After a short break in July, we were back in August. Like all other semesters this period was also marked by learning in and outside the classroom. Along with textbooks computers and non-textbook reading, of story books in and outside the library class, makes a large part of our children’s learning. And this month was no different on this front.
The Saturday workshops had the usual fair from theatre, to story telling, arts and craft and one special health and hygiene workshop. Kanika, a long-time friend of the Jeevanshala, did an interesting session on health by focusing on germs. The session lasted about two and half hours and was made exciting by activities, lots of experiments, and a short film. Overall a very gratifying session- fun filled activities and learning on a somewhat complicated but very important topic for our young pupils. Thank you Kanika.
When most of our children came to be at the Mosamat Budhiya Jeevanshala, they did not know too much in the English language. Some did recognize the alphabets, but this was also limited by the fact that most of them had been forced to rote memorise the letters, and did not really recognize these letters, if given out of sequence. This month some of the same children were reading small story books with confidence and also further sharing them with other younger children, who look forward to the English story telling sessions.
Two major festivities almost always fall in august, out gender just rakhi celebration and the flag hoisting for independence day, our attempt to build the ideas of ‘positive nationalism’ in our children.
This month too we had a special visitor, Ishwar. Ishwar is a beautiful singer whose songs, drawing from the Bhakti tradition, inspire a sense of compassion, kindness and oneness of human life. He spent a day with the children and also celebrated rakhi with us.
Mosamat Budhiya Shiksha Nirman Sangathan 