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Health Week Treasure Hunt – When
Personal Hygiene is important in everyday life but cleanliness Mathematics and Environmental
habits should be inculcated from childhood itself. Keeping this Studies join hands
mind, a week long cleanliness regime ‘Health and Hygiene’ Treasure hunts are truly fun. Students were given flashcards on
was conducted where the students were acquainted with the which a sum was written like 3+2= ?. The answers were hidden
importance of staying fit and healthy. They learnt that personal in various places in the Happiness Park. The students were
hygiene is how you care for your body. This practice included given hints like, search for the answer in the green bush or look
bathing tips, hair care tips, right method of washing hands, for the answer behind the sunflower etc. This activity helped
correct technique of brushing teeth, eating healthy food and the students to solve basic addition in a fun way and learn the
drinking lots of water.Students were also shown cleanliness names of the various plants at the same time. It enhanced their
awareness videos.
Mental Math skills and improved their ability to work in pairs
or groups.

Shabd Ladi

This activity aims at enrichment of vocabulary and ensures
participation of each and every student of the class. The
activity begins with a word given by the teacher. Then the first
student begins the game by speaking a word with the last letter
of the word spoken by the teacher and so on.
For better understanding, students can also be given slips of
paper wherein they are supposed to write the word spoken by
them. This in turn helps them to revise the spellings. Hop! Hop!
Hop! On the
Hopscotch!
Hopscotch is a traditional
childhood fun game. It is also
a great way to teach students
to master body control,
manage body rhythm which
is the core of various other
skills like balancing, eye hand
co-ordination and building
body strength. This game also
makes learning numbers fun for
the enthusiastic learners. For
Learning making learning enjoyable for
through the learners, a hopscotch was drawn
Matra Kit on the floor and numbers from
1 to 20 were written in each
To help the students square. Students were made to
understand matras and hop onto the given number that
their usage in Hindi comes after/before/ between
language, we use the the numbers asked by the
Matra Kit. It not only teacher which helped them to
makes learning matras develop a clear understanding
easy but fun too. of the concept.

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