WRITE INDIA SEASON 2

Write India is the largest-ever platform for crowd-sourced writing to discover a new generation of authors. Launched in 2015 with 11 leading commercial authors - Chetan Bhagat, Amish Tripathi, Ashwin Sanghi, Ravi Subramanian, Durjoy Dutta, Preeti Shenoy, Tuhin Sinha, Ravinder Singh, Madhuri Banerjee, Jaishree Misra and Anita Nair.

Write India Season 2 was launched on July 7, 2017 and is once again set to attract the best writing talent in India. Sir Jeffrey Archer and Ruskin Bond lead a starry line-up of 10 authors for Write India Season 2 -- Sudha Murty, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Anand Neelakantan, Shobhaa De, Manu Joseph, Namita Gokhale, Nikita Singh and Twinkle Khanna. Each of these authors will write a passage to inspire participants, who will then weave the same into their short stories. The genre and tenor of the story will be determined by rules laid down by mentor authors.

To know more about it, click on the given link.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/books/writeindia/season2.cms

Earth Day (2019)

Earth Day is an annual event celebrated on April 22. Worldwide, various events are held to demonstrate support for environmental protection. First celebrated in 1970, Earth Day now includes events in more than 193 countries,^[1] which are coordinated globally by the Earth Day Network.

For the year 2019, the Earth Day theme is 'Protect our Species'.

Earth Day Network is asking people to join our Protect our Species campaign. Our goals are to:

• Educate and raise awareness about the accelerating rate of extinction of millions of species and the causes and consequences of this phenomenon.
• Achieve major policy victories that protect broad groups of species as well as individual species and their habitats.
• Build and activate a global movement that embraces nature and its values.
• Encourage individual actions such as adopting plant based diet and stopping pesticide and herbicide use.

Activity (Class 4)- Summarise Story Auntie Anthea and Gentle Gefforey

In this activity, class 4 students summarised the story given in their text book through Role Play. This activity helped them in comprehending

the story in a fun way and also removed their stage fear.

Story Weaver - Pratham

Parents, hope you are aware and have tried this amazing tool called Storyweaver by Pratham Books. Your child can use various illustrations available and create a story of his/her own. Here's the link to the video tutorial that will help you understand how to go about it. Encourage your children to imagine, think, write as that is perhaps one life skill they would need all their life no matter which field they choose.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDPyK_sOiv8&feature=youtu.beP

Activity- Words With Foreign Origin (Class 5)

There are many words in English language which are used in day to day life but most of us are not aware that they have their origin in foreign languages. For example restaurant is a French word, rickshaw and ketchup are Chinese words and villa has come from Latin.
Students of class 5 participated in an activity in which they searched such words and listed them.

Creative Writing- The Story of Emoticons

The Story Of Emoticons' is not just a creative writing program, but an experience that can alter a child's perception and approach toward oneself, others and language.Register before 8th April to avail early bird discount.