12th February, 2014
We did gardening again today. We have been doing gardening for a quite a while now. And I personally am getting better at it!
Looks like I have achieved a new skill! We got back to the maintenance of the front garden today. I took the responsibility of picking up the dry leaves and the plastic pieces. Turn by turn all the DP students mowed the lawn. I tried again but the mower is to heavy for me to push! I still will try to work with it.
We worked for two hours. By the end we all were drained. But it was all worth it!
Till next time :)
5th February, 2014
This time as our CAS activity we decided to help our PYP teachers and children to organize the 'Talent Hunt Program'. All the DP students sat and divided ourselves into groups and planned what part of the hall which group would decorate. I, Bhairavi and Jaidev (my juniors) took the responsibility of decorating the window side. We used our creativity to decorate the windows. Bhairavi cut cello tape and handed it to me and Jaidev. We stuck the decorative material to the windows and finished our part of the job. We worked together on it and hence our work got over soon. We then helped other groups to finish their job.
We did a pretty good job!
Till next time :)
31st January, 2014
Today as our CAS activity we again got back to gardening. Our aim was to clear a patch of the garden where there was too much growth of leaves.
This time I decided to finally learn how to pull the weed with its root. I, Bhairavi (my junior) and our gardner sat down and I after many tires and tireless practice I accomplished what I wanted to! It took a lot of practice and efforts but I finally did it! I was very happy. Also, in the back garden there is a Aloe Vera planted that I had planted long ago. I had been watering it for very long and now it has fully grown. It feels so good looking something grow under your own love and guidance. Its a satisfying feeling :)
Till next time :)
24 January, 2014
As our CAS activity we are learning gardening. As I have mentioned before, gardening is a new challenge for me. So I am slowly learning the skill that is needed for gardening.
This time we groomed our school's front garden. We removed the weeds from the garden. I still haven't properly learned to pull the weed out from the soil. When I pull, the roots they do not come out which is actually suppose to happen. Our gardner tried to teach me the technique but I still haven't aced it. Hopefully I will learn soon!
We also cleaned the school premises by picking up the plastic pieces and twigs of trees. One new thing we did was mowing the lawn using a lawn mower. The mower was very heavy. That is why I couldn't use it for a long time but I did try!
It was a tiring day! But we enjoyed.
Till next time :)
15th January, 2014
Sports is something that people of all ages enjoy. You can either enjoy by watching them of participating in them. This tine, we enjoyed our schools sports event by helping.
As a part of our CAS activity, we helped the teachers organize the sport events.
It is said "Great acts are made up of small deeds". We contributed our help in little ways to make the sports event a success.
We DP students got the best job we could think of! Yes! we had to help the teachers organize the sports event for the primary children. Oh children! how delightful it is to watch them play! They truly are a bundle of joy! We had to make tracks on the basket ball ground which was pretty hard as the ground was big and one person would start drawing the line from one end and second person from another. So one one end there was me and on the other end was Rucha, my junior. We both worked together and drew the lines on the court. They were not perfectly straight but we did an acceptable job.
After drawing the tracks, our job was to take the participants and make them stand at the start of their respective tracks. The kids did the frog race, running race also skipping race.
Turn by turn we stood at the finish line holding a red ribbon which when crossed first by an participant would be declared as the winner of the race.
We had fun while organizing the event and we also learned a things like working as a team, organizing things and also how to interact better with children. It was fun activity!
Till next time :)
2nd December, 2013
Ho ho ho! Christmas will be here soon and we are super excited! It a time of love, joy and forgiveness. And most importantly it is the time of giving and happiness.
For this christmas we decided to embrace our creative side. So as our CAS activity we decided to raise funds by making and selling greeting cards. All of us DP students were to make 10 cards by ourselves and submit it to our art teacher.
So we all sat down to make the cards. We all planned the activity divided the work amongst us. One group of students cut the chart papers in to perfect rectangles. One group was to decorate the cut up cards. We all worked collaboratively. After we decorated the cards, we sat down to discuss the marketing strategy for the selling of our cards. We ranged the cards from Rs.10 to Rs.50. The decorations took us a lot of time and it really worked up our creative sides. Our teamwork and dedication made it possible for us to complete our targets. Finally, after completing all the cards and after implementing our marketing strategy, we set up all the cards in the Audio Visual room for viewing and pre-booking. Most of our cards we pre-booked by the students and also the teachers. All of us turn by turn by turn sat at the counters and took care of the payments and the booking list. Our activity was a success. During this activity we learned how to work in teams, how to work up marketing strategies and also we brushed up our creative skills. It was a fun activity. We learned a lot and we also were successful in raising funds for the underprivileged children.
Till next time :)
9th November, 2013
Photography is a beautiful art. It is beautiful because it makes it possible to capture life's beautiful moments and also has the capability to take you back in time. Looking back at old photographs is one of my favorite past times. The nostalgia is intense!
Photography is an art which has technical sides too. Skill is needed to capture a perfect picture. Our school invited a trained photographer, Mr. Hemant Dixit, to teach us how we could improve our photography skills. On the first day of our workshop, he showed us some of his photographs and told us how to work with our cameras. He let us wander in our campus and asked us to click 5 photographs.
We took photos of the trees, the sand, the bees everything that would seem appealing to us.
After that we came inside and he viewed our photos and told us how we could improve our pictures. Mostly we goofed up in the contrast and focus. He asked us to click 10 photos as our homework and our first session came to an end.
In the second session, Mr. Dixit made us understand the potential and functions of our cameras. We explored the settings and the modes of our cameras and tried to click photos using those modes.
In the third session we learnt how to take portrait pictures. Mr Dixit told us that it is important for the person whose picture is being taken in an environment in which he/she is comfortable in. Viji Ma'am, our maths teacher, was our model for the photo. We were taught to adjust the camera according to the sunlight. Mr. Dixit in the end gave us some tips to capture perfect photographs. He told us that natural sunlight is an asset and the best photos are captured in the sunlight.
With this session our workshop ended. We learned a lot from this workshop and I hope to improve and develop my skills of photography.
Till next time :)
