Glimpses Of Yesteryear's
On 7th November'2020 A Virtual CVC Reading Workshop via zoom was conducted wherein the tricks and techniques were shared to make the child read the words easily with the help of phonics. It was very knowledgeable and useful workshop conducted by LKG teachers. Parents attended the workshop with great enthusiasm.The workshop started with the importance of LSRW Skills followed by phonic sound drilling session.The correct way to read CVC words using phonic sound was demonstrated along with different reading strategies.This workshop facilitated the parents to learn and know a new way to read CVC words. Parents noted the important points and thier queries were resolved. The workshop ended on a positive note that practice makes one a good reader.
" Your intellect may be confused but your Emotions will never lie to you. " Emoji's are digital pictures which shows our emotions or reactions. Today Emojis have become a part of our day-to - day life. Using an Emoji while texting is better way to make any conversation or communication interesting. Our UKG kids also celebrated World Emoji Day on 19th of July '21. It was a virtual celebration. The event was started by showing Cartoon Character Doremon, followed by a song 🎼 .Different Situations were given to the kids, to which they expressed their feelings by making happy, sad,and angry faces.
To give our children an exposure of the different harvest festivals celebrated in our country , their significance and to connect them whole nation and make with the rich culture and traditions of our nation, Westwind Kindergarten took up the Mom and Me cooking activity celebrating the different Harvest Festivals in India . The kids of UKG , after studying about the different harvest festivals like Pongal, Baisakhi, Lohri, made delicious dishes with their mothers using the harvest crops, like makke ki roti and sarso ka saag, guddh ke laddo, kheer,etc. This activity also helped to get the mothers and children together to spend quality time in a productive way. It also gave a chance to the moms to collectively portray creativity with their child. The presentations of the dishes made our mouths water.It was wonderful to see our little chefs' enthusiastic participation to help their moms. The mother and child team working together, swiftly coordinating and seamlessly was an adorable sight.
Teaching and Learning is a Collaborative Process.
Education is a lifelong process and the people should never stop educating themselves hence, during these unprecedented times of Pandemic Covid-19, the Educators of Westwind Kindergarten utilized their time effectively and kept themselves gainfully occupied in Digital Learning Environments. Teaching and Learning via webinars and web conferencing is being widely used. The global trend of digitalization has also transformed us and the way in which education is designed, delivered and implemented. The educators attended many fruitful, informative and productive webinars. The list is exhaustive because Teaching and Learning is a never-ending process.
- The teachers attended webinars organised by Collins on multiple aspects of English Language Teaching, it greatly helped in enhancing our knowledge on the key elements of using English Language, usage of dictionaries, effective use of Language games and developing language, meta cognitive skills and learning styles.
- The teachers also attended a Webinar organised by Scholastic- Hop.Click.Learn, which emphasized on importance of virtual platform, influence of learning curve, do's and don'ts of a virtual classroom, effective planning and activities, making sessions engaging and productive, online and offline activities, tools and resources, tips and techniques for early childhood teaching.
Other noteworthy webinars include
- Webinars organised by Oxford on Story Time- Constructive use of stories, folk tales, puppets, voice modulation and integration of stories in language, maths, arts and music.
- Effective use of Science/EVS skill building at home.
- Multidisciplinary Approach to enhance critical thinking.
- Embedded differentiated instructions.
- Webinar on Happitude- Building happy attitude organised by Square Tales.
- Creating learning environment through natural elements, organised by Early Childhood Association.
- Webinar themed 'A key to unlock your skills' on the ' new normal in education' and the need to adapt virtual digital learning.
- Webinar organised by Dell Aarambh about Creating a conducive Online learning environment at home.
- Seminar conducted by Masoom Teacher's Training Program on creating awareness amongst teachers and children about safety and precautions to be taken.
Our passionate and dedicated educators shared learning with the rest of our teaching staff as well , as the essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another. These webinars also have helped our Educators to learn, practice and grow more and implement their learning constructively and share best practices with the children so they can flourish and nourish well and became lifelong learners.
With schools being closed due to the pandemic, Westwind Kindergarten planned several Creative Activities to keep them busy and prevent them from running dry on creativity.
Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I understand. A Special Assembly was conducted on 3rd August'22 on the theme "The World of Animals". The teacher introduced different animals to the students and interacted about them. Students of UKG concluded the assembly by Singing a song Old Mac Donald had a farm represented Old Mac Donald and different animal characters and did the actions along. Students also became familiar about the sound of different animals through a play and learn method.
Shapes Puzzles are awesome for children's brain development specially for improving cognitive skills, critical thinking, predicting, analysing and comparing. Students of UKG did Shapes Puzzle activity on 5th August'22 which enhanced their knowledge about shapes, developed fine motor skills, build new brain connections become independent learner.
“*Be who you are and say what you feel*”🙍🏻♂️🙍🏻♀️🙍🏻🙎🏻♂️ An activity to get to know yourself and your classmates was conducted on 6th August, 22 on the topic ‘All About Me’ for the students of UKG.💐 An interesting circle time activity about the children and their families was conducted, and then , the children made creative booklets 📒filled with lovely answers and drawings🎉🌟🔅✾ Children loved doing the activity and discovered many things about themselves !! 🤩 "All About Me" book was so much fun to make!😄
" *Friendship is all about trusting, helping, and loving each other. It is rightly said that, friends are the family we choose"* To celebrate this special bond of friendship 👭👬, we at Westwind Kindergarten along with our little fellow😄 students from Nursery to Grade1 celebrated 🎉 the day of friendship 🫱🏻🫲🏻on 6th August'22 with many fun-filled 🤩 and amusing activities🥳. Our children exchanged friendship bands🤗, participated in a hand printing activity 🖐🏻, and even made new friends ! 💐The day was spent playing, laughing and being together!
🚒🚒Kids love superheroes. The fact is, adults do,too!Ordinary people.... with the desire to help...donning special uniforms...defying the odds and making the world a better place to live.🚒🚒 *Westwind Kindergarten* organised a visit for the well known firefighter👨🚒👩🚒, Mr Sajid Khan on 10th August'22. He shared valuable information about the hazards of mishandling of domestic cylinders, electric points, playing or misusing flammable sprays and other things that might cause fire to break out🔥. He also gave important tips on do's and don'ts in case of fire mishap.🏭 He showed some equipments used by the fire fighters, like the fire resistant suit , helmets⛑ ,fire extinguisher🧯 📣etc. Overall, it was a very informative session for all of us.The children were intrigued and fascinated.They learnt some important life skills and ways to help others in case of such accidents.🚒🚒
💫Circle time encourages listening👂🏻, talking , and sharing 🫱🏻🫲🏻 among the children 👧👦. Also, it encourages the development of social skills by providing daily, structured social interactions, hence nothing is better than a storytelling session during circle time. LKG had a wonderful storytelling session of "The Lion 🦁and the Mouse🐭".Story was enacted by the teachers and students emphasizing on the voice modulation 😃 and imitating the characters of the story. Children were overjoyed 🤩 racing 🏃🏻♂️🏃🏼♀️ with their friends being the lion and the mouse and enhanced their creative skills 👩🏻🎨by drawing their favourite character and shared their thoughts about it. 🦁🐭 Through this story all the students learnt about helping, sharing and caring 🫱🏻🫲🏻which encouraged development of social and emotional skills.
Circle Time 💫 🤹🏼♀️ plays an important role at Westwind Kindergarten🏢. Circle time helps our children of UKG to enjoy their learning.🧮 It also helps us to strengthen the bonding with our students. 🤝It develops a wide range of skills and attitudes, such as confidence, self-esteem, talking and listening. 😄We at Westwind Kindergarten always start our day ⛅ with a Circle Time ⭕ routine so that our students get a chance to interact well👌🏻 and engage with each other.🤩👥
*The Indian flag 🇮🇳is the symbol of our freedom, national pride and history* As the 75th year of independence draws nearer, the students of LKG participated in *Drawing and Colouring Competition* on the theme - *The Indian Flag* 🇮🇳organised on 13th August'22.The little artists 🎨 participated with great fervour as drawing and colouring the Indian flag uprose their devotion 💐for the country and admiration of the Indian flag 🥰.It gave a chance to budding artists 👩🏻🎨of all hues to showcase their creativity 🤩and experience a diverse form of learning 💫 as this evaluated their knowledge 👩🏻🏫 about the Indian flag, tri colour 🧡🤍💚 and the ashok chakra.
🏞️ FIELD TRIPS ARE NOT ONLY LOTS OF FUN BUT THEY CAN ALSO BE VERY VALUABLE LEARNING EXPERIENCES FOR YOUNG ONES. As the 75th year of Independence draws nearer, the students of Nursery WESTWIND KINDERGARTEN visited the neighbourhood 👩🏻✈️ *Police Station* 🧑🏻✈️on 13th August'22 to understand the functioning of 👩🏻✈️police station🧑🏻✈️ as an integral part of our community. 👦🏻The tiny tots were warmly welcomed by the Police Officers👩🏻✈️. The students learned about their ethos ,working and functioning of a police station. Initially, the kids entered the police station with serious faces but the friendly officers interacted warmly with them and put them at ease immediately🤩. Our curious kids asked several questions and the policemen 🧑🏻✈️were very happy to answer them. Children were delighted when they received chocolates 🍡from the police staff.👩🏻✈️🧑🏻✈️👨🏻✈️ They loved meeting their friendly neighbourhood policemen !
*Aksharon ki Duniya se nikal kar aao banaen Aksharon ki Railgadi.* 🚂🚃🚃🚃 UKG Kids did an activity on 13th August'22 Saturday.😄 They made a Railgadi by arranging the Akshars ⚜️ in sequence along with their pictures.📖🐰🪴⛺ This activity helped the kids to recognize the Akshars and stick them in correct sequence. 🤩👌
*Style is a way to say who you are.*🎉 We at Westwind Kindergarten School 🎉 believe that every child is perfect in his/ her own unique way. 😊 We just have to foster their inner potential and provide them with the right platform. 👩🏻🎓To bring out the hidden talent in our tiny tots and team it with fun& frolic, 🥳 we have organized a *Seasonal Fashion Parade* 🧥👚👗👒🧢 for the students of UKG on 20th August'22. 🎊 📍The students showcased different seasons ☀️☃️🌧️by walking the ramp smartly🧚🏻♀️ in their attractive and beautiful costumes and props. 🥳 💫Students showed their enthusiasm and displayed their confidence while speaking about it.🎤🎉Their innocent words and stage presence won the hearts 💕of everyone with exuberance and fervour.🎉 📍Seasonal Fashion Parade 🧥👗👒☂️ proved to be a great learning experience for the students and gave them a platform to explore their inner talents.🎊 These kinds of activities not only blend learning with fun but also develop confidence in students. 🤹🏼♀️ 📍All the little ones were looking adorable in their seasonal costumes 🤩and left everyone enthralled with their endearing acts.🎉🎊
✴️Elephants 🐘are both enormous and exciting! We celebrate World Elephant Day 🐘in the month of August every year to raise awareness about the dangers that⚡ elephants face 👀 and the various difficulties they have to overcome to live. 👦🏻Toddlers of Westwind Kindergarten 👧🏻 celebrated World Elephant Day on 20th August'22 and had a wonderful story time 📖 and got to know the significance of the giant animal 🐘 like its colour, body parts and the habitat. 😀 They also made an Elephant 🐘 using craft materials and did many fun frolic activities to mark the day.🤩
📍 *Long and Short*📍 *THE WORDS WHICH MAY SEEM EASY TO PRONOUNCE BUT THEY PLAY AN ESSENTIAL ROLE IN EVERYDAY LIFE*.😃 🧐To understand the concept of long and short, Nursery kids 👦🏻has been shown different objects like scale,📏 tubelight, ribbons,🎗️ rope,🪢 pencils ✏️and blocks 🟨 to make long and short train on 25th August'22. 📍They have made long and short lines with the help of clay 🤹♀️in which they enhanced their skills✨ and observe the long and short objects around them.🛝
🍃 *Green is the colour of nature's heart.*💚🍃 Shining Stars✨ of Westwind Kindergarten celebrated *Green Day* on 27th August'22☂️🛝🧚🏻♀️🍃 ☘️🎽🌂🥬with great enthusiasm and zeal.🎉 Students were introduced to the green colour through different objects and enhanced their vocabulary.🍏🎾🧩🌳 📍Students were glowing in different shades of green🧍🏻♂️🧍🏻♀️🍀and they went for a nature walk as 🪴 *Nature walks are a great way to soothe the mind.* 🌴🌳🪴 A walk in nature brings us serenity by allowing our enthusiastic learners 🤩a chance to observe the surroundings, understand the environment and connect with nature.🌳🪴🛝🏕️ The little explorers observed nature and investigated living 🌹🐈🌳and non-living things.☀️🏏 Children were inspired to love and appreciate the natural world.🌎 📍Students had a great time listening to the Stories 📖🧚🏻♀️and played some interesting games🤹🏼♀️. 📍They also did leaf ímpression 🌿, vegetable printing 🎨 and fun frolic craft activities to mark this day. ✂️📃🖍️ 📍The main idea was to captivate the imagination and creativity 🎊 of children by giving them an opportunity to get involved in various activities🤹🏼♀️ and they also discovered and explored their learning. 😊
*“Every child is an artist” said Pablo Picasso.* 🧑🏻🎨 Keeping this in mind and to explore the creative potential in the young minds of our children👩🏻🎨, a *Colouring Competition*🖍️📃 was conducted for UKG students on *27th August 2022*, 🎉 in which children were made to colour a peacock.🦚 The children showcased their creative skills🎨 in colouring and the result was amazing art work.🦚 This fun filled activity witnessed an enthusiastic participation by all students. 😀
✨ *Believe you can and you're halfway there*💫 ☘️ Our little munchkins of *LKG* had a *Show and Tell Activity* on 27th August Saturday,wherein they were encouraged to speak about their favourite green object, fruits or animals ☂️🌵🦜🌴 The little ones enthusiastically participated in it .They were excited 😃to share their descriptive narration and waited eagerly for their turn to show and tell. Thus, this event helped our tiny tots to build their social, emotional and language skills. 🙂👍🏻 It also enabled them to improve their descriptive skills by communicating feelings, thoughts and emotions with words.🥳 🙂Children enjoyed this activity and shared knowledge of various green colour fruits🥝🍏🍐, green vegetables 🥒🥬🥗 , green colour animals🐸🐢🦗🦚🦜 and various other green objects with memorable moments of joy and happiness 🙂
🤝*_Let's meet our helpers_* 🤝 🔶Any work of art simply makes lives, shapes life, expresses all shades and stages of life.🔶 🔷 The beautiful session for students of Nursery and LKG commenced with creative personalities like Fire man👨🚒, soldier💂, Mason🔨, Gardener👨🌾, maid 🧹and driver🚌. Our little munchkins learned and experienced the important role of community helpers in our life🎗️. Children enjoyed with great enthusiasm. They came to know🧐 about the tools🧯 that is used by our community helpers and became aware of the safety rules too.🦺 Overall it was an informative and interactive💡 session wherein student📌 got to know about the hard work and the role of community helpers in making our community better place to live'.✌️
‘Freedom in the mind, Faith in the words, Pride in our soul.’ 🇮🇳 On the great occasion of 75th Independence Day 🇮🇳, a very informative programme was conducted at Westwind Kindergarten on 15th August'22 🎉 to help our students learn more about the significance of the day. 😀 The programme began with a mesmerising song sung🎤 by our tiny tots👶🏻 of Nursery, LKG and UKG that awakened everyone’s feeling towards the Mother Land.🎉 As national symbols plays a crucial role representing our nationality,🦚🪷🥭🏑🐅 so to exhibit importance of National symbols our Students stood forward dolled up as national symbols to elaborate their importance. 🪄🎊 Leading the programme in a mesmerised way, a mellifluous and splendid dance performance💃🏻 was presented by the students. 😀 Our national leaders🫡 are our heroes and to give them the honour,🏆 our young ones dressed up as national leaders and spread their message all around. 💂🏻♂️ Children also represented different states through their attractive attires.🥻 🇮🇳 The speech and quotes infused dedication and devotion and patriotism in the minds and hearts of children.❤️ It makes our heart beat with pride to see the colours of Independence Day, 🧡🤍💚 spreading happiness and joy all around. 😀
Hindi Day was organized on Wednesday 2076/03/2020 under the aegis of Bal Bhavan School and Westwind Kindergarten.
Students from class nursery to first participated in this.
The program started Hindi prayer was done by the donor to give us so much power. Where the students of class first gave melodious presentations in poetry reading and Doha recitation, the songs of the little singers of the nursery attracted everyone.
Students of LKG and UKG also fascinated everyone with song and story reading in their sweet voice.
🤩 *Each child is blessed with talents which are unique.* 🤩
🥳To bring out these hidden talents, a fancy dress competition was held for the students of nursery in 🥳 *WESTWIND KINDERGARTEN on 27th September, 2022*.
🔸Fancy dress 👮🏻♀️👷♀️👩🏼⚕️👩🏻🎓👩🏻🏫👩🏻✈️competition brings out the creativity and ingenuity of the parents and provides the little ones an opportunity to light the stage on fire🔥 with their wonderful attire🥼🩺👩🏻✈️👩🏻🏫👩🏻🎓👩🏼⚕️👷♀️👮🏻♀️. They also learn to overcome their hesitation and develop a sense of confidence to face audience.
📌 It is always a pleasure to watch the toddlers dressed up as different characters👮👮🏻♀️👷♀️👩🏼⚕️👩🏻🎓👩🏻🏫👩🏻✈️ building up their speech.
📍Our Exceptional kids rocked the stage and enjoyed the activity.🥳
*Be like a coconut. Stay tough on the outside yet pure on the inside*. To acknowledge the importance of coconut 🥥 we at Westwind Kindergarten, celebrated🥥 *Coconut day* 🌴and *White Day* 🤍 on 30th September i.e Friday.
✨ All the students were dressed up in white colour attire . 🤍 *White colour stands for peace ,purity and innocence of light* To introduce the concept of white colour 🤍to our tiny toddlers, we celebrated White Day with great enthusiasm 😃 👶🏻🧒Children brought edible food items of white colour💭 such as rice🍚,idli, upma🍛and variety of foods such as sweets🍥🥪 or snacks🍙🍚 keeping coconut 🥥as the main ingredient.
The combination of these two days🤍🥥 were a blast💥 at Westwind.
🤩Students had a great time listening to the Story : Enormous Turnip📖, had a fun-filled Sensory Hunt Activity about coconut wherein they had experiential learning to enhance their five senses👀👃🏻👂🏻👅🖐🏻 and had Treasure hunt 🎁 with white-coloured objects. Some of them did cotton pasting activity to make sheep 🐑 and rabbit🐇 as a part of their take away.🎉And some children made bird nest🪹 from coconut fibres 🥥🪹as a part of their take away 🥳
To make the day enjoyable😃 and joyful, 😄teachers had planned out fun-filled activities and games for our little munchkins👦👧
💫Our tiny toddlers of Nursery had ended their day with eating😋 yummy pastry 🍰
✨To enhance their speaking skills, children spoke about objects ⚪and pictures related to the white 🗯️ colour .Children 👧🏻👶🏻 were asked to name a few white things🥼🐼🐩🐓🦢🌼☁️🌫️ that they see in their environment🥡🥛🫖🎂 and surroundings.🏐🎲🥋 It was indeed a fun-filled learning day!
Where our tiny toddlers👧🏻👦🏻 enhanced their knowledge and develop their fine Motor skills and know the importance of versatile coconut fruit 🥥which is delicious and nutritious fruit!. 😋
A session on good touch and bad touch taken by Dr Neelam Shukla
On 14th October 2022 Westwind and Bal Bhawan School participated in Inter-School competition TIRANGA 2022(ONLY ONE EARTH) organised by Asnani school where our school students won tons of prizes in almost all events and also Bal Bhawan School secured 1st position amongst all school and bagged the rolling trophy again this year.
Learning mathematical skills is a vital part of early childhood development. 🔢And understanding ordinal numbers and how they work is part of building this competency.🔢
Inculcating experential learning for better understanding ,to make learning a fun acticity and with the aim to clear the concept of maths for our kids, an outdoor activity was organised for the maths theme *'Ordinal Numbers'* for UKG kids on *15th October* *'22* .
In this activity different toys 🧸🐥🐢🐶were placed on positions for first to tenth.The kids were made to participate in a race in which every kid was alloted a particular number, then they were made to go to pick up the toy kept on the ordinial number given to them.🏃♂️🏃♀️
Kids had a wonderful 😍and thrilling🤩 time playing outside and at the same time learning and getting thorough in their maths concept.🥳
*📖Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body* 📚. - Joseph Addison
🎊A virtual workshop was conducted by grade LKG on 17th October'22 on the topic *"Science of Reading for preschoolers (LKG)"* wherein the parents were introduced various methods to ✨ *initiate reading skills with the help of phonics, CVC words, sight words and sight reading*. It was an effective 🌟 workshop and knowledgeable for the parents as they attended the workshop with great zeal and zest.👏🏻
It was an interactive session 🤩 where parents were taught the right reading methods which are the most essential part of preschoolers literacy development🥰.Parents were amazed 😃to know such tips and tricks which would definitely aid in enhancing reading skills 📕 of children. They all were happy 😇and thankful 🥳to all the teachers of LKG for organising such a wonderful workshop.💫
💫 *'Unite on universal hand hygiene'* We at Westwind Kindergarten celebrated *The 'Global Handwashing Day'* on 15th of October.
It aimed to foster and support a general hand washing culture in all societies. Our tiny tots performed a special assembly to spread awareness about the benefits of washing hands with soap and water 🤲🏻🧼🧴🚰before and after meal, after coming from play and many times a day.
Children 👦🏻👧🏻🧒🏻performed enthusiastically on the rhyme *"Wash, wash, wash your hands"*. Also they enacted as Hand, Soap and Water to explain the importance of handwashing as it kill the germs and prevent us from diseases.
*Eat a Healthy meal🥙, By making a good deal👍. Fruits🍎 and Vegetables🥦 are important, Eat what comes from the kitchen department🍱👩🏻🍳.* Regular intake of healthy veggies 🥬and fruits 🍇🍎 is a must, so, to incorporate our concept about Vegetables 🥗, Fruits🍎🍌and to inculcate the habit of eating healthy 🍱 and staying healthy 👍🏻, *An Educational Trip 🚌to a Food Store* 🏢 was organized for the students of UKG on *29th October'22, Saturday*, to enhance the experiential learning🤹🏼♀️ for the overall development of our children.
It was a wonderful opportunity for the children to explore and learn about different kind of food items . 😀 On their visit to the Smart Bazaar, 🚌children were encouraged to identify the different types of veggies and fruits found there. 🍌🍓🍎🥦🌽🫑
Students observed and learnt about different and seasonal fruits/ vegetables,🍎🥕🥦 and the importance of eating healthy food🍲🍱. They became familiar with the names of the different veggies🧅🥔/ fruits🍈🍒
They also learnt to choose and pick out healthy food items from an array of food items. Besides fruits and vegetables, the children took a look at different grains,🍚 dairy/frozen food, bakery 🍞🥖 and packaged foods.
It was a fun-filled learning experience for the children .
*Pink🎈 denotes love💕, beauty 🌹 and kindness.*
📍Colours 🎨 play a very important role in the early development of children. They are the most noticeable attributes around us. To identify the colour 🎨 *Pink* Westwind Kindergarten celebrated *Pink 🌷 Day* on 29th October 2022 . It was wonderful to see our children bloom🌹 and blossom in different shades of pink🌺.
The young ones came dressed in pink 👗 colour and brought pink coloured toys. All the pink colour objects were displayed in the class and children were introduced to different shades of pink.
🌸The tiny tots 👶🏻 participated in a variety of hands on activities related to the identification of pink colour. Painting 🖌️ and colouring 🖍️ activities reinforced the concept of colour in children.
☘️ *Mother nature has the best box of crayons* ☘️
🖌️Painting with leaves 🎨is a creative way for toddlers and preschoolers to learn about fall leaves🍁 and fall colours 🖍️through an open-ended, gross-motor nature art activity.
👉🏻This is a fun art activity where children can explore using paint to print natural🌈 objects. It allows them to explore how printing works, Kids love to do experiment 🧪with different “tools” when they’re making art.🖼️
Shining stars 🌟of nursery have printed the leaves on the sheet on 11th October'22.
✨ They came to know about the difference between big and small leaves🍁. It developed their fine motor skills and they learnt to work independently. Our tiny tots enjoyed the activity 🥳
*Once you need less you will have more*
📍More and less is an important concept for children to understand. Children are usually able to become acquainted with the concept of more as toddlers. In preschool they will continue to show their understanding through comparing groups as more or less
The concept of More⏩ and less⏪ was taught to our Nursery kids on 20th October'22 by using different objects chalks, crayons 🖍️, beads, blocks,etc. Children sort different objects which is more and less .🤩.
🖇️Our young, adorable munchkin understood the concept very well. They enjoyed the activity.🤩
*WHERE DO THEY GO.?* 🤷♀️
A plane in the sky, ✈️
A boat in the water. ⛵
Look up again,
To see the helicopter 🚁
A train runs on track 🚊
A car on the road 🚙
Vans 🚐 , trucks 🛻 and lorries 🚛, all carry their load.
Preschoolers love activities that include playing with all types of transportation items including vehicles such as car🚗 , trucks 🛻 , airplanes ✈️ and more.
This topic is part of their everyday lives.
We have made our kids👧 learnt that means of transport are different kinds of transport facilities used to carry people or cargo. Our little munchkins👦👧 of nursery kindergarten have done an activity on 21st October'22 of sorting different means of transport i.e. land , air and water so that they can learn the concept very well by sorting different means of transports in the form of toys 🚗⛵️✈️🚁🚊🚛and by pasting pictures of vehicles 🚗 ✈️🚘🚀🚙🚂🚛Children were very enthusiastic to learn segregation of mode of transport by this fun activity and it aided the concept of transportation and different modes were explored by the Kids.👧
*_Origami, (ori meaning "folding",📁 and kami meaning "paper") is the art of paper folding._ 📑*
Origami Competition was conducted on 29th October ’22 for Westwind Kindergarten LKG students to develop the imagination and creative skills amongst students.👧🏻👦🏻 It sharpens the attention and concentration ability of the children and lends manual agility. It also greatly strengthens their fine motor skills, eye-hand👀👏🏻 coordination
Our tiny tots participated in the competition. 😊 We were amazed😃 to see the transformation of a flat sheet of paper📃 into a finished sculpture through folding 🗞️and sculpting✂️. Children created unique and exclusive shapes and structures to showcase their finesse in paper craft.The paper folding craft was not only a fun filled experience, but it also proved to be a valuable means to develop artistic skills in our tiny tots☺️🤩
*"A healthy mind🧠 resides in a healthy body🧍🏻♂️."* 😊
🥦🥕🌽🍆🥝🍏🍎
Eating healthy food helps in providing more energy to our bodies so that we may work all day long without feeling exhausted.🤾🏻♂️
Keeping this in mind,
A sorting activity of ‘Healthy and Unhealthy food’ 🍎🍕🥬🍩was organised for the students of UKG on 28th October'22, so that they understand the value of eating healthy food. 🍲🍱🥦🍎
They understood that ‘junk food’ like chocolates, 🍫ice-cream,🍦 chips can be harmful if eaten often.😔 They also understand that food is necessary for their growth🧍🏻♂️ and to maintain good health.💪🏻
Students were able to make healthy choices! 🥕🥦🥬🍎😁
This sorting activity was a fun way to help students to enhance their knowledge about the importance of eating healthy food.🥗🌮 They sorted food into healthy🍎🍌🍒 and unhealthy🍔🌭🍰 categories by pasting pictures. 🍌🍟🍩
🌸हिन्दी है हमारी मातृ भाषा हिन्दी है हमें बड़ी प्यारी हिन्दी की सुरीली वाणी लगे हमें हर पल प्यारी🌸 हिन्दी अक्षरों के ज्ञान एवं उनसे संबंधित चित्रों 🍇🌹⏱️की पहचान करने हेतु *LKG* के विद्यार्थियों 🏃🏼♀️के लिए 7 नवम्बर को *हिन्दी गतिविधि* का आयोजन किया गया🤩 जिसमें सभी विद्यार्थियों ने विभिन्न अक्षर और उनसे जुड़े चित्रों के ताज👑 पहने, सही जोड़ियां बनाई और एक स्थान से दूसरे स्थान 🙌🏻 तक बाधाएं पार कर ग्रॉस मोटर स्किल 🏃🏻♂️🏃🏻♂️बढ़ाई और इस गतिविधि को उत्साह 🤗पूर्वक पूरा किया।
*“Handwriting is an imprint of the self on the page”*.✏️📄
Learning to form letters 📝📖at an early age creates a big part of efficient handwriting 📄📒📝for kids. Once the child is able to write letters ✏️📖correctly, he/she is able to focus more on the actual learning process.
By keeping all these points in mind and to make them understand the importance of writing beautifully and neatly📚📙📓, a “Handwriting Competition” 🏆🥇🥈🥉🏅was conducted on 5th November for our little ones of UKG.👨👦👦
Each and every child 🧍🏻of UKG took part in the competition 🎖🏅🏆wholeheartedly. They also understood the importance of writing 📜📓📝in a correct way by using the 4 lines concept.
It also helped them to enhance their good handwriting📝📒📕✏️skills by practising it at home. The competition was fruitful and beneficial for the children. 👶 🏅🏆🎖
One, two, three, four, five 🔢
Once I caught a fish alive🎣
Six, seven, eight, nine, ten 🔟
Then I let it go again 🎏
By this *NUMBER FUN ACTIVITY* 🔢
*We made our tiny tots👦🧒to identify and do one to one correspondence (object counting), so that our little munchkins 👦🧒can understand that numbers🔢have an order and are also able to count numbers easily and relate to quantities.
The kids of *NURSERY KINDERGARTEN*
did this activity on *5th November 2022*. 🗓️ They learnt the concept very well by counting different objects (ice cream sticks🥢, beads🧮etc). Children were very enthusiastic in learning the concept by this fun activity and it aided the concept of numericals1️⃣2️⃣3️⃣4️⃣5️⃣6️⃣7️⃣.
Children are the best creation of God , they spread joy in every season With this thought, to make their day a memorable one and to spend some happy time with the students of Nursery to Grade 1,WestWind Kindergarten celebrated Children's Day on Monday, 14th November with great fervour and pomp.
The festivity of the day was obvious as the little munchkins turned up in their favourite outfits.
A special assembly was conducted whereby the teachers sang their favourite songs and then they organised a Disney Parade for which,the teachers dressed up as some of their favourite Disney Characters like Elsa,Winnie the Pooh,Minnie Mouse etc and danced to some Disney songs. The little ones were amazed and bewildered by their teacher's performances .
The children played games, danced and had a gala time with their friends. Last but not the least, with the help of their teachers they made beautiful takeaways as a memento of a wonderful day ,full of excitement that they had at school.
*Story Telling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.* 🥳🌎
Stories always give wings 🦋 to our imagination and take us to places💫 beyond the boundaries of the physical world.🌏 While competitions are the best way to boost the confidence in children. 😀 Keeping this in mind, a *Storytelling Competition* was organised on 12th November'22 for the students of UKG. 🎉 Children narrated different stories 🗣️ and some of them were dressed up🧚🏻♀️ as characters and presented their stories with facial expressions😄 and voice modulations.🤷🏻♀️🙋🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️ To captivate the audience's attention, the little narrators used different props and story puppets.🪆🐶🦊🐰🐯 Each and every story was recited with a moral. 😀 Students were able to develop their oratory and communication skills. 🎉
*"Poetry 🎷 is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. 👯🏻♀️”*
Rhymes 🎷 help children to experience the rhythm 🎺 of a language. As they recite 🎺the rhymes, they learn to speak with voice modulation, expressions, confidence and actions. Rhymes also prove handy in engaging kids which is an essential component to keep them happy 😁 and cheerful. 🥳
📎 *Westwind Kindergarten* organised a recitation competition on *12th November 2022* for Nursery kids where the kids recited different rhymes with expression 😌, thought, feeling, rhythm 🎷 and the music of words. The competition inspired the young poets to come forward and recite on stage. The students came up with different poems. Props were also used , which enhanced their presentation. Overall, it was a great experience for the spectators and an enjoyable one for the participants.
*Numbers have life they're not just symbols on paper 🔢*
The students of Lkg performed a very interesting Maths activity named "The Crawling Caterpillar"🐛 on 19th of November. Children were able to understand the concept of,the after numbers (the number that comes next) through this activity which is very important for a preschooler to know. They arranged the numbers written on flash cards in correct order to complete the caterpillar🐛. The little munchkins learnt sequencing of numbers in correct order. This activity helped to enhance their collaborative and numeracy skills. Children thoroughly enjoyed the activity
The children of LKG were thrilled😄 and excited while doing this activity which was conducted on 14th January'23.😃Children were given different wooden animals ,birds and insects 🐯🐶🐷🦊🐼🐒🐔🐧🐦🐤and they had to paste them on the blackboard🔲 and call out their names , identify the initial letter and phonic sound of the letter .This activity helped the children to learn about different 🐏farm🐱🐶🐔🐷/wild🦁🐯🐗/ water🐟🦀🐙🦐/ animals, 🐦 birds 🦚🦜🦢🦩🕊️and insects 🐛🪲🐞🐌🪱 , their names and habitat.
It also enhanced their reading skills, made learning spelling easy and fun.🥳 Improved their fine motor skills 🧠and hand-eye👀🖐🏻 coordination. It also helped to increase their attention 🤓span and focus😊.A variety of different animals stimulated the imagination of children,👶🏻🧒 tempting them to imagine story scenes. 🤩...
Dropping objects in water🛶 and checking if they sink🪨 or float🫧 is almost magical.✨
Our Little Investigators🧑🏻🔬🔎 of UKG 🎊tried an engrossing float and sink activity.🤩 The classroom was buzzing with joy, fun and excitement.🎊 This is a great activity for kids to understand which objects float or sink and why. 🔎🫧🪨
In this activity, children investigated, explored and discovered why objects were floating and sinking in the water. 📤🫧📥🪨
This activity enables the child to promote scientific thinking such as cause and effect, observation, comparison, reasoning and experimentation. 🤹🏻♀️👨🏻🏭🧑🏻🔬
It also helps in language development by introducing various objects that can sink or float. It also enhanced coordination and controlled hand-eye movement.📥📤
It was a fun-filled learning experience for the students.✨🎊
Our little scientists👩🏻🔬🧑🏻🔬 of UKG were thrilled to perform experiments on soluble 🥛🧊🧂 and insoluble 🥥🌹 substances .🫗
This activity was designed to stimulate observation, 🧐 sensory skills 👌🏻and thinking skills 🤔amongst the students.☺️
They were awestruck 🤩to see how substances were mixing and not mixing in water. 😃
It’s rightly said, 'there is no better way of learning than through hands on activities.' 🎊
The change ➡️from winter❄️ to summer☀️ to rainy ⛈️ is a great way to talk 💬to the preschoolers about the different seasons in a year.
The seasons were introduced by discussing ✨the clothes they wear , the food and fruits they eat ,the drinks and the activities related to the different seasons.
To enhance their learning about the seasons,our smarty pants of nursery did various activities on 19th January'23💦 such as ☑️pasting cotton ☃️on snowman, ☑️making sun 🌞 with origami papers , ☑️clouds and rain drops🌧️.
🔸By these activities we found out that our children already know about the seasons and it also provided some background knowledge📖 to our tiny tots. 🔅They had great fun while doing this activity . 🥳
*Whether the little ones are seeing real animals, reading about them or doing projects related to them, they always seem to be drawn to activities that involve animals* . 🐈🐕🦺🐰🐶
Our kids have explored different animals i.e Wild animals(🐅🦓🦍🐘)
Farm Animals (🐪🦒🦘🐏🐑) and
Water Animals (🐠🐬🦀🦐🐋).
They have also learnt about their habitat 🏚️🏞️ and their sounds.
To help them to recall and retain what they have learnt, a sorting activity of *Wild 🏞️, Farm 🎑and Water 🌊 animals* was conducted for the Nursery kids on *Saturday 28thJanuary' 23*. They also sang rhymes and enjoyed this fun activity.
💫 *Building words is imperative to becoming a great reader 📖 and writer✍️.*
✨ CVC Words are particularly important, as they are the foundation for putting beginning ,middle and ending letter sound knowledge 🔡 to test as students blend and speak out words🔤. A very interesting😃 and fun engaging activity "Mystery Box" 🎁 was performed by our young learners of LKG on 30th January. 👧🏻🧒🏻. This activity enhanced🎉 the phonemic awareness, blending and writing skills of our tiny tots👦🏻. Also, it helped them in their vocabulary and speech 🤩. Our little munchkins 👧🏻🧒🏻thoroughly enjoyed this fun filled activity. 💫
