Junior wing E-magazine 1.4

Milestones of Junior Wing @ Silver Oaks Hyderabad Vol:1 PC: KAVITHA 1

To begin, right from our summer vacation this year, We acorns of Silveroaks have done many tasks and activities in the month of April and May. We were given a lot of interesting tasks than the routine ones.We had many activities and had so much fun with our family. 2

We also had quizzes based on few novels and we read the “Times Of India” newspaper, solved puzzles in it and answered a few questions on the newspaper given by our teachers. We were also asked to render poems. 3

Grade V Chile The First Day of the Virtual Classroom This is the Month of the first few days of virtual classroom! It was very successful, mind blowing and hyperactive. We were bustling around trying to make good friends and have fun with them for a long time. Oh how noisy we were! I surely can say that it took us a long time to make friends but it was a great experience to unite as a class. We also found out that our teachers were very kind and cared about each and every one of us. We had a lot of fun together. 4

Grade V Canada The first day of the virtual class was very exciting, fun, amusing and interesting. We all were bouncing around the home for a perfect place to sit in and started chatting away with our friends about countless things. We were also a little nervous because it was the first day with friends we still have to know about but we took a very little time to start friendship with our classmates and our kind teacher. This month was the best month ever! 5

Online classes are enjoyable and a lot better than nothing in lockdown.Even though it is really interesting to study online, we are gaining a lot of knowledge. We are able to ask doubts just like in school. We are able to submit tasks, learn new things, do fun activities and collaborate with each other. 6

GRADE VI DENMARK Teachers are making everyday special for us even if we don't know how many problems they are facing, just to make us feel very joyful. Even though we don't understand what mam is saying as clearly as we used to understand in school, we try to keep up . 7

We felt very happy to see our friends and mam at first but after that, we felt a little sad because we are not in school.We are starting to like the online classes because of the Happy month activities and PYP exhibition. All this credit goes to our Mighty Silver oaks. Overall, we think that it is something we need to adjust to because it is turning into a \"new normal\" and make new memories with friends. 8

The Wellbeing session The first month of Online Classes was successful. Students were having fun and were enjoying themselves with their new friends. Though they could not adapt to the new environment so early, they tried their best to adapt to the situation. They followed all the essential agreements. They cooperated with their teacher and they had fun together. 9

Students feelings on first month of online classes Students have written their feelings and opinions on the first month of online classes. 10

My First Day of Online Classes Kashvi Aggarwal My First Day of Online Classes was the day full of excitement and happiness. I sat in the best place I could find, perfect for my video, and kept all the necessary items at hand. As soon as work was assigned, I would start completing it. I attended classes on the pinpoint of time, making sure that I was never a moment late. When the last session of the day was finished, I kept wishing for more. The way I enjoyed the Google Meets was really a miracle. I loved to see my friends whom I seldom interacted with these days. I missed my classmates dearly, who always used to be at bay. But getting to see their happy faces was a chance not to be missed, so what if they weren’t present physically ; I knew that they were always there for me. Teachers-Teachers are happy because students are learning well and are following the essential agreements. Teachers are using innovative ideas to develop character and teach them. 11

We...acorns of SilverOaks...have done 4 projects in the month of July Central Idea: How different approaches to learning enable and empower acorns to organize their learning and gain knowledge of the world around them… 12

This project was very fascinating… We all loved it...10 mysterious places was one topic that we enjoyed the most. We learnt about Rats behaving like humans, Tyreek Hill, Strandbeests, Stomach burst, Bird Poop that changed the world, The Bermuda Triangle, Devil’s kettle, Hessdalen lights, NASA international space station and many more. 13

This project is a creative one...We put a lot of hard work into it… These are a few creative works: 14

Snippets from Project July Complexity scale Science Peer assessment 15

We self reflected on our performance after the project… 16

After completing the project...we self-reflected based on the future work skills… Finally, Project July was very creative, motivating, inspirational and enjoyable. ..Once again...Thanks to the whole school team for this opportunity...And this event was very great…From this...One thing we all learnt was that, \"The important thing is to never stop questioning\" and “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.” 17

In the month of August, we had many activities and sessions with our classmates. The month was called August Rising because we had activities which helped us rise and develop and to follow this, our main activity was called Socratic Dialogues. We had these Socratic Dialogues with our 18 friends in breakout sessions. Breakout sessions are where we do our discussions. Socratic Dialogues are questions related to different topics. We discussed the questions and came up with a common understanding. We also enjoyed playing kahoot in the morning session.

Some other memorable events were 19 Independence Day, where we had many fun activities and enjoyed with our friends. We had Ganesh Chaturthi where we made a turmeric ganesha seeing a youtube tutorial. We even had the elections for the year 2020 and everyday we saw the election campaign videos of the candidates and we had a voting day, then a person was chosen for MLA, MP, PM and President. That was all the events for the August month.

We also started learning about the amazing cities in which our magnificent schools are situated- Visakhapatnam, Hyderabad and Bengaluru. Grade V Peru We watched videos of Mr.Revanth, historian from our school alumni, beautifully explained different historical aspects of the three cities. 20

September was a special month for us. Mainly because of the great teachers day. We had planned a special video for our teachers and surprised them on the day of teachers day. We celebrated the beautiful festival of Onam by watching a live stream on the festival. This was one of the most fun month of the year. 21

Starting in 2010,Silver Oaks embarked on the mission of building character to the mantras of Mahatma. And also with 10 years of consistent efforts Silver Oaks is building a generation of children generating their own values. They are grooming us acorns to demonstrate good character and competence . Mantras of Mahatma In the month of October, our HRTs made us aware of the Mantras of Mahatma, Satyagraha,Sarvodaya, Swaraj, Swadesh, and also Swadharma, more deeply through many activities. 22

TIE by Teachers TIE by our homeroom teachers is spectacular. They made it in an interesting way for acorns to understand and relate to the Novels from grade 1 to grade 12. And this also made us exposed to skills related to Theatre in education. Dussehra This virtual Dussehra we burnt our bad habits in an unique way. Our teachers created documents in Google docs and we wrote our bad habits and submitted them and after that our teachers sent it to our grade heads and they took printouts/wrote them. While in our school they lit a bonfire and burnt our bad habits. It was the coolest way of burning our bad habits that we have ever experienced. 23

All these activities have been very interesting and informative...It was a good opportunity to showcase our skills...Thanks to the whole Silver oaks team ESPECIALLY TEAM@JUNIOR WING for giving us this opportunity... A big thank you to our homeroom teachers for guiding, motivating and inspiring us… 24

Gr VI Switzerland Gr VI Italy Gr VI Austria 25

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