STUDENTS CORNER

Beauty of tulips
Oh my! Oh my!
What a thing
Look at those beautiful flowers mom
Having such a colourful ring
These are tulips dear, said mum
They have beautiful features
As well as cute colors
You see these are god made creatures.
What a beauty
It’s looking as a fairytale come true
With it’s silver and green tail
A ship is coming with it’s captain and crew.
It flowers in April and May
With the first stroke of sun
Sunshine is all over the land
With children doing a shot run.
                                                          Jahnavi Bhuptani
                                                         V-D

SAY NO TO PLASTIC

Got my weekly mag
Wrapped in a polybag
Set me thinking, do we really need
This polybag that becomes cow’s feed
And makes her suffocate and die.
No, No! Let the world hear my anguished cry.
Say no to this plastic waste
Pick up a paper bag and improve your taste
Down with polybag , is the need of time
To use more plastic is a crime.
My shampoo bottles, my grocery and my tube of paste
Use plastic and add up to this waste
This way we are inviting environmental crisis
Plastic will kill us unless we make haste.

                                                         Smitul Vachhani VD                                          

POEM

Look Outside, see the trees
Watch the flowers in the breeze
Things won’t be like this in a year or two
If polluting is all we do
Seize the night
Seize the day
Things won’t always be this way
Thousands of people are dying
In the night you hear children crying
Let’s stop the war
Our people are sore
The world can’t help itself Who cares about your wealth Help me to help you
Show the world what you can do.
                                              HIYA ROY VD

Friend or foe 

Do you think our next generation will be living a very peace
life? If yes, you are wrong; if you live in a city then you would
be aware of the problems in city. One of those major problems
is deforestation. Now not only in city but for more
development man has reached to the forest to cut down trees
Is development more important than one of our most excellent
gift that god has given us? Every part of a tree is very use
whether it the root or the stem. It is the home to thousands
of the species of living creatures which include animals, birds
and insects. Man is destroying the forest which is the home to
so many tribes living there. Are trees our enemy that we don’t
need them? We should keep planting trees and fight for the
forests to make our life better.

                                                Dhruv Tarsadia VF

Happy M.S. , P. , L.

Makara Sankranti (It is a sanskrit word) is the

 harvest festival of India. Sankrantimeans transmigration 

of Sun from one Rashi (zodiac in Indian astrology) to the other. 

Hence there are 12 such Sankrantis in all.

 But the transition of Sun from ‘Dhanu’ Rasi (Sagittarius) to

 ‘Makara’ Rasi (Capricorn) marks the starting ofUttarayana 

which means northern movement of Sun.

 Since Uttarayana is considered as auspicious time, 

Makara Sankranti is celebrated as the beginning of that period 

It is celebrated by many cultures in different manners.

Makar Sankranti is one of the most auspicious days for the Hindus 

and is celebrated in almost all parts of India in myriad cultural forms, with great devotion. 

Millions of people take a dip in places like 

Ganga Sagar (point where the river Ganga meets the Bay of Bengal) 

and Prayag and pray to the Sun God (Surya).and in Punjab as Lohri and Maghi.

In the western Indian state of Gujarat, the celebrations are even bigger. 

People offer thousands of their colorful oblations to the Sun in the form of beautiful kites. 

The act stands as a metaphor for reaching to their beloved God,

 the one who represents the best. Makar Sankranthi also happens to be the day on whichBhishma, 

the grand sire of Pandavas and Kauravas from the epic Mahabharatavoluntarily left his mortal coil. 

This day is also very special for women of southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.

 Unmarried women here pray in hope of getting a good husband or for longevity of their husbands, in case of married women.

 Gujaratis are the most prominent in celebrating Uttarayana, 

by flying kites all overGujarat, Rajsthan  and in Mumbai,

Uttarayana  is the six month period between Makar Sankranti around (January 14) 

and Karka Sankranti around (July 14), when the Sun travels towards north on the celestial sphere.                                                                 

 

The period from July 14 to January 14 is known is Dakshinayana

 The starting of Uttarayana is celebrated as Makara Sankranti throughout India, which is declared as National festival by Government of India 

Sankranthi is the most important festival of Telugu people, 

like Deepavali is forTamil people.  

It is celebrated with pomp in southern parts of India as Pongal,

 

Friends have fun celebrating this makar sakaranti

 but be careful and try to help needy  amd

 less fortunate on this festive  day. As this is the day to give.

                                                                                                                                           

                                                                              Class VD

Facts About Light

The speed of light is generally rounded down to 186,000 miles per second. In exact terms it is 299,792,458 m/s (metres per second – that is equal to 186, 287.49 miles per second).

It takes 8 minutes 17 seconds for light to travel from the Sun’s surface to the Earth.

Every second around 100 lightning bolts strike the Earth.

Every year lightning kills 1000 people.

The currently accepted value is 299 792 km/s based on several measurements.

Red, green and blue are the primary colours of light. Mixing them in various ways will make all other colours, including white.

Light is a form of energy which our sense of sight can detect. It is made of electro-magnetic radiation and travels in a straight path.

The bending of light as it passes from one transparent substance to another, like air to water, is called refraction.

When sunlight is intercepted by a drop of water in the atmosphere, some of the light refracts into the drop, reflects from the drop’s inner surface, and then refracts out of the drop. The first refraction separates the sunlight into its component colours, and the second refraction increases the separation. The result is a rainbow.

There are different colours of light because they are light waves which have different wavelengths. Red light has the longest wavelength while violet light has the shortest wavelength.

The light bulb was invented in 1879 by Thomas Alva Edison.

When you turn on a light bulb only 10 per cent of the electricity used is turned into light, the other 90 per cent is wasted as heat.

Low energy light bulbs last on average up to 12 times longer than traditional fluorescent bulbs.

Low energy light bulbs last on average up to 12 times longer than traditional fluorescent bulbs.

A heavy coat of dust can block up to half of the light.

                                                                                                                                                              Shivi Khanna  VI E