GRADE 6 NEWSLETTER

TERM II - 2019-2020National

Academy

For

Learning

Hello Parents!The Second Term has raced ahead with a host of activities and engagements.

The first big event in October, of course, was NAFL’s Senior Boys and Girls FootballTournament, THE CHAIRMAN’S CUP in October 2019.

The next mega October event was our annual art competition that was thrown open toParents, KALEIDOSCOPE 2019! It was met with great surprise and admiration!

In November, we launched our first ever inter-school Junior Boys Football Tournament,THE CHAIRMAN’S CUP (Juniors), which was attended by the NPSschools and five other city schools! We hope to make this a bigger event in theyears ahead!

CHILDREN’S DAY was full of fun and frolic at NAFL, with outdoor games,special assemblies and snacks to entertain and surprise the children!

The photo reports ahead will fill you in on all the details!

STEM ACTIVITIES AT MIDDLE SCHOOL

Science

Electronics

Technology

Mathematics

Children’s Day Out

RD’s Nature Retreat, 21st November 2019

Winners – Boys

TISB

Runners – Boys & Girls

NAFL

Winners - Girls

NPS, Indiranagar

THE CHAIRMAN’S CUP 2019

(Senior Girls & Boys)

2019 Winners ! • Maanya Arvind• Kushala R• Aditi Sancheti• Impana Krishna• Esha Nahar• Vedant Daga

Winners

NPS, Koramangla

Runners

Presidency School

THE CHAIRMAN’S CUP 2019 (Junior Boys)

Fun, Laughter & Togetherness!

TERM 2 PROGRAMME

ENGLISH I Reading Comprehension: Passage or Poem

Writing Task: Informal Letter, Essay Writing

Nine Hats Grammar and Creative Writing-6

Grammar:

Ch 7: Verbs- Simple Present and Present Continuous Tense

Ch 8: Simple Past and Past Continuous Tense

Ch 9: Simple Future and Future Continuous Tense

Ch10: Irregular Verbs and their Past Tense forms

Ch15: Identifying meaning through Context

Ch16: Negative Prefixes and Other Common Prefixes

Ch17: Homonyms and Homophones

Prepositions

*All the Grammar exercises from the course book

ENGLISH II Nine Hats English Integrated Coursebook-6

Prose

Ch 7: My Best Friend

Ch 8: An Unlikely Family

Ch12: The Face on the Wall

Ch14: An Enlightened Mind

Poetry

Ch11: The Chimney Boy’s Story

Ch13: Abu Ben Adhem

Ch15: The Flying Machine

Black Beauty: Chapters 22 to 49

HINDI 2L PROSE

Ch 6: Gulli danda

Ch10: Imaandaar Balak

Ch13: Aam barabar genhun

Ch14: Apoorav anubhav

POETRY

Ch9: Veer

Ch15: Dohe

GRAMMAR

Paryayvachi shabd, Vilom shabd, Anek shabdon ke liye ek shabd, Anekarthi, Viraam chinh, Muhavare, Patra lekan,

Anuched lekhan, Kriya visheshan, Sanvaad lekan, Nibaand lekhan, Lokotiyaan, Samaas, Alankaar

HINDI 3L Matras: Ang, Ah

Ch 9: Matar ya tamatar

Ch12: Haathi raja

Ch10: Picnic ka maza

GRAMMAR

Half letter, Gender, Verb, Past and Present Tense, Singular-Plural, Numbers 1-20, Parts of the body, Short Composition

and Simple Sentences

FRENCH 2L Unité 6: Qu’est-ce que tu fais?

Unité 7: En Ville

Unité 8: Une Journée Scolaire

Unité 9 : C’est bon, ca!

Unité 10: Amuse-toi bien!

Grammaire: usage of “er” verbs, More about Adjectives, Giving directions, Verb “Aller à + places”, Il y a, Il n’y a pas,

Articles: le, la, les, Futur Proche- Aller + infinitive, Recognising the Perfect Tense

FRENCH 3L Leçon 6: Les amis de Caroline

Leçon 7: Quel jour sommes-nous ?

Leçon 8: La famille de Manuel

Leçon 9: Les vacances

Leçon 10: Le drapeau de mon pays

MATHEMATICSCh 10: Sets

Ch 20: Substitution (Including use of brackets as grouping symbols)

Ch 21: Framing Algebraic Expressions (Including Evaluation)

Ch 22: Simple Linear Equations

Ch 26: Triangles (Including types, properties and constructions)

Ch 27: Quadrilateral

Ch 28: Polygons

Ch 29: The Circle

Ch 33: Data Handling (Including Pictograph and Bar graph)

Ch 34: Mean and Median

Ch 11: Ratio

Ch 12: Proportion

Ch 13: Unitary Method

Ch 14: Fractions

Ch 15: Decimal Fractions

Ch 16: Percent (Percentages)

Ch 32: Perimeter and Area of Plane Figures

Ch 17: Idea of Speed, Distance and Time.

PHYSICS Ch 4: Simple Machines

Ch 5: Light

Ch 6: Magnetism

CHEMISTRY Ch 3: Matter

Ch 4: Water

BIOLOGY Ch 5: Human Respiratory system

Ch 6: Human Circulatory system

Ch 7: Adaptations

Ch 8: The Flower

HISTORY &

CIVICS

History

Ch 6: Jainism and Buddhism

Ch 7: Rise of Kingdom and Republics

Ch 8: The Mauryan Empire

Ch 9:The Gupta Empire

Civics

Ch1: Rural Local Self Government: Panchayati Raj

Ch2: Urban Local Self Government

GEOGRAPHY Ch 6: Minerals

Ch 7: North America

Ch 8: South America

COMPUTER

SCIENCE

Ch 2: File Management: Organisation of Data

Ch 5: Presentation: Visual Effects

Ch 7: HTML: An Introduction

Ch 9: Fundamentals of QBASIC: A Programming Language

NovemberSiddarth Mayur [13th]

Harshil Parekh [28th]

P. Yashaswi [28th]

Aakash Balakrishnan [10th]OctoberAnika Savoor [16th]

Ishan Rama Bhagavatula [3rd]

Siddartha Suhas [26th]

Aaryaman Talwar [9th]

Ruchira Sharma [31st]

Shamitha Rajesh Suryavamshi [9th]

Shraddha Muppirala [1st]

DecemberTrisha Chawat [6th]

Vignan S[6th]

Anushka Ashish [6th]

Saakshi Ananth [31th]

Satvik Anand [19th]

JanuarySukruti Srinidhi [13th]

Pranav Tuppada [24th]

Adiv Jaggi [2nd]

FebruaryAkarsh Shanmukha [7th]

Aditya P Shetty[11th]

Vedika Balachandar [27th]

Adithi Somshekhar [13th]

Anand Narasimha[16th]

Lakshmi B V [12th]

Saanvi Puneet[1st]

Deepanjali Sultania[11th]

Vibha Suresh[7th]

MarchDitya Das [28th]

Pratap Kumar S A[29th]

Bumit R[1st]

Esha Nahar[12th]

Hashica Raaj T [16th]

R Jishnav [2nd]

P Ankitaa [19th]

Samriddhy Sinha [23rd]

Syed Zayhed Junaaid[6th]

AprilVivaan Vivek[11th]

Yash Sai Madhudi[24th]

Saanvi Mathapati [23rd]

Akshay R[8th]

Dhruv Cheny Rahul[16th]

Nitanth V Shankar[22nd]

Shreyas Padmanabhan[4th]

MayMaanya Aravind[12th]

Akshay Sivaraman [15th]

Jai Nrupesh Mastakar[25th]

Hashika Chandan R [11th]

Kushala R[8th]

Madhavan R[14th]

Samyam Girish [30th]

Sanika Suresh [1st]

Shashwath Ullala [29th]

Vedant Daga [1st]

RECOMMENDED READING• The Trails Of Apollo – Rick Riordan

• The Magic Thief – Sarah Prineas

• The Narayanapur Incident – Shashi Deshpande

• The Serpent’s Revenge – Sudha Murthy

• Grandma’s Bag of Stories – Sudha Murthy

You can reach us by phone or e-mail

Phone: +91-80-23231567 or +91-80-23239281Email: info@nafl.in

Grade & Associate Teachers6A - Ms. Sanjana Mani, Ms. Kavyarani N 6B - Ms. Sangeetha Mehta, Ms. Raina K Singh6C - Ms. Anjali Ramakrishna, Mr. Srinidhi Sheshadri

Coordinator Academics: Ms. Veena NaikCoordinator Operations: Ms. Poornima Shashidhar

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