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  • meera : 10 Mar 2010 - 23:02 : innocent salesreps in jungle class

    Today each one of them selected their choice of shop counters for selling things. One child became the socks seller. When she got an interested buyer, she said we have three sizes-small, medium and large . She saw the size of the child and immediately selected the small size socks and said this will match for you-You can choose this. This did not dampen the spirits of the buyer. He still insisted on the medium size socks and the seller said it costs eleven rupees even for the small size but sold it to him. At another counter where there was rubberbands being sold, the seller shouted at the customer, you can't take so much--Only three is allowed.  At yet another counter, the seller sold the wool to the customer and started giving away his tokens to the buyer. The scenes at our market place were quite funny and memorable

  • girija : 10 Mar 2010 - 13:05 : Normal Maths

    Yesterday while asking which module it is Aarohi cubs responded Normal Maths. I looked with a question mark on my face and they went to clarify and show me what is normal maths. Sharing with all what is normal maths- simple maths which we do in a normal square grid books and different maths is colourful and sometimes boring( math magic book) so simple.

    Girija Aunty

  • meera : 3 Mar 2010 - 23:34 : unlimited exploration of expresso table

      Initially we were wondering whether expresso tables turned out to be too heavy for the kids. But the apprehensions are gone now. Today two children in the class tied up the loose plastic edges of the tables like a boogie train and when the class got over figured out how to untie the knot themselves. Another child called his friend and they together shouted bajji bajji  by placing the expresso table on their head and carrying it to its stand . Some children showed their hand saying they want bajji. Pat came replay you pay me hundred million rupees and we were sitting amused at such a humungous figure for a bajji and said we can afford only 2 rupees. But the child was firm that it costs so much.

  • girija : 3 Mar 2010 - 18:52 : Poem vs Story

    During discussion of poem and story one genie said Poem is something when we talk normal. Story is when we are upset and we go on and on.

    Girija Aunty

  • girija : 27 Feb 2010 - 10:02 : Holi hai bahi holi hai

    With full enthusiasim and fun we made our vegetable holi colours. while making codes each one said where and all we can pour water with most of them not wanting to pour on their head and face. We enjoyed playing holi with colourful water and found that we our body and dress is still colourless. We ate yummy gajar halwa and hot milk.

  • trupti : 11 Feb 2010 - 17:41 : Art of Giving

     

    We discussed how we can have a birthday celebration this year in a different way rather than having a party at home. We also thought of how we can give rather than take gifts from others on our birthday. Then we brain stormed about the different things we can possible gift. During the discussion a lot of thought was put into the cost factor. We also wanted to go about the whole thing in an environment friendly manner. So, we decided that we will give our friends a handmade gift which is also environment friendly.
    Since ashwin has developed a keen interest in gardening and composting, we decided to gift his friends saplings of colourfull flowering plants since they would be a pleasure to the eyes of the beholders.
    Since we did not have any seeds at home, we decided to go and shop for seeds. We went through the steps in planting the seeds and came to a conclusion that though we have many terracotta pots, we cannot gift them to our friends since we want to use them at home and hence we need to think about containers which we are ok with giving away. Since we had enough dahi dabbas at home, we decided to use the. Then we thought about the soil we had at home. After discovering that we had enough of it, we concluded that we need not buy the same. That would keep our cost lower to some extent. Then we made a trip to the local plant nursery and took a round to have a look at the different flowering plants. After zeroing in on the plants we thought were looking nice and colourfull, we bought seeds for the same. We could have directly bought the ready saplings, but we wanted to plant them with our own hands. After buying the seeds, we thought of buying some vegetable seeds too to be sowed in the empty pots we had at home.
    We read the instructions on the packet carefully and found that we need compost to be mixed with the soil for a good yield. So, we went and bought 1 kg compost from Daily dump. After coming home, we calculated the total cost of seeds and compost. This was our only cost since we already had the containers and soil at home.
    Then we emptied all the soil on the floor and mixed the compost with it. In all the pots, we put bigger stones at the bottom and then filled it with the soil. Then we carefully sowed the seeds in the pots and sprinkled water on them. After having sowed all the seeds, we watered the pots. We also labeled the pots so that we know what exactly is growing in them. So, we have dianthus, celosia, cluster beans, beet root, capsicum and a variety of jasmine growing. The feel of the wet soil and the smell of the compost were divine. Our seeds sprouted within four days. The packet mentioned that they would sprout in a week. Maybe because of the compost we have put in.
    After planting, we made sure that the balcony is again clean. We washed the balcony with just half a bucket of water so that we do not end up wasting water. This taught us how we can carefully use resources so that we don’t waste them. Ever since we planted our plants, we have been watering them regularly. Now that we are going out of town for three days, we have thought about it and made arrangements to get them watered so that they don’t wither while we are away.
    We also observe the sprouts everyday and have started measuring how much they are growing in height everyday/every week.
    Since we had to gift them on the 22nd of feb, and since the packet said that it takes a week to sprout, we planted the seeds on 24th of jan. We are hoping that our planning with reference to the timing is correct and that we have the saplings ready by the 22nd.
    When we give them to our friends, we are going to take their snaps. We are going to tell them that they may have to transfer them to bigger pots if required.
    Our vegetable seeds have sprouted too. Soon we hope to have a yield of capsicum, beet roots and cluster beans. Then we will calculate the costs involved in the project and also what we saved by growing our own vegetables. It will give us an idea of whether we saved money or was it expensive to grow own vegetables. Of course we know that ours are going to be organic vegetables which are free of any harmfull pesticides. So, we are ok even if they cost us a little more.

    trupti

    ashwin

    ishan

  • meera : 10 Feb 2010 - 21:34 : All iz well

    Today during snack time I got the message from a child's mother that it is better if she missed the water games today. So I threw the question across to her "Do you feel like staying away from water play since mummy says you are not feeling well. She happily replied " Aunty All iz well aunty so Anagha is well and she wants to come to the water play. All of us enjoyed her funny reply and she sat and watched others playing water games after deciding on her own not to wet her dress. 

  • meera : 3 Feb 2010 - 22:12 : Shocking technique

     Today we explored telephone instrument and we made teams , one child read out the number stuck on the phone and another child tried punching the numbers and the topic was how they convince their van drivers to come to gk fast as they are waiting. Another child talked to their daddy. Suddenly two or three kids went to a seperate corner and drew something and they told aunty they had a surprise for me. Then they took the paper opened it and placed it on my back. Then they shouted aunty got electric shock from the wire. I reacted by rolling my eyes and shaking my head. This came up again in the activity time and they were enjoying this act. I later opened the sheet and saw that they had drawn a face by the door and a bulb hanging by the side of it and they had drawn curvy patterns coming down from the light to represent it as shock waves. Young Thomas Alva Edisons exploring their next invention in jungle class!!!!!

  • girija : 2 Feb 2010 - 19:34 : Boy necklace

    Today one genie was wearing a colourful necklace with beads. All of us were admiring it, feeling it etc. One genie was observing it from far slowly he went near it and touched it. The moment is eye fell on a blue bead he said with excitement blue bead boys necklace and wore it immediately.

  • girija : 20 Jan 2010 - 00:15 : Mr Ratty

    Today aunty got a dead rat in the class, We were looking at it from a distance. One genie just came took it in his hands and was pointing to the differnet parts of the rat. Aunty started feeling the different  body parts and then one by one we slowly got into feeling the different parts and we also had magnifying glass, the one which most enjoyed was seeing the whiskers through the glass.

    Reagrds

    Girija Aunty

  • padma : 7 Jan 2010 - 23:07 : Adding coco powder

    When we were reflecting the feild trip to nursery children shared their thought on why the gardeners use cocopowder to grow saplings, made charts on how to mix sand with cocopowder, and told if we eat cocopowder we also grow fast.

  • meera : 6 Jan 2010 - 22:43 : Music with fluttering paper strips

    Today we played two sets of instrumental music. Everyone was all eager to get the paper strips on their hands. We tried different kind of movements like waves, hopping and jumping, shaking the hands and seeing the paper strip flutter sideways and going around the circle and reverse movements etc. The time was flying and aunty was unprepared for the blue mats to come for meditation and so today we did meditation without blue mats. The yoga pictures were quite interesting and the children tried doing them after aunty pointed to them.

  • girija : 5 Jan 2010 - 14:16 : Easy way to remember b and d

    While copying the word butterfly, one genie was confused with baby b and baby d. She was asking for help and one genie helped her with an easy way of  remembering it say daye and do action like tea pot and say baye and do action like tea pot and use both hands.

    So easy!!!

    Girija Aunty

  • meera : 16 Dec 2009 - 22:36 : smooth satin waves

    Today we decided to know more about our letter A bogie children in jungle class. Started with the child who joined us this month. We gave the satin ribbon in her hand and asked how she liked being in our class. Aunty wrote down what she said and passed it on to the next child and when the turn finished we moved the ribbon like a wave three times and went on till we covered the whole class. Next aunty had chart paper strips which was torn and aunty quickly wrote the A child name with each child and stapled it to the satin ribbon and the friendship band was tied by the child to everyone's hand. She was quite happy with the whole ritual. Thanks to aditi aunty for this tip.

  • girija : 15 Dec 2009 - 11:46 : Picnic

    Today we were making mind maps of different things that we do in our schedule, during discussion one child said we go to picnic. Another one said we do not go in sunshine time, so prompt came the reply we go to pick up things like flowers, leaves that is pick me so it is picnic.

    Girija Aunty

  • radhika : 14 Dec 2009 - 23:49 : "SSHHHHHHH"

    We had different animal cutouts and kids were interested in making their own animal story today . In the stroy one cow was feeling sleepy and slept under a tree and slowly all the cows came to the same place and started sleeping and we all decided not to disturb the cows by saying "SsssssssHHHHHHH" to each other.

  • girija : 11 Dec 2009 - 21:50 : Meeting for us also

    Today we had a meeting with Aarohi cubs where we were discussing what they like do not like etc. The moment we said meeting it was like how our papas have in office. Once we went to our meeting rooms seeing their name cards and chairs arranged they were thrilled. The icing on the cake was when we asked  if they will drink coffee or tea - they just could not believe it and we heard excited voices shouting for coffee.We happily drank our steaming hot coffee and munched the biscuits and ended our meeting.

  • meera : 10 Dec 2009 - 23:18 : helpful alert aunty

    Today during fruity time, there were one tetrapack mango juice and one bottled mango juice  and one child was crying that both of them belonged to her. The previous day, the child had dropped the tetra pack juice in the class and I knew that it was hers. Another child was very sure that bottled juice  belonged to him and claimed the juice to be his. Since another aunty was in the class, I tried to clarify over the phone with the mother of one child  but she was unable to help as she could not contact the daddy who got the juice. I said we will manage and went back to class. Girija aunty immediately got into action and started checking the bags in great detail and found that the child already had the juice inside her bag and sorted the confusion for aunty and the kids. But the other child continued to claim that it was hers and aunty let her cry after writing the letter to her mother that she wanted a new juice bottle with yellow cap. Thank you aunty for your timely support

  • padma : 10 Dec 2009 - 11:38 : every day liquidr food

    During our lunch time when we were writing the different category of food we ate that day children said every day we eat liquid food more because we take drink water every day

  • girija : 1 Dec 2009 - 15:23 : Selling as per my convenience

    While shopping one aunty brought 4 cupcakes from the cupcake counter. The selling genie was telling how much it will cost. It was stuck till rs10/ and was not moving ahead. we drew, we used our fingers and toes to calculate but was not reaching the figure, finally our genie said aunty you cannot buy four you can buy only two.So much so for convenience.