Here are some glimpses of the class activities of The Paras World School. The school is in Rose wood city, Gurgaon. The skillset required for the 21st century students is way different from what their parents learned at their yesteryears. The top schools in Gurgaon explore the opportunities and work on the principles of excelling in what children show excellent skills and what they want them to be good at.

1. Grade IV
4th
August, 2017
UNIT: Plants and Food
Glimpses of the activities:
To understand contractions and its usage
 Learners made sentence strips and used contractions
 Created a collage using newspaper cuttings
To comprehend the text
 Arranged sentences from the lesson in the proper sequence (flash
card activity)
English

2. Hindi

3.  Practised addition and subtraction of 5-digit numbers without or
with regrouping
 Revisited commutative and associative property through group
discussion and practiced using manipulatives
 Practised addition/subtraction of a number by multiples of 10,
100 or 1000 through Mann card activity
 To understand the structure and function of a seed
 understood the structure of seed and its parts followed by
documenting it in their notebook
 stages of germination
 discussion on factors affecting plant growth
 discussion about plants and the environment they grow in
Science
Mathematics
Forming 5-6 digit numbers using mann cards and adding multiples of 10, 100
or 1000 to it

4.  Reading of newspaper articles on' What if all the ice on earth melted?'
and 'Changing rainfall patterns across India and its repercussions'
followed by discussion on repercussions of these global phenomenon.
 Introduction to the new topic 'Food'-assessment of prior knowledge done
through discussion on - the process of how students get their favourite
food on their table.
 Brain storming session to identify various processes food goes through
before reaching our dining table.
formatting the given sentence using
following.
· Change font
· Change font size
· Change font colour
· Make it bold
· Underline it
· Highlight it
Introduced Format Painter by
demonstrating its use.
using Format painter to format the
second sentence in their document.
Reference link :
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Copy-formatting-using-the-Format-
Painter-B9FE82EA-C0A0-41DE-837B-D2F15DD41EA9#__toc307480778
ICT
Social Science

5. Robotics
Project: Flying Bird
Kit used: 9580
Learning outcome:
• Use of tilt sensor to detect
horizontal position
• The students got introduced to
sensor and using the sensor they
made a flying bird which makes
sound when it is in horizontal
position
• Students did programming for
sensor and added sound in it too.
Visual Arts
 Using material and
inspiration from
nature to create
geometric designs-
Introduction to
S.H.Raza

6. Indian Music
 Practiced singing song” Phoolon ka taaron ka” for the special
assembly on ‘Rakshabandhan’.
Indian Dance
 Kathak Thaat: "Thei Ta Thei" -Students practised Part 1 & 2 with
rhythm and hand- eye coordination.
 Practice of Teen Taal Tatkaar – 2X and 4X
WHOTS
 Revisited Hoppers game through a worksheet.
Special assembly on ‘Rakshabandhan’
Side by side or
miles apart,
siblings will always
be connected by
heart. Our students
learned about the
essence of
Rakshabandhan
through a lively
celebration at
school.

7. Upcoming Events:
Date Event Grades
11/8/2017
Special Assembly- Independence Day
All Grades
Home Assignment
English – Arrange the events of the story in the proper sequence using
graphic organizer
Hindi -
Math- Do the work given on adding multiples of 10, 100 and 1000.
Science- Attempt the worksheet seed germination
Social Science- Review of the topic 'Plants' based on reading sheet.
Regards,
Nomita Motwani
Class Mentor