The objective of the Reading Webinar and workshop was to share with parents some key reading routines and effective reading strategies for developing reading as a habit along with the basics of phonics and spelling strategies. The workshop webinar helped parents learn the importance of reading strategies and other such simple activities to teach children that reading is a useful skill in today’s world and to understand how it helps children in all areas of school. Parents got a clear overview on how the phonic skills are reinforced and the various activities associated with them especially for word pronunciation and spelling of words. Ms. Supriya Mohe and Ms. Rakhi Pande gave an insight to parents about various reading strategies, how these are taught and reinforced at school and what parents can do to support the same at home. The session was interactive with activities using a Mentimeter poll, Padlet link and the chat box to engage the parents with active participation from them. Ms. Lorraine answered parent queries at the end of the workshop.
s a part of a usual practice during the live sessions, year 2 students are introduced to two new words, every week! They are not only made aware of the definition of these words, but are also encouraged to frame sentences, using them. It is an absolute delight to see them using these words, appropriately, in sentences and sharing them via chat box on MS Teams, during the morning registration time.
The student’s creativity evident through colourful paper fan decorations or Lantern made by following the written instructions, one by one! Their concentration and enthusiasm during this live session was truly commendable!
Let’s enter the world of Dino!!
Children enjoyed dressing up as their favourite dino and excitedly shared their dinosaur report on the padlet wall. The benefits of reading with young children impact them for the rest of their lives. Hence, story time is an integral part of developing both, the Literacy and social skills among the students. This event beautifully met the said purpose with all the teachers and the students elegantly dressed in vibrant pajamas, cuddling their favourite stuffed toy and reading an extremely engaging story! Books are a stairway to our imagination!! Teachers and students actively reading the story in their Pyjamas. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a play is worth a million words. The theatrical show on Aladdin and the magic lamp organized by Shakespeare for kidz had the children listening with curiosity and watching with memorization. Children were engrossed watching the characters as they enacted and sang with perfect clarity and emotion. The entire setting, costume and music took children to the magical world. The objective is to develop social, personal and drama skills in the children. The children laughed, sang and applauded showing their love for theatre.
Learning English by communicating, drawing, working on activities etc is what children of Year 1 demonstrated to their parents. They played the role of teachers presenting the activities and working in teams with zeal. The theme was based on fairy tales and children and teachers were dressed as their favourite fairy tale characters. The children sang a lovely song as a starter. A plethora of activities like cross word puzzle, enacting a character, creating your own setting etc. Parents were amazed to see the length and depth at which a language can be covered in a classroom. The grand finale with a quiz using PPT had the parents putting on their thinking caps to answer the questions. Parents were delighted to see their little ones as confident little teachers and it was reflected in their feedback.
The students of year 1I presented the assembly on Reading. Children were encouraged to read anytime anywhere. This will help them to keep themselves occupied with constructive learning as well as improve their vocabulary. Through this wonderful act the shining stars of 1I helped everyone to know the importance of reading and how it can give them confidence and further build up their personality.
Indeed, a proud moment to the watch the little ones enact with zeal and confidence. |
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