New insights from guest speakers

For the unit 'Leaders', our guest speaker was Mr. Aaron Jacob. He is the Dean of students and head of the dormitory teachers. He spoke about his role and responsibilities as a leader, what kind of challenges he faces and how he tries to overcome them. Students were very involved and asked their curious questions like: "Who is your role model?"
"What did you like and admire in your role model?"
Through the discussions, some essential qualities of a leader became evident like: honesty, caring, confidence etc

 

 

Ms Ally had come to grade4 to introduce students to Socratic seminars. She showed videos of different types of Socratic seminars and told the rules of having an environment where everyone listens when some one speaks and does not interrupt the speaker. Students had a Socratic seminar on the life of leaders. Through this exercise, students practiced being good listeners, thinkers and speakers. They also learnt to co-operate with each other, even while they disagree with each other.

 

 

Constructing meaning of 3D shapes

 Students tried to figure out centimeter cubes by constructing cuboids and cubes. This exercise did help them understand the difference between 2 and 3 dimensions. They could see the edges, vertices and faces of the shapes.

 

Machine hunt in the academy

Students of grade 4K looked for machines in the campus and identified their use. Then they will try to figure out, what will happen if the machines would not have been there in the campus?
Here are some pictures of the machines in school: