Baking

“Baking is too precise for me. I cook with a pinch of this or that.” - Eva Longoria

Activity Date – 23 March 2014

Approximate Time - 2 hour

Criteria of CAS – Creativity

Baking was a very new activity for me, I have never done baking or cooking in my life. Still I undertook this new challenge. Asmita is very in this, so she wanted to share this hobby with us. We planned the activity and decided to meet at her place to conduct the activity. Our mission was to make a cake.

First thing we did was gathering all the ingredients.

1. 50 grams flour

2. 50 grams sugar

3. 50 grams butter

4. Baking powder

5. Coco powder

6. Chocolate syrup

7. 1 egg

8. Vanilla essence 

Asmita gave us a demo of how it has to be done and what precautions should be taken. Then we into pairs, I was with Shradha. Firstly, we sieved the flour in a bowl, 2 spoon coco powder and half spoon baking powder together. We then beat the egg and then in a container we added egg and butter together. We grinded the sugar and added it into the base spoon by spoon and mixed it well. We took precautions that lumps weren't form. After getting done with sugar, we added flour spoon by spoon.

We mixed the mixture properly. Then we added chocolate syrup. We added 1 spoon of vanilla essence in that. Then we baked that mixture in a microwave on the power of 450 for 5 minutes. After it got ready we waited for 2 minutes to let it cool and get solid.

In this activity we worked collaboratively in pairs. Asmita helped us a lot in this activity. Finally we made 4 delicious cakes in total.

Photography

“What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.” ― Karl Lagerfeld

Criteria of CAS – Creativity

Approximate time - 8 hours

Learning Outcome - Developing new skills

I have started a new activity that is Photography. Through this I will develop a new skill. I am a beginner in this activity. I would be posting photographs taken by me, and I would also try to be artistic. I think Photography is talking with pictures. Understanding what the photographer wants to say by that picture also needs an artistic mind. There many style in which a photographer can present his art. I am planning taking pictures of portfolios, nature, and sport etc.  I will show perseverance and commitment in this activity. Name of my blog is The Vision. Here is the link to my blog - http://thevisionofshafqatsyed.blogspot.in/

Selling in Art Exhibition

“Everyone lives by selling something” - Robert Louis Stevenson

Activity Date – 28 February 2014

Approximate Time - 2 hours

Criteria of CAS – Service

It was occasion of national science day. Except me and Tanmay Tembhurne all our classmates decided to make science project, whereas we decided to sell Clay models, paintings and other art made by students of our school. I planned the activity with Deepshri Ma’am. The fund generated would from this selling would be given to a charity. I and Tanmay contributed in this activity for this great cause. This was a new challenge I undertook. I had never done selling in my whole life, but I always observed salesmen’s selling techniques. How they persuade the buyer to buy the product, how they did the marketing of the product. They always use sweet language to make an impact in the buyers mind. They go to any limit to convince the buyer. I always admired their work.

It was great responsibility because only we two were responsible for the sale of whole stock. 

We opened and customer started come. I took a deep breath and approached the customers. I met many type of people. Some wanted clay model, some asked for paintings and some just looked at everything and didn’t buy anything. This activity was very tiring as it is difficult to say “Good morning Sir/Ma’am” and further explaining each and every art piece. Though I did it because of the great cause and after some time I started to enjoy it as I got better with it. After some time I started to enjoy it and felt like a professional who can sell anything. I persuaded many people to by art pieces of high price so that more fund could be generated for charity. 

I showed perseverance and commitment in this activity. My Economics teacher also made a visit after looking at my enthusiasm he said “Shafqat with this brain power, you can convince anybody and you can sell anything” This activity was a success and we raised fund of 2290 ruppes. I worked collaboratively with Tanmay for this activity.

Organizing Sports Day

Date – 15 - 17 January 2014

Criteria of CAS – Action

Approximate time - 8 hours

Venue – D Y Patil International School, Nagpur

Every year our school organize a sports week. I and other DP students volunteered for help. We planned the activity with our sports teacher and CAS coordinator. So this time it was our responsibility to organize this sports events. Everyone was very excited.

15 January 2014: Today I and my classmates were given responsibility of PYP students’ sports event. We got the ground ready with help of our activity in-charge Miss Ancina Lobo. We marked the start-line and finish-line. We brought the ribbon for finish-line. Events for PYP students were like sack race, sprint race, medical ball, and picking toys race. So had to arrange all the equipment needed. We gathered the students and took them to the ground. Then we divided them in groups of 7. We started the events and students took part actively. Today I gave 3 hours in this activity.

16 January 2014 : Today class 1 to 5 had their sports events. Everyone was excited and prepared. While the participants were preparing, we made arrangements for the events. When everyone and everything was ready, our director sir wished all the participants luck and we started. During the events we had to keep records of athletic and throwing events. Today I gave 3 hours in this activity.

17 January 2014: Today was the last day and the most important one. This was a chance for Middle school & Dp students to prove themselves. Everybody started warming up. Whole year we practice and stay committed to workout and fitness for this day. I also helped our sports teacher in organizing and keeping records. Today I gave 2 hours in this activity. In these 3 days we all dp students worked collaboratively to make this activity a success.

Selling Greeting Cards

Date: 18 December 2013

Criteria of CAS – Service

Approximate time - 2 hours

Venue – D Y Patil International School, Nagpur

“Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.” - Frank Zappa

After making so many beautiful greeting cards, now it was time to sell them. This was a new challenge for me. The money we generated from this would be spend for a good cause. I and my classmate Tanmay Tembhurne sat with our art teacher and decided the price of every card.

We divided cards in to categories to decide the prices. After that we arranged the room with all cards with respect to their categories. Our art teacher Mrs. Deepshri Halve gave each one of us responsibility of one segment. I was given responsibility of most expensive cards in the range and plus I had to keep a record of every sale. I tried to show perseverance and commitment in this activity. I took this as an opportunity and tired my best. We did this activity for 2 days, 1 hour each day. By god’s help and our hard work we sold all cards in these two days.

Making Greeting cards

Criteria of CAS – Creativity

Approximate time - 8 hours

Venue – D Y Patil International School, Nagpur

Date: 2 - 12 December 2013

Our target is to make 100-150 cards and then sell them to raise funds to help poor children.

Day1

We planned the activity and made a timetable for it. We requested our art teacher Mrs. Deepshri Halve to teach us, to make greeting cards. Today she taught us to make various simple type of greeting cards. I practiced by making 2-3 cards of every sample. Making greeting card is a very creative and difficult, as it requires great concentration. Today I gave 2 hours in this activity and made 4 finished greeting cards.

Day 2

Today I was prepared for the job. We tried something new, we worked collaboratively and divided our work. We worked as an assembly line. Everyone got different responsibilities.

I was given responsibility of cutting the paper and giving it form of a greeting card. I and Tanmay worked very fast Today I gave 2 hours on this activity.

Day 3
Today I worked with Himanshu Halve and Rucha Verma  in decoration department. This was a new challenge for me, as I had no experience in this. My classmates and art teacher helped me. Art and craft requires patience. Today while making greeting card i made many mistakes but after that I didn't. Today I gave 2 hours in this activity.

Day 4
Today my classmate Himanshu Halve learned quelling, so I took his place in the assembly line. The work was to take all the raw material and make greeting cards. This activity needed dedication and commitment. Today I gave 2 hours in this activity and completed my target of 10 cards.

Teaching poor kids

Date: 4 September to 8 October 2013

Criteria of CAS – Service

Approximate time - 8 hours

Venue – D Y Patil International School, Nagpur

“The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.” – Aristotle

Our CAS coordinator introduced this activity to us, believing we can help our society. Teaching is a great service in itself, and educating poor children is one of the best thing you can for our society. We planned the activity with her, she divided us into groups and gave us responsibilities of different classes.

4 September 2014

I was very excited for this because this was my first teaching experience of my life. We welcomed the tiny tots by giving flowers to them. As today was the first class, I introduced myself and spoke to the children about their interest (just to get comfortable with them). I asked them what they have learnt till now. They didn’t even knew alphabets correctly. So I started with alphabets and gave them homework, to rewrite what we studied in today’s class. Today I gave 2 hours for this activity.

17 September 2014

I was happy that they did their homework. Today I taught them numbers. I was an amazing experience, watching these small kids learning and understanding everything so fast. I taught easiest application of numbers, counting things. I took few cubes and made them count the number of the cubes. We also showed them educational stories and explain them moral of the story. I am very committed to this job now. Today I gave 2 hours for this activity.

24 September 2014

I planned the activities for today. I wanted them to learn the most important factor of education, application. I started with the mathematcis, with help of cubes I taught them addition and subtraction. I gave few simple sums for homework. Today I gave 2 hours for this activity.

1 October 2014

Today I cleared the difficulties they in their homework. We taught them painting and craft. They painted with happiness and passion. They all made a hand print with paint. Today was a day of fun plus studies. Today I gave 2 hours for this activity.

8 October 2014

Today, I took their test on what I have been teaching, alphabets and numbers. My students were very much scared because of test. But they all scored good grades. After that I taught them simple words, like apple, ball, cat, dog etc. They learnt everything with ease. By this activity I have also learned something that talent can be found anywhere. If these kids get educated, they can become great personalities. Everything is about resources, I am thankful to school for giving us this opportunity to do such great work. Teaching is a new skill I have developed. I hope I will continue teaching these kids and help them become good human beings.  This was a new challenge I undertook. Today I gave 2 hours for activity and completed 8 hours.