Junior School Special Assembly

Mother Tongue Day

Inter School Swimming competition

The Aga Khan Academy hosted the inter school competition on 18th-19th Feb 2016. It turned out to be a very successful one. A few competitive swimmers of  the Junior School got an opportunity to showcase their talent. Girls team of The Aga Khan Academy secured first place and boys stood tall in  the fourth place.

Navya from grade 3 

Alayna from grade 3 

Aahana from grade 3

Medal ceremony by Ms. Latha  

Aarek and Shubham getting prepared for their next race

Winning Smile

 Junior School Swimmers

Well done Aarek!

Rraam after finishing his race

Happy to win

Well done Shubham!

Well done Rraam !

Science Fair

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Author study presentation- Dr. Seuss

Dr. Seuss artifact presentation

Presentation on Author Study task

Young Scientists

Students are engaged in presenting and observing experiments in the classroom. To take the inquiry a little further, students visited the science lab today. They made the most out of the lab visit. Students were presented with laboratory terminology and observed basic and few complex experiments. Ms. Ira was patient to answer a lot of student questions.

New unit: Material and matter

SCIENCE unit IT is !!!! Yay!

My grade 3 students are super excited about their new unit which is 'materials and matter'. Our tuning in activity was playing ‘Little Alchemy’ on the IPads. Students played this game while understanding that when two different elements are combined it sometimes makes a new element. Students made notes of all the successful combinations in their scrap books. 

Focusing on the first line of inquiry: Students are presently exploring the different properties of materials in the artifact corner and record their observations.

Volcano experiment by Navya

Aarek explains how different materials react differently with water. He also explains how the level of water rises when marbles are added in it.

'Entrepreneurship Day' another great event

Entrepreneurship day at the junior school was a great success. The event was held on Thursday, 28th January 2016. COMMITMENT, ENTHUSIASM and CREATIVITY may seem like big words but these were some of the traits that I saw in my students in these past few weeks as we prepared for the BIG day. The 'young entrepreneurs' displayed their businesses such as selling popcorn, bookmarks, envelopes, lemonade, homemade chocolates, pens and stickers, a head and a shoulder massage, chocolate dip (marshmallows and jujube), pav bhaji  and a photo booth. We all were glad that all the stalls were sold out and made profit. Through this unit the students of grade 3 understood the basics of different business. They learnt the importance of teamwork and planning. Most importantly, this event ignited the entrepreneurial spirit in the students. However, the entire process was not simple. It required high level of planning.

SURVEY: It all started with a survey which was conducted by the students of grade 3 at the junior academy to find out the demand of different products which included goods and services. Once they collected the data, they represented the data using a bar graph. Interpretation of the data enabled the students to understand the demand of various products.

MONEY MONEY MONEY: In teams, students prepared a business plan and polished their presentations in order to get a business loan from Ms. Latha (Banker)

PROCURING RAW MATERIALS: After procuring the loan and finalizing the list of products students wanted to sell, it was time for some shopping. Few students along with few teachers visited the wholesale market to buy the raw materials to start production.

Quality check, packaging, advertising, promotion were few of the business elements which the students were introduced to.

I am glad that the students enjoyed the entire learning process and I am sure that this will be one unit my grade 3 students will never forget.