IMPORTANCE OF BALANCE DIET

A balanced diet is a key to healthy lifestyle. A balanced diet should contain all right foods in right quantities like carbohydrates, high fibre content, water, proteins, fats, vitamins and minerals. Most people spoil their health by taking unnecessary food items. If you want to lead a healthy lifestyle, eating healthy food is crucial. The following points must keep in mind for a healthy lifestyle.

1.       Increase the liquid intake into your body: Fluids are very essential for human body to lead healthy lifestyle. Nearly 80% of human cell is filled by water; water is a co-factor in many of the metabolic activities and reactions. According to health experts at least two to three litres of water in a day is essential.

2.       Eat fresh vegetables and fruits everyday: Maximize the intake of fresh fruits and vegetables which will help avoid many health disorders. Fresh food will provide good source of fibre and vitamins which are essential for body growth. Your balanced diet should contain all five elements which are bitter, pungent, sour, sweet, and salt.

3.       Make time to chew food: Most people do not recognize the importance of chewing as it is essential to digest many of components. Make sure that you eat slowly rather than swallowing, it will also help you to enjoy the actual flavour and taste of the food.

4.       Avoid eating excess food: Avoid eating when you don’t have appetite, if you want to stay active and healthy. Excess food may lead to overweight in the long run.

5.       Avoid stress during eating:  Avoid eating while working or watching TV which could disturb your concentration. It may lead to heartburn and colitis, if you eat with stress.

Extra Co-curricular Activities in the School

Every activity in school life plays a significant role in development of students. Co-curricular activities are an essential part of school life and helps in enhancing learning process of students at school. Co-Curricular activities are compulsory activities which is important for every student to participate. Co-curricular are designed and balanced with academic curriculum so that every student gets to learn beyond subjects.

Co-curricular activities are meant to bring social skills, intellectual skills, moral values, personality progress and character appeal in students. It includes athletics, cultural events, Library activities, science lab activities, classroom activities, creative arts and meditation etc.

Role and Importance of Co-Curricular Activities at School –

·         Proper Education – Since, co-curricular activities are merged with academics therefore, it ensures that students get to learn effectively.

·         Cultural Values - Students get to learn by cultural events including national eventsand traditional events from different faiths including Gandhi Jayanti, Indepedence Day, Republic Day, as well as Diwali, Eid, Baisaki etc.

·          Personality Development – Students perform co-curricular activities in schools, which help them sharpen their communication skills, expression skills, public speaking, participation and sense of belongingness 

Why extracurricular is important with academics?

·         Physical and Mental Health – Co-curricular activities require students to stay active at school by participation since, students have no option to skip these activities as it’s a part of their curriculum. Students have to be a part of co-curricular activities like athletics, gymnastics, yoga, indoor games, and meditation etc. These activities are beneficial for students’ physical fitness as well as mental health and they are relieved from academic stress.

·         Learning Experience – Co-curricular activities are good for improving students learning experience at school which improves their attendance at school and increases participation rate by students in co-curricular activities.

·         Team Leadership Skills – Co-curricular activities at school are designed in groups so that students can participate along with their classmates. This helps students develop leadership skills, team integrity and coordination skills.

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Assembly Prayer is also a part of co-curricular education as it teaches students discipline, moral values and meditation.

Conclusion –Best aspect of Co-curricular activities at school is that they are part of academics, and makes teaching and learning experience exciting for both students and teachers. Students through classroom activities like quizzes, debates, recitation and any more academic games learn better. Therefore, Co-Curricular activities along with academics are essential for every student.

Helping and Sharing

We all know that we all are human beings. We all live together on the same planet and share sun, land and water equally. We all love those people who are always with us in our ups and downs and when the time comes we show our affection to them by helping them in their tough times. This shows what is humanity. We all have a heart which says us to share things with others and help them when they need it. This is 'Helping & Sharing'. Whenever we help someone, we have a feeling of positivity in our mind, the joy we gain from it cannot be conveyed in words but on the other side, we have a person who thinks, this is mine, why should I give him". The one who thinks like that is no less than a devil, in fact he is not even a human being. He lives all alone, in his dark room full of those evil spirits wandering around him. He can never attain happiness, joy or peace. Remember when you do good to someone you will surely repay it. #Good begets Good. #Evil begets Evil. So, which one would you like to be? The one who does not share anything or the one who loves sharing? 

POWER OF MEDIA

Media can change opinions because it has access to people and this gives a lot of strength. This strength can either be used constructively by educating the people or it can be used destructively by misleading the innocent people. Power of media can transform the whole society specially in developing countries it can be used as a 'weapon of mass destruction'. But I think the most important use of media is to educate the people about the basic human rights. Education and discipline is the key to success. This is the difference between the nation and the crowd. Media men have access to people and they have an audience. Their program have an impact and people listen to them. That's why they are more responsible for the betterment of the society. They should work to educate the people, to help the people and to empower the people.

Kulwinder Kaur

ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) in Education

Ø  Information and communication technologies (ICT) include computers, the Internet, broadcasting technologies (radio and television) and telephony. While the rise of computers and the Internet has provoked great interest in the ways in which they can be applied in education to improve its efficiency and effectiveness at all levels.

Ø  As a result of the increasing application of ICTs in education, a number of new learning approaches have emerged. E-learning encompasses learning at all levels, formal as well as non-formal, using information networks such as the Internet, an intranet (LAN) or extranet (WAN) for course delivery, interaction and facilitation. Blended learning refers to learning models that combine traditional classroom practice with e-leaning solutions. 

Ø  Schools use a diverse set of ICT tools to communicate, create, disseminate, store, and manage information. ICT has also become integral to the teaching-learning interaction, through such approaches as replacing chalkboards with interactive digital whiteboards, using students’ own smartphones or other devices for learning during class time, and the “flipped classroom” model where students watch lectures at home on the computer and use classroom time for more interactive exercises.

Ø  When teachers are digitally literate and trained to use ICT, these approaches can lead to higher order thinking skills, provide creative and individualized options for students to express their understandings, and leave students better prepared to deal with ongoing technological change in society and the workplace.

Role of parents in child’life.

Parents are the child’s first role model. Children behave, react and imitate same as their parents. Parents play an important role in encouraging and motivating their kids to learn.

 In the early years, parents are their children’s first teacher- exploring nature, reading together and counting together. When a child begins formal school, the parent’s job is to show him how school can extend the learning you began together at home and how exciting and meaningful this learning can be.

One of the most important thing a parent can do is notice his or her child. Is he talkative or shy? A parent must pay attention to what his or her child loves. Find out what interests him and help him explore it. Many teachers encourage parents to go over what their young children are learning in a non- pressured way and to practice what a child learns at school. Help your child take charge of his learning and become responsible for it. Watching lots of T.V does not give children the chance to develop their own interest and explore on their own. So keep T.V to a minimum.

Just like any other relationship a parent child relationship is impacted by each person’s thought, feeling and behaviour. If both individuals have positive thoughts and feeling about one another and their behaviour are mutually respectful, it is likely that the relationship is healthy, functional and satisfying.  

Save water save life. 

Water is precious gift of God on earth.life exist on the earth because of the availability of water.It is found everywhere and known as life.It takes nothing from us but gives life to us. We also know that there is very less percentage of clean water means drinking water available on the earth.We need water in all the walks of life from morning till night like drinking, washing, bathing,watering plant. There are different methods we can follow to save water.Rain water harvesting is one of the most effective and suitable method among save water techniques. We should take a pledge and make life long motto of "save water save life save earth."we should understand the value of water drops and save it....... 

written by.... NitikaVerma