When the class becomes your family…. (Last week)

 When the class becomes your family…. (Last week)

“Family isn’t always about blood”

When a student says that the class is family to them what more should a teacher need? Everything that you have done at that point gets validated with a single statement. I never knew I would miss teaching and my students this much. Because each day they brought their share of happiness to the class and that made everything worthwhile. We were indeed learning together. Knowledge is all about caring and sharing. The last week felt like an emotional roller coaster. We had to complete several works and at the same time, I wanted to do justice to the students. I wanted to give them the best experience in learning and to provide a memorable week to them before we part….


Highlights

Games

 

Hide and Seek

The games played in the class were enjoyable to the students and they participated in it with much enthusiasm.

Reading

  
Reading using Role-Play model

For reading the passage role-paly method was used.

Situational teaching

Word Study

The words were taught using pictures, realia and situational teaching.

Learning to “cook’!

Let's cook!

The activity learning to cook helped the children to acquaint themselves with the tastes in the kitchen.

Word Games

Word Game

The word game helped for easy acquisition and retention of vocabulary.

Who is she?

  
Character sketch
Using the mobile applications “Bitmoji” and “Character Sketch” the portrait of the young girl was made

Model of Nest

Model of the nest of the Weaver Bird

The model of nests of the Weaver bird and the Nightingale were shown to the students.

  

The stars of VIII C

I am going to miss the class beyond words. But the experience it gave will stay with me forever. I am thankful for that. It was indeed a wonderful experience. 

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