The day Christmas Tata came to school- Trupti Aunty's group

Today when we all gathered for assembly, we were told that santa is coming to school. We were very happy that finally the day has come when "christmas tata" would come to school. We went to class and hunted out the ingredients for pani puri and lemonade and had a great time making and eating it. The chutney was "khara" for some of the genies but we all sipped it and polished off the puris from our plates.

We then went for a dance party and all of us had a great time with Vidya Aunty and danced away to the songs like hockey pockey and birdie dance.

While we were still dancing, all of a sudden there was a loud sound of drums, ghungroos, and many other musical instruments. Before we could guess who it was, there came our "Uncle Clause" with a bag of gifts and toffees. We all very enthusiastically ripped off the wrapping paper and were very excited to see a cap inside. We wore the caps till the party was over and we went home.

We all had a great day today .

Trupti Aunty

Shivani Aunty- 2-3yrs - 18-12-07 - Post office

We went out to the post office today. On post cards we had, as part of our previous activity on emotions, drawn out smiling face, angry face etc. We also wrote out a little message to our dear ones. The ride to the post office was fun filled and we laughed all the way to the post office, once there we put the letters into the big red and the small green post boxes and came back. Now we are waiting to see the post cards at home.
Shivani Aunty

VOLUME PLEASE---- Trupti Aunty's session

Yesterday we had good fun communicating non verbally , as the role play for yesterday was non verbal communication. I did not talk a single word in the class till 12 pm and yet was able to communicate everything to the genies. And what was more interesting was that the genies too were managing very well. Many issues were sorted out by the genies themselves, some were being comforted by other genies if they were upset, and they all communicated with Aunty using actions.

When it came to reading a story, i started that too non verbally when some of the genies said," Aunty little more volume please". Another one said," Aunty you tell like once upon a time"....... but when i did not still speak, they very attentively "heard" or rather "saw" the story i acted out. We really had a great time. It also saved a lot of energy which is normally spent in speaking much more that required.

Trupti Aunty

Girija Aunty -2-3 years - 7-12-07- Sorry

Hi all,
Today we had to go up and see the clouds. After all preparation in the classroom we went up to the terrace to draw different faces of the clouds. When we went up it was raining and we could not go out so some of tehm were a little upset . I made a real long face and said I am sorry I did not realise it was drizzling  so we can either sit near steps or go back to class. We all decided to go back and one little one told me it is ok girija aunty it happens . I had an open mouth expression when she said that . Amazing how they use their words!!!!!
 
Girija Aunty

Emotions!

Today, we had a fun session exploring different emotions and feelings. We saw a slide show of different emotions and explored when we feel like that and what we say at that time and also tried to role play what we saw on the screen. It was very interesting to see all the little genies trying to show emotions. We highlighted all the emotions being shown in the class . On one occassion, one genie was upset with the other and was showing it and when we also tried to role play the same emotion, the genie actually ended up laughing.!!!

It was a very interesting and satisfying session indeed   :)  :)

Trupti Aunty :-)

Girija Aunty-2-3years - 5/12/07- Dough Time

Hi
Today we were experiencing mixing of atta.Initially no body wanted to touch the powder.Suddenly one little genie smelled it and she recognised it as maav. One by one then they connected it to parantha ,chappati dosa etc. They enjoyedpouring water and when it became very watery one connected it to river and he was searching for fish in it.  One little one was singing rhymes with it like chatani meri bangayi and kept scrubbing her fingers and then she sang chapati meri hui hui hui.They enjoyed it more when the dough was stuck to their hands and it was not coming out  and it was getting more and more messy. Someof them made small balls with and others were trying to scrub it and each one's facial expressions was worht watching.
 
 
Girija Aunty

Shivani aunty- 3-4yrs - 4-12-07 - lines and curves!

We began our day with show and tell, showed caps and told stories from our favourite books. Colorful homework books talked about petrol bunks and signals, round and straight vegetables too. Snack time was full of sharing biscuits and pakodas, when all the pakodas were over promises were made to bring in more for dear friends at 2 o'clock ! We listened intently to our Jan- Feb story, how each month was special and found friends one after the other to make a calendar.We then went on to sorting letters with lines and curves for our calendar. Lines and curves were collected and stuck on A4 sheets as we made different things with them. Some made their own patterns, letters like H, B, A, ice cream man still remained the favourite!
Shivani Aunty