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Kind of Activities - Wide varieties of activities -Fun activities, group work, extremely stimulating environment and exclusive real world experiences that give the exposure and hence develops all the eight intelligences - hence child gets exposure to a very wide range of activities: From music to language, numbers, art , craft, clay , drama , puppetry, interpersonal skills, science and to everyday experiential learning etc. All while kids have loads of enjoyable activities.

The objectives

1. Expose all the eight intelligences - some are already in the child, some child get EXPOSURE -  hence help develop all eight. (Each intelligence gets developed when it is used).
2. Create awareness about how the same thing can be done in EIGHT different ways
3. Each one of us has our unique strengths, the way in which we are intelligent. A child discovers his/her strong intelligences by EXPOSURE to activities based on all eight.

How we do

Lets illustrate this via an example activity set:

1. We start telling a story and stop in between. Now we ask children to finish the story as per their wish. [Linguistic and Intrapersonal Intelligence)
2. Once they finish their story, they can put up a small puppet show of "their" version of the story: First they go out collect stuff from nature and make puppets. [Visual and Naturalist]
   
3. They also using paper and junk make a set. [Visual and Body-kinesthetic]
   
4. Then they add music to their story [Musical]
   
5. Finally they use each other as actors or puppet assistants [interpersonal] 
   
6. and put up a small show by themselves [Body-kinesthetic]
   

The key points here to note are

• Different activities look like a continuous connected set to the children - not as disjointed activities. So children seamlessly move from using one intelligence to another.
  
• We do not help the child directly - this way the child's own efforts stretches and hence develops that intelligence.
• Since the end result (what the child makes) is less important - the application of an intelligence becomes more important - hence while the child may not carry back home good looking stuff, the involvement f child is high and developmentally richer.
• While all the above activities all the kids will do at different levels -
  • Some activities child will do with his intelligence - my strength, awareness
  • Some the child will get exposure for the first time - New exposure and awareness
  • Some child will see others doing  and try for the first time  - peer to peer learning, environment