Dear students

With the coming of February, the seasonal changes from winter to Spring has long been associated with aspirations, growth and renewal .It promotes pleasure, new hopes, motivation, confidence and memory-increases with more exposure to sunlight. Students become busy in their studies. This month we celebrate Basant panchmi and some important days like Indian Coast Guard Day, World Science Day, International safer internet Day, International Mother Language Day and so on. Indian Coast Guard celebrate its 45th Raising Day on 01February. ICG ,from a modest beginning with just 07 surface platforms in 1978, has grown into a formidable force with 146 ships and 62 aircrafts in its inventory and likely to achieve a targeted force levels of 200 surface platforms and 100 surface aircraft by 2025. True to its Moto' Vayam Rakshamah' meaning 'We Protect', ICG saves one precious life every second day at sea.

Safer Internet Day is celebrated globally on 7th February each year with the theme 'Together for a better internet' to promote the safe and positive use of digital technology for children and young people and inspire national conversation in the society. The UN World Day of Social Justice is annually observed on February 20 to encourage people to look at how social justice affects poverty eradication. It also focuses on the goal of achieving full support for social integration and to raise voice against social injustice. National Science Day is celebrated in India on 28 February each year to mark the discovery of the Raman effect by Indian physicist sir CV Raman on 28 February 1928. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics in 1930.

International mother language day is celebrated in February to promote peaceful use of languages without borders and help to preserve indigenous heritage of the nation. We also celebrate Basant Panchami a Hindu festival of traditional Hindu festival of traditions on 16th February full stop on this day we worship Theri Saraswati the Goddess of wisdom knowledge music art and culture. The yellow colour is strongly associated with Vasant festival fullstop people wear bright yellow clothes and colourful food to mark the beginning of the spring with many of the dishes cooked being yellow such as ‘Meethe chawal’ , flavoured with saffron.

Dear children, be more careful towards your health so that you can pay concentration towards studies and get ready for the annual exams. Make the best efforts and work hard.

Mrs. Savita Saxena , Senior Editor,AMI

Every month besides the second month in the calendar contains at least 30 days. Only February falls short in number of days. It has either 28 or 29(in a leap year) days. Students , have you ever wondered why all the months of the year don’t have the same number of days? Well, for this you’ll have to dig deep into the history of our modern calendar which is known as the Gregorian calendar. The Gregorian calendar was a modification of the Julian calendar, which itself was a modification of the ancient Roman calendar.

The scientific reason behind this is that one orbit of Earth around the Sun takes approximately 365.25days. It is a little more than our Gregorian calendar’s round number of 365 days. Because the calendar does not account for the extra quarter of a day that the Earth requires to complete its orbit around the Sun, it doesn’t completely align with the solar year. Because of this .25 difference, our calendar gradually gets out of sync with the seasons. Adding an extra day to the calendar every 4 years brings the calendar in line and therefore realigns it with the seasons.

Soan extra day is added nearly every four years to the calendar year.The extra day is called “a leap day” i.e. February 29 and the year with an extra day is called “a leap year”.

Without leap days, the calendar would be off by 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 45 seconds more each year.After 100 years, the seasons would be off by 25 days! Eventually, the months we call February and March would feel like summer months in the Northern Hemisphere.So the leap day adjusts this drift.

The winter has been harsh and rough but now the springtime is coming. Hopefully we would witness climate change in mid- Feb. Spring season is the time of growth and renewal. Sunlight and warmth increase our movement. We become more open to invite changes. The nature itself gives the signal. The trees begin to grow their leaves, the plants start to flower, young animals as chick and lamb are born. Springtime represents progress, new beginnings, blossoming of new thingsand new life.The season is a synonym for optimism. Spring and hope are oftenintertwined. It is the hope that makes spring the most positive season of the year.Spring is God’s way of saying ‘One more time!’. Its time to rejuvenate our dreams and start our plans in a new way with hope filled in our hearts.

Basant Panchami marks the beginning of the spring season in India. Every year on this occasion usually we have celebration followed by the lunch for our students at our school. We worship Ma Saraswati , the Goddess of knowledge ,music, learning and art.But this year it couldn’t be possible due to Corona. The school … the teachers are missing the children. But springtime teaches us to be optimistic. Just as the nature blooms with the arrival of spring season, in the same way we hope the school premises will turnalive once the children come.

Happy Basant Panchami & Happy Springtime !!
Miss Poornima Gangele , Senior Editor,AMI