One Minute Game

Games generally involve mental or physical stimulation and often both. Key components of games are goals, rules, challenge, and interaction. They bring out inherent talent of the participants.           

One minute games are great ways to begin an event or to engage a crowd of children. They are challenging and obviously don’t last very long! A very accommodating quality for those short-attention-spanners!

At Orchids - The International School [Hyderabad], we organized one minute games for kids from I-V classes on 28/6/ 2013. Our students truly enjoyed these moments a lot. 

Winners':
1. Saba Khatoon
2. Sai Adhviath
3. CH. Bhavani

Star of the week 8: T.Sai Prajwal

Koffee with parents

22.6.12 was a day meant for ‘KOFFEE with Parents’ at Orchids. ‘Parents of Orchids, Hyderabad’ attended the interactive session which started with Principal, Ms. Mona Mehdi’s introductory, informative and promising address.  Orchids’s Mission and Vision, its Philosophy, Policies and Rules, activities and constant endeavours to progress were detailed. Orchids is committed to groom students who can become confident and able to deal with all situations. Ethical and moral values always have a predominant importance while pursuing technology-oriented education. Traditional and modern ideas go hand in hand in imparting education. Orchids is a certified Cambridge school and follows CBSE curriculum from classes VI-X.

 The report on the recent achievements of Orchidians, as in Olympiad contests, was very impressive.

The PowerPoint presentation by the Principal gave tips on parenting and advised parents to spend quality and quantity time with their children. They need to encourage their child to cultivate reading habit and motivate the child to offer a book with the child’s name, year and class written, to the school library on his/her birthday.

Parental cooperation in all the events and activities is quite essential and Orchids looks forward to it.  Parents need to encourage their children to grab opportunities and participate in all the programmes, activities and competitions which gradually improve their skills and performance.

Mr. S. Raj Kumar, Regional Manager and Mr. Kameshwara Rao, SAT Executive of South India, Kokuyo Camlin ltd. gave a demonstration of how painting can be made easy. Painting, just as any art, requires interest, patience and guidance and the experts motivated the viewers to learn the art.

A few students of class IX displayed their skills of Rubik’s cube to the delight of the audience.

The Session impressed the audience and closed with the nomination of Parent Representatives for all the classes who can be supportive and contribute ideas for the school’s progress. The session ended with another beginning!

Colouring Competition

Children are born artists and colouring is of great importance for their development. Colouring gives children a sense of accomplishment, improves their motor skills, helps them recognise patterns, shapes and colours. It also develops their unique style and self expression. Colouring competition was organised for classes I-V at Orchids - The International School on 21-6-2013. The students were all very enthusiastic to showcase their mettle on the canvases with shades of colours, depicting various themes. 

Winners:

1. Anvitha nadendla

2. Saba khatoon 

3. Aarthi Kogra

World Music Day

Children are born artists and colouring is of great importance for their development. Colouring gives children a sense of accomplishment, improves their motor skills, helps them recognise patterns, shapes and colours. It also develops their unique style and self expression. Colouring competition was organised for classes I-V at Orchids - The International School on 21-6-2013. The students were all very enthusiastic to showcase their mettle on the canvases with shades of colours, depicting various themes. 

RAJA RITHVIK, THE NATIONAL SCHOOLS CHAMPION - 2013

RAJA RITHVIK, studying in the 5^th class made Orchids - The International School proud yet another time. He has become the New National Schools Champion -2013 and bagged Gold medal on 11/6/2013 by scoring 7.5 points out of 9 rounds at Chennai. In the 9^th and Final round Rithvik defeated Mehta Naitik of Gujarat in a well fought encounter. Rithvik received the gold medal and Merit Certificate from Indian Grand Master Adhibhan of Chennai. Orchids congratulates him and wishes him all the best in his future endeavours.

Star of the week 7: Saba Khatoon

Practising for perfection

Orchids – The International School organized a guest lecture for grades 1 to 5 on 12/6/2013. It was conducted by Mrs .Sunanda Rao Kommireddi on the topic ‘Practising for perfection’.

The presentation started with learning about what exactly is practice and why children need practice?  Practice is must and a simple learning method all over the globe. Next point of presentation was, How to practise? With the help of a small story the discussion concluded with, ‘Perfect practice is for perfection’. On the whole it was a very interactive and lively discussion with active participation of the children.

LEARNING LOG FOR JUNE AND JULY (2013)

Month’s Focus: PRACTISING FOR PERFECTION

Subject	Syllabus	Field trip/ Project work/ Special Activity
English	M.C.B:              Ls-2:The potter’s plan              Ls-3 The making of great president              Poem: one inch tall W.B:   Ls-2: The potter’s plan             Ls-3: The making of great president Lit:      Ls-2: The Nightingale            Poem: Someone	·             Enactment
Mathematics	Ch:2  Addition and Subtraction Ch: 3  Multiplication Ch: 4 Division	·               Dice game ·               Multiplication grid ·               Choosing, operating and guessing game
Social Studies	Ls-3     The Northern plains Ls- 4    The western desert Ls- 5    The southern plateaus Ls- 6    The coastal plains and the Islands	·   Making charts on each state- occupation, rivers, festivals, crops, monuments, dresses. ·    Draw a desert scene. ·   Gathering information about the festivals, food, and dress of the people of the coastal plains and representing on a chart.
Science	Ls- :  * Skeleton & Muscles Ls:2    Teeth and microbes	·      Preparing different types of joints using straw and clay. ·      Lab: model of teeth, different microbes through microscope.
II Lang	Hindi: Ls :3 - Champak vaan ke hadthal Ls :4 – Chithrakar Aur chithr Ls:5 – Itcha shakthi Ls:6- Kali chidiya	·         Stick pictures of wild animals. ·         Make puppets with colorful papers and ice-cream sticks. ·         Stick the favorite dishes ·         Stick the dry flowers and leaves in the worksheet.
	Telugu:        Ls:2 – raatnam        Ls:3 – Eswarachandhrudu.        Ls:4 – Dhurasa        Ls:5 – Edhu      Ls :18-Vamana neethi padhyalu	·            Write any five sentences about the occupation and stick the pictures according to them. ·            Storytelling about Dhurasa ·            Draw and explain about ‘ox’ and write how it is useful in sankranthi days. ·            Recitation
	French:   1.   Les salutations                  2. Comptons ensemble	·            Speaking skills: skit on greetings in french. ·            Speaking and writing skills: skit on purchases with the help of numbers.
Creative Writing skills/English language/ Enhancement skills	·               Write a few lines about Sarojini Naidu.
Computer Science	Ls2: Memory & storage Ls3: Working with windows7	·         Listing out various storage devices Identifying and working with them. ·         Understanding windows components and working with the files and folders.
Art and Craft	1.       Fruit basket drawing 2.       Origami
General Knowledge	Pg:       13 to 20 Pg:       21to 28
Music	Songs: 1. I got peace like a river 2. The sun comes up with a great big smile 3. Ektha swatantratha
Games	·         Football- steal the treasure ·         Run-up to physical fitness test ·         Skill assessment circuit ·         Basketball- Ball control & dribbling.
Lifeskills	Tying a shoelace/ table manners

Events:                                                                                                       Competition:                        

12/6/13 – Guest Lecture (I – V)                                                            21/6/13 – Coloring Competition (I- V)

14/6/13 – House meeting (I- V)                                                           28/6/13 – One Minute Game (I –V)                                                  

21/6/13 – World music day  (Assembly presentation)                   12/7/13 - English Poem Recitation (I – V)

 11/ 7/ 13 – World Population Day (Assembly presentation)       27/7/13- Mother and child competition (I – X)

 15/7/13 – 19/7/13 – USSR                                                                

 19/7/13 – Field Trip (I- V)                                                                   

26/7/13- Kargil Victory Day (Assembly Presentation)  

26/7/13-  Van Mahostav ( Nur –X)                                                                                    

Note:                                                           

22/6/13 -  Koffee with parents (Nur – X)

15/7/13 – 19/7/13 – Unit Test - I

20/7/13 – PTM + Book Fair

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