Story Telling Session

We love to listen to stories.What better way to connect to Nature than through stories? Ms.Vijita narrated a story of a tree that is a friend forever.Here's a journal entry by a student :

In the auditorium today, Vijita ma’am narrated her version of a popular story 'Giving Tree' to all the students of 7th grade. It spoke of a tree which felt pleased to help a man despite the pain he had to endure in order to do it. The tree never regretted helping his friend. The tree knew him since he was a young boy with black curly hair ,bright  shiny eyes and dimples on his cheek. The story ends when the tree stump and the old man share each other's experience.
At all times when the man faced predicaments , he approached his old friend without expecting any reward, yet the tree always found a solution to the man's problem. The story depicted the beautiful relationship the man shared with the tree.

Pranav C. Madhukar
7C

Journal Records

Here are samples of students' works.Well done students!!

Biodiversity - 2

Students expressed their views on city and nature on paper using twigs and other natural material.
Here are samples of some wonderful,creative expressions :

We Are What We Eat

GV Ramanjaneyulu

“We are what we eat and plants give us what we feed.” He is waging a war against the use of pesticides in agricultural activities and has challenged the traditional methods of farming. Apart from running the Centre for Sustainable Agriculture as the Executive Director, he also runs a small outlet, Sahaja Ahaaram, which stocks pest-free products from farmers. After leaving his full-time government job, Ramanjaneyulu dedicated himself to the benefit of farmers and his campaign, ‘India for Safe Food’

Source :http://tedxhyderabad.com/speaker/gv-ramanjaneyulu.

Best of Waste

Gift Article - Hand Made

After talking about gifts that they can make using natural and easily available materials,
Adya Gupta of 7E has made this bowl using newspaper.
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Creative articles @ DKS

Children were shown a video on Bio-Diversity. They were made into two groups and each group was asked to write or draw different articles using 5 different names from nature. The names were given by the other group as a challenge. Here are some poems written by the children:

BLADDER WORT

What a wonder the bladderwort is,

Beautifully colored, a trap it is

It is attractive when you look at it

But when an insect comes and sits

It is no more good,

Its Bladders trap the insect

As it is its food.

AMOEBA

So small and shapeless,

The space it occupies is so less

Organism with one cell,

A name difficult to spell

Occupies space

And has no face,

It is a bacteria,

Which causes diarrhea,

Takes in food in a unique way,

Doesn’t have a word to say

It is found everywhere,

Can’t be seen anywhere

Try to observe it with a lens

It looks immense

Now you know about this creature

Which will be taught by a teacher.

EARTH

I was born with a rock in my head,

My grandfather the sun, said the moon was my friend

My grandfather sends me light as a gift

My body is filled with oceans and land

I keep working day and night

I may look cool from out, but too hot in,

Guess who am I ?

I am the Earth.