Happy Children's Day

Hey all the lovely kids out there, a very happy children's day. May you keep shining brighter with each passing day.

Bringing laurels home

DAV Pushpanjali takes pride in having the most amazing kids who work hard and bring great honour to the school. This time as well the students worked hard and added another feather to their caps by winning prizes in AURA 2016 organised by Maharaja Agarsen School.

Many congratulations to the winners. May you keep shining brighter!

Also, you can enjoy watching the first prize winning entry by clicking on the following link.

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Because festivals are fun

With Diwali just round the corner, the excitement is already building up and it goes two notches higher when there are little kids involved. 

Celebrating Diwali brings the joys of decorating our places as we like and how can we forget our most favourite part, the delicious sweets to gorge on! The kids were all excited when they got to know that we could decorate our lovely class in our own fun away. 

Jumping around like baby monkeys, they handed out each piece of decorating item they had to just stick it wherever they thought suited them. Diyas, paper streamers, strings of beads, the shiny sparkling stars and what not, the kids were pumped up to just make their class the most beautiful one. As they say, a festival feels like one when celebrated with your dear ones, Diwali celebrations today truly brought out the meaning of this old saying. 

We had a lot of fun and hopefully you’ll do too. So, share sweets, pray to the lord and don’t burst crackers.

Happy Diwali to all!!

Birthday Bumps

                          
And we are here again when its time for celebrations. Well,there are two reasons for our much required celebrations. The first and the  foremost being the month of October itself. This month brings sweet hope of the onset of Winters. Ahh!! Winters when everything around is beautiful, white and serene and it is also the time when Santa visits. So boys and girls buckle up, for Santa must be preparing his “list”. Oh! And the second reason behind our festivities is that its birthday time. Birthday are so much fun because they remind you of the past, a past which holds your laugh and tears, your joys and sorrows, your notoriety and your innocence. Also an important reason is you get your own personalised  cake. Yay!!
Every month, we celebrate birthdays of our favourite authors and literary figures and its time again to wish them all with good wishes. Let’s see who we have first.

1.R. L. Stein (October 8,1943)
Stein has always been a favourite for providing us with gems like the Goosebumps series which frankly dominated most of our childhood. Thank you Stein for making our childhood a wonderful world of fictional stories. A very Happy birthday to you. Keep being as fantastic as you are by giving us many more gems from your Pandora’s box.

2.Oscar Wilde (October 16,1854- November 30, 1900)
Giving us the best advice of all times, telling us to “be yourself; everyone else is taken”  Oscar Wilde became our favourite. The most relaxed author one can ever come across, Wilde gave us ‘Picture of Dorian Gray’ and ‘The importance of being Ernest’ among other loved masterpieces. We wish you a very happy birthday and you’ll always remain one of our favourite.

3.Ezra Pound (October 30, 1885- November 1, 1972)
One of the most wonderful imagist poets of all times, Ezra showed us how to write poetry. Giving a new meaning to metaphors, he is also the one who gave us brilliant authors and poets like James Joyce and Robert Frost. We thank you Ezra for all you did for us, you really are the most priceless Pound anyone has ever come across. Happy birthday to you.

4.Sylvia Plath (October 27 1932-November 11,1963)
Learning the word ‘camouflage’ for the first time in a little poem called ‘Mirror’, we get a taste of Plath at a very young age. Also, how can we forget the “ wonderful woolly whiskery brand-new mustard-yellow it-doesn't-matter suit” and the bed book which makes us imagine different types of beds and takes whimsical imagination to a whole new level. Sylvia, you’ll be adored for all the ages to come. Happy birthday to you.

5.John Keats (October 31 1795- February  23,1821)
“A thing of beauty is joy forever” will stand true in every sense always, thanks to our most cherished poet Keats. His odes are the ones which will remain alive in our memories and will always be dear to our hearts. Happy birthday to you sir, you’ll be treasured forever.

Did you test yourself today?

All set

It was a wonderful day, the wind was exulting and so were the kids. The reason behind all the excitement was the MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE QUIZ which was to be organised in the school premises. The quiz aimed to test each child for their cognitive, kinaesthetic, interpersonal and intrapersonal skills. The students were expected to cross three hurdles, each hurdle testing the child’s knowledge on the parameters of Mathematics, General Awareness and Scientific knowledge.

 

Thinking time

Having so much fun

 The harder you think, the better you do

Jumping around !!!!

Stuck !!!

Emerging out a winner!!

The children had to read the questions given in each hurdle and only after solving them they could move onto the next level. Each level was separated by small obstacles where the student had to either jump a little, hop a little or maybe turn around giving the much needed adrenaline rush.  The crowd of students waiting for their turn was enough to pump up the atmosphere of excitement and their cheering was all that was needed to help their friends reach their goals in time.

The fun cheering crowd!

Almost there!!

Although, each of them emerged out as a winner but a few of them shined the brightest.

ROUND	HOUSE	WINNERS
II	1. Bose	1. Harshit
III	1. Aristotle 2. Bhabha	1. Shivam 2. Unnati
IV	1. Aristotle 2. Einstein 3. Bose	1. Aarush 2. Gurtej 3. Sayna
V	1. Aristotle 2. Einstein	1. Kushagra 2. Udit
VI	1. Newton 2. Einstein	1. Gurjot 2. Amodini

Congratulations to all the winners and the participants. Hopefully we’ll keep having many more convivial times ahead and we’ll play, laugh, dance and learn together because learning is always fun.

Birthday bumps  

For our love for literature and literary personalities we’ll be celebrating birthdays of eminent literary personalities or the ones we are a fan of. The month of September feels lucky enough to have three most loved and adored authors of all time. Staring with

Roald Dahl 

                       (September 13, 1916- November 23,1990)

Few children’s authors have been as influential and prolific as Roald Dahl. Some of his works include Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilida, The BFG, and James and the Giant Peach. A very happy birthday to our favourite story writer.

           O. Henry 

(September 11, 1862 – June 5, 1910)

Also known as William Sydney Porter,a man whose short stories are known for their surprise endings like in his famous short story, The Last Leaf  which has never failed to touch a life. The writing style we find in his works is what we mostly adore. He also has works like Cabbages and Kings (1904), Roads of Destiny (1909) and Whirligigs (1910) to his name. We wish you a very happy birthday O. Henry.

                

          Agatha Christie   

    (September 15, 1890- January 12, 1976)

 

This beautiful English crime novelist, short story writer and playwright is best known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections. She is mostly famous for Peril at End House (1932), Murder of Peter Ackroyd (1926) and Murder on the Orient Express (1934). Many many happy returns of the day dear Agatha.