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HALLOWEEN

Today as I entered the school I saw all of my friends, rather my monster friends dressed up. Witches, wizards, monsters and even leopards greeted me today. In fact even a few teachers were dressed up. We all rushed to the atrium to proudly show off our costumes. Early years, Grade 1, Grade 2 and so on till we reached Grade 5Z. Dr. Naidu suggested we go to teh Amphitheatre and click pictures for our school magazine the Rewind. We happily went and took our pictures posing spookily. That was the end to a happy spooky Halloween for the Pathways Primary School. 

here is a poem which is written by me:

Halloween,  Halloween

Witches, wizards and giant beans, 

All of us are dressing up, 

Lipstick, eyeliner and make up, 

Tricking or treating for candy

Roads, pavements and beaches that are sandy

Halloween, Halloween 

Everyone is eating candy!

Vedika G. Mandapati, 5W

Literacy Week

Primary school celebrated Literacy Week from 9th September 2013 to 13th September 2013. We discussed four different authors - H. G. Wells, Jules Verne, Mark Twain and Anna Sewell -  and were involved in a few interesting activities about these authors like Author Study, Poster making, writing a character sketch and role play. Mrs. Meenakshi, the principal of Primary School, held a story session with fifth grade on the classic book Moby Dick where we discussed the summary of the book. Since it was Roald Dahl's birth anniversary on the 13th, in our library period we did a few fascinating activities about his book. To add excitement to literacy week, we had a Willy Wonka style Gems sale! The money collected will be used for helping the Primary Government Girls School in Tikli village. In ten of the Gems boxes, there were tickets and the children who got the boxes with the ticket got a book by Roald Dahl! As every good thing comes to an end the Literacy Week ended with a fun assembly in which we watched a few short movies and looked forward to the Readasaurus starting from the 16th. It was a very fun filled week and I enjoyed it a lot! 

Vedika Harnathka

Vedika Harnathka

I Did My Bit.....

I would like to thank my Dorm Parent Ms. Sorod Kumari for wonderful guidance that she gave me in my summer vacations to do something fruitful and meaningful for the society.

So then I decided to do something that can help underprivileged children. I made 18 paintings and I sold them in a cultured exhibition which was held on 10th July, 2013. It was a big challenge for me to make good paintings so that people would buy that stuff for a reasonable price. The paintings I made was on canvas material and oil pastels was also used to make them. It took me 3 weeks to do that. The material cost was Rs.12,000. That I took from my mother and from 18 paintings 15 paintings were sold.  From all of my hard work, I got Rs.23,430. I was so happy when I got the money in my pocket I felt proud of my self then I gave my mother her expense of the material Rs.12,000 back and Rs.430 I spent in the temple and 11,000 I gave to DISHA SCHOOL for children welfare. This was the first time I did something useful in my holidays . I was really happy . I hope I would do many more things like that and contribute to a better community.

Aryan Kejriwal

Aryan Kejriwal

Primary School Investiture Ceremony

On the 30^th of August 2013  Primary school Student Council Investiture Ceremony 2013-2014 took place. The ceremony started at 8:30 am and was very interesting. The parents of the new Student Council members were invited for the Investiture Ceremony. The students of grade 4 started the ceremony with a song called “Bharat humko jaan se pyaaraa hein”. Then the outgoing Student Council entered the hall and then came the New Student Council.

Vedika Mandapati

There was a badge ceremony and then the change of guard. The Outgoing Student Council then took their seats as the new Student Council was presented. The Hosts Vedika Harnathka and Nolan Rohl were very good and the ceremony ended with Dr. Naidu saying a few words. On the whole it was a very good ceremony and a memorable one as I was the Head Girl.

Vedika Mandapati

Teachers' Day Celebration

The student council members worked very hard over the past two weeks to The student council members worked very hard over the past two weeks to organize this Teacher’s Day. They kept their discussions Top Secret. They took help of the rest of the students of Primary School, some teachers and last year’s student council. This task could not be possible without them. The teachers had to go out of the class while the students had their discussions. Some discussions were in the class, while some in the art room.   Every student and every class had a job to do, each with great responsibility. Class representatives had to make sure the students did their job, within the time limit given. The art room discussions included how the programme was going to be put up, how the class board will be done etc. For the class board, each child was given paper to write on; their message for the teacher. The board was covered with newspaper until the special day. It was literally a TASK for the council members to get the 1^st and 2^nd graders class board finished in time. Along with the class board, the council members planned an assembly on 5^th of September. They found many talented children waiting to give their audition to participate in the show. There were singers, dancers, instrument players and many more children who were sure they were going to perform well. The council struggled to make the performances end and start within time. All the hard work done by the students was appreciated by the teachers. The hard work put by all came out very well, though it was tough in the beginning. As they say, “All is well that ends well.”

By

Sanjana Sethi

Sanjana Sethi

Teachers Day in India is celebrated on the 5^th  September because of the birthday of       Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, India’s second President and an extremely respected scholar and teacher of philosophy. For Teachers Day  the Primary School students  put up boards for their teachers  to show their love and care for the teachers. Along with that Student Council and the  Pathways  Parent Partnership put up a spectacular  show to entertain the teachers.  All of us in the   Primary School  hope that the teachers had a great time.

Shreya Rana

                                                                                                                   Shreya  Rana 

   

   

Teachers' Day Celebration

The student council members worked very hard over the past two weeks to The student council members worked very hard over the past two weeks to organize this Teacher’s Day. They kept their discussions Top Secret. They took help of the rest of the students of Primary School, some teachers and last year’s student council. This task could not be possible without them. The teachers had to go out of the class while the students had their discussions. Some discussions were in the class, while some in the art room.   Every student and every class had a job to do, each with great responsibility. Class representatives had to make sure the students did their job, within the time limit given. The art room discussions included how the programme was going to be put up, how the class board will be done etc. For the class board, each child was given paper to write on; their message for the teacher. The board was covered with newspaper until the special day. It was literally a TASK for the council members to get the 1^st and 2^nd graders class board finished in time. Along with the class board, the council members planned an assembly on 5^th of September. They found many talented children waiting to give their audition to participate in the show. There were singers, dancers, instrument players and many more children who were sure they were going to perform well. The council struggled to make the performances end and start within time. All the hard work done by the students was appreciated by the teachers. The hard work put by all came out very well, though it was tough in the beginning. As they say, “All is well that ends well.”

By

Sanjana Sethi

Sanjana Sethi

Teachers Day in India is celebrated on the 5^th  September because of the birthday of       Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, India’s second President and an extremely respected scholar and teacher of philosophy. For Teachers Day  the Primary School students  put up boards for their teachers  to show their love and care for the teachers. Along with that Student Council and the  Pathways  Parent Partnership put up a spectacular  show to entertain the teachers.  All of us in the   Primary School  hope that the teachers had a great time.

     Shreya  Rana 

   

   

An Interesting Week

We did many different activities throughout this week. In Math, we started off with Rounding Off. In English we started off with Abstract nouns. In Abstract Nouns, we worked on circling the Abstract Nouns in the net and filling in the blanks with Abstract Nouns or underlining or circling the Abstract Noun in the sentence. In Hindi also, we learned about Abstract Nouns, by writing a poem using Abstract Nouns or writing a story or a paragraph using Abstract Nouns. In our Music lessons, we learned about DAW which stands for Digital Audio Workstation in which one mixes some music and/or a song, to get a new one. In sports, we played various sports like gymnastics, athletics, soccer, cricket, swimming and table tennis. In ICT (Information Communication Technology), we researched on the kindle and wrote one paragraph on it. Later in the week, we started with debates. The first topic we wrote was on Kindle vs. Books. In Visual Arts, we started working with Paper Mache. At first, we started covering a balloon with Paper Mache. From Monday to Wednesday, at the end of day, we had Orientation in which we discussed about leadership. Finally at the end of the week, we had the Investiture Ceremony in which the Old Student Council Members of Primary School handed over their leadership to the New Student Council Members and the New Council Members also got their badges. After the Investiture Ceremony, we had our Home Room Day, where teachers met our parents for the first time in this term and explained them the sequence of events planned for the term.

Rhea Kapoor

Rhea Kapoor

The week gone by

This week in music, we learnt the national anthem , we made the essential agreements and we also shared information about the different instruments we know how to play. In Hindi, we revised the letters ja and cha and also wrote difficult words related to Independence Day. Some students read a poem related to Independence Day and they also had a spelling assessment. In ICT we wrote our essential agreements on www.padlet.com. Then we created a word cloud on www.wordle.net. We enumerated different ways in which we can use technology to express ourselves. We celebrated the Indian and Korean Independence Day through a special assembly. 

Zara Basir

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Zara Basir