTA)

Activity-based / Enquiry-based approaches

TERM 1ENGLISH I Nine Hats Grammar and Creativiy

Ch.1 Sentence Structure

Ch. 2 Auxilliary Verbs

Ch. 3 Subject –Verb Agreement

Ch. 4 Pronouns

Ch. 5 Determiners

Ch. 6 Other Determiners : Demonstratives and Quantity words

Writing Tasks

• Story Writing

• Picture Composition

• Descriptive Writing

ENGLISH II Nine Hats Integrated Course Book

Ch.1 Secrets

Ch.2 Dear MUm

Ch.3 Working together

Ch.4 The Gifts of wali Dad

Ch.5 A Dream

Ch.6 How I have Suffered

Ch.9 Foolish Questipons

Ch.10 Totto Chan

Black Beauty

Ch.1 -21

HINDI 2L Poem-

• Usha aa rahee hai

• Piplika

Lessons-

• Zafar miyaan ke lagan

• Pustak mele ke maaze

• Do gauraiyan

• Thomas Cook

Grammar – Bhavvacak Sangya , Paryayavachi shabd, Karak , Kriya,

Muhavare , Anek shabdon ke liye ek shabd, Visheshan , Upsarg, Pr

atyay, Samuchaybodhak shabd, Viraam chinha, sarvanaam , Samba

ndhbodhak shabd, Vachan, ling, Kaal , Letter writing, Paragraph

writing , Descriptive Writing.

HINDI 3L Varnamaala

Matra – ( aa to Au ) Words and their meanings

Sangya ( Noun) , Vilom ( Opposites), Sarvanaam ( Pronoun)

Lessons-

• Kiske peeche

• Van ke holi

• Ret ka ghar

FRENCH 2L Unité-1 Bonjour !

Unité-2 J’habite ici !

Unité-3 Chez moi

Unité-4 Les animaux

Unité-5 Des fêtes et des festivals

Unité-6 Qu’est-ce que tu fais ?

FRENCH 3L Leçon -1 Les Salutations

Leçon- 2 Comptons ensemble

Leçon -3 Les Copains

Leçon -4 Devinez

Lecon -5 Dans la classe

Leçon -6 Les amis de Caroline

Leçon -7 Quel jour sommes-nous?

Leçon -8 La Famille de Manuel

Leçon -9 Les Vacances

Leçon-10 Le drapeau de mon Pays

MATHEMATICS • Number System

• Estimation

• Numbers in Indian and International System

• Plave Value

• Natural Numbers and Whole numbers

• Fundamental Concepts- Geometry

• Fundamental Concepts- Algebra

• Fundamental Operations

• Angles

• Negative numbers and Integers

• Number Line

• Symmetry

• Recognition of solids

• HCF and LCM

PHYSICS Ch.1 MATTER

Ch.2 PHYSICAL QUANTITIES AND MEASUREMENTS

Ch.3 FORCE

CHEMISTRY Ch.1 Introduction to chemistry

Ch.2 Elements, compounds and mixtures

Ch.3 Air and atmosphere

BIOLOGY Ch.1 The Cell

Ch.2 The Leaf

Ch.3 Digestive system in humans

Ch.4 Health and hygiene

HISTORY &

CIVICS

Ch.1 River Valley Civilization

Ch.2 Mesopotamian Civilization

Ch.3 The Egyptian Civilization

Ch.4 Chinese Civilization

Ch.5 The Vedic Civilization

GEOGRAPHY Ch.1 Looking at the Earth

Ch.2 Major Landforms

Ch.3 Major Water bodies

Ch.4 Types of agriculture

Ch.5 Major crops

COMPUTER

SCIENCE

Ch.1 Categories of Computer and Computer Languages

Ch.3 Word processor: Tabular Presentation

Ch.4 Word processor: Mail merge

Ch.6 Scratch Programming – Introduction to Game creation

Grade 6 Faculty2019-2020

ENGLISH Ms. Athira , Ms. Sangeetha Mehta , Ms. Nirmala Shenoi

HINDI Ms. Raina K Singh, Ms. Sanjana Mani

FRENCH Ms. Indira Natarjan , Ms. Darshana Mehta

MATHEMATICS Ms. Swati Belur , Ms. Veena Naik

PHYSICS Ms. Jomcy Merin Philip , Ms. Sandhya Mohan

CHEMISTRY Ms. Swati Belur , Ms.Anjali Ramakrishna

BIOLOGY Ms. Lakshmi , Ms.Anjali Ramakrishna

HISTORY Ms. Rashmi Satish

GEOGRAPHY Ms. Piyali , Ms. Rashmi Satish

COMPUTER SCIENCE Ms. Kavya Rani N, Ms. Indumathi M H

PHYSICAL EDUCATION Mr. Suresh A N, Mr. Mahesh P, Ms.Roopa Bhat

DANCE Ms. Swetha

CLUB ACTIVITY Grade 6 - 8

Needle & thread

Basketball

Write right

Design

thinking

• VERBATTLE(Seniors) – July 13

.• Bharat Divas – August 15

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• Model United Nations, NPS Mysore (Seniors) – July 21, 22 & 23

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• VIVUM, TISB (Seniors) – August 14 & 15

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• MATHRIX, NPS Indiranagar (Seniors) – July 26

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• VIVUM, TISB (Seniors) – August 14 & 15

EVENTS AHEAD!

HAPPIIIEEEE BIRTHHDAYYYY!EVERY YEAR ON YOUR BIRTHDAY, YOU GET A CHANCE TO START NEW!JUNE JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER

AADYA BANSAL-2nd

[6C]

AYUSH KOUNDINYA-3rd

[6B]

PRATYUSHA R K-4th

[6B]

AMARTYA K SINGH-23rd

[6C]

SAMARTH MANDYAM-9th

[6B]

OM REETHA PRAKASH -11th

[6B]

ADITI SANCHETI-6th

[6B]

KRISHAY SYAM-29th

[6B]

IMPANA KRISHNA -15tH

[6 B]

SHREESH G P-17th

[6A]

SHASHANK RAJEEV-15th

[6A]

AADITYA MANOJ-21st

[6B]

ADITYA SHAH-22nd

[6A]

AMOGH RAGHAVENDRA-23rd

[6B]

DASARIRAJU HEMISH-28th

[6A]

VIBHA RANGANATHAN-28th

[6B]

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Phone: +91-80-23231567 or +91-80-23239281

Email: info@nafl.in

Grade & Associate Teachers

6A - Ms.Sanjana Mani, Ms. Kavya

6B- Ms. Sangeetha Mehta , Ms. Raina K Singh

6C - Ms. Anjali Ramakrishna , Mr. Srinidhi

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