JUNIOR WING'S MILESTONES 2020-21 (VOL 2)

Milestones of Junior Wing @ Silver Oaks Hyderabad 2020-21 Vol:2



LAKSHMI SHOBHA LAVANYA

CULTURE TO APPRECIATE Respected Dhanunjaya sir, You have always been an ideal person, considering your behavior and the way you contribute towards this country’s welfare in fulfilling your part as a responsible citizen. Your disciplined attitude makes us all respect you and dream of becoming like you. You show us the right path and are appreciative as well. You have provided us the platform to continue with our learning in the pandemic time Anything would be less for you, but we want to do, what we can, so a big thank you from us for your immeasurable love and devotion. Once again Thank you sir! Respected Principal Ms.Seetha Murty ma’am, You have always been a pillar of support for students. Your ambitious and amiable attitude derives all of us to be pioneers of the future like you. Throughout these online classes you have been the light in the darkness for us. You have shown us a path with our character and competence focused and developed with determination. Thank you for all you have done for us and we students of Silver Oaks express our gratitude. Respected Ms.Shobha ma’am, You have made this a very fruitful year for all of us. Productive enough and creative enough for our learning in online school. You were impeccably authentic when it comes to giving advice, suggestion and trying to bring up scope of improvisation in our ideas. We the grade 6 students are very thankful from the bottom of our heart for all the hard work you did for us.

CULTURE TO APPRECIATE Dear Shailaja mam, I thank you for making this year a wonderful and an amazing year. Many projects were introduced, through these projects we developed our skills and knowledge. Thanks for giving us excellent ideas to exchange our skills and intelligence. Once again, I thank you a lot for helping us come this far. Dear Annapurna mam, Thank you for providing us with all the knowledge and moral support. The passion you have for your job and what you teach us is the best. Your positivity and encouragement brightened our days. Thank you for emboldening us. We will miss you next year, hope you can stay our teacher forever. You will always be our best teacher. Dear Pragya Mam, You not only taught us all about academics but also taught us about the different walks of life and how to be brave and to face any circumstances in our life. Quoting to Who we are you made us mentally strong, Thanks for being my teacher in 5th grade. Dear Padmavati ma’am, Thank you for leading us in this very challenging year. You always encouraged us to face the challenges and helped us become who we are. You not only ensured, we fared well in academics, but also worked towards improving our character, behaviour and confidence. We are blessed to have a multi-talented teacher like you. My heartfelt thanks to you for making this an exciting, educative, and enthusiastic year for all of us. Dear Rohini mam, You are an open minded, funny and a caring person, it must be hard teaching all the 25 students just at once and also posting the tasks on time, joining the meet in time even if you have not so good internet thank you for teaching us wonders in this academic year. Dear Padmavathi mam, Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. And we think you are the perfect fit for this profession. You always push us to do the impossible things possible. We feel so fortunate to have you as our teacher. We are thankful to you for giving us the courage to face our future learnings. “Thank you” will not be sufficient to express our gratitude towards you. Dear Radhika ma’am, You are a multitalented and a responsible ma’am. We all enjoyed your company and your great lessons. You made learning very easy and helped us to become better human beings. You always encouraged us to do good and to try out new things. It was indeed lucky having you as our teacher. We all Cubans thank you for being a wonderful teacher and a friend. Dear Madhavi ma’am, I am Happy because you were really kind to us. You never scolded us or made us feel sad. You Were a guide, a teacher, and a best friend to us. You were active, friendly, and you explained us well. Thanks a lot. You are The Best Teacher!!

CULTURE TO APPRECIATE Dear Neerajakshi Ma’am, Thank you for all the extra efforts you make to help us grow, and the challenges you encourage us to face to help us become who we are. We are fortunate to have a super multitasking educational Rockstar who lives to inspire and loves to encourage. Ma’am, you are not only our teacher, but you are also our friend, authority, and guide, all rolled into one person. Your positive impact will stay with us always. Dear Rashmi mam, I am so thankful for you about the learning and learner profile you have taught us. I am so glad to have you as my “HRT”. You are so kind to people. You are active, kind and more. I am so lucky to have you YOU ARE THE BEST!! Dear Pratiba ma’am, we thank you from our bottom of the heart for your dedication and teaching efforts especially during these pandemic times. Your dedication, coordination helped us to learn in online classes smoothly without any disturbance even though we have few challenges and hiccups. Your teaching skills, patience, discipline made us to gain knowledge and complete our tasks on-time tirelessly. We are passionate for your teaching skills, discipline, and dedication, so keep inspiring and motivating us continuously. Dear Mita ma’am, We would like to thank you for all the hard work you did to teach us. We feel very happy to have you as our teacher. It would have been more awesome if we could meet in a live class and not a virtual class. We all again give you a big heartfelt thanks������������… Dear Jyothi mam, you are one of the best teachers for all of us. You are active, joyful, and yet strict. You have a helping nature towards your students. You have worked hard to make us understand and learn. You made us a good learner and you are a wonderful teacher. Dear Sheeja mam, You are the most inspiring teacher we have ever met. You have created this online journey very productive and fun. You encouraged us to be good learners and supported us throughout this year. We all appreciate your patience and are very proud to have a teacher like you. Thanks a lot mam for your effort.

CULTURE TO APPRECIATE Dear Sunitha ma’am, You have worked so hard to shape us into what we are today. We feel so fortunate to have been placed in your class. You made many major changes in our lives and you’re a wonderful teacher... Thank you so much������… Dear Lavanya ma’am, Thank You for teaching us and helping us gain more knowledge this year. You have always been a pillar of support for us. Thank you for making us who we are today. You have helped us a lot and after this year we have developed many attributes and skills. We will miss you after this year. Through your positivity, we were able to enjoy online classes and take our minds off the pandemic. Hope you can stay as our teacher forever. Dear Suparna mam, You are multitalented and more greater than anyone in this world. You give us company when we need it and make us comfortable in uncomfortable times. You have the greatest riches than anything and you make sure everyone has it too. Everyone says that education is the greatest wealth but what do they say about a person like you who shares that wealth. Dear Sonia Mam, You have always helped us to grow and become the best person we can be. You encouraged us to keep learning and make sure our head is held high. Because of you, we can learn, we are able to develop and most importantly, we are able to have character and competence. Thank you, Sonia Mam, for being the most amazing teacher in the world. KEEP ROCKING! Dear Sarita ma’am, Thank you for being one of the best teachers we had. You had given us understanding on which we could go further in academics and life. It has been a great pleasure for me and my class for having such a great teacher who has motivated us from the starting of the year to the end. Thank you for being such a great teacher and guiding us to the right path. Beloved Siromani mam, Thank you is just not enough for the way you lead us in the journey of grade six. We have enjoyed your company and support throughout the academic year. You always have corrected our mistakes and appreciated our work. You were always a responsible and punctual teacher. We feel we are very lucky to have a teacher like you….thank you mam.

CULTURE TO APPRECIATE Dear Jahnabi ma’am, I thank you for being such an amazing teacher and for all your great lessons. I feel so lucky to have you in my class. You have amazed and inspired me daily and for that I am very thankful because you-are truly a wonderful teacher. Dear Meena ma’am, you are very kind and polite to us. You are one of the polite teachers we had ever known. You are a very kindhearted ma’am and always have a nature to help everyone. You explain us very neatly and explain us very clearly. We are always fans of your teaching. Thank you for being a very kind, fun and polite teacher������������������……... Dear Shanti mam, From being one of the most beloved teachers to being a French expert who is respected and admired by everyone in the school, you have been a role model, always, for us. French language has fascinated us for a long time, and you have been a bridge to that paradise. Mam a big thank you for training our young minds into models for a bright future ahead using the beautiful language French. Dear Hima Priya Ma’am, Thank you for making your classes special and interesting with your innovative teaching. Learning from you has been a pleasure. The tips that you taught us to enhance learning will help us even in future math classes. We loved how you always related the lessons to real life examples that would make more logical sense. Thank you for helping us by going that extra mile as a teacher and giving extra classes. Thank you for sharing your precious expertise, time, and talent. Without your relentless efforts we would not have been what we are today. Dear Rama mam, Thank you for your hard work to teach us telugu. You always teach us in detail and help us if needed. We all thank you for all your patience and dedication to teach us telugu. Dear Sarita ma’am, We all are very thankful for your great determination and hard work done by you to make us all learn Hindi in an incredibly fun manner. We all love you no matter what happens. Thank you so much ma’am for the work you did for all of us.

CULTURE TO APPRECIATE Lakshmi ma’am makes us improve and gives us very helpful suggestions to make us ace in that. There are valuable lessons, and she tries to inculcate very good qualities through her explanation. She truly justifies the mantra of a guider, and a true Guru. We should thank every teacher for their efforts and tremendous contributions for nurturing us. Dear Suchita ma’am, मंै अपने प्रिय सहपाप्रिय ों के सामने एक बार प्रिर खुद क व्यक्त करने की खुशी में अपनी खुशी महसूस कर रहा हूँ । मुझे आप जैसे प्रशक्षक पर गर्व है I यह र्र्व मेरा सबसे सिल र्र्व रहा। इस र्र्व मंैने आपके और अपने द स् ों के साथ प्रमलकर खूब मस्ी की। इस र्र्व क सिल बनाने के प्रलए आपका धन्यर्ाद .. De9ar Jyothi ma’am, You helped prepare us for the road ahead in life. We admire the way you teach us. We can use the things you taught us when we are speaking hindi or when we are listening to stories. We all appreciate you for the effort you put into teaching us. धन्यर्ादाःा उपाध्याया , भर्ती अपाकृ ता सोंशयान् , अनुग्रहा र्तवसे I अतीर् अर्ाप्तर्त् , उपकारका च आसीःा I भूररतर धन्यर्ादााः अध्यापनाय I Dear Rama ma’am, You are the epitome for patience. You see that everything is in its place and coordinate with teachers and parents. You are prompt in sending us the certificates every month. Whenever we had google classroom issues, they have been immediately addressed by you without any delay which helped us to continue our classes without any interruption. Thanks a lot ma’am. Dear Mr. Praveen, Thanks for teaching us Spanish. It is a difficult language to learn, but with your activities and support, you made learning Spanish easy. You are the best Spanish teacher we have. Gracias por enseñarnos español. Es un idioma difícil de aprender, pero con sus actividades y apoyo, hizo que aprender español fuera fácil. Eres el mejor profesor de español que tenemos.

ART CLASS – ZENTANGLES We had a lot of fun on this online learning journey. This year, it was nice and enthusiastic. I loved Happy Month the most. We had so much fun in the happy month. We had art, music, dance, etc. Let me speak about art. We had a lot of fun in art. We made greeting cards and we learnt about Zentangles. Zentangles is another form of art. This month we learnt how to do Zentangles. Here is a student’s work on Zentangles. Zentangles is practice for focus and relaxation. People use it as a relaxing and fun way to create beautiful images by drawing structured patterns. We call these tangles. We create tangles of simple lines, dots, and curves. People practice Zen tangles for stress and anxiety relief, for improving eye-hand coordination, nurturing, and developing creativity, etc. Art has many benefits and Art is fun. Art has many benefits too. SAI SASHREEK CANADA, GRADE V

GUEST LECTURES FOR PYP EXHIBITION We had a lot of opportunities this year even in this lockdown. One of them is our PYP exhibition. The theme we were given for the PYP exhibition was “How we express ourselves” which literally means about how we can express ourselves indirectly through artforms.so, we needed to depict our research through artforms. All the art specialists have given us guidance. It all started with the PYP ORIENTATION by Shoba Mam. Art: Lavanya ma’am, the art specialist for drawing gave us guidance by giving us tips of how our drawing must look and she also showed us different types of drawings as examples and gave examples using different issues. Craft: Geetha ma’am, the art specialist for craft helped us with making our backgrounds and puppets. She showed us different types of puppets we can make like hand puppets, stick puppets, string puppets and finger puppets. She also showed us how to make them and she also showed what it is. Story Telling: Divya ma’am, the art specialist for storytelling also the librarian told us a small story about covid-19 and gave us an example of how to modulate our voice and how to make our story more interesting and attractive. Music: Stanley sir, the art specialist for music helped us make our lyrics. He helped us to understand all the parts of a song and how to make sure that the lyrics are relevant to our topic. A great thanks to all the teachers. AKSHAYA GREECE, GRADE VI

HAPPY MONTH - DANCE CLASS Dancing is the joy of movement and the heart of life. As we know this year turned upside – down, we still managed ourselves with new entertainment and activities. Firstly, I would like to thank my teachers for making this year awesome. It was interesting when school started naming the months like - July Project, August Rising, October Mantras and November is called Happy month. In this Happy month we did many activities like dancing, drawing, crafts and many more. Let us know about dance in the happy month. We had many dance activities during the happy month (November). Every day in the breakout session we had one activity. But one day when we heard that the activity was dance, the girls were excited. But whereas the boys were feeling sad as they did not like dancing. But the boys also had a good opportunity to present the music. Soon all the boys lined up raising their hands to present. But even some boys liked to dance so they got an extra opportunity to present and dance. Finally, I would like to say that dancing is fun. We loved it and dancing is a good exercise. GEETANSH KARTIKEYA ARGENTINA, GRADE V HUMAN CALCULATOR COMPETITION Human calculator is a competition judging our speed and accuracy. It started late this academic year because of the pandemic. We were quite happy when it started again in the month of November. It was conducted either through kahoot or google forms. We had winners every week. Human calculator’s questions are the questions that are from the topics we completed in the class. Winners are declared immediately after the competition. ROHAN CHANDRA COLOMBIA, GRADE V

HAPPY MONTH - GAMES A game is a structured form of play. Usually, games are for entertainment and fun but sometimes an educational tool. There are 4 main components of a game - goals, rules, challenge, and interaction. In few of the breakout sessions we played games like queen of Sheba, tombola, etc. In the queen of Sheba, one person chooses a topic and others to ask questions about the topic to figure out the term the former is thinking about in the form of yes or no questions. The person who identifies the word will be the next queen of Sheba. There is also another game where the teacher asks the students to find a few objects, whoever finds the object first is the winner. The games conducted were very fun and refreshed our minds. KRISTAM ARYAN BRAZIL, GRADE V SANSKRIT LANGUAGE Sanskrit is the mother of all Indian languages. Ancient Indian literature is written in Sanskrit. Famous Epic like Ramayana, Mahabharata, Bhagavatam, The 4 Vedas and many more literatures are written in Sanskrit. The ancient Indian literature is in Sanskrit. While learning Sanskrit language, we did many activities to learn new words. Example When we started learning numbers in Sanskrit, we did an activity where we had to make lemonade and sing numbers song as instructions to make a lemonade. Another example is we did Kahoot activities to remember The Matras and Varnamala of Sanskrit. It was fun, interesting and we learnt something. While learning Sanskrit, I learned many skills to develop like how to pronounce words or how to recognize which letter it is while Speaking. I would finally like to say that Sanskrit is very interesting because we can learn or understand many ancient Scripts. LALITHA MEXICO, GRADE V

COMMUNICATION IS POWER – SPEAKER@SO Those who have mastered its effective use, can change their own experience of the world and the world’s experience of them. Speaker@SO helps the acorns of Silver Oaks to master out communication skills. Let me walk you through Speaker@SO and its advantages. A general or subject related topic will be given to speak in 2 to 3 minutes every week. We will be given some pointers to build our speech. Each student will participate effectively to gain confidence and to come out of stage fear. We will be judged based on the criteria - topic relevance, pronunciation, voice modulation, audibility, body language and confidence. Speaker@SO not only improves our speaking skills, but it also improves our presentation skills, thinking skills and listening skills. We usually present our speech in our classroom one after the other. So, while our peers give their speech, we listen carefully, we respect and get to know multiple perspectives. We prepare our speech with the help of the pointers given and present our speech with proper introduction, main content, and a conclusion. Speaker@SO builds good communication skills which includes (listening, friendliness, open mindedness, confidence, and gestures) at a very young age. We also gain the ability to appreciate other’s thoughts with open mindedness. In the month of November 2020 (Happy Month) the topic for Speaker@SO was “Our favorite animal or plant”, in which each of us has chosen a different animal and plant and spoken about its specialty, origin and few facts about it. From this we gained more knowledge apart from our academics. I strongly believe that “Good communication will help in getting - better response, more productivity, strong decision making, quick in problem solving, consistency in the workflow and better control”. SAANVI COSTA RICA, GRADE V

HINDI IS THE REPRESENTATION OF INDIA Hindi language is just like the backbone of India, it is said to be the 2nd most spoken language, we the acorns of silver oaks learn many languages like Spanish, French, Telugu, Sanskrit, and finally Hindi. We acorns learn Hindi, firstly to enhance our speaking skills and secondly to show gratitude and respect towards our nation. To make learning more interesting our Hindi teachers, make us do some activities to learn faster and understand the concept. One of the activities was Hindi word hunt, where we were given a few hard words and you had to find them in the grid. Through these activities we also enhanced our skills, and we were not only given activities for learning but also were given activities to enjoy ‘Happy Month’. During such a wonderful time in happy month, we all dance, sing, dress up like some characters…. our Hindi teachers also did some contribution in making happy month even more exhilarating. In every breakout session we used to wait for the Hindi activities, the activities were mostly puzzles and riddles. Though all the puzzles and riddles were in Hindi we still enjoyed solving them. We had to do a lot of brainstorming to solve those riddles and puzzles. We too played name, place, animal, and thing, and that was our favorite activity. We spent quality time with our Hindi teachers, and we thank them for keeping up our enthusiasm and making every breakout session great. We all love learning Hindi. ARADHYA CUBA, GRADE V FRENCH LANGUAGE We learn the French interactively along with my friends and teacher, French is interesting because there is much to explore in it, and it is a new learning. This new learning will benefit us in the future in many ways. I feel the French language is wonderful, but a little hard to remember the grammar but all the hard work is worth it in the end. I want to express that .........French is one of the 6500 languages in the world. It has its own beauty of the language, and I appreciate it very much because we are all learning French, we are daily exploring new grammar, words, sentences, and it makes us feel like good inquirers! RAM ARYAN AUSTRIA, GRADE VI

“LEARN TELUGU LOVE TELUGU” Telugu has its own script and is among the ancient native languages of India with history of more than 1500 years old. Telugu is considered as “Italian of the east” as each Telugu word ends with vowels, making it a beautiful poetic language. Learning a language requires a great deal of effort. Activities help students to have a better learning environment in the class. Activities would also help students to sustain the effort they have put in learning the language. They provide practice to the language in various skills - Speaking, Writing, Listening and Reading. They would also improve the creative and thinking skills of students. In this academic year we had many activities to make our learning, Telugu, more interesting. Here are some such activities: Picture Stories: We were asked to interpret a story based on a picture sequence. Creative writing helps students in the development and presentation of thoughts in a structured way. It can develop students’ confidence in writing and improve students’ vocabulary, thoughts and ideas. Drama and Role-play: We did a skit virtually based on the story book “పిల్వల ాడు డప్పు “and showcased our acting talent. Drama provides an useful and enjoyable medium to discover language. Acorns could express themselves in a variety of ways and each one of us enjoyed doing this activity. Draw a Story: We were asked to create a Picture Story based on the lesson “నాన్న బళ్ళో చేరడం “from the model book. Drawing a story helps students to practice storytelling and gain confidence in the depth and quality of their ideas. Neethi Padyalu ( నీతి పద్యా లు ) : We have recited some beautiful moral poems along with its meaning in Telugu.

Moral Stories: We learnt morals from our lessons like “చేతనైన్ విద్ా “and “అవును నిజం “. Moral stories are the best way to teach students moral values and life lessons. It also inculcates good manners, social behavior, and respect for elders. Transdisciplinary Language (Telugu) : We made connections to different Transdisciplinary themes through Telugu language. We have explored aspects of civilizations and the components of music by integrating with Telugu Language. SOHAN PERU, GRADE V SPANISH LANGUAGE ACTIVITY In the Month of Synergized September, we had Spanish sessions in Breakout sessions with our Spanish Expert Mr. Praveen Kumar Hamsa sir. We came to about sweet little tourist and family conversations, Bright colors, Different types of food cuisine and Spanish skits also speeches about ourselves in unique ways such as conversations and skits with friends and comprehending and understanding meaning of each word while the conversations and making sentences with food types. IPSITA CANADA, GRADE V GAMES IN HAPPY MONTH During the Month of November, which is a complete celebration of CHILDREN’S DAY, our teachers have played a crucial role and involved in giving us suggestions upon the games. They gave many exciting and fun games such as: QUEEN OF SHEBA → SIMON SAYS →CHALLENGES. Our teachers were giving all of us different games to play online. All the games were fun, exciting, and engaging to all of us during the BOS {BREAK-OUT SESSIONS}. Thanks to all the innovation and contribution of our teachers as well as a few ideas given by the students, we enjoyed and made the celebration of the HAPPY MONTH NOVEMBER more fun and it took a place in our memory lane of 5th and 6th grades. SHRIYADITHA VENEZUELA, GRADE V

THEATRE IN EDUCATION In the month of November, we had theatre in education. We had fun while we were also learning and demonstrating our skills. We exhibited the skit on a novel called “THE MERRY ADVENTURES OF HARSHABARDHAN AND GOBARDHAN’. We all read the chapters we wanted to display, then we all communicated and wrote a skit. We gave everyone equal opportunities to participate and prepare the skit which is called open-minded people. We gave equal dialogues to everyone so that our skit will be beautiful. We also had fun by discussing and preparing the dialogues on our own. This activity also helped us to improve our confidence and leave our stage fear behind us. We saw many trailers and promos for an idea. Then we created our group promo. Then after preparing our dialogues, we were ready to create our video. We created the video, and we exhibited our project to our parents, teachers, and friends. Our teachers were very helpful and were our guides. They were also a part of our project. They took every step with us. The month of November was very nice and wonderful. We all students enjoyed every minute of this activity. It took a precious place in our hearts. SAMYUKTA SWITZERLAND, GRADE VI BEST STUDENT CERTIFICATE AND BEST HANDWRITING CERTIFICATE Every month in each of our classes, our teachers select the best student of the class, best English handwriting of the class and best handwriting in 2nd language. There is a particular criterion we need to follow to get them. For the best student, it is the student- who turned in the work in time by completing it, who is well behaved in the class and who is regular to the classes with the camera on. Meanwhile, for handwriting, it is legible and neat handwriting. When students are selected based on the above criteria, on 15th of every month, HRT’s post the certificates for everyone to see it for the corresponding student. It is an amazing thing, and everyone can get the certificates if they try. This is kind of motivation to improve ourselves. AMAY GERMANY, GRADE VI

CHARACTER FIRST AND COMPETENCE NEXT – A TALK BY PRINCIPAL MS. SEETHA MURTY Principal's speech - take away - character first and competence next-: The first step into our schoolhouse is Character First and Competence Next and we implement it by using inside out approach. The Inside Out approach can be explained as, how we control our inner emotions, & thoughts, and how we are going to express it through actions in the out approach. To build character and competence, learner profile acts as a backbone. The learner profile has different attributes which are Inquirer, knowledgeable, open-minded, thinker, communicator, principled, caring, risk-takers, balanced, and reflective. For example, when I am being principled, I am naturally developing character and competence. Competence can help us finish the finish line, but it always will not help us cross the line, again and again, that is the reason we should build both character first and competence next. RAM ARYAN AUSTRIA, GRADE VI READING FOR FLUENCY A book is a man’s best friend. Reading is very important for us as it expands our mind and helps us evaluate ideas and creativity. It also increases our vocabulary and comprehension skills. Our school helps us in reading by having “reading for fluency” practices in our classes. We get our novels, and our teacher conducts it. We improve in reading day by day with this engagement. It not only develops our reading skills but also our knowledge on a particular topic. Our teachers have a criterion -volume, clarity, fluency, expression, and posture which determines our reading ability. Not only English but we have reading in language, social and many more subjects. Our school has this culture called “culture to read” where it says, we learn to read and read to learn. It also boosts our fluency levels. We use books, newspapers, articles, or any reading material to extend our reading skills. Our school strongly believes that reading is the only treasure which accompanies its owner everywhere and it is right. Our aim is to achieve good fluency in our reading! RUTWIKA DENMARK, GRADE VI

PROCESS OF PYP EXHIBITION First, we had an orientation with our head wing Shobha mam and came to know about the PYP Exhibition. Then we had chosen the different global issues to inquire about and were divided into groups. We, then, started inquiring into the global issues and have chosen 2 different art forms to present our global issue as the theme is How we Express Ourselves. After we chose the art forms, we have integrated different languages and connected them to the Global issues and even The 17 sustainable development goals. We have framed our lines of Inquiries and inquired. These lines of inquiry contain all our research work on our issue. Then we have connected the 17 sustainable development goals to our global issue. We have acquired different skills and also gained the learner profile while we are inquiring. Then we made a slideshow on our learning throughout the PYP Journey and finally explained it to our parents and teachers. NV ADITYA AND SUSHANTH CYPRUS, GRADE VI LAUNCH OF PROJECT GRADUATION In this academic month of February, we can view and assess the knowledge and skills gained by us in this academic year in a more appealing manner. In this very special year, instead of pen and paper test, we are going to create a website where we write about what all we have learned about. We can write about topics we found very interesting and write about them on this website we have created and add several images, videos, and other aesthetics at our convenience. Finally, we are supposed to present it in the month of March. The is focus is mainly on the skills that we acquired while developing the website. Discovering about this project graduation, has made us enthusiastic to explore more and start up on this project. This project graduation has made us creative. We all thank our dear principal, teachers, and staff to make this graduation project a unique one. ARYAN CHILE, GRADE V

CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS Christmas is a special day. It is celebrated worldwide as a festival but mostly celebrated by Christians. So there started a tradition of celebrating the 25th of December as Christmas day. If Christian or not, it is a happy day for everyone as it is a festival for everyone. So, in our school we had fun activities and many more before this pandemic arose. Now we are all in front of devices and seeing our friends and teachers virtually instead of physically which was a little bit less exciting. But we managed to scrape off good knowledge like this too through online classes. This academic year (2020-21) we needed to attend classes online on devices like laptops, phones, iPad etc. This action was taken due to the ongoing pandemic of covid-19. This Christmas we had a pleasant vacation and many fun online activities. We have made badges for our friends. Well almost. We made them in happy month, but it bought us a feeling that it was for Christmas. We had kahoots which made the day fun but also gave us knowledge. Well, if we keep all this aside, we had a fun filled and pleasant Christmas. YASHASVI, PORTUGAL GRADE VI GEARING UP FOR PROJECT GRADUATION From the month of February to March, we had sessions with our homeroom teacher and these sessions helped us to recollect everything we did in the inquiries. From all the sessions that we had, we made running notes which would help us make our website. So, for a few days, we organized our information and put it on our website. After completing, we sent the website to our homeroom teachers. Then, we were given a few days to prepare for our presentation of our website. So, for our presentation, we showed what knowledge we gained from UOI, Math, English, language, science big ideas and social. We are gearing up ourselves to talk about our extracurricular activities and all the skills that we developed while doing them. Next, we will present our overall reflection and what all we understood throughout our 6th academic year. Finally, to assess us, the audience would fill out a Google Form to give their valuable feedback on our presentation. It is really going to be a nice experience to have the freedom to show all our understandings in our own creative and fun way. ABHIRAM, ITALY GRADE VI

MATH MARATHON LEVELS 1 AND 2 Level-1 In level one of the Math Marathon, we answered the google form given to us by the teachers in the time duration of 40-45 mins. Once everyone submitted the form within 2-3 days, we got the results. From each class 5 students were selected to go to the next level. Level -2 We were given a particular date and time to join a link. Once we joined the link our teachers instructed about the essential agreements of Level - 2. We were supposed to finish the google form in 45 minutes. Once all the participants have submitted the google form in the span of 1-2 days, we got our results. And the students who performed well got filtered to the next level. NISCHAYA AND LOCHANA SWEDEN, GRADE VI MATH MARATHON LEVEL 3 Just last year, we started this wonderful competition called Math Marathon. It is a series of 4 levels. Each level gets more and more trickier and less time is given. It helps us improve our logical thinking as the math marathon is not only about math but also about logical solving. There are different types of sums in which, some questions can help us in real life and some questions help us in math and to improve our brain. Most of the sums are logical sums. People who got selected in the 1st marathon and people good in human calculators get selected to the 2nd round and from the second round we get selected to the 3rd round. ARJUN, BELGIUM GRADE VI MEGA MATH MARATHON The Mega Math Marathon was interesting. It showed us a completely different meaning of Math. In it we had 3 rounds, the first two in the morning and the last one in the afternoon. The teams- ������oneers, ������irates, Ⲫighters, Number ninjas, Number kings and Xecuters. In the first round we were challenged with 10 questions with around 5 minutes to answer. The second round was a google form with around 1 hour time to answer. Then we totaled our scores of levels

1 and 2 and 4 groups were selected out of the 6 for the round 3. The teams which got eliminated were Ⲫighters and Xecuters. In the round 3 one of our group mates got the access for a doc in which we were supposed to write the answers to questions given in a PDF. We got around 50 min to answer the questions together. After that we are now waiting eagerly for the results in which 1 team is going to be the winner and 1 team the runner up.I had a very great experience there. It was a completely new feeling to compete with others along with our own groupmates that too using Math. AMAY, GERMANY, GRADE VI RESULTS OF JUNIOR WING MEGA MATH MARATHON 20-21 It was the time when the Mathletes competed for the opportunity to show that they are the best at what they do and get that chance to be the winners. Congratulations to all the participants and finalists of the Mega Math Marathon 20-21. We would like to express our thanks to all the six teams for their participation this year. There was a tough competition among all the teams in the first two rounds to reach the final and deciding third round. FIRST RUNNER UP SECOND RUNNER UP PARTICIPANT TEAMS Hearty congratulations to each one of you who has participated in all the levels of Math Marathon. You have elevated the whole event to a totally new level with your quick computation and problem-solving skills!! Best Wishes, TEAM MATH MARATHON HIMA PRIYA CHOKKA, NEERAJAKSHI, MADHAVI DWADASI & JYOTHI NADIMPALLI

INTERESTING STRATEGIES FOR LEARNING We used many strategies in class for learning. The strategies were very exciting, engaging, and enjoyable. We were alert and listened to ma’am carefully to be on track and not miss any strategy...Here they are: 1.Strategy used on understanding of the topic: This strategy where ma’am asks us how much we understood the topic and if we are very clear, we give crystal clear. If we are not that clear, then we give a hand sign of medium. If we are not at all clear, then we give a thumbs down… 2. In this strategy, we have to group ourselves and then brainstorm upon all the 15 animal laws. We must pick any 5 of the laws and pen down our conclusion of . This is called think, group, and share strategy. Through, we developed communication skills and social skills. 3. This strategy is about cause and effect of conflict. In this strategy, we are supposed to form groups and then discuss kinds of conflict and their cause and effect. We chose a graphic organizer and noted down the important/key points. Example of a cause: Limited natural resources… 4. This strategy was used to learn geometry more clearly. We had to cut out arcs of different degree angles and paste them. We developed an understanding of the common standard – communicating mathematics though this activity. SAATVIKA FRANCE, GRADE VI

COINS FOR THE COUNTRY-ME AND MY COUNTRY WE GROW TOGETHER Me and My country we grow together is a mission driven into the hearts of the students and staff at Silver Oaks International. The school inspires by emphasizing on how each one of us can play a role in nation building. Just like every drop makes an ocean, every coin can help the country grow is the belief behind the initiative of coins for the country. The school believes that meaningful education can better the country. Children from 4 to 17 years are encouraged to save or earn coins in the earthen pots. Coins for the country this year was creative and nice. We were able to continue our school's tradition of coins for the country. Instead of using pots this year, we had used homemade pots or piggy banks to store the coins in a container. Every Friday, our class would drop money inside their pots. We were very excited to see how coins for the country would go on this year. PAVAN GERMANY, GRADE VI