Bulletin Board Class I 1. Demarcate a small area of the school garden for Class I. Divide children into 4/5 groups. Take a group daily to tend to the garden. You could plant seasonal plants, evergreen plants, shrubs, etc. Take gardener s help and teach children to sow seeds, tend to the plant, water them, remove the weeds, add manure etc. Growth of the plant can be shown to them. 2. Organise a picnic in this garden. Let children sit and eat their food. Then educate them to clean up before leaving. They should throw paper plates, glasses, napkin and left over food in the bin and make sure that their garden is clean before they leave. 3. Give students large cutouts of children performing actions like clapping, singing, boxing etc. and let them colour those pictures. Display these on the soft board. Write the action below the picture. 4. Let the children make caps of different animal faces. Punch and tie a colourful ribbon at the end. Organize an animal dance where they can wear this headgear. 5. Cut kites out of kite paper. Give children two sticks and one sheets of the cut paper. Let them paste the sticks as done in kites. Tie a thread and encourage them to fly. 1
Class II 1. Give each child a small earthen pot, the type you drink tea in. Let children fill it with mud and manure. Give them seeds like chana, rajma or whole moong and ask them to sow them in pots. Label all the pots. Let children water and sun them as and when required. Watch them grow into plants. 2. Give children large cut outs of different vegetables to colour or paint. Punch opposite ends and tie a ribbon so that children can wear it round their waist. Organize a skit. Let them talk about the vitamins and minerals that vegetables have; how healthy we can be if we eat our greens. Then cut outs can be put on the soft board. 3. Help children to draw, cut out and paint large animal figures. Let children decide which type of painting they want to do on the figure finger, hand, spray sponge etc. Hang a thread on one side of the classroom. Clip the pictures onto that thread. 4. On the floor of your classroom, paint a very large rainbow. Paint clouds and rain on one side and the sun on the other side. Use water colours that can be washed off later. 5. Ask the children to find out about some sea creatures, the ones that are rarely seen like octopus, whale, shark, dolphin, clown fish, anemones etc. Draw, cutout and paint these creatures, along with some weeds, sea plants and waves. Pin them up on a large soft board. To give sea effect, pin up single sheets of blue gelatin paper on top of the fish. 2
Class III 1. Cut A4 sheets into half and let children draw an action each sheet. Help them write the name of the action e.g. draw a child singing and write Singing below it. Punch all the sheets, thread a ribbon and tie a bow on top. Your action dictionary is ready. 2. Give children few minutes to think what they would like to be when they grow up. On a large sheet of paper let the children draw that picture. Tie a string in the classroom and hang all the pictures on it. 3. Take children to visit a dentist s clinic. Let the doctor show children all the instruments, how they are sterilized, how they are used etc. Ask him to talk to children about hygiene, cavities, brushing teeth regularly, drinking milk daily and eating fruits and vegetables. 4. Bring milk, drinking chocolate, sugar and a liquidizer to school. Make chocolate milk in the liquidizer and encourage all children to drink it. 5. On a chart paper, paste pictures of various animals and make their homes e.g. stick the picture of a hen and make a pen with broomsticks or toothpicks. You can make a dog, horse, cat, pig etc. 3
Class IV 1. Join 3-4 chart papers. Draw mountains on them and make a sand collage. The paper will become heavy so be a little careful. Stick it closer to bottom of the wall so that the lower edge touches the floor. Let a river flow from the mountains and continue it on the floor. On either side of the brook, you can place rocks, pebbles, grass, plants, flowers, animals etc. You could also create a farm as mentioned in the poem. 2. Let children imagine that they are going for a picnic. Ask them to write the name of the place they would like to visit and list out the things they would want to carry with them. If they can, let them draw the picnic spot. Hang the lists on a string hung in the class. 3. Divide the class into 5-6 groups. Give each group ten different words and a chart paper. Ask them to make a crossword on the chart paper with given words and give clues. 4. Divide the class into 5-6 groups. Give each group 20 words and ask them to find out synonyms and antonyms. Then let them combine the lists and make a final one on chart paper to be put up on the soft board. 5. Divide the class into 5-6 groups. Let each group make a model of a different type of boat / ship e.g. pirate ship, passenger liner, hovercraft, sail boat etc. 4
Class V 1. Ask each child to draw, paint, do collage or make a model of a scarecrow. Or you could ask some children to dress up as scarecrows and the rest as animals and have a Farm Party or a play. 2. Give children 2 weeks to collect any junk item they can find at home. Collection should be done preferably in a box or bag. The only new item they can have, if needed, is the base thermocol sheet, cardboard or chart paper. If they are using cloth it should be old. On the assigned date ask children to make a useful thing from the waste he/she has collected. It is not necessary to have a competition or grade the items. Hang or pin up all items in class, on tube lights, string, window grills, soft board etc. 3. Hang a plain white sheet in the class and place lights behind it. Let children perform a shadow dance or play. Invite other classes and teachers to witness it. 4. Take children to an orphanage. Let them mix around with children there. Explain to them how these children are special, how their family abandoned them and how some good kind people make them their own children. Help the class empathize with the orphanage children. 5. Divide the class into 5-6 groups. Ask each group to list out at least 10 different birds along with their special features. The list should comprise of unique birds, not crow, sparrow, pigeon etc. that we see daily. Combine all the lists and make one list. Put that list on the soft board. Each group can also draw and paint one bird. 5