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First the class started with how many plants 5th graders wanted to plant in the garden. Then we decided to plant one plant for each foot. The problem started there. Children doesn’t know how much a foot is. Then the conversation went...
Read out allI introduced the Dienes blocks to the 3rd graders to get a sense of ones, tenths and hundreds. Each cube is one, a rod is a ten and plate is a hundred. I asked them the following questions How many cubes can...
Read out allChildren were supporting each other while building a design in Kapla and were very concentrated in building it. They were creative and encouraged each other while building it. They had lot of perseverance and patience while doing it and at the same time...
Read out allIn Isai Ambalam school we showed Arvind gupta video for the 4th and 5th graders. They saw the video and noted down the materials that are needed to build a simple motor. First day they built and it didn’t rotate. They were...
Read out allThe 3rd grade children of Isai Ambalam School collected different leaves from the school campus. They were able to differentiate the shapes, colour and texture of the leaves. We watched a video on why leaves change yellow in colour. They got to...
Read out allChildren learned to say and write multiplication and its two division story. They formed teams and each team presented their stories to the class. Here are the charts made by them.
Read out allSaturday school already started with disappointment when the hot air balloon again failed to raise up. Then we thought of finishing with what we started. The garden which we built has to be filled with soil to plant plants. It was somewhat...
Read out allPratap and myself were working on a project to create a software which tracks the students learning plan. We did it in Django. Before students were filling their daily plan and weekly plan in an excel sheet. Typing in it was difficult...
Read out allOn Wednesday children had a sleepover in the school. On that day there was a power cut . Children didn’t bring their torch from their home. It was very dark and we had only one torch. They managed with that torch for...
Read out allThe children worked on the process of adding two numbers in order to make split at the total to 10 + the remainder. The children used to Abacus to visually see the two numbers and its remainder. Then they paired up with...
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