Shivani Aunty - 3-4yrs - 29-11-07 - Petrol bunk.

We set up our own petrol bunk and got into our cardboard cars and motorbikes, some alone some in twos. Three of us enjoyed being stationed at the petrol bunk asking customers for how many rupees do you want petrol, then using the hose pipe to fill petrol. Bikers and car drivers filled in petrol very now and then and then took off to different destinations, for birdwatching, to park etc. One little khoji actually got all dressed to go out on a ride, she stood in front of the wall which was her make believe mirror and using a crayon pretended to put lipstick, bindi  put on beautiful clothes, smiled at herself and said now' I'm ready- Auntie do you want my lipstick? ' Wow all set to go !!
Shivani Auntie

Shivani Auntie- 3-4yrs - 26-11-07 - Where are we?

We were only five in the class, and the little one said- Where are the others? Then we went on to name our friends one by one.....Suddenly the Khoji said,' why not we look at the class Photo and find out who is missing today??? '
Shivani Auntie

Shivani Auntie- 3-4yrs - 22-11-07 - Where's my Horse?

 We were all in mood to sing a song.... Lakdi ki  Kati..... Everyone was smiling as they sang, while one of our friends seemed very confused.  It seemed he  was looking for something very important, under the books, around corners, everywhere. After putting in a lot of searching effort, he looked up and asked 'Auntie mera Ghoda kahan hey?'  
Shivani Auntie

Girija Aunty -2-3 years- 22/11/07 -Parent Child Day

Hi
Today we  came to Geneikids with our mamas and each little one had that mama is with me elated smile on their face. Initially they were all sitting with the mamas and as mamas got involved with the activity the children started moving around .
 Children  and mama played a game where the mama was standing with a coloured balland children had to  get and give the same coloured ball to mama.Only actions wereallowed,   it was difficult for mamas  to stay quite but they managed it.  Kudos to the mamas for tying and following the instructions.
 
Girija Aunty

shivani Aunty- 3-4yrs - 16-11-07 - Guns and roses

Hi,
as we are settling in with our new group, we have special ways of bonding with our new friends. Among the things that we love to do is to run together around the circle, share our snacks, see eachothers homework books. Some of us are very happy to have found new friends, but some are really missing their dear friends who have gone to another class. At one instance we were having snacks and talking about what each one had got, suddenly there began an exchange of angry words like I'll put you in the fire, I'll give you a punch....when these were replied with - I'll give a flower, I'll give you a hug, I'll give you many stars...said with the same intensity but with a smile, the little ones looked very confused in the begining and then burst out laughing!!
shivani Aunty

shivani Aunty - 3-4yrs - 14-11-07 - Fun Day !!

We began our day by singing a Happy B'day song for Chacha Nehru, then went on having fun decorating muffins with chocolate sauce and gems. Lovely colorfull muffins were too good to resist and went in yummy yummy into the tummy !!
When we were done with all our eating guess who was waiting for us out side?.... Oh yes!  It was Senthil Kumar with his bullock cart. All of us screamed with joy and got into the cart one by one.The bells on the bull went tingling all the way as we sang our bullock cart song. As we rode along all the cars and vehicles patiently waited for us to pass by.On the way we waved out to little children, enjoyed the sunshine and then some doggies started barking with joy, wagging their tails, our little Khojis didn't miss the chance and responded back with a loud bow wow chorus. Wow wow! so much fun to be a child!!!
Shivani Aunty

Chirdren's Day-Trupti Aunty's group

Today we celebrated Chacha Nehru's birthday at geniekids. We all played a few games in the sand and then came to the class to decorate and gobble up our muffins. We really enjoyed using the chocolate sauce cones and one of the enies in the class even had the sauce directly from the cone. It was nice to see the happy faces. We even had a new genie joining us today  and he too enjoyed the day with us.The highlight of the celebration was the bullock cart ride. We all sat in a bullock cart and enjoyed a big round in the neighbourhood. We enjoyed the sound of the bells on the bullock and even tried to role play the bullock and the driver too. On coming back to geniekids, we all went to class acting like the bullock. One genie even said thank you to the bullock cart driver for taking us for such a big ride. The passers by on the roads were surely surprised and maybe even envious of all of us enjoying the ride.

Trupti Aunty

Girija Aunty - 2-3 years- 14th Nov- Childrens day

Hi all
Today we celeberated childrens day by first singing HAppy Birthday to Chacha Nehru!! In our class we decorated muffins each one selected their colour of gems and used the choclate  sauce cones to decorate ourcakes .We alaso enjoyd by painting oue hands . We tried to paint butterfly nad fish and sun . The icing on the cake was the bullock cart ride. Our Aruna aunty had arrnaged for a bullock cart .Initially we wereskepticalto go in it but later each and every child climbed on toit and we went around Geneikids waving out to surprised passer bys who had strange looks.  One little genie was " why we on a pashu"(cow).  We all werealso making the soundslike the cowman.
We enjoyed our childrens celeberations!!!!
Girija Aunty

Shivani Aunty- 3-4yrs - 13-11-07 - Roll roll !

Today we explored rolling in different ways, began by rolling ourselves. Then we explored rolling small bottle caps as far as we could,which we really enjoyed.The most exciting part was rolling wheels on atta, when it was dry we could see a path on it and some of us recognised it to be the same as our cars on road, while when we used wet atta it got all stuck on the wheels and one little one said Oh! meri car ke wheel pe matti lag gayi, saaf karo saaf karo!!
We also made alphabet vehicles by fixing bottle caps on letters, some of observed that some letters rolled( H) freely while the others( A) did not, we also enjoyed playing with T as we pretended to clean our car glass with it! Rolling and playing with Alphabet was surely fun!!
 shivani

Trupti Aunty's group-7 nov- diwali shop

Today we enjoyed being shopkeepers. We had made Diwali cards and enjoyed setting up our shops and selling our ware to Aunties who came to buy the cards. The shopkeepers were at first not ready to sell off their hard work but the sight of coins finally made them sell their ware. All the shop owners were domonstrating their marketting skillsto their best. The best was to following conversation between a customer and a shop keeper," how much for these cards?"

"two rupees"

" i shall buy this one"

" you can buy one more"

" but i dont have any more coins"

"tago ma, parvalla!"

We surely have learnt how to sell our stuff at this age itself!!

Trupti Aunty

Shivani Aunty - 3-4yrs - 7-11-07 - Diwali dhamaka !

Diwali is around and little petals have been working really hard the last two days. They made colorful cards with different crackers pasted on them made from colored stripes of paper, spirals etc and decorated with glitter. Today we set set up our little card shops, we named our card market as - 'New Card Shop' Each one of us chose a cozy spot in our room placed a mat to sit on, our shops were decorated with streamers, diyas and had our names too. The whole place had a festive look. As we arranged our cards neatly in front of our shops, the first two customers came in!
  We enjoyed showing them our cards and wanted to sell for 5 rs, but the customers wanted to buy only for 1-2 rs, some bargaining went on for a while before the first rupee was earned! And the proud owner was very excited and showed the coin around, Look what I got - MONEY !!! the customers went aroound asking about the cards, how they were made, the colors on them, shapes etc. All our shopkeepers were ambitiuos and quoted higher prices, customers were persistent in their bargaining too. Some shopkeepers were calling people to their shops and managed to sell all their cards. The entire experience was absolute FUN !!!