Year End at the Jeevanshala, December, 2021

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Clay modelling – catharsis and learning
Nature is learning, our first litter since April, 21 when the children joined
With children, the loneliness goes fast
This clay modelling started with learning about monuments in the junior history class, and kids made a monument to their favourite memories, which included births and celebrations, like the coming of a rabbit, as a pet at home 🙂
LEARNING THE SOLAR AND LUNAR CALENDARS
CHILDREN ALL ATTENTIVE IN CLASS
ENGLISH ASSESSMENT, BASIC ONE GROUP
ASSESSMENT CONTINUES
A STORY TELLING SESSION LED BY SANGEETA
THE MONTH GAME
SENIOR MATHS CLASS WITH ABHIMANYU – TAKING IN THE SUNLIGHT ON A WINTER DAY 🙂
IMMERSION SONGS IN ENGLISH CLASS
CLASSES CONTINUED WITH THE NEW PEDAGOGY, OPEN CLASSROOMS USE OF AUDIO VISUAL MATERIALS, ACTIVITIES AND CLOSE TO NATURE LEARNING

These two photos have a special meaning for us. Its been about eight months that boys and girls on the campus have been playing football together and then we heard that their would be a woman’s football match, in Araria itself. All children went with their Physical education TL (teacher learner), Biswajit and Abhimanyu.

December, was made even more exciting for the children, by a group of bikers, driving across araria towards the North East, kindly agreed to visit our centre. Shrey who was travelling solo from Delhi to Kalimpong, on his motorcycle, stopped at the centre with, Unais and Basith, two young men travelling from Kerala to the North East. The children were fascinated and excited to hear about their travel experiences. The bikers also let all children across gender and age, mount their bikes and have a photo shoot 🙂

The senior science class, engages with a lot of learning by doing, while doing waste water management, they built a sokhta for the centre, from scratch, measuring, digging, carrying bricks, to making smaller pieces of the bricks.
Bhanwar ji’s new book, has a mention of his trip to Araria
Hair cuts continue, in house, with new stylists taking charge 😀
Kitchen work
Local Nutrition, snails (dhoka)
Laxmi all smiles, in her new sweater, from friends Janet and Sumir
It’s my turn – taufeek and Manjhali
In addition to regular shram daan, children cleared all the sand labourers dug out while making a septic tank, for the centre
Shramdan breaking gender roles, as the girls also freely weilded the spade (kudal)

Sakshi, is our youngest. She is a day scholar and comes in everyday with her older sister. She may be five or six. She usually sits in with the basic one class. No one is forced to write alphabets, but their are games in which children learn to identify words. One of the game favourites is the word “TREE”. So, all children went around writing tree on sheets and sticking it to a tree on the campus. Later when all children were gone to their classes, i saw Sakshi sitting by herself, writing TREE for herself, to stick to a tree she likes 🙂 Learning comes with freedom, not force. Thank you for reiterating this lesson SAKSHI!

And 2021 closed for a short few days, to celebrate the year end and winter break, but before that we did a little christmas celebration by singing along with rudolf the red nosed reindeer and jingle belwa.

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