Newsletter - Semester 2
“We want every kid in the world to be excited about the many possibilities coding can unlock- for themselves, for their communities and for society.”
- Sundar Pichai
With the inspiration from this beautiful message from the CEO of google, we would like to welcome you all to our Joy School and the 2nd semester of the 2021-2022 school year! The teachers and students have wonderfully settled into a wonderful routine and have established relationships that are supporting both our academic and behavior goals.
The second semester has brought an even growth in students, and progress in reaching the goals of our academic plan. The Joy School community believes that, “The love for learning, high academic achievement and parental involvement are keys to a lifelong education.”
Over the past five months, our students have been given the opportunity to further develop their reading, writing and math skills, while depending on their own knowledge and understanding of the world.
We recently conducted our mid-year assessments and the data we got back is quiet promising. The comprehension strategies, how to help children understand what they read, the strategies that we continue to focus on include:
Using schema and making connections (text-to-self, text-to-self, text-to-world): A students background knowledge and experiences that makeup what he/she is.
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Sensory images/ Visualizing: Using mental pictures and senses.
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Asking questions: Thoughtful readers ask questions before, during and after their reading.
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Inferring: Using prior knowledge and textual clues to draw conclusions.
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Determining importance: using what is known to distinguish important from unimportant information.
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Summarizing and synthesizing: Readers monitor overall meaning, important concepts and themes as they read.
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Monitoring comprehension: Using your inner conversations, leaving tracks as you read to help better understand the text.
When your child is reading, take time to sit beside them, talk to them about what did they read. Many students at the elementary level learn quickly how to read the words printed on the page, but it takes real work for them to learn how to make sense of what they are reading. The above strategies will just serve the purpose; they turn your child from a “reader” to a “thinker”.
-Center Head Mrs.Mamatha Reddy.
Activity tour
1. Nature's Week :
The Nature’s week is one of the initiative take by us to create awareness in our children about what food makes them healthy and the importance of having a healthy diet menu. It has to be ensured that a balanced diet is being taken. Each day from 21st to 26th October, menu for snack and lunch has been sent to parents. Children enjoyed the Brave Badams day, Proud Palak day, Naughty Narial day, Ambitious Amla, Mighty Majjiga, and Smart Suraj day.
2. White Color Day :
The color of peace, innocence, and light is white. It symbolizes goodness and purity. It is considered to be the color of perfection; it is the color of safety, purity and cleanliness. White represents a successful beginning.
Nursery children dressed up in white like bunnies. Awareness about milk and its health benefits has been wonderfully presented by children.
3. Diwali Celebrations :
The most rejoiced festival of every child. People eagerly wait to celebrate Diwali, the festival of lights. Joy children enjoyed the festival celebrations at school. They got engrossed themselves in painting diyas, burning crackers, and rangoli art. It’s certainly bliss to watch them enjoy the things they love the most.
4. Sports week :
The November month has its significance as we have a day dedicated specially to children on the birthday of our late Prime Minister Pandit. Jawahar Lal Nehru. To integrate sports as a part of our regular day-to-day activities, a distinct range of games were practiced by kids and competitions were held on 13th November. Winners in various competitions were felicitated on the Children’s Day event and thus sports week gave the required spirit and enthusiasm for the upcoming events.
The children’s day celebrations filled the young hearts with happiness and spread the bliss of innocence and the freedom that every child has. The dreams of these young children have to come true and they all should be blessed with good health, wealth, prosperity and happiness always.
5. Pink Color day :
Pink, the color associated with love and compassion, represents caring and understanding. It symbolizes giving and receiving care. Pink is a combination of red and white. Passion and power from the red color softened with the purity and openness of the white color complete the pink color’s meaning.
Pink color is a positive color that inspires warm and comforts the feelings. Everything rosy indicates good health and success. Special assembly has been conducted and our SKG children spoke about “Pink Pink Pinky Salt.” Nursery kids dressed up adorably in pink while JKG children spoke about the fruits and vegetables in pink.
FUSION FIESTA - INTER SCHOOLS COMPETITION
At Joy school, we conducted “Fusion Fiesta”, an interschool competition with participants from other schools in and around our school location. Certain events were conducted for the development of children in terms of Creativity, Physical, Personal-Social-and Emotional areas. Drawing, games and JAM Talk activities were conducted for children under the age group of 2 to 10. The events were well organized and conducted by our team and the closing ceremony of the Fusion Fiesta was the topper of the show.
We had Mr. Ravi Jurpala, IRS, (Deputy commissioner of Customs, Hyderabad) as our chief guest for the closing ceremony of the interschool competitions. We are delighted to have Mr. Rajavardhan Reddy, (Chairman of K.P.S) as a Guest of Honor. The board of directors, teachers, sub-staff, children and parents of Joy School, accompanied by the students, teachers, principals, students and parents of participant schools added extra glory to the event. Live theme of musical instruments, live food courts, and dazzling performances by the children, Prize distribution and Mother’s Millets competition were the events on board.
Dieticians Dr. Rupika (M.s.c. Nutrition), and Dr. Ruha (M.s.c. Nutrition) from KIMS kondapur took the responsibility of judging the Mothers Millets competition. The winners in all categories were excited to get felicitated in our school ground, particularly on the warm winter evening.
