Tracks and signs - SKPS

I was very excited after entering the forest for the first time and enjoyed the company of my team members. The topic during the visit was tracks and signs. I was very eager to know what birds we are going to track and watch and the way to track them. It was interesting to track the birds by their call. By scrutinizing the dropping we found that the bird was probably a Grey Jungle fowl.  As instructed we were asked to look for droppings by going in a different route and we were able to find one dropping. It was herbivore droppings as it contained grass. I look forward to more exciting visits in the coming classes and hope to see wild animals. – Prajwal.V, 7C


The Saw-scaled Viper and Cobra were rescued by Mr.Ramanujam, Pottery teacher. It was released immediately during the nature club class.

Tracks and signs - CBSE

It was very exciting as it was the first time we are going out into the wild. We walked to the shrub forest opposite to the swimming pool. We were in 3 groups with things we got like pen knifes, gloves, caps/sunhats, tweezers to name a few. This day we were hunting for tracks and signs. In this walk, we observed

1) Dropping analysis of a toad - Contents- Moth's wings and head
2) Pellet analysis of Black Naped Hare - Contents- Dry grass
3) Dropping of Ground Bird - Info- Are mostly white      
4) Call of Jungle crow - Info- 2 Types of crows, Jungle and Common
5) Red Wattled bird - Info- It's the watchguard. Alerted every bird of our presences.
6) Snake molt - Info- Pick of the day.
We noticed all these in 80 minutes! It was amazing and knowledgeable day. I wish all our classes are like this one.  - Pragatheeshwaran, 6E

We went to the jungle and saw and heard many things. It was really fun as we saw things like snake molt, Red Wattled Lapwing (bird), Crimson Rose Butterfly and two different types of stick insects. We all had a wonderful and adventurous time. – Aryan Kurup, 6A

Today we went to the forest and we found snake skin. I was fascinated because the skin was long and had a star on it. We also found a stick insect camouflaged. At first it was really hard for me to find it but finally I found it. - R.Nisha, 6F

In today’s class we learnt to analyze cattle dung. In that we found insect, spider and beetle. We heard the call of the Red Wattled Lapwing. We even saw a snake molt. - Karthik K B, 6C

We found a 20cm length, 8cm width, 5cm height dung. Insects like ants, beetles and stick insects feeding on it. By cutting it we found out it was cattle dung. Second we found a hare pellet. It was spherical and small. It belonged to a Black Naped hare. Thirdly we found a bird dropping. It was white in colour as it contained uric acid. We also heard a lapwing that sounded like "did you do it ?". We also saw the Crimson Rose Butterfly.  It was a fun experience and I wish to have a great many of these ! – Vibhu.A, 6C 

Nature walk of class 2

“I like the bamboo Grass and the Lantana. I liked the stories about it”, Shreshta, 2B

“Today we had lots of fun with Madhu sir. We saw Bamboo grass and a Temple tree and an African tulip tree”, Divena, 2B

“I liked the spider plant. I loved it with sir. I saw trees, shrubs, creepers and climbers”, Krishna, 2B

World Environment Day - Tree Planting Program

The first Saturday of our academic year 2012-2013 was a very memorable one. The experience was stupendous and unique. We all mourned when we were told to come on a weekend. We were briefed about the two species we would be planting- 25 Neem and 25 Honge saplings. We started our work in about 15 minutes after the briefing. We were helped by a gardener and Madhu sir. The pits were dug and all we had to do was to take out the plastic bag off the plant, put the plant in the pit, fill up the same with loose soil and water it. The plants stretched out up to 400 meters in length from our swimming pool to the Nice road.  Though it was tiring, we had loads of fun. For the fun filled experience missing our first Saturday of the year was worth it. Thanks Madhu sir for the spectacular experience. We look forward to working with you next year as well.

Bloggers Priyanka Srinivasan, 9B; Priya.C.Srinivasan, 9B; Aditya.A.S, 9C


"Sorry, I was unable to attend the event. On hearing from you that the event was successful, I'm happy. All the best", Mr.Ganesh, Range Forest Officer (SMS message)

Team:

Class 9A - Smaran Kasireddy, Nithya S, Manasa Kanathur, Dushyanth Ganeshan

Class 9B - Priyanka Srinivasan, Priya Chakravarthy Srinivasan, Rohit Ghattigar

Class 9C - Ruchir Ravishankar, Aditya.A.S, Ananya Venkatesh, Apoorva Herle

Class 9D - Shambavi Pratap, Malavika Prasad, Dhwani Shah

Class 9E - Raj Subramanian, Shreyas Krishnaswamy, Sameer Kolhar

Class 8A - Aditya Yuvaraj

Co-ordinated, facilitated & supported by Mr.Ganesh, Range Forest Officer, BBMP; Mr.Kapil Sharma, Bangalore Tree Planting; Mr.Siddaraju.R.C, Facility Supervisor; Mr.Cheluvegowda, Landscaping Supervisor; Mr.Kumar, Gardner; Mr.Venkataraju, Housekeeping; Mr.Manjunath, Security Officer; Mr.Madhusudhan Shukla, Nature Club