It is seen that the faster children practice the ability to recognize sounds in words, the faster they learn to read. To develop this ability, students of KG-II were introduced to ‘og’ and ‘od’ sounds through a story telling session with emphasis on these sounds. This was followed by encouraging students to read out the stories with proper rules highlighting the common words. An activity w

Tanyashree Pahantasingh, Class II student of SAI International School, secured Rank I at All India level in National Level Science Talent Search Examination (NSTSE) – 2018. She will be awarded with a medal along with a cash prize at the Annual Awards Celebration of Unified Council Foundation at Hyderabad on June 10, 2018. NSTSE is a diagnostic test which measures how well a student has understoo

Food is one of the basic necessities of life. It gives us energy to work and play as well as makes us strong and healthy. We eat different types of food to maintain our health and prevent ourselves from diseases. An activity was conducted for students of Class I to instil in them the importance of each food group like Energy giving, Body building and Protective food. They were given picture cut

Among the various classroom activities that are being conducted for the students, to ensure that the children get a better understanding of English grammar one such activity was about Nouns. Students started by learning the difference between singular and plural nouns, followed by practicing sorting examples. They were then given flash cards and in an interesting way asked to sort them into two di

In Hindi language, vowels are known as Swar varn and the consonants are known as Vyanjan varn. When we write Swar and Vyanjan together, these swar varns convert into matraas. Every Swar varn has its own matraa. These matraas are used to make words. An interesting activity was conducted for students of Class-II on ऋ ki matraa. The students drew a tree and on its trunk they wrote the letter ऋ an

A healthy body leads to a healthy mind. To keep the body and mind healthy, we need to eat healthy food and avoid the unhealthy food. In a classroom activity, the children of KG-II made a collage to differentiate between healthy and unhealthy food. Pictures of healthy and unhealthy food were distributed among the children. They were then asked to paste pictures under the correct heading in a chart

Children love the rainbow and sunshine. The Rainbow has seven colours beginning with violet and ending with red. To help the KG-I children remember the order of these colours, they were asked to use the acronym VIBGYOR followed by some activities. The children were asked to colour the rainbow, recite the rainbow rhyme and make a rainbow using play dough. These activities greatly helped children to

Children always look for new information. Their tiny minds are filled with innumerable questions about the world, their surroundings and especially their own bodies. As they grow up they start to recognize that they can run, play, laugh and sing, they also become more curious about their bodies. At this stage, it becomes necessary to teach them about their body parts. Learning about the function o

An activity on Addition was conducted for Class-I students. In the activity, the teacher called two students to stand to her left and three students to stand to her right and asked to calculate the total number of students. The teacher introduced the symbol “+” on the flash card which was used for addition. She continued the activity by changing the number of students each time. To

Family plays an important role in a child’s life. Right from the day of birth, children depend on parents and family members to fulfil their needs and protect them. Parents and family form the child’s first relationship. Here in Playgroup, an activity named ‘Family Tree’ was conducted in which students pasted pictures of their parents and grandparents on a tree drawn on the