Life Learnings

Being honest means being truthful. If we will be honest, others would trust us as they will think that we  always speak the truth, whatever the situation is. It is a very good habit of practicing being honest. Honesty also helps in making good friends. It helps us in developing good things in us such as truthfulness, kindness, discipline, etc. It makes us courageous and confident because it is a sign of bravery. Our relationships can be strengthened, if we would be honest. When we lie, we get stressed thinking what if that person (the one whom you have lied) would get to know from someone else. Parents/others scold us because we are wrong not because they don't love us. So always speak the truth and be honest!

  Due to pandemic, school decided to start online classes instead of offline in March 2020 so that students could continue studying. This journey "from offline to online" was very different, a little difficult for some students but in this journey, children were able to explore a lot! They got to know that there are various types of  platforms in which we can do meetings like - Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Impartus, etc. They also got to know that in these platforms, there are many options to do various things like sharing screen, chat tab, unmute/mute, etc. Thirdly, they got to know that there is a software known as 'PowerPoint' with which we can make presentations. Then, after two years, slowly and steadily, Covid began to evade and the school got a chance to switch to offline mode. When we got to know about this, we were on cloud nine! We were very excited to meet our friends and teachers physically and we would also be able to have more fun!

  A recent change in my life which I both hated and loved for different reasons was when I changed my room. I hated it as my older room had a view of the garden but my new room doesn't have. My older room was hot in winters as compared to my new room. I loved it as it has two cupboards where I can keep my things whereas my older room only had one cupboard. It has a bed beside my table but in my older room there was not. So, overall it was a nice experience for me!😊

  The book Matilda is by a British author Roald Dahl and is illustrated by Quentin Blake. Matilda is a young little extra-ordinary girl who is very fond of reading books, very intelligent and a fast learner.  She has read every child’s book in the library and a few for adults. She can even do advanced math in her head. Her father, a rotten car salesman, and her mother, obsessed with playing bingo all the afternoon, treat her almost as terribly as the nasty Miss Agatha Trunchbull, the child-hating headmistress at her school, Crunchem Hall School. In the school, Matilda meets her sweet, loving & caring class teacher, Miss Honey. Matilda discovered that she has a power in her eyes from which she can lift and break things. From her superpower she helped Miss Honey to get her mansion back from Miss Trunchbull. At the end of the story, both, Matilda and her teacher Miss Honey lived happily as her parents before goi...

  The Postmaster is from Kolkata and is city bred. He did not find it easy to mingle with the village folk. He greatly missed his family members. He tried to spend his time by writing poetry. He found a little girl, an orphan called Ratan who helped him with his chores. The postmaster was comfortable while sharing about his family members and how much he missed them to Ratan. When the postmaster got ill, she played a role of his little mother. Unfortunately, the two were separated at the last. When the postmaster application for a transfer was rejected, he resigned from his job and returned to his family, leaving Ratan alone.   The Kabuliwala was a tall Afghan, who wore a dirty loose robe, a turban and had a large bag slung across his shoulder. He was a patient listener and cracked a lot of good jokes. The Kabuliwala also had a daughter and Mini reminded him of his daughter; so whenever he used to come to Mini, he brought a handful of nuts. Just like in the Postmaster story, t...

  Environment care is the action of protecting our environment in all the possible ways that humans can do. Hence, it is very important to protect and spread awareness of our nature as "Nature is our life, so if we will not take care of our nature, it means that we are not taking care of our lives." We can take care of it by planting more plants, protecting animals, conserving water and electricity and reducing the air, water and land pollution and the usage of plastic.

Today I will tell you my experience of the similarities and the differences between the experience of reading a book VERSUS watching the same story through a movie with the cite examples from Matilda are: In the book we have to visuali z e the characters in our mind but in the movie everything is front of us. While reading the book we can understand the words properly and if we want to know the meaning, we can search it on google but in the movie sometimes we are not able to listen or understand the English words properly. S ometimes, in the movie some part is not added or sometimes some extra part is adds that is sometimes funny or emotional as well like in the movie of Matilda the extra part that was added was funny and we also can be entertained by it  but there were some situations where Miss Trunchbull behaved rudely to the pupils which made me emotional. So, this was how I experienced the differences and the similarities of reading a book versus watching the same story throug...