Literacy Week Extravaganza- V

DAY 5

The students came to school dressed in costumes to represent their favourite characters from the stories they had read. They also had the opportunity to meet Mr. Rajesh Nagulakonda and Mr. Sourav Dutta, renowned illustrator and editor from Campfire publications. They have worked on graphic novels like Oliver Twist, Merchant of Venice, Jungle Book, Krishna, etc.  Mr. Nagulakonda demonstrated his style of illustration and the entire process. He even gave a live demonstration of his talent by creating a beautiful sketch of Krishna in less than two minutes. It was amazing to see him work. 

The students had an opportunity of having a skype session with Ms. Arpita Saxena from Berne who read a folk tale from Switzerland to them. It was called 'Florina and the Wild Bird' by Selina Chonz. It was an intereting interaction for the kids and I am glad this could take place. They also met with my best friend, Ms. Zeno Yanthan, who came to share stories from her home town Nagaland. The students were happy to learn about the tribes of Nagaland and also the head hunting custom which was practised in the olden days.

It was an eventful week with a lot of fun activities and I am sure the students learned loads from them. 

Interaction with the Illustrator and Editor.

Story time with Ms. Arpita Saxena

Interaction time with Ms. Zeno Yanthan

Here are the Princes, Princesses and Court men from Grade 4X.

Devansh, the Prince.

Sehraj, the Prince of Persia

Vedika, the Mexican Cinderella

Vaanya, the Chinese Cinderella

Rhea, Cinderella

Tejasveer, the witch

Yukti, the Skeleton Cinderella

Shreya, Cinderella

Aditya and Farid- Court men

Shahaan, the Skeleton Prince

(left to right) Rhimon, Cinderella's Father

Shreyans, a Court man

Samarth, Cowboy from a ranch

I couldn't resist taking this photograph. All the lovely Cinderellas and Step sisters from Grade 4.