SPOORTHI – SESSION 5

Session- 5 of Spoorthi on 12th Feb' 2011, Saturday was a blend of many activities such as Yoga, Power point presentation, reading skills , visit to the library and reading newspapers.

It created an aura of excitement in the teaching learning transactions. Ms. Usha Rajyalakshmi, Ms. Bala and Ms. Mani with eleven students of IBDP 11 Rohit, Apoorv, Anisha, Ansh, Phanindra, Ashish, Mounika, Laxmi, Karthik, Rohan, and Akshay had the great privilege of teaching the children of Spoorthi in school.

Reading Skills:

In reading skills the children enjoyed knowing the importance of reading newspapers and going through the different sections of the Library.

During this session it was observed that only 25% of the children of our sub staff get newspapers at home. Some enjoy reading crime, some politics, some local news and some entertainment.

They were made aware of the other articles and columns in the newspaper such as weather forecast, letter to the editor, classifieds, international news, national news, local news and kid’s corner.

Visit to the Shomie R Das Learning Resource Center:

Ms Bala spoke to the children on the importance of reading books, how books are circulated in the library, the arrangement of books for easy location and also the code of conduct to be observed in the library. She was surprised when the children asked her for Harry Potter series. Their joy knew no bounds when they saw a wide variety of books displayed.

ICT – Introduction to Power Point

Ms Usha Rajyalaksmi simultaneously taught them the basics of Power Point in the ICT session.

 It was very interesting to see how fast learners they were. The IB students assisted the children to animate objects, copy and paste, slide transition etc.

Health and fitness – Yoga

Ms Mani our Yoga teacher taught the children the meaning and benefits of Yoga. She highlighted the importance of warm up before doing Yoga. She also taught them the ‘Surya Namaskar’.

All the students had snacks after the Yoga class.

Reflections of IBDP  Co coordinator  and the students:

Mr. Biju , the IBDP Coordinator visited the ICT and Reading Skills class and enlightened the students on the importance of reading newspaper and use of technology in education. He emphasized on the fact how newspapers have an edge over television in providing us information.

Ms.Rubina,
SPOORTHI Coordinator