Unit of Inquiry— Who We Are

Central Idea: The choices we make may impact our

body and mind.

Lines of Inquiry:

Daily routines develop habits

Consequences of daily habits

Choices we make affect our own wellness

Key Concepts:

Change, Causation, Reflection

Related Concepts:

Choice, Pattern, Impact, Responsibility

Kindergarten newsletter

Week of 3rd October, 2016

Summative Assessment— ‘Who we are’

Students brainstormed the vision and mission of Pathways School

Gurgaon through a group discussion

They understood the meaning of the words: Vision and Mission

Taking this forward they came up with vocabulary to create Kinder-

garten’s Vision and Mission statement in their respective classrooms

CAS Initiative : ‘Hand wash Drive’

As a part of their summative assessment, students of kindergarten

took the initiative of spreading awareness about the importance of

hand washing

They collected soaps and distributed it to the school support staff

Skills enhanced : Thinking , logical, communication, self man-

agement skills

Multiple intelligences: Verbal linguistic ,visual spatial and log-

ical mathematical

Unit of Inquiry

Creating the “Mission and Vision” by Kindergarten students

The process of creating the mission and vision statement started by discussing and understanding the vision

and mission statement of our school. Later the students brain stormed and came up with vocabulary words

which they thought should be incorporated in the statement. They also reflected on the meaning of vision and

mission by illustrating their own vision and mission.

Creating the “Mission and Vision” by Kindergarten students

After the students of all kindergarten sections brain stormed about the vision and mission statement they collec-

tively discussed and came up with the final product– THE VISION AND MISSION STAEMENT OF KINDERGAR-

TEN 2016-17.

CAS initiative by Kindergarten– The students of KG celebrated

the Global Hand wash Day and spread awareness about importance of

washing hands amongst students and support staff of the school

Students collected soaps and

distributed amongst the support

staff of the school. A special as-

sembly was organized for the

same.

Students teaching

the correct way of

washing hands

through jingle and

actions.

Students creating posters on importance of hand wash

Recapitulation of letters Oo and Uu was done through Jolly

Phonics and mind map

Students enhanced their vocabulary by using manipulatives like

flash cards, games, picture books, alphabet tray and story

books

They were involved in various learning engagements

Writing of letters Oo and Uu in the notebooks

Inquiry in English

Skills enhanced : Thinking and writing skills

Multiple intelligences: Verbal –linguistic and visual– spatial

Recapitulation of sounds of ‘O’ and ‘U’

Students were introduced to the concept of measurement by com-

paring size, length, weight and height through various learning en-

gagements

They understood about positions: Left and Right through activities

Formative assessment was done to assess their understanding on

numbers from 1 - 20

Inquiry in Numeracy

Skills enhanced: Thinking and research skills

Multiple intelligences: Verbal linguistic and visual-spatial

Concept of measurement

To introduce the concept of long and short the students were taken for nature

walk where they collected sticks of different sizes. Later in class they segregated

the sticks from longest to shortest.

Similarly for the concept of heavy and light objects were collected from the class

and sorted under the category of heavy and light.

Concept of left and right through ’Hokey Pokey song’ and hand

printing activity

Introduction to letter ‘ द’ through various learning engagements

Vocabulary building was done through mind-map

Students were involved in a group discussion on Festival “Dussehra”

and enjoyed doing a craft activity related to the festival

Writing of the letter ‘ द’ in the notebooks

Videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX5Y7YclfV8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaOkzKnDVBI

Inquiry in Hindi

Skills enhanced: Thinking, communication and writing skills

Multiple intelligences: Verbal linguistic and visual-spatial

Activities related to letter ‘द’

Learner Profile for the week was ‘Reflective’. Students displayed the learner profile of being reflective by making connections and creating a vision and mission statement for Kindergarten

Learner Profile

Music The students: continued practicing pitch variation exercises and vocal warm-up games were introduced to ‘Do Re Mi tapping song’ along with movements were introduced to simple music vocabulary tempo (fast/slow), pitch

(high/low), duration (long/short) and dynamics (loud/soft) played a body tapping game using different tempos began to sing the song ‘Sa se sagar ki lehren’ using different tempos

ICT

Students were introduced to the various special keys from the keyboard:

Power

Ctrl

Alt

Delete

They practiced the usage of these keys to switch on and switch off their laptops.

They also continued to practice mouse maneuvering skills from the following activi-

ties:

https://www.turtlediary.com/game/pattern-matching.html

http://www.knowledgeadventure.com/games/arkanoid/ http://www.turtlediary.com/kindergarten-games/puzzle-games/jumping-

monkey.html http://www.abcya.com/pumpkin_carving.htm http://www.abcya.com/make_a_pumpkin.htm

Specialists

Swimming Gala

Presentations

Special assembly on Dussera. Another assembly by students of Nursery

on building and nurturing relationships was enjoyed by our students.

UOI:

Encourage your child to reflect on his/her learning from the unit WHO WE ARE through illustrations/videos/photographs. We would request you to share the reflec-tions on the below mention padlet link

https://padlet.com/charujain1978/w3ha3w92cncu

English:

Use the suggested Jolly phonics link to do a recap of phonic sounds with your child:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2YAqhzaheE

Weekend homework

Warm Regards,

Charu Jain

Sameeksha Bhatt