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The 5th graders started to build a hot air balloon in Isai Ambalam school. We started gathering information how to make a hot air balloon. Then we watched some videos to make the hot air balloon. We found the reason why the...
Read out allToday I went to Isai Ambalam with the plan of starting Gardening ( Sat school – every Saturday, interested children will come to learn/build something new). At the end of the session, Varsha ( Old student of IsaiAmbalam) came to me to say...
Read out allNaveen and I showed a video on vertebrate and invertebrate animals to the 3rd and 4th graders. The differentiated birds, fish, amphibians, reptiles and mammals. The children were able to give examples for each of the categories. After watching the video, I...
Read out allA book with the collection of teachers reflections on teaching in Auroville schools was published by Saiier. The covers had EBD children had made in Isai Ambalam School.
Read out allWe had a created a system in STEM land(Udavi school). We started to put up logical puzzles which can be solved logically and as well mathematically. At first we did not have a board to pin the puzzle papers. So, we used...
Read out allShalini, student from 7th grade learned about circle in her textbook. She was learning the topics on chord, diameter, circumference and ratio between circumference and diameter. She used Geo Board(Montessori material) to learn these topics The Geoboard is a tool for exploring...
Read out allNew academic year.. New students… So, something should be new in the way I start my class too. The first thing which came to my mind was the PIPER animation video. I thought, it would be nice to begin with that video. But...
Read out allThe fifth graders of Udavi School started fractions, they used the material and created their own procedure. They picked cards(with proper fractions written on them) and found the required pieces and drew it on their note and exchanged stories amongst their groups....
Read out allOn Friday in Isai Ambalam School we conducted sports-day for the children. The tasks were sack race, lemon in the spoon, slow cycling, running race, three legged race and Tug of war. We started with the first standard class and conducted till...
Read out allThe 5th and 6th grade children at Isai Ambalam were preparing for the presentation on the last day for their parents. We decided that they can perform2 presentations(Water EBD and Skeleton) and a demo on Measurements. The 12 children were equally split...
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