Team Manthan from Patna visited Jeevanshala and spoke with children and TLs about learning, equality, and the importance of education. We also introduced Priyanka, our new Swasthya Snehi, who joins our growing care system.
Children finally finished the maps of India and Bihar that they started from scratch weeks ago. They presented their work and shared what they learnt at morning assembly. Younger children moved from speaking English words to writing them and forming small sentences. They also learnt colours through sensory games, practised coupled words in Hindi, and studied Good Touch and Bad Touch. Senior students traced plant growth from germination to the young plant stage, worked on equations in Maths, and studied the stages of human life in Science.
Experiments brought science to life. Children showed that air occupies space through practical experiments and tested the acidity of lemon with litmus paper. They learnt multiplication through movement activities and division through paper activities, and they turned Maths into a group-making game. Others recited dohas at assembly and learnt English through dumb charades.
Children also performed. They turned library stories into a play and staged Hans aur Siddharth amid the greenery to explore compassion and the protection of all living beings. At Saturday’s Theatre of the Oppressed workshop, they wrote and performed plays on education, Gaon aur Baadh, and friendship and trust. Shujaat Ali Khan’s Gaay introduced them to the beauty of classical music.
Evenings stayed lively with sports led by TL Priya, football, frisbee, and gilli-danda. The month ended, as always, with the much-loved chicken party.
