Confidence - Rishona Chopra

Confidence is a feeling where you feel capable. Where you believe in yourself. A thought of confidence could be -

“ I can do it.”

This means that whatever you have as your goal, you can achieve it. You only have to believe in yourself. That is, you have to be confident.

Another meaning of confidence is to not be nervous. It is to express your thoughts without feeling nervous. It’s not that you have to not think before you say something or do something. It’s just to not fear what someone else will think of you.

Now I’d like to present a short story on confidence-

                                            The magic of Confidence

Once there was a young girl who used to live in the countryside. She was beautiful, intelligent, kind and simple. There was only one thing that she lacked, and that was confidence. She was nervous and had lost belief in herself. 

One day when she was crossing a farm, she saw that the crops were all gone! Surprised, she went to the farmers and asked where the crops were. The farmers tearfully told her that it was one of those soldiers of the evil king of Wales. The king who everyone feared of. The soldiers had taken it all as the droughts caused crop production in Wales to below. So the king ordered to take all the crops from the nearby farms all for himself!

The girl felt angry at the king but was too nervous to say anything.

When she went home, she narrated the incident and her feelings about it to her mother. 

Her mother, too, was angry at the king and told her daughter why she didn’t do something about it? The girl replied,” You know that. I am just scared too.” 

“Well, this is the scare you have to overcome. Just believe in yourself. I am with you, and I’m sure everyone in this town is with you,” said her mother.

“I’ll think about it,” the girl said

That night the girl had made up her mind to fight with the King and get Justice back. Just by believing in herself…

The next morning she told the entire town her plan. They all readily agreed. 

That day they went to the King’s court, and the young girl said,” You have caused us problems. You took our crops away only for yourself. If you take all the food from us, we might die from hunger and then who will grow the crops? Who will serve you food? If you need food, so do we.” The King was taken back with the angry response. He himself, having a nervous daughter, was surprised that the young girl was so confident. Now he had understood the problem clearly, and to everyone’s surprise, the king apologized and promised to take care that everyone had food to eat.

I’m sure you know now what confidence is and what it can do.

Name: Rishona Chopra

Grade: 5

Gyanshree School

Joy Of Reading - Khush Rajpurohit

Session 1, 14th November 2021

In today's world, where technology makes enormous demands on children's time, it is tough to communicate with them. On the occasion of Children's Day, an online book reading programme has launched "Joy of Reading" by My Good School to encourage reading among our students and extend communication with them. At this prestigious moment, many students attended the session to inculcate reading habits and life lessons. We believe that reading books helps us to excel in every field. Books are full of stories, knowledge, experiences, values and many more. 

The session was led by our chairman Mr Dutt. We started with Dr Anupam Sibal life lessons, reading the first chapter, ' Humility' from 'Is Your Child Ready To Face The World'. 

We read the chapter, understood the value of humility and learnt its importance in our life. The group was assigned tasks and shared situations that will help us experience humility. 

I sincerely thank My Good School team, Our respected Chairman, Principal Ma'am, teachers and parents for their efforts. Your initiatives for helping students build life skills are indeed profoundly appreciated.

- Khush Rajpurohit, XII Science, The Fabindia School Bali www.fabindiaschool.org

Joy Of Reading by My Good School meets every Sunday at 11 am; we read one chapter of a book, currently reading 'Is Your Child Ready To Face The World?' By Dr Anupam Sibal.

How do we do this?
Open for individuals and schools, we organise online reading sessions with children from their homes, along with their families and friends. By sharing real-life experiences on the Joy Of Learning Diaries blog, the students express themselves in any form - write, audio, video, graphic, poetry and what they enjoy the most. #ReadToLead

Caring - Arav Agarwal

Caring and planting more trees will make our Earth bountiful.

Oh! Nature is so wonderful.

The trees are so beautiful.

To make our Earth bountiful.

If we plant more trees 

We will get fresh oxygen and a cool breeze

So let us keep our environment clean and green

By caring and planting more and more trees

And make our planet beautiful and serene

Name - Arav Agarwal

Grade: 5C

Billabong High International School, Thane

 

Happiness - Harshit Rao

Everyone wants to be happy; none of us wants to be sad or be alone. Happiness is the state of mind when we feel joyful and feel happy.

People when meeting after a long time, the feeling which comes at that time is happiness. When we lose something and find it suddenly, that is happiness. Every small thing gives happiness. Happiness is something we can't express in words, but it is something we can give to someone. If everyone gives happiness to each other, then the world would be heaven. Friends are the real source of happiness.

Happiness is the medicine for problems like depression, sadness, anxiety, etc. It's something that can save a person's life. So stay happy and make others happy.

Harshit Rao

Class X

The Fabindia School

Caring - Advik Aggrawal

Let's care for our city and make our city a better place for everyone.
Advik Aggrawal

Grade: 3B

Billabong High International School, Thane

Caring - Saanvi Deshmukh

The moment when I experienced Caring.
Saanvi Deshmukh
Grade: 3A
Billabong High International School, Thane

Caring - Arjun Rohila

Arjun Rohila of Grade 5 Gyanshree School Noida shares a beautiful story to explain the Value of Appreciation. This story is about trust and betrayal, a fable about animals and how they have extra-sensory perception and live in harmony with nature. #JoyOfLearning

How Blubber Keeps Animals Warm - Dhwani

 

My Experiment to Show - How Blubber Keeps Animals Warm

Dhwani is a grade 4 student from Gyanshree School. She is an enthusiastic learner who seems to enjoy school. She shares personal experiences and opinions in her style. She is fond of making interesting videos on science experiments and sharing her joy of learning with everyone.

How Fizzy Drinks Can Cause Harm to Our Teeth - Dhwani

My Experiment to show - How Fizzy Drinks Can Cause Harm to Our Teeth

Dhwani is a grade 4 student from Gyanshree School. She is an enthusiastic learner who seems to enjoy school. She shares personal experiences and opinions in her style. She is fond of making interesting videos on science experiments and sharing her joy of learning with everyone.

Caring - Anisha Gaitonde

Caring is something that all of us experience at some point in our lives. Most of the time we do not see it or understand it. When our mothers cook yummy food for us despite their busy schedules when our grandparents ask us how we are feeling today when our friends ask ‘kaisi hai’ or ‘what’s up' when our fathers tell us not to ride a bicycle without a helmet – all of these are because they CARE about our well-being. Our response generally is ‘what’s the big deal?’ ☹ and we forget about it.

Well, one of my experiences where I felt very strongly that people CARED for me, was when I fractured my foot. In short, I had what the good doctor referred to as a ‘hairline fracture’ in my foot when I was dancing Kathak (of course, at the wrong speed and wrong technique) last Dussehra. The pain was unbearable, and I was extremely scared of how I was going to walk again (though it wasn’t that bad, then it was good either 😊).

Apart from the physical pain, I was also quite depressed that I would not be able to dance for few weeks and that I would have to make a lot of adjustments (for example, preventing water from falling on the plaster). That is where my family members came to my rescue. My Mumma and Baba spent quite some time making sure I was able to move around, my grandparents kept me engaged in different discussions to forget the pain. My cousin Aashay played a lot of board games with me despite having a lot of homework 🥳. Even my friends in school were very considerate and kept sharing the daily work and notes for the lectures that I could not attend due to doctor appointments.

When I recovered after three to four weeks, I realized how much everyone had CARED for me without expecting even a thank you from me. If you are one of the people who helped me last year, a big THANK YOU to you from me, and a SORRY as well if I did not tell you earlier 😓.

Anisha Gaitonde

Grade: 5B

Billabong High International School, Thane