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“My Trip to Puri”

Apoorva Sudhir Class II D

On last Sunday morning I and my parents decided to visit Puri. My Uncle, Aunt and cousin sister also joined us. We started at 10am in my Uncle’s car. We were so excited. On our way we stopped to have some green coconut water. After travelling for some time we reached Puri. We parked our car and took a bus to the temple. We went inside the temple and reached the centre of the temple. There we saw the three beautiful idols of Lord Jaganath, his brother Balabhadra and his sister Subhadra. We prayed to them with folded hands. After praying we went to anand bazaar, where we had delicious lunch served on banana leaf. Then we went to the market outside the temple and brought some bangles and key rings. From there we went to the beach. I and my cousin sister played in the beach for a long time. We collected sea shells while our parents drank tea. We saw the beautiful sun setting into the sea. Then we packed our baskets and went home. It was a nice and happy trip.

I’d Like To Be

Kumar Avilash

Class – III A

I’d like to be a monkey

And climb the trees so high,

Jumping, leaping branch to branch

Till I reach the sky.

Playing, skipping all day long,

Dancing, eating too!

I’d like to be a monkey,

Wouldn’t you?

I’d like to be a tiger

And prowl in the jungle deep,

Laying in the sunlight,

Warm and fast asleep

Hunting in the evening,

Hunting all night through!

I’d like to be a tiger,

Wouldn’t you?

Need of Forest in our World/Globe

Harshvardhan Hinduar Class – II B Admn No - 28

Save Forest, Save Environment Save Life, Save Earth

Forest gives us:- F – Food O – Oil

R – Rain

E – Environment

S – Soil

T – Temperature

Deforestation, more industrialization, pollution causes Global Warming. Global Warming is a threat to our Mother Earth. World is relating to it. Now it’s our responsibility. So think global and do national.

MY DREAM

Avik Mukherjee VI A Adm no- 1182

My eyes were closed and it was like a regular morning. But who was licking me, all over my body? I got up. It was my...my little, old, fat dog who died last year. It was unbelievable. I then realized that I had died. The world was finished and had turned to ashes. I saw my old house and everyone inside, including both my lovely dogs Doggie and Tiny who I loved very much. They were my family, two years back but the only difference was that it was not Earth. It was some other world. I played with them to my heart’s content. I kissed them and patted every moment they caught me. They understood me much better than I understood them. Although they were animals, they knew who loved them and who did not. No one cared about them excepting my grandparents and me. But I didn’t know that it was the last time that I was going to meet my doggie. When I returned home, I was surprised that the house had disappeared. Everything had disappeared. Moreover, the thing that I was most afraid of had happened. My dogs started disappearing. Oh! It was so painful. Suddenly I got up and, it was nothing but a dream.

THE TEACHER

Bijaya Laxmi Biswal Class XI B Adm No- 1233 Being young, being innocent, When hopes depart and despair starts,

Life misleads and lanes run stray, Then fear rises and tears apart hearts....

Pressure of books, turns punishment for brains, Expectations of family kill excitement with friends, Fear of failure threatens the strength of success,

Moreover, the light of patience burns in dreadful darkness...

Just when all the hopes run dry,

Just when all he hearts die, A light at the end of the tunnel appears,

A hand comes and wipes out my deepest tears...

That hand which drags me out of hopelessness, That heart which dispels all my loneliness, That hope that brings all happiness, That mind which guards our innocence....

It is our teachers, who pull us out of dilemmas, You heal and shield us from the strongest pain, You console us during our toughest traumas, And teach us how to work with our hearts and think with our brains....

You are a friend in need when we are in need indeed, You are a parent when our immaturity drags us down in the deep, You are our mentor, when our future rises as a question, You are the almighty and we don’t look when you ask us to take the leap...

Thank you for always guiding us, Thank you for always supporting us, Thank you for always loving us, And thank you for always being there for us.

THE FIRST THUNDER STORM OF THE SUMMER

Sampriti Panda Class VI A Adm No- 306

It was the hottest summer day we had faced this season. Even the ice-cubes would take less than a minute to melt. The only way to escape this torment was to bathe in boiling water and allow ourselves to cool in front of a table fan. You could feel yourself getting very cool, but after half an hour, you would start to sweat again. The day were humid but there was no sign of rain, not even a single drop. The evenings were a bit cool and I went out to play with friends. One hot evening I went out at about 4:30 pm and surprisingly my parents also let me out to play. I called my friends and when we were arranging the stumps, we saw some clouds on the horizon. We did not care about the faraway clouds as there was not a single chance of having a drizzle, let alone a thunderstorm. All we had heard in the news was that there was a lot of rain in the nearby cities. We were playing cricket and suddenly my friend hit the ball hard and it was lost in the weeds. We started searching for the ball but there was no sign of it. We still did not give up as it was an expensive cricket ball compared to the ordinary ones. Then we suddenly heard the thunder of clouds preceding a thunderstorm. We looked up and we saw clouds hovering above our heads, as we got ready to welcome the first thundershower of the season. It was only when a raindrop fell on my nose that I realized that the thunderstorms were arriving in our city. I vividly remember the first thunderstorm of the year 2010.

FAMILY OF 20 NUMBERS

Mohit Nayak Class VI A Adm No 1176 ‘One’ means just born,

‘Two’ is few,

‘Three’ is always free,

‘Four’ is bored, ‘Five’ is lying, ‘Six’ can’t be fixed,

‘Seven’ lives in heaven,

‘Eight’ is always ready to fight, ‘Nine’ is always fine,

‘Ten’ always tries to gain something,

‘Eleven’ wants to enjoy with seven,

‘Twelve’ still believes in elves, ‘Thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen and nineteen’ are all in their teens, And ‘Twenty’ is a little naughty.

OUR SCHOOL SAI INTERNATIONAL

ASHISH KARWA CLASS –XI G ADMISSION NO. -1362

OUR SCHOOL SAI INTERNATIONAL

AS BIG AND BEAUTIFUL AS IT CAN BE

THERE ARE GREEN FIELDS AND A LARGE SWIMMING POOL,

TALL TREES AND GARDEN CAN BE SEEN IN OUR SCHOOL.

WE HAVE COURTS FOR ALMOST ALL THE GAMES

THE BUILDING IS FABULOUS WITH ROOMS ,

THE CLASSROOM ARE SPACIOUS AS A SMART CLASS .

SAIONEERS ARE FULL OF LAUGHTER AND FUN

OUR TEACHERS ARE KIND AND NICE ,

WHEN WE ARE IN TROUBLE, THEY HELP US THRICE.

WE ENJOY IN THE MUSIC ROOM,

AND ENJOY OURSELVES IN THE GROUND.

How learning takes place ?

Sanjita

Learning takes place in five stages as below:

Sensation—Attention—Perception—Imagery—Symbolization —Conceptualization

Attention

In order to make meaning out of information received through the senses, one needs to have the ability to focus on what is to be assimilated and filter out the unwanted stimuli. This ability is known as attention and it is a pre-requisite to information processing .If the child is unable to pay attention, and then the information received through the senses will not be understood by the brain.

Perception

It makes sensation meaningful by integrating various sensory stimuli .Perception is basically the ability to discriminate .Perceptual skill is one of the key factors in identifying problems in early academic learning.

Imagery

It is essentially memory where the child is expected to retain what he has seen, heard or felt and recall it when required .It involves, long term, auditory and visual memory .Sequential memory is also an important component of imagery .Imagery is important to the whole process of memory and cognitive processing .

Symbolization

It is otherwise known as language which can be verbal and non verbal .It is crucial for success in school .Language development proceeds from listening, speaking, and readingand written expression.

Conceptualization

It is a process by which symbolic representation, ideaor messages are created and given meaning .It involves the formation of concepts .It is dependent upon the integrity of all the above mentioned levels of learning .Conceptualization is the highest level of thinking and learning .In short, it means the child has the ability to generalize .It is important to find out at what conceptual level a child is functioning .The three levels are:

1) Concrete level 2) Functional level

3) Abstract level

As a rule one must move from concrete level to abstract level so that transference of learning can take place.

THE FORT OF BARABATI: THE MUTE WITNESS TO ORISSAN HEROISM

Dillip chand Mohanty Teacher

Archeological remains that are of medieval period of Orissa include forts, palaces, temples, mosques etc. The life-style of Oriyas in the past has to great extent been influenced by the forts and palaces. They are the mute witnesses of past heroism of the Oriyas. Some of the prominent forts constructed in the early parts of medieval period of Orissa are Barabati Fort of , the fort at Chhatia (Amaravati Cuttack), the fort of Sarangarh near , Asurgarh fort (Kalahandi).

Among the forts mentioned above the fort of Barabati of Cuttack is the most important one from historical point of view. Excavations at the fort site show rich history associated with the fort and the city of Cuttack, the erstwhile capital of Kalinga kings. The Barabati fort is situated at Lat. 200 19’N and Long. 850 52’E in between the two rivers and Kathajuri at a distance of 25 K.M. from the state capital

Bhubaneswar.

Though the Oriya traditions accept Nrupakeshari as the founder of the city of

Cuttack but the historians are of the view that the city was founded by the famous

Ganga King Anagabhimadeva III. It is said that the king, considering the strategic importance of the place shifted his capital from Chudangagada (Chowdwar, Cuttack) to the village of Barabati and the city was named as Abhinava Varanasi Kataka. The new capital city must have been fortified by the king and is therefore generally assumed that the Barabati fort was built by Anangabhimadeva III. The fact that Anangabhimadeva constructed the Barabati fort is corroborated by the Nagari copper plate of the king.

But still there are some people who believe that the fort of Barabati was built by Raja Mukunadadeva, the last independent king of Orissa. From Ain-i-Akabari of Abul Fazal we come to know that Mukunadadeva did not build the fort but only constructed a structure with nine enclosures at various altitudes. After the defeat of Mukunadadeva at the hands of the Sultan of , Sulaiman Karanni the plight of Oriyas began. The general of Sultan, Kalapahad broke certain portions of the fort. Kalapahad also destroyed some more temples in other parts in Orissa.

From Ain-i-Akbari we come to know that in 1952 A.D. the Barabati fort came under the Mughals. During the Mughal rule in Orissa the Barabati fort was visited by many celebrities like Mughal Governor of Orissa Raja Kalyanmal son of Raja

Todarmal, prince Khurram the rebel son of Jahangir. One of the important features of the Barabati fort is its deep moat (Gadakhai) dug around the fort to make it more invincible and inaccessible. Even now-a-days one can see the remains of this moat.

The English force captured Cuttack from the Marathas on 13 Sept. 1803 and stormed the fort. The British general in charge of this operation was Major Harcourt.

The British general has described the fort as one of considerable strength and the only connecting link to the fort was a bridge.

The Barabati fort was used by the British for confining the state prisoners. But unfortunately the British true to their nature never cared for this relic of Oriya pride and began the excavations of the fort for its stones, which were used for the construction of roads and embankments in and around Cuttack City.

In 1915 in view of its national importance the place was declared as protected site by Archaeological Survey of India. The excavations undertaken by ASI have unearthed several objects of historical importance, which include seven iron arrowheads, sculptures of nude couple, musicians, female figures and images of Ganesh and Surya. A silver coin Shahajan, the Mughal emperor has also been found. A temple has been excavated at the site of Barabati. The temple is believed to have been dedicated to Lord and was probably built by Ananagahimadeva III. The Barabati complex has a Mazar of Hazrat Ali Bukhari. This Mazar is visited and revealed by both Muslim and Hindus.

Archaeological documents preserved in the Orissa State Archive testify that the stones of the Barabati fort were used for constructions buildings, roads and

Embankments. But the then Magistrate of Cuttack tried to stop this vandalism and to this effect he wrote a letter to the Government of Bengal.

Since the site is under the excavation of Archaeological Survey of India it is hoped that a complete history of Barabati fort will be known which would throw a flood of light on the glorious history of medieval Orissa.