Self Discovery Week at The Indian School-Second Shift

There is no greater journey than the one that you must take to discover all of the mysteries that lie within you. Michelle Sandlin

When we journey inwards to discover who we really are, we realise our values, our inner talents and abilities, our passions, what empowers us, etc. With this aim at heart The Indian School-Second Shift observed Self Discovery Week in the first week of April, 2018.

Students and teachers started a week long journey to get in touch with their real selves. There were a lot of activities planned for each class that gave the students an ample chance to explore themselves.

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Class I: Class I focused on craft based activities to help the learners associate with the idea of self-discovery in the play way mode Students prepared an all about me sheet and a dummy birth certificate. They also decorated a sheet to depict the colours of me On a sheet cut out as the palm of the hand, the students wrote down the things they are thankful for. They made self-portraits using a smileys and wrote about things which make them happy.

Class II: The students focused on their personalities in the activities done for the week. They designed a personality sheet displaying their favourite things to showcase their personalities and choices. The students recited a poem My Selfie , as a chorus in class. To be able to appreciate themselves, students wrote some compliments they can expect to receive on dummy mirror cutouts! Students named 5 traits they wish to imbibe. They wrote these on prints of their own hands. Students drew self-portraits.

Class III: students of class III made a journal entry to name their strengths. Students designed beautiful journal covers, and did a self-rating activity. This was followed by the creation of a 2 min commercial on the topic Class 3 should hire me because. Incident of my life students chose an adjective and narrated an incident from their lives reflecting that adjective! They put together a summer bucket list comprising of 5 wishes made by them. I can and I want to and how? An activity conducted by the students to explore their strengths and reflect on things which they wish to improve upon Extracts of the autobiography, My days by R.K. Narayan, were read aloud in the class by the teacher and the childhood described was discussed.

Class IV: Students wrote a paragraph in Hindi on the topic What will I do if I get a magic wand? They prepared a timeline to represent the major events of their lives. They designed their house flags and wrote about the significance of the symbols used. The teacher read aloud extracts from the autobiography of Gandhiji My experiments with the truth- to know about Bapus childhood experiences. Next they matched their blood groups with a family members blood group to make a match.

Class V: The class explored various topics during this week like, Comparing the data of height of ones family members. The teacher read aloud extracts from the autobiography of Sudha Murthy The day I stopped drinking milk, followed by a worksheet to recapitulate. The students drew a timeline of their future plans They wrote about an invention each, that they hope to make, one that can benefit the world and how. The children attempted calligraphy art to sketch their favourite monuments.

Class VI: The teacher read aloud extracts of the autobiography of Sachin Tendulkar. Prepared a manuscript about their lives- to depict the past, present and future. They compared the height of their family members and represented the data on a graph. They wrote their reactions to daily life situations and how they can possibly handle such situations better.

Class VII: Last but not the least, class VII contributed to the week by doing the following activities, They sketched self portraits using charcoal. The students read the autobiography of Steve Jobs to know about his childhood days.

The week concluded with the showcasing of all the students work. The exercise and the display that followed greatly encouraged the children and we expect that they will have assimilated the importance of the activities as a lesson for lifelong introspection and learning.