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Club Activity 16th January 2010
Hindi-Marathi Club(Samvadini):-
On16 Jan2010 activist of Hindi-Marathi Club (Samvadini) were very much engrossed in making banners for slogans to be presented in Marathi play. It was one of the event for GREEN-CHAMPS programme. The students thought of very beautiful slogans. Some of them are-----
1. Aali aamhala jag, Karu plastic cha tyag.
2.Plastic ki thailiyounse nadiyan hoty hai maily, Estemal karo sief kapadonki thaily!
It was avery unique and creative experience for the students.
Mrs Bhagyarekha Garware.
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Magic Fingers Club :-
Mrs Rizwana Shaikh had asked the students to collect advertised waste pamphlet papers and note book card board available in school.
Using paper pamphlet students were told to make rolls according to the paper size.Number of rolls were made.Taking a hard board of desirable size paper rolls were stuck on it .The top part and the base was made same for the sides.Afterwards all the four sides were stuck in abox shape.The box was ready with paper rolls ,all over it making it look very beautiful and attractive.Further it was decorated with some waste materials like shiny stones ,waste jewellery stones,bead,laces etc.Students enjoyed the activity as it turned out to be good return gift for parties.
Mrs Rizwana Shaikh.
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Stepping Stones Science Club:-
The fourth activity on the agenda of Stepping Stones was "Making Best out of Waste" .Since the group of students were extremely large we split the them into two large groups for both the activities. These groups were further split into small groups.The groups of 6th and 7th standard classes made slippers and pen stand with the help of bangles.For this the children were given soles of slippers . They made beautiful slippers by covering the soles with the help of wasted towels and clothes.They also made a pen stand with the help of Bangles .The bangles were pasted on each other on the base of a cardboard.The 8th and 9th standard groups made door mats out of old wasted clothes and sarees. The sarees were first plated and later they were stitched in a round circle to make a door mat.This session was really interesting as all the things that made were out of waste and from it we made useful things for day to day use.
Mrs Vimla Ramkumar.
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Geo Heritage Club:-
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The Geo Heriatge club commenced on an ECO FRIENDLY note ,hence all activities were designed around it. The Girls of Std VII-IX were guided by Ms Pratiksha S and Mrs Maria B in mask making of animals of endangered species. Eg Lion, elephant ,Tiger ,Bear etc.
Std VI- IX were involved in making usable Jute bags from waste Gunny bags under the assistance of Mrs Oke, Mrs Chetna Yadav and Mrs Ashita Pardeshi . The students of Std IX- Shubhankar Raykar, Anirudhha Kulkarni, Aniket Chopda helped in making paper bags and distributed in to a few shops explaining the importance of avoiding non biodegradble plastic for daily use .
Mrs Kiran Jadhav along with Omkar D, Devika D and Roopa Pai conducted an awareness session on the Negative Impact of Transport on Pollution and presented small tips to conserving fuel ad using it efficiently . Importance on PUC and judicious driving practises were stressed upon along with measures on safe driving with students.
Mrs Kiran Jadhav
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Ramanujans of Today:-
The first session of the maths club began with members solving given puzzles and later the members also shared some of their puzzles, forcing others to put on their thinking caps again. They went on to learn the use of Vedic maths to check divisibility of a number with prime and composite divisors.
The second session was utilized to find the amount of green area present in the school. The activities that were enthusiastically carried out were; finding the height of an Ashoka tree using a foot ruler, calculating the largest diameter to consider it as a cone and finding its surface area, which corresponds to the green area of that tree. Similar techniques were used to find the green area of small trees, shrubs, potted plants and lawn. These activities have been conducted as a part of the Air audit of the green champs programme.
Mrs Jyothi Menon
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"Wings of Creativity"Literary Club:-
We had our monthly Saturday Club meeting on the 16th of January ,2010.In the literary club,in the first half we had poetry recitation.The children were asked to bring either their own poems or poems from somewhere out of the text book.All of us recited the poems brought by us.In the second half i.e after the short break,we had article writing.We had a choice of writing either an article or a poem.We first discussed some topics ,though we were allowed to write on a topic of our choice.After we finished writing,we submitted the article/poem to Mr Umashankar Devadhe and Mrs Bharati Kudchadker for correction and were supposed to mail it later to Umashankar Sir.These articles and poems are to be published in the school magazine.
Thus ,we enjoyed this club activity heartily and hope that the other activities are as good as this one was.
Mrs Bharati Kudchadker
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Club Activity 19th December 2009
Natures Club:-
On 19th December 09 all the students of Nature club enthusiastically went for a trek under the leadership of Anish Kirtane of Std. VIII along with Nature club teachers to see migratory birds on the nearby Vetal tekadi. On their way up to stone quarry, students could see around 10 different types of birds (local and 1 or 2 migratory), insects and plants. Anish explained to all children about the nature of birds, their habitat, food and their calls.
Near the stone quarry he furnished the information about pug marks and how to distinguish between male and female, young and old animals by looking at pug marks. Students also asked different questions to get more information.
The entire club activity was enjoyed by students very much.
Teachers in charge:
Mrs. Gambhir
Mrs. Athale
Mrs. Jyothi Shyam
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Stepping Stones Science Club:-
The third activity on the agenda of stepping stones was again Soap Making and Ice Cream making. Since the group of students were extremely large we split the them into two large groups for both the activities. These groups were further split into small groups .The group of 6th and 7th std who had made ice cream in the last activity made soap this time through the process of Saponification which was a huge success.Students made different color soaps and enjoyed it thoroughly. Ice Cream making was by the process cryogens that is to prove that soluble salts lower the melting point of ice,was carried out by students of std 8th and 9th,these students made soap in the previous activity.Students made their own Ice Cream and also enjoyed it.
Mrs Vimla Ramkumar
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Magic Fingers Club:-
Bottle Decoration with fabric colours and waste material.
Material: Empty Bottles , fabric colours,any waste materials(bindis,shells,beads etc).
Students were asked to clean the bottles .Then using colour pencils students were told to draw rough figure/design on the bottle.Using fabris colours bottled were decorated .Then teacher told them to use the waste material on the bottle and decorated the bottle with the waste material on the bottle .Students could use it for flower pot as gifts.
Mrs Rizwana Shaikh.
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"Wings of Creativity" :Literary Club:-
1)The session was declared open by President Rama Gokhale.The agenda of the meeting was a play reading session .Teachers present were Mr Umashankar Devadhe and Mrs Bharati Kudchadkar.
2)The first play was titled "The wedding of the village headman's daughter" and was based on a drummer called Dhondu and a cripple called Bajya.This was a play which was translated into English from Marathi,the original playwright was Mr Vijay Tendulkar.It was a humorous and entertaining play and was enjoyed by the students.
3)The second play was titled "Missing a Father".this play had already been viewed in the Marathi Sahitya Parishad Session II , hence the plot was known.Again , this play was also translated into english from Marathi and the original playwright was Mr Tendulkar.
4)Students were asked to come forward and speak on the plays they viewed ,and were asked to give their feedback on the plays.
5)An ex-member of the Literary club -Tanvi Kale , a student of class XI ,visited the meeting to share her views about the club.
6)The vote of thanks was given by the President -Rama Gokhale .the next meeting of the club would be held on the 16th of January 2010.
Devesh Narayanan(Secretary) and Omkar Singh (Secretary)
Rama Gokhale(President)
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Hindi - Marathi Club Activity:-
On Saturday 19th December 09, students from Hindi—Marathi club presented their Marathi .“NATYACHHATA” (Monologue) on different topics. Topics were selected by students from the
Books given by the teachers. Student expressed their thoughts through the topics like: SOOCHANA,SOOCHANA and SOOCHANA (INSTRUCTIONS), AAI MAZI LADKI, MHANE HE KALIYUG AAHE. Students were ask to give more stress on their pronunciation, expressions and voice modulation.
They have presented their monologue with lot of enthusiasm.
In second half student discussed about recently seen Hindi-Marathi movies. They solved cross-words in Hindi and shared some Hindi JOKES.
The entire activity went very smoothly.
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Ramanujans of Today :-
The session of the maths club, resuming after five months, began with members solving puzzles as a warm-up. It gradually progressed with Mr.Amol Patil giving an insight to the mesmerizing Pascal’s triangle and its properties. Fibonacci series that emerges from it was also explained. The members were also briefed about the 5 platonic solids.
The members learnt to multiply 2 digit numbers using Vedic Maths techniques. On a lighter note they also learnt to count in Malayalam, Korean and Telugu.
All in all the excitement in the air was proof of the happiness the members felt on being back in the club after a long break.
Mrs
Jyothi Menon
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Geo Heritage Club:-
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The Geo Heriatge club commenced with briefing students about the activities planned for them. Std VI- VII made constellations using black square cut outs and silver . They shared information on the differnt constellation they had researched on.They made around 40 constellations and later on played on the Electro Magnetic Flag game. Pratiksha S and Maria W
co-ordinated this activity.
Std VIII had an activity break that code. They were divided into two groups The first group learnt about Samuel ‘s Morse Code,The most popular encoding methods in the world the Alberti Disk The second Group learnt about Egyptian code language – The Hieroglyph composed of pictures of natural or man made objectsin 3200BC to AD 394. They also learnt about Greek code language called Scytale . This acitvity was co-ordinated by Ashita pardeshi and Chetna Yadav
Std IX students worked on the Topic of Disaster Management . Where in Omkar Dhakephalkar was called in to share their information to the students. Students were divided into group s. Situations and questions were provided to them so that they brainstorm and find solutions /apply the learnt concepts to the given conditions. They were later on provide with related topics to prepare a role play .They are still on the script planning stage and have yet to work on enacting the role play. This activity was co-ordinated By Mrs Kiran Jadhav
Mrs Kiran Jadhav
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Second club activity 25th JULY 2009
MAGIC FINGERS CLUB:- Gift Box Making with Handmade Paper and Waste Material
Mrs Rizwana Shaikh had asked the students to bring handmade chart paper of any colour and waste material(like broken mirror,glasses,beads etc.
Students were given the sizes , they cut the chart paper according to the sizes.They were asked to make the proper folds.After folding it was pasted making the proper shape.With the decoration material they were decorated.
Students enjoyed the activity as it turned to be a good return gift for all occassions
Mrs Rizwana Shaikh.
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RAMANUJANS OF TODAY:-
Vedic Mathematics is the name given to the ancient system of Mathematics which was rediscovered from the Vedas between 1911 and 1918 by Sri Bharati Krishna Tirthaji.In the Vedic system 'difficult'problems or huge sums can often be solved immediately by Vedic Method.These striking and beautiful methods are just a part of a complete system of mathematics which is far more systematic than the modern 'system'.Vedic Mathematics manifests the coherent and unified structure of mathematics and the methods are complementary,direct and easy.
Mrs Vandana Singhal , an expert at Vedic maths conducted a session for the club.Her deep knowledge and vast experience left the students amazed and fully gripped them with interest.
She explained surprisingly simplified techniques to multiply a number with 11, 9 and 99, to square a number , and so on.
The students solved worksheets in a given amount of time .They were stumped by the simplicity of the methods and left that day with a new liking towards mathematics.
Mrs Jyothi Menon
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STEPPING STONES SCIENCE CLUB:-
The second activity on the agenda of stepping stones was Soap Making and Ice Cream making. Since the group of students were extremely large we split the them into two large groups for both the activities. These groups were further split into small groups .The group which made soap through the process of Saponification was a huge success.Students made different color soaps and enjoyed it thoroughly. Ice Cream making was by the process cryogens that is to prove that soluble salts lower the melting point of ice. Here students made their own Ice Cream and also enjoyed it.
Mrs Vimla Ramkumar
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GEO- HERITAGE CLUB :-
Students of standard 8th and 9th assembled in Geo Lab to continue with their activity on
` Time Line`
Students of standard 6th and 7th assembled in std. four. They made posters on save water.
At 10.00 am. every body assembled in A.V. Room the watch movie on 10000 B.C
Mrs Kiran Jadhav gave a brief induction into what the students will be experiencing in the next two hours. They were asked to observe the movie from the historical and geographical perspective.
The aim behind showing them this particular film was to aquaint them with the `Ice Age` period, the dominance of the tribes, the challenges and pursuits of overcoming physical Barriers, the concept of slavery, human sacrifices. They were also asked to observe the different geographical terrains from the snow capped region to the desert land, the cultural features like the House types, clothes ,ornaments , weapons used for protection and material from which it was made. The animals the tribal communities confronted through their struggle.
REVIEW
As the movie depicts the Neolithic period,it is based on tribal communities and their struggle for survival. It is based on ice age tribal from Antarctica, Monsoon region, tropical region and desert region. These people formed their communities to protect themselves from enemies and wild animals. Language was not a barrier. An older people use to guide the clan on the basis of experience and intuition. Initially hunting was their main occupation.they started worshipping nature like fire, sun etc. Important values of loyalty to the clan ,perseverance , determination, courage , love and sacrifice and strong sense of bonding between tribes to save their people for the clutches of the barbaric Egyptians formed the essence of the movie.
Teachers Attending the club were- Mrs Ashita P, Mrs Chetna Y, Mrs Maria B, Ms Pratiksha S and Mrs Kiran Jadhav.
Mrs Kiran Jadhav.
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"SAMVADINI" Hindi - Marathi Club:-
The Members of Hindi - Marathi club paid a visit to Maharashtra Sahitya Parishad,Tilak Road Pune on Wednesday 22nd July 2009.There was a play reading session of the famous writer Vijay Tendulkar of his play "Baba Haravle Ahet" 6:00 pm .
The play reading was done by artists from Lalit Kala Mandal team Jayendra Bhide,Saksham Kulkarni,Darshan Naik,Renuka Kulkarni,Ambarish Deshpande and Anuja Vartak in a very impressive way.How non-living things rescue a young girl when she gets kidnapped has been portrayed in a beautiful way.Students also enjoyed the play.During this session famous director Shri Aniruddha Khutwad was also present.
Dr Ajay Joshi translated this play to English language.the play reading for the same was done by Symbiosis College students in the second session.First time a play reading session was done in both languages at the same time said Mr B.Deshpande.
Students of both Marathi and english club enjoyed and liked the play.the club in-charge teachers Mrs Bhagyarekha Garware and Mrs Sangeeta Sant were also present for the play reading session which concluded at 8:00 pm.
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"WINGS OF CREATIVITY " Literary Club:-
Wings of Creativity –Literary club meeting minutes
The second meeting of the literary club was held on Wednesday the 22nd of July 2009
The members of the club along with the members of the Hindi – Marathi club were taken to the marathi Sahitya Parishad on Tilak Road , to watch a play reading session ,accompanied by Mrs Kudchadkar and Mr Devadhe for literary club and Mrs Garware and Mrs Sant for Hindi – Marathi club.
The bilingual play ,originally written by Vijay Tendulkar for children was performed in both English and Marathi languages by various artists.
The play was based on a young girl who was kidnapped and how a letter box ,an electric pole ,a crow and a tree rescue her, and get her home .It made an enjoyable watch, for children.Students were asked to write down their opinions about the play .They were asked to hand it over along with the review of the movie seen in session I ,during the next meet of the club.Thus the second meeting of the Wings of creativity Literary club was concluded.
Devesh Narayanan and Omkar S (Secretary)
Rama Gokhale (President)
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JUNE 2009
Date of the First Club Activity Sarurday 20-06-09
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NATURE CLUB:-The first activity started with orientation to club activities & the students were asked to explain why did they join this particular club & what do they expect from club activities.
A dream of sustainable Pune is on the minds of every true Punekar. Pune has grown multifold with respect to its population, infrastructure, resource demand, construction & size in past few years. The pace of growth has been so enormous that resource allocation may have been non uniform. The pressures on environment are realized by the Pune Municipal Corporation. The authorities try to effectively manage the city resources leading to sustainable development
Our Nature Club students were keen to know this for which the power point presentation related to Pune & its environment problems was given. The students were divided into six groups. After the PPT the students were asked to discuss the river pollution, transportation problems & waste garbage problem. For each group the name was suggested by students. Six posters will be made on these problems & will be displayed in the school. I am sure this activity will help the students to sensitize about the problems & join hands to achieve our goal of sustainable Pune in near future.
Students members: 33 (Std. VI-IX)
Teachers in charge:
Mrs. Gambhir
Mrs. Athale
Mrs. Jyothi Shyam
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MAGIC FINGERS CLUB:- Activity Bottle Decoration with Fruits or Vegetables :-
Mrs Rizwana Shaikh had asked the students to bring empty,clean and different shape and size bottles with corks,vinegars,required ingredients, a funnel , a measuring cup and a knife to even out the layers made inside the bottle.
Students layered the ingredients slowly -the colour ,shape and size were decided first.Eg carrot cut in thin round slices at the bottom ,next the peas,then the corn and so on.when the filling of the ingredients is over the last step is to fill the spaces in the bottle with vinegar making space for the cork to fit properly.
Students enjoyed the activity as it turned to be a good return gift for all occassions
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WINGS OF CREATIVITY :-LITERARY CLUB :For the month end activity for std IX,students watched a slide show presented by Animal Angels .Members of the Animal Angels interacted with the students and gave lot of information to them regarding the good work done by dogs and other animals like cats,hamsters and goats in the field therapy.
Children with problems like autism and reading disabilities are the most benefitted as the dogs are non judgemental.Children feel at ease among the dogs and the dogs give them a patient hearing.Many myths regarding dogs were also dispelled and the safe ways to approach a strange dog explained.
A member, brought her dog - a Labrador,' Misty ' to interact with the students.Students fed the dog with treats and stroked it.All in all , it was a very informative and interesting session and all the students enjoyed it very much
Mrs Bharati Kudchadkar
The first session of the literary club was held on 20th june 2009 .It was held in the seminar hall of the school.The club worked from 9 am to 12 noon.The two heads/teachers of our club are our own beloved Mrs Bharati Kudchadkar and Mr Umashankar Devadhe.
The introduction speech took place and was spoken by Mrs Kudchadkar.After the speech ,unlike last year an election was held
for the prestigious post of the President and Secreatry.The election results were out with Rama Gokhale being elected as the President .The post of Secretary was taken by Devesh Narayan of class VIII and OmkarSingh of Std IX.
All of us were shown the movie titled " To sir ,with love ". The movie was based on the life of a professor of a very unruly class,and how he transforms them into civilized adults,and then the gratitude shown by the students to the sir.All the students were asked to write their feedback,reviews and how they felt about the film.This report is to be submitted in the next session of the literary club.This was how the 1st session of the club was concluded.
Devesh Narayan and Omkar (Secretary)
Rama Gokhale (President)
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-STEPPING STONES SCIENCE CLUB:-
The Stepping Stones started the years program on 25th June ’09 with the construction of Rain Gauge to measure the amount of rainfall we received in Pune.
Children formed groups ,and made their own rain gauge. One rain gauge was put up on the school terrace .Students took turns to measure the quantity of rain in our school. We hope to continue the same till the end of September by the time the monsoon will recede. Children are also measuring rainfall in their respective homes.
Mrs Vimla Ramkumar
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RAMANUJANS OF TODAY:-
Students introduced themselves and cited the reason for joining the club .
The Taxicab problem which was a milstone in Ramanujans life was explained.The alphabets of maths 0,1,2............9 was explained in detail.The magic of 1,8,9 was explained.
Students were very enthusiastic and they participated in every activity.
Mrs Jyothi Menon.
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GEO- HERITAGE CLUB :-
The geo Heritage Club organized started off on an Historical note of making a Time line from 10,000BC to the 21st C. The club has 45 members from Std VI- IX and 6 teachers.
The club commenced with the Club I/C Mrs Kiran Jadhav addressing the group and briefing them about the expectation of the club from the students. The Club I/C has also requested their choices of activities they would like to have in the club. Attendance for the day was taken . The reward for 100% attendance was announced and the activity details for the respective day discussed.
Students were separated on the basis of New and old students . New students comprised of Std VI and VII and were sent to STD IV A for manuscript making.
Pratiksha S conducted the manuscript making activity. Use of Lime water, candle, coffee and A-4 size sheet were made.In the second half after the break a Time line activity was organized by Mrs M. Oke for this group . The time line had to be made from 30000BC to 17th C . The time line was prepared on the basis of development and discoveries made in different countries of the world in writing, monument agriculture ,civilization etc.
Old students comprised of Std VIII and IX ,were seated in the Geo Lab to construct a time line on fluorescent strips of paper with each colour representing on century beginning from 10,000BC to 21st C.The Groups were divided on the basis of Continents Eg Asia, Africa, Americas, Europe and Middle East. The development , discoveries and Crusades battles or conquests were highlighted related to each continent .The time line appeared to be a long process and students could finish upto the 17th C .The respective Mrs Ashita P conducted this activity.
The movie 10,000 BC of 1 ½ hr was to be shown to the entire club in the second half but as the AV room was not set and the time line for seniors was not completed this activity could not be conducted
Mrs Kiran Jadhav
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" SAMVADINI " Hindi - Marathi Club:-
Like last year ,this new academic year i.e 2009 - 2010 of ' Samvadini ' club the first activity took place in an enthusiastic and a jovial mood.
The activity started with our prayer. Mrs Sangeeta sant our teacher in charge of the club and last years club members went through the clubs last years activities and reports.Because of this the new members got a fair idea about ' Samvadini ' and the various projects and activities carried out by our club.After this there was the introductory session followed by a warm welcome to everyone . Once again the message of 'Samvadini' was told i.e " To increase the love and interest in a language and to be able to converse with each other properly ." Later ' Vahto Hi Durvanchi Jodi ' a play by late Dr.Shri Bal Kolhatkar was shown.Importance of good company ,Never cover small mistakes ,you might pay a heavy price in future ,similarly difficulty in leaving a bad habit which can spoil your life ,has been portrayed besutifully in this drama.
Just a way to tell students that " Good company is a must "
In the next month ,every member will voice his/her opinion and have discussion on this drama.We show our gratitude to Computer Teacher Mrs Athale for her help and Mrs Garware for handling the technical side.
The first activity of ' Samvadini ' thus ended on a good note.
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