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Texture Day
Raksha Bandhan

Celebrations Texture Day was celebrated on 25 June 2020 with the objective to enable children know and feel about different

textures. Texture simply means how something feels when it is touched. Students were shown a video which
helped them understand more about texture through their sense of touch. Virtual texture walks and sensory
exploration were held to develop tactile discrimination in the hands and feet, while broadening basic concepts,
such as soft/hard and rough/smooth.
Pre-primary section celebrated Raksha Bandhan with great ardor and gaiety on Microsoft Teams. The Raksha
Bandhan Celebration commenced with a special picture talk conducted by teachers, explaining the relationship
between brother and sister, importance of Rakhi and the promise and care for each other. The celebrations and
learning continued with the wonderful puppet show video.

Through puppet show, teachers explained the importance of all the relationship of the family members who take
care of each other. In this pandemic period gathering is not possible so at home how we all can celebrate this
festival with our loved ones
was shown in a story form
(Puppet show). Family is the
great strength and children
need to take care and help
their elders in each possible
way was the message of the
puppet show. At the end, the
teachers gave the task to the Farm Day Celebration
students to help any of their
elders in their daily chores
and send the pictures. The
motive behind the task was To emphasise the importance of animals in
our lives and as a culmination activity of
to inculcate the values, habit
the monthly theme 'Farm animals',
of sharing- caring and
children of class LKG celebrated Farm Day
helping into the children.
on 24 September 2020.
It was wonderful and very
Pre-primary teachers created and compiled
different way to teach
a self-made video, where all teachers
children about festivals and
dressed up as farm animals and shared the
traditions through virtual
platform. All the children facts and importance about animals. The
enjoyed picture talk and children enjoyed the video.
puppet show thoroughly. It For the 'Farm Day' celebration, children
was a successful attempt to were asked to dress up like a farm animal
make the celebration and say a few sentences on it. All children
eventful by spreading the were very excited and participated in the
social message. activity with full enthusiasm. Children
were dressed up as cow, rabbit, dog, cat,
sheep, goat, duck horse etc. and they spoke
with confidence. The enthusiastic
participation of children was indeed a feast
to the eyes of everyone.

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