Celebrating “Uttarayan”
Uttarayan is always celebrated with great festivity and splendor in Podar World School, Sherkhi. This year, owing to the recent upsurge in Covid cases, the celebration was completely digital. Students were taught about the different facets of the festival through video presentations. Afterwards, they had an interactive session about the traditions of each state regarding Uttarayan where the students openly shared their own views and knowledge about it.
The celebration was integrated with the various subjects. The students wrote beautiful poems, slogans and proverbs in English, Sanskrit, Gujarati and Hindi on the kites. Furthermore, the Kite Festival was related to Maths as well, where students made 3D kites, learnt concept of congruency and similarity of triangles, calculated the areas of the kites and enriched their understanding of geometry while having fun as well. The students were also given the task of finding out the history and origin of kite flying, which improved their researching prowess and was a fascinating experience too. Integrating the festival with EVS students learnt about the positioning of the Sun, zodiac signs and importance of the food items used in this particular festival. They also designed unique kites both physically and virtually with the help of coding and adding graphics. All in all, the enthusiasm of the children was no less than a physical celebration. They learnt a lot, and had plenty of fun, from the safety of their homes.
