Petals (Shivani Aunty's class)

The chant of the day was , " one by one, we wait for our turn". We are experimenting what happens when we all rush at the same time. We are also learning how we can do things one by one by patiently for our turn. Today we tried a bit of that when we were waiting for our beads. We  are slowly now understanding the importance of waiting for our turn.

 

Trupti Aunty

Padma aunty-3-5 years

Experience of sinking and floating

Played games in water to find what sinks in water and what will not and tried different experiment  through games to make floating things sink.

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padma Aunty-3-5 years-Khoj

Parenting session

Kids and parents enjoyed the session by counting the tentacles in octopus body, matching the patterns in the fish dress, and sticking fins for the seahorse.They helped each other by sharing and  working together.

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Shivani Aunty- 2-4yrs - 26th July-Mr.seed

A little seed came to us today and said that he wanted to grow out of his shell. We all thought of a plan, how about laying a little cotton bed into a small cup and then giving enough soil for the seed to settle in. We made small holes in the soil and invited the seed to settle in for a while. A blanket was put over it to cover it. As we were picking soil to make a home for Mr. Seed, we met a little wiggly earthworm, he told us that he would feed the seed when he was hungry. All of us enjoyed making a home for Mr. Seed and finally sprinkling water over it with our fingers. We were very patient throughout and worked very neatly. Now we know that Mr. Seed is comfortably sleeping in his new home, we will water him everyday and sing a song for him too. We are eagerly awaiting the day when he will spring out of his bed and grow to be a little plant.
Shivani Aunty

Girija Aunty -2-3years-26/07/07- Gardeners

Today we were sowing seeds in small cups. Our little children were excited
to take mud in the shovel and they initially used the scooper but their
real joy was when they used their hands.

Girija Aunty
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Petals-Shivani Aunty's group.

Today we explored how to paint our papers with coloured sand. Shivani Aunty gave out blank sheets to all of us and we all wanted to colour different things on it.Aunty asked us what all we can use to colour on the paper and we said crayons, pencils, paint etc. Then Aunty told us we will do it differently today. We were waiting patiently to see what Aunty was now giving us. Aunty gave us gum and we all dipped our fingers in it and drew with our fingers!!!!!!!!.Then we poured little coloured sand on our paper and put back extra sand in the tray and , VIOLA, our drawing was coloured with the sand!!!!!!!!

The best part was that we took our turn to go to the tray and use the sand. We really enjoyed it a lot. Then we all waited for our turn to wash our hands. We even said, one by one, one person in, others wait out as we waited out to wash our hands.

It was a lot of fun today. As we waited for the card to come, we used the blocks to make curves with it!!!!!.

Trupti Aunty 

Shivani Aunty- 2-4 yrs- 24 July-Birhtday

Chirag celebrated his birthday today, we all wanted to make it a special day for him. As part of our birthday celebrations, Latha Aunty and Trupti Aunty had made a birthday card and a crown. A special chair was brought in, but Chirag did not want to sit on it, neither was he keen on wearing the crown. The birthday card was specially signed by all his friends and Shreyas gave it to Chirag with abroad smile, Chirag radiated an equally beautiful smile back. Everyone of us at Khoj got chocolates and thanked Chirag for that. Khoji's from Dew drops and blossoms came to our room to sing 'HAPPY  BIRTHDAY.' Chirag was smilig and looked happy. Finally we did his favuorite dance and that really was the icing on the cake, Chirag danced till he went home today!
Shivani Aunty

Going to the sea--Petals---Shivani Aunty's Group

I had a opportunity to be in the Petals group today. As I entered in, i saw all the children very enthusiastically "signing" their names on a birthday card. We were celebrating one of our classmate's birthday today. We sang him a song and he gave us chocolates.Then having settled on our favorite shape in a nice cozy circle, we enjoyed "show and tell". We showed our pillows to all and even spoke about it. Some of us even demonstrated how we use the pillow to sleep. Some of us had not brought our pillows for show and tell and were feeling bad about it. We have now decided to remind our parents to send our show and tell objects every Tuesday.

Today we started our activity by telling each other what we remembered from the movie we saw yesterday. Having spread newspapers, we took a few crayons and were all set to colour some sea creatures like the octopus, sea horse, fish and a star fish. One of us kept saying," i cannot do it", but with some help and encouragement, was able to make lines on the fish. Some of us even made circles on the starfish. Then having folded the newspapers nicely, we enjoyed going to the sea. We jumped, swam, and waded in the sea water with some nice music. We also learnt a fish song and really enjoyed reciting it. We then rowed our boats merrily down the stream and also enjoyed drenching ourselves in the rain which was falling in curves and lines. That sure tired us out and so we all quietly lied down to rest a while.

Our friends from the other classes came in to wish our friend on his birthday and we even danced his special dance. That really made him feel happy on his birthday.

 

Trupti Aunty

Girija Aunty -Clock Aeyuthu ( TIME UP)

To day in the morning itself our class clock showed 12.00.One little genie
came inside saw the clock and wnated to go back home immediately since the
clock showed his time of going home.

girija aunty

Bonding

In a short span of time our group has bonded beautifully. Children know eachother's names, enjoy playing together, share stationery, sometimes offer sitting mats to eachother...One day one of the kids didn't come because he was unwell, his friend enquired from me as to why he hadn't come that day.
Shivani

Trupti Aunty- Blossoms (Girija Aunty's session)

This week i had the opportunity to be with Girija Aunty's . I was a little apprehensive in the beginning because the children wanted their Aunty and not a new Aunty. I talked to them that Girija Aunty will be back next week and till then, we could all be together. To make them feel better, i suggested we could say Hello to Girija Aunty's Photo on the chart in the class. This idea was very helpfull as they felt reassured to see their Aunty's photo.

This week we explored various shapes and lines and curves. I was very satisfied that they could identify some shapes in the end. By the end of the week, the children also were comfortable with me and so was i with them.

I must say that i have had a good time with the Blossoms group and have learnt a lot from each child in the group.

Trupti Aunty

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curvy curvy curvy..

Hi,
It was all about curves and lines, so we sang a song about them. We enjoyed making them with our arms, hands and even fingers. Our chalks drew them on the slates beautifully, our crayons put the curves on our fish who had lost them and stripes on snakes who loved them, all the while one thing we enjoyed was singing along!
Shivani Aunty

discovery!

hi,
we began our day as usual and were busy exploring what all we could do with blocks, suddenly one of us looked up in utter surprise and pointed to the twin brothers in the Khoj group and shouted out 'Aunty aunty, look look, they are same!!'  :)
shivani aunty

Creative

Nice to  see children settling fast and working in teams.They are enjoying  in creating the story of red riding hood's and its pictures around the room.

 

Padma Aunty

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Trupti Aunty-Blossoms(Girija Aunty's Class)

We have had a fun time exploring different shapes this week.We explored the circle using a hoola hoop ring. We enjoyed passing through the ring by crawling and sliding. Mr. Goolu the circle was a big hit with the kids who even drew it on the board.

Using the "fire in the mountain" rhyme and stopping on a shape and identifying it was fun too. We also played "fire in the mountain" using different body movements like crawling, jumping, sliding, walking and not running which was a big hit with the children and was very usefull to get across the concept of the shapes.

We also became vegetable vendors and bought fruits and vegetables giving the vendor (plastic) coins.

I am looking forward to more on shapes tomorrow.

Trupti Aunty

fun and exploration

hi,
It was all about being musicians, so we picked up an instrument each, some of us picked the bongo, some the manjira, i liked the cymbals.....And we had a enjoyable time exploring the sounds produced by different instruments. Each of us were imerced in our own world and one of our friends started singing loudly and danced to his hearts content. It was truely a musicians day out there! 
shivani aunty

Girija Aunty - Band Baaja.

Today our little musicians were thrilled when they got different musical
instruments in their hands. Each child took each instrument and were
exploring it by making sounds in different ways. One little one started
isnging bhajans and each one kept doing oh aah after that.

Girija Aunty

settling

hi,
we have begun our third week at geniekids, we are nine friends together and our room is called PETALS, we come in the morning all bright and with beautiful smiles. We began the first week with our mothers coming along. We had lots of fun singing rhymes, playing games together and doing our activities too. The following week we were on our own, some of us missed home. Now we are settling and doing things on our own. We like eachother, eat and share our snacks together. Today we even remembered and sang our rhymes on our own. We brought our favourite toys and showed them to our friends, when we played a game of rings we waited for our turn and cheered all others while playing.
shivani

Girija Aunty- Show and tell.

Today was the first show and tell of the new Khoj session. Many children
got their favourite car and teedy bear. The moment one car was out everybody
wanted and the owner of the toy was "it is mine". but when all the toys came
out immediately the barter system started off as a natural process.

Girija aunty