Sectional Magazine "The Limelight" by Amity Play Centre 2021-22

Dahej By Pass Road, Bharuch 30th October ‘21

Content Page no. 1. Head Mistress’s Message 1 2. Reviews $ Reports 2-6 3. Class activities 7 - 12 4. Learning with activities 13 5. Fine motor skills & Craft 14 - 15 6. Colours day celebration 16 - 17 7. Weekend activities 18 8. Hasya Sangam 19 9. August Festive 20 - 21 10. Celebrations & Competitions 22 - 27 11. Teacher’s Corner & training 28 - 29 12. School Upgradation 13. Sectional news 30 31 - 33 14. Best Wishes 34

Hello and welcome to AMITY PLAY CENTRE! My journey as KG facilitator has been most cherished, filled not only with adorable memories with kindergarteners but also with numerous instances that carry humour and thought-provoking situations. Many a times I have wondered how little minds could perceive certain facts or handle situations; but to my surprise, they have exceeded my thinking and expectations! They have proved to be little scholars par excellence! Persistent observation on children’s behaviour pattern has made me realise that their world is filled with wonder, excitement and curiosity. There is no limit to nurturing them and moulding them to develop their physical, social, emotional and cognitive skills. This aspect has been my key focus as a Pre-primary head, to provide endless opportunities for tiny tots to explore and experiment. Inculcating the right values and providing the right experience in a graded manner, yet retaining the innocence of their childhood is indeed a difficult task; but can be attained through careful and thoughtful planning. We need to encompass caring and education, creative learning and self-confidence in an environment designed specifically for these little ones. Creating a “home in form of classroom” by educators with different activities. Our school motto ‘Little deeds with great Love’ guides our students to work in harmony with one another. We wish to instil them with a sense of social awareness and responsibility. Our effort is to teach them to take pride in their rich cultural heritage. Our VIRTUAL classroom programmes offer opportunities for children to engage in a range of cultural and sporting activities. The teachers adopt new teaching techniques. Concepts are cleared with the use of models, graphics and Smart Class modules. Our focus is on addressing the holistic development of the personality of our students. We believe that with the constant support of the parents we will continue to make learning a joyful and meaningful experience. We do welcome communication with prospective parents. 1 Amity Parivaar

Parent’s Reviews Various types of activities and objects are used to create fun learning experience with great enthusiasm and energy. Great effort are made by teachers while teaching online. As a parent I really appreciate the work of my daughter's class teacher. During online class my daughter enjoy every new activity. Teachers have tried to teach and give their best by using new apps, new videos, new creative idea. All new day they are ready with new enthusiasm. Not with only children but they involve all mothers in different Thank you -Nayana Sapa Respected teachers , Here I am very much glad to congratulates for the dishes you have shown rather you have taught us in Farali Food Workshop. It was very easy and yummy desert. It requires less ingredients to prepare and require less preparations time. We are thankful to the teachers and Amity School for organizing such a useful workshop. -Sejal Patel Farali Food Workshop was indeed a great experience. It is a wonderful initiative by school to encourage parents participation. Special thanks to amity educators for valuable inputs. Looking forward to many such activities ahead. -Mital Desai I am mother of Krithi Panchal , I really appreciate to all amity Play center teachers for their efforts and contribution in increasing skills in my child, thanks to Amity Play Centre teachers. - Drashti Panchal I feel so fortunate that we had found this great school. My son had there primary programs there, which greatly fostered independence, confidence and intellectual development in them. There staff's are kind, sincere people that i could trust for educating my son Vihaan khot. - Snehal Khot Respected Teachers, In the present critical situation students are in touch with learning, just because of Amity Play Centre teachers responsible efforts. It is very pleasant of you to conduct activities for the children on regular basis which helps them in enhancing their skills. -Ahad Zoyal Patel I want to thank you to connect our children to e-Learning and giving best study materials to us special thanks to system. I appreciate your effort thank you so much. -Nidhi Shah 2

Respected mam, I am shifa halari mother of one of the student named Ayaan halari of your school studying in junior kg. I regular attends online classes at home despite of some circumstances, Online class have enhances more comfortable learning environment to the children. They are able to clarify their doubts in proper manner. It is very pleasant of you to offer assignments to the children on regular basis which helps in enhancing their skill development. Teachers are fantabulous who listen doubts of each child if he or she is facing any kind of problem during online classes. It is very wonderful and enjoyable experience. -Mrs. Shifa Halari I am mom of 4 year old kid VYAN TOPIWALA...he is hyperactive and i use to wonder how he will sit in online class. will he be able to interact with teachers because of his class teacher’s love and tender care nature towards my son, i was relieved from tension, for me seeing him sit and interact is a miracle! Teacher have made the online classes interesting not only for children but for the parents too. - Priyanka Topiwala Dear mam, This is really a great initiative taken by the teachers to provide online education through Google Meet platform. Teachers are working hard to provide quality education in this crucial time . This is great step taken by the school to prevent loss of studies. All the concepts are clear and doubts are also taken side by side. We are happy that childrens taking this class seriously and I hope these classes will help students to get better results in even these kind of situation. -Dharti Boghara I am Milan Desai father of Arohi Desai taking this opportunity to thank and send my gratitude for the Principal, teachers and the staff who together made teaching and learning process effectively and meaningfully. Despite of all difficulty institution like Amity with their innovative ideas, creativity and hard work was able to bring wonders to the lives of all children.. Along with the mental, vital and physical health their social and emotional needs were also catered through different activities and opportunities.. Teachers made this saying true ‘Nothing is impossible’. -MILANKUMAR DESAI I really want to appreciate & thank you for being such a wonderful community helper...the way you were interacting with students, way of making learning so interesting I wanted to thank u for being such an amazing teaching pattern during this current scenario... Daily, weekly, monthly report are so effective & accuracy alarm for parents regularities. At last our Amity group arranged so many activities, which helps in enhancing their skill development. -Khyati Patel 3

Great school !My kid is very happy to be at this school. This school is home for our family. Teacher's guidance is very helpful for my kid. School has started online teaching classes which is very helpful for my Thank You so much to Amity School and Class teacher. -Dhaval J Koralwala online classes is demand of time. It is not interactive as live class but it's very effective for students, with the unbelievable hard work & patience of teachers it's possible to manage kids studies at home. In this hard time online classes are provided flexibility of study with safety. -Muaz Mansuri My daughter is enjoying to perform all activities during class also enjoying to make innovative crafts given by school for learning .I really appreciate your activities for Mothers also , which creates more interest of Mothers towards Amity kids. -Jyoti Baraskar Teachers and School management are trying their best in grooming kids by facilitating online studies in pandemic time, children are getting enjoyment by participating in extra curricular activities along with their studies. Organizing of different activities by school management like workshops , dance competition etc. make the parents energetic and enthusiastic. We are very thankful to whole school management and teachers. -Rajani Jha The children and we parents are also learning so many new things from which we were totally unaware about through virtual workshops, competitions and meetings arranged by school. Really all the teachers' hard work is appreciable. -Rizwana Sugat Dear Amity Parivaar I would like to convey my gratitude towards your institution. I like the regularity, discipline, teaching methods ,activity sessions and most important of all the positive and supportive approach of teachers towards students and parents. Thank you for a very good experience at the initial stage of my child educational career -Chandni Patel “A DAY WITHOUT LEARNING IS A DAY WASTED.” So, it was good decision by Amity School that they started online learning with very good platform and interactive session. Teachers are playing very vital role to create interest in offline learning and little kids are also adopting this method gradually. Thank you! Best Regards, -Kaushal Mehta 4

Reports Section: Amity Play Centre Name of Event: Amiclub Date-19/4/21- 30/4/21 Students’ activities are also known as campus activities. They are student- focused extracurricular clubs and program offered at school and generally designed to allow students to become more involved on campus. Going with this concept, Amity Play Centre was conducted a virtual extracurricular activity session for students of GSEB through ‘Amiclub’, due to pandemic. To stay connected with students and parents ‘Amiclub’ activities in those days, after their final evaluation. They learned and enjoyed many things through art, craft, dance, phonics, magic, quiz, mental maths, story, rhymes etc. and first launching of E-Magazine from Amiclub. 30/4/21, International Dance Day was celebrated by all students of Amity Play Centre. Students were shown their talents by perform balloon dance, clap dance, shake legs with partner and tap dance. Pani Puri Competition on 10/07/21 Amity Play Centre organized ‘Pani Puri’ competition for mothers. All competitors were divided into four groups and the total time of game for one minute. This was something really exciting for panipuri lovers, where the mothers enjoyed in the form of competition. Name of Activity: Hindi Saptah Celebration Date:14-17 September,2021 Hindi Divas is celebrated every year on September, 14, to mark the adaptation of Hindi as the official language by the Union Government of India.Amity Play Centre celebrated `Hindi Saptah’ from (14 to17) September. Students celebrated the week by reciting Hindi kavita, telling short stories, picture composition with the help of pictures and conducted activities with “Hindi Varnamala activity”. 5

Name of Activity: August Festive Date: 7th, 14th, 28th August, 2021 Amity Play Centre celebrated Friendship Day, Independence Day, Pateti, Rakshabandhan and Janmashtami as ‘August Festive’ as all these festivals falls in the month of August.07/08/21- Friendship is a relationship of mutual affection between people. It is a strong form of interpersonal bond. Nursery students of Amity Play Centre celebrated ‘Friendship Day’. They showed the importance of friendship through different songs and dance.14/08/21- Patriotism is a feeling of attachment and commitment to a country or nation. It embodies sacrifice for the country to protect its honour. To commemorate the valour and spirit of the freedom fighters who fought for the independence of the nation from British rule, Students of LKG (GSEB) celebrated ‘Independence Day’ with great enthusiasm. ‘Pateti’ is the day preceding the Parsi New Year. It is celebrated to gain health, wealth and prosperity. The day is dedicated to clean and purify the mind and start a new year with love and peace like the sugar which melts in milkStudents of LKG (CBSE), celebrated and enjoyed the festival with songs and dances. 28/08/21- ‘Rakshabandhan’ is an important festival, dedicated to brothers and sisters. Students of UKG (GSEB), celebrated this festival as ‘Brothers and Sisters Special’ to remember the strong bonding between brother and sister. ‘Janmashtami’ is the birthday of Lord Shri Krishna which is a popular festival celebrated across the country.Students of UKG (CBSE), showed different leelas of Krishna through beautiful songs and dances and celebrated the festival with great zeal . 6

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छात्रों को विभिन्न प्रयोगों ि गतिविधियों द्िारा ह दिं ी िाषा का ज्ञान सरलिा पूिकव कराया गया I 9

Understanding and using mathematical concepts, bring numerate, helps the children to know and describe the world around them. It is therefore, an essential skill for successful daily life. 10

Learning math promotes working memory that a child develops in kindergarten. Math is regarded as a key component of preschool curriculum. 11

EXPLORE YOUR SURROUNDING General knowledge that helps your child's holistic developments. It covers variety of topics viz simple words arrangement, role play, activity base teaching ,varieties of ideas. 12

LEARNING THROUGH ACTIVITIES Activity-Based Learning has numerous benefits, especially in early childhood development. The children become more observant.The main focus is on ‘learning by doing’ method. It encourages the children to express themselves freely. 13

Fine motor skills activities helps the children to strengthen their muscles and try to maintain the coordination of eyes and hands. 14

Craft NURSERY While creating an arts and crafts project, children are able to develop their fine motor skill. Art also allows children to expand their essential vocabulary. They will learn the name of different shapes, colors and materials without it seems like a chore or a memorization exercise. LKG UKG 15

A very important part of learning during kindergarten years is identification and recognition of colours. Cheerful and joyful colours boosts a child’s self confidence. When colour is transmitted from the eye to the brain, the brain releases a hormone affecting the emotions, mind clarity and energy levels. 16

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Theme of the Year 2021-2022 Odd Day Out 19

Nursery Theme -Friendship, 07.08.21 20

LKG-GSEB Theme- Independence Day, on 14.08.21 LKG-CBSE Theme- Pateti, on 14.08.21 UKG-GSEB Theme- Rakshabandhan, on 29.08.21 UKG-CBSE Theme- Janmashtami, on 29.08.21 21

Teacher’s Performance Children of play centre celebrated ‘Gandhi Jayanti’ by making the face of Gandhi Bapu with roti and vegetables 22

Amity Play Centre celebrated `Hindi Saptah’ from (14 to17) September. Students celebrated the week by reciting Hindi kavita, telling short stories, picture composition with the help of pictures and conducted activities with “Hindi Varnamala activity”. 23

The workshops conducted by educators of Amity Play Centre, specially for mothers had focused on different varieties of dishes, some useful procedures of tie & dye and making varieties of mukhwas with an interactive session which had aimed for developing the interest in mothers so that they can come up with a new activity based learning. 24

Nursery On 09.05.2021 Sunday CBSE LKG-CBSE UKG-CBSE On 10.07.2021 (Saturday) 25

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The School mingles along with digitalization Wi-Fi We made our teaching more easier with the help of technology. 30

April, May 2021-22 17/4/21- Create a comic with your kids- fathers and kids of Amity Play Centre (CBSE), together made funny and comic faces and sent snaps to their teachers as weekend activity. 22/4/21- Students of Amity Play Centre (CBSE), celebrated ‘Earth Day’ by visiting their school with Google Earth. 23/4/21- ‘World Book Day’ was celebrated in play centre by watching a video which was related to necessity of using books. (19/4/21- 30/4/21)- Amity Play Centre students (GSEB), enjoyed ‘Amiclub’ activities in those days, after their final evaluation. Students learned many things through art, craft, dance, phonics, magic, quiz, mental maths, story, rhymes etc. and first launching of E- Magazine from Amiclub. 30/4/21- International Dance Day was celebrated by all students of Amity Play Centre. Students were shown their talents by perform balloon dance, clap dance, shake legs with partner and tap dance. June-2021-22 19/06/21- Chocolate swirl activity was done by Amity Play Centre. Children were swirling and relishing chocolates with the tongue when they eating it and made fun as weekend activity. 21/06/21- International Yoga Day was celebrated in Amity Play Centre. Children of play centre done yoga during online classes with their fathers by following a video made by educators. 24/06/21- ‘Listening Skill’ activity was set up by Amity Play Centre. Nursery’s project was to identify the voice of famous cartoon character, the activity of LKG was to recognize different objects by listening their sounds, like rain, sounds of vehicles, calling bell etc. and UKG had to identify the advertisement by listening its jingle. All the students gave answers promptly and enjoyed the activity. 26/06/21- Amity Play Centre enjoyed ‘Pillow Fight’ as their weekend activity. Children fought with their family members – parents, brothers, sisters and with friends with a pillow with great fun and excitement. 28/06/21- children of Amity Play Centre enjoyed themselves their Turtle’s Pace activity. They told sentences extremely slow, like a turtle’s pace with patience during online classes. 31

July 2021-22 01/07/21- To express gratitude towards doctors and physicians for their relentless efforts to serve people Amity Play Centre celebrated Doctors’ Day. The kids of nursery dressed up with doctor’s tools, children of LKG spoke 3-4 sentences about doctor’s tools and students of UKG expressed themselves on different specialist of doctors. They celebrated this day gladly. 05/07/21- Handkerchief Folding Activity was done by Amity Play Centre. All students made different types of things like rabbit, lotus and swing etc. by folding handkerchief, under guidance of teachers during online class. 10/07/21, Amity Play Centre organized ‘Pani Puri’ competition for mothers. All competitors were divided into four groups and the total time of game for one minute. This was something really exciting for panipuri lovers, where the mothers enjoyed in the form of competition. The list of winners.. 1st -.a)Parmar Parul D. (Riyaan), b) Kayasth Mayuri T. (Shivansh), c) Pipaliya Sonal N. (Navya), d) Shekhada Shital A. (Amee) 2nd – a)Gandhi Sonal V. (Pihu), b) Jadav Jagruti H. (Charmi), c)Kayasth Twinkle H. (Heer), d)Giri Kakali (Deepan), e)Murawala Geeta V. (Rudra), f)Ghori Sayna M. (Mahmad), g)Patel Nikita H. (Krishiv) 14/07/21-Table Manners are the rules of etiquette used while eating.To train the students about good table manners, this activity was conducted online in Amity Play Centre. Along with dining table manners, study manners was also explained. 17/07/21- Children of Amity Play Centre celebrated World Emoji Day with enthusiasm. They posed with different facial expression and taken snaps as fun. August 2021-22 Amity Play Centre celebrated Friendship Day, Independence Day, Pateti, Rakshabandhan and Janmashtami as ‘August Festive’ as all those falls in the month of August. 07/08/21-Nursery students of Amity Play Centre celebrated ‘Friendship Day’. They showed the importance of friendship through different songs and dance. 14/08/21-Students of LKG (GSEB) celebrated ‘Independence Day’ and ‘Pateti’. 28/08/21- Students of UKG (GSEB), celebrated this festival as ‘Brothers and Sisters Special’ and ‘Janmashtami’. 32

September 2021-22 08/09/21- Amity Play Centre Celebrated ‘Rainbow Day’. Children draw imaginary pictures with the seven colours of rainbow. 11/09/21- Children of Amity Play Centre made images of ‘Ganpati’ with flowers and decorated nicely as their activity. 18/09/21- Amity Play Centre created “An album of Early childhood memories”. They enjoyed their photos from infant till toddler. Amity Play Centre celebrated `Hindi Saptah’ from (14 to17) September. (Detailed report attached) 15/09/21- Amity Play Centre organized ‘Show your talent’ online competition for both fathers and mothers. (Detailed report attached) 23/09/21Amity Play Centre organized ‘Odd Day Out’ activity for their children. It was an activity- 1 of ‘Hasysangam’(Theme of the year).(Detailed report attached) 28/09/21-‘Pop the Balloons’ activity was done by students of Amity Play Centre. Activity - 2, ‘Hasyasangam’.(Detailed report attached) October 2021-22 01/10/21- Children of play centre celebrated ‘Gandhi Jayanti’ by making the face of Gandhi Bapu with roti and vegetables. 06/10/21- Making of Crab with palm print activity was accomplished by students of play centre. 07/10/21-Amity Play Centre organized ‘ Farali Food Workshop’ for mothers on the first day of Navratri. 08/10/21- On the 2nd day of Navratri, ‘Tie & Dye Workshop’ was held in Amity Play Centre for mothers. 11/10/21- ‘Zumba on Garba’ was held in Amity Play Centre for students on 5th day of Navratri during online classes. 12/10/21- Amity Play Centre conducted ‘ Earrings and anklets competition’ for mothers on the 6th day of Navratri. 13/10/21-On the 7th day of Navratri, Amity Play Centre organized ‘Zumba on Garba’ for mothers. 14/10/21-On the 8th day of Navratri, Amity Play Centre conducted ‘Mukhwas Workshop’ for mothers. 23/10/21- ‘Tiktok video’ was made by students of Amity Play Centre. Activity -3, ‘Hasyasangam’ . 33

We extend good wishes to all and happily appreciate your belief in us and look forward for better co-ordination in future too. 34