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The Speaking Woods
In this Edition of The Speaking Woods
Principal Desk
Upcoming Events and Competitions
Highlights for the month of March
Students’ Corner
Photo Gallery
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Principal Desk
Dear Parents,
Greetings from Smrti Academy!
We are reaching the fag end of the academic year with online revisions taking place in full swing for the ensuing final
exams. Children, as usual, await the summer break, a time to recuperate and refresh. This year has been exceptionally strenuous
for them, given the pandemic and the added burden to get adapted to a fully online system of learning and exams. There cannot
be a more deserving break than this one. Parents inclusive, do enjoy the days off.
Schedule for the final exam has been uploaded on CoolG and the PTM has been fixed on 19th April 2021. Time slot will be shared
shortly with all of you. PTM would be the time to take stock of your child’s performance and progress over the last one year. It
would certainly help you guide her/his academic growth. Hence, I request all of you to attend the PTM and discuss your child’s
progress in detail with the class teachers. We need to focus on the Learning Journey of the child and not just the marks.
The school will reopen on 4th June 2021. The institution is fully geared for both online/offline classes depending on the unfolding
COVID-19 situation. Orientation for parents shall be conducted on 29th May, details of which would be uploaded on CoolG. Any
feedback, suggestions or comments from your side to help improve the school is more than welcome. We keep making sincere
efforts to make the school a better place to learn, grow and bloom. Additionally, if you feel that certain things are going on well,
please do not hesitate to share that too, so that we keep continuing with those good practices.
I wish good luck to all my loving Smrtians for the coming Final exams and happy holidays to all of you. Let’s welcome the new
academic year with lots of hope and optimism, that’s in store for us, while we start a fresh journey. Have a safe, happy and fruitful
vacation!
Regards
Lily Sahay
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Principal.
Upcoming Events and Competitions
Good Friday – 02/04/2021
Term 2 Exams – 05/04/2021 to 12/04/2021
Ugadi – 13/04/2021
Tamil New Year – 14/04/2021
Summer Vacation starts from 13/04/2021
School reopens on 04/06/2021
Art by,
Aabha Parnekar, Grade - VI
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Highlights for the month of March
Grade 1
Montessori sessions
Grade 1 children continued with geometry work in the month of March’21. After working in detail with various shapes, appreciating
their similarities and differences, children learnt to write definitions of shapes in their own words based on their understanding
and observation. Creating their own definitions engage the children actively in learning of concepts and also provide opportunities
to develop literacy and express ideas.
We introduced Roman letters to children. Writing in Roman numerals is almost like writing in code or hieroglyphics, that make
math fun and engaging. It provides new representation of number and combines math with history. Learning Roman letters also
is a reinforcer for place values, addition, and subtraction concepts.
Zookeeper activity
The children were asked to make a zoo brochure imagining themselves as the zookeepers and sticking/drawing the pictures of
animals they want to keep in their zoo. Children also wrote a few fun facts about the animals. This activity provided children a
creative expression along with learning about zoo and facts about animals.
Grade 2 to 4
For Grade 4, Hindi recitation activity was conducted so that children would be able to recite with flow and rhythm the lines of the
poem learnt by them as a part of the lesson.
Revision for annual exams is going on in full swing. Revision in all the subjects were conducted through oral and written tests,
worksheets. Children are revising the concepts in a fun way through quizzes and games.
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Grade 5 to 7
Grade 5
In EVS an activity was conducted on the topic - Monuments of India. The children were able to speak and write about the monument
of their choice and present it in the class. Hindi as 2nd language, an activity was conducted on the topic – Vishesh kshamta vale
log (specially abled people) to learn about specially abled people who with their determination and will power have triumphed in
leading a successful life. Children spoke about specially abled people who have become a source of inspiration for others. For 3rd
language, an activity was conducted for the topic – Hindi Varnamala. Students presented the correct sequence of letters of Hindi
Varnamala in the form of a chart.
Grade 6
For Grade 6, an activity in Geography was conducted on the different crops grown in different parts of India during different
seasons. The children presented the collected information in the form of a scrapbook. For English, the teacher and students had
fun doing acrostic poems and in Mathematics, a discussion on mirror images of objects was conducted.
The students didn’t want to miss a class photo, they had fun ways to get an end of the year photo with their teachers and friends
as a souvenir of this pandemic year.
Grade 7
In Grade 7, for Geography, the students did mapwork as activity wherein they marked the different grasslands of N. America and
Africa as well as the countries that are part of the Sahara. Also, a comparison chart was prepared as an activity to study the effect
of weather and climatic conditions on the lives of people living in Shimla and Jaisalmer. A map activity was done in History as well,
where the students marked the places of Importance in the Mughal Empire and eighteenth-century political powers. For Social
and Political life, the students gathered information on various aspects of Chipko Andolan and presented it in the form of a report.
In English, a game of word-building on 6 or more lettered words related to nature was played. An activity on listening and
summarising was also done. In Mathematics, the students made an inkblot pattern and identified the number of lines of symmetry
in it.
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Students’ Corner
The Grey Fountain – Story about nature care
Once upon a time, a boy was walking through a wood and he thought he heard someone crying while
singing. Following the sound, he came to a big, round, mysterious, grey fountain. The sad sobbing
seemed to be coming from the fountain pool. The boy swept aside the pool's dirty surface water
and saw a group of grey fish swimming in a slow circle in the pond. With each lap they made,
their little voices opened and out came the sobbing sound.
Amused by this, the boy tried to catch one of these incredible talking fish. But when he stuck
his arm into the water it turned grey right up to the elbow. As this happened, a huge sadness
entered into him, and he suddenly understood how sorrowful the fish were feeling. He felt like how the earth felt; dirty and
contaminated.
He quickly pulled his arm out of the water, and ran from that place. But the arm stayed grey, and the boy continued feeling sad.
He tried so many times to cheer himself up, but nothing worked. That was, until he realised that if he were to make the Earth
happy then that happiness would be, in turn, transmitted back to him, through the earth on his arm.
From then on, he set about looking after the countryside. He cared for the plants, he did what he could to keep the water from
being polluted, and he encouraged others to do the same. He was so successful that his hand started to recover its normal colour.
When the grey had disappeared completely, he started feeling happy again, and he decided to go and visit the fountain. When he
was still some way from the fountain, he could hear the fish singing happily, and he heard them joyfully splashing in the crystal-
clear waters of that magic fountain.
It was plain to see that the Earth had returned to its original happiness; and the boy felt even happier at the sight.
Moral Value of the story: Caring for the environment is a cause for real happiness.
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