Literacy Week and Hindi Saptah

Day 1

Literacy Week and Hindi Saptah were celebrated in the schools from 10th - 14th September. The week started with a special assembly on how Hindi came to be the National Language of India. This was followed by a Hindi song by the Grade 5 students. Hindi special assemblies went on for three days and included a street play by Grade 4 and a role-play by Grade 2.

Grade 4 completed reading the Cinderella stories from around the world.

Eureka Book Fair was a part of Literacy Week too. Students had a choice of books by authors like Ruskin Bond, Enid Blyton and Rudyard Kipling among the others. They enjoyed browsing and selecting books to buy them at a student discount of 10%.

Day 2

Having read the stories now it was time to enact them in our classrooms. Students enjoyed enacting the clips from the Cinderella stories they had been reading. Another excitement on the day two of Literacy Week was a story telling session by one of the parents, Ms Monica Chopra. 

Day 3

It was a day of making bookmarks and book covers which the students decorated with illustrations from the Cinderella stories they had been reading. They also wrote couplets on their bookmarks thus personalizing them!

Day 4

The day to go wild with our imaginations! The students used the Six Thinking Hats and wrote extensions to the Cinderella stories they had been reading. Cinderella was written in various genres; Adventure, Humour etc.

Day 5

The Final Day! The students walked into the school dressed up as Cinderella, Prince Charming, Skeleton etc. They were dressed as a favourite character from the stories they had read. Highlight of the day was an interaction with Mr. Rajesh Nagulakonda and Mr. Sourav Dutta, renowned illustrator and editor from Campfire publications. Mr Nagulakonda demonstrated the process of creating illustrations for the books.

Students also had an opportunity to hear a Swiss Folk Tale, 'Florina and the Wild Bird' over a Skype session with Ms. Arpita Saxena from Berne, Switzerland.

Literacy Week was a week full of fun and learning!!