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Weekly objective was thinking skills –Observation. It started with we just finished observation week what is thinking skills observation. One said use your skills and observe, one said use your mind and observe, one said just observe and observe. Well we all had our say and we were also listening to others. I just took…

During a regular clean up of the centre, my friend found some medium size sitting floor mat in good condition. She said, we could cut and make individual working mats for the children with them. I suggested we can use these whole mat as a working mat for one whole team. She said, ok. Lets…

I had observed a child in my previous. When some thing from his hand was taken away, he screamed and threw tantrum, even to extent of hurting himself. This week I wanted to work with this child and tried giving few materials – new and old and observe him. This child was very comfortable using…

Train, Music, books and Friendship Train, Music, books, chips and Friendship Train, music, books, more chips and Friendship

A three old and another 9 yr old – both together making menu for the week – both together catering to everyone’s needs, bringing variety, collecting recipes and working with constraint to use local available ingredients. The 3 yr old partner, makes his own menu, as he sometimes does not like the regular menu. He…

If you are a beggar read thisIf you are poor read thisIf you have entrepreneurial spirits read this I was stitching curtains for the campus – one child came to me and started helping with moving the handle of sewing machine………………and started asking many questions. I was busy with my stitching, he announced “aunty lets…

Last week reed plantation at the campus – it exhibited the true spirit of “AMABLE” We all had different strength, and we all worked as one group. I was pondering, this is Amable as organization is all about – all together makes the difference, noone is better or best. We all are AMABLE and we…

Last Friday,i completed 1 round of working with each member of my team and with each child.It was a wonderful journey for me,from designing to facilitating, from learning to unlearning and from observing to avoiding. With Children Working with them throughout the week helped me understand,listen,know,facilitate and observe them.Last year,with my limited sessions with them…

Few broom sticks and few rubber bands – THAT’S ALL!!! We needed to play around and explore our muscles and use as a reflective tool. All age kids were busy building muscles man with broom stick and rubber band – identifying the muscles, which are being used and not being used in their body. When…

One child in session was crying “I want to go to mummy, what is time, when will I go to pink house, I am feeling sleepy, I do not want to work……………..”. Day one we talked a lot about his mother “what all you do with mummy, what do you like with mummy, what is…

This week we explored words in different ways. Whenever kids asked me the meaning of the new words – sometimes I explained the meaning, sometimes I told the similar meaning, sometimes we guessed the meanings, sometimes I did not tell, we did not look into the dictionary or ask anyone else. We observed the usage…

Six kids and six goals – all six had their own way of working. They choose what they wanted to do, how they wanted to do, all in one session. We had one weekly objective and this week it was “visual observation”. I played the role to bring rich resources, make environment challenging, understand their…

Floccinaucinihilipilification time(means something trivial and interesting) Faculty brings exposure to various contents during this time andin MI ways. Session detailshere

We visited a Govt school in Pai Layout Thanks to Girija Aunty, we got an opportunity to visit. We planned activities like making a book mark, doing origami, story reading, playing board games with the school children. Aarohi children planned these activities in record breaking time…all experienced working under time constraint.We reached the school and…

Even before the social relationship week went live….while I was preparing the design, I could feel myself becoming alert about the different nuances of social relationship. Different people shared with me, their understanding about social relationship which made my understanding clearer …or so I think….:0 Different stimulation activities to bring about different aspects of a…

We had been to one government school this Friday as part of outdoor. We started with introduction. Our children were busy observing. We started with energiser. All were sitting together in circle. Children had put up different stalls. Making book marks, craft, book reading, board games were going on simultaneously. I was enjoying involvement of…

Read these wordsDClights, what and how components are made, what is bio degradable and non degradable, positive negatives, circuit diagram, melting etc etc. All these words and the material for the same was a great exposure to many of us who were part of the life stationbyRajeshUncle.RajeshUncle thank you for an interactive session. Childrensharedtheirknowledge about…

Try try and keep trying.As part of the live station, uncle was sharing how he works, how he used old cans and what all he did. Fewchildrenadded yes, we need to try ad do things then it will happen. One profound statement which I got today- Even if you try once you cannot be sure…

Today we were part of a live station on making DC lights. The discussions moved to what can melt and what cannot melt and how it melts. Immediately came in Tun Tun aunty from chota bheem and one kid connected to the process of making laddus> In making laddus there is melting and how then…

This week in morning welcome we brought different metals. The first day, I kept different objects made up of steel. Next day I added copper objects. When I had prepared the welcome, chemistry was there in my mind. I had imagined that this may lead to comparing different metals, observing their properties and reaction with…

One child was working on festivals of Karnataka. As a part of logic genie, she decided to find out the number of people who celebrate this festival in bangalore and determine the fraction with respect to the number of people celeberating the same festival in Karnataka state. Then she also wanted to find the fraction…

We continue our learning journey. Next learning by doing event is on 27th July 2013.Invite children, parents, educators to come and co-work on issues from Industry. Time: 11 am to 12:30 pm Place:Geniekids Learning Resources Pvt. Ltd No3023 (corner house), 13th Main (NPSroad), 8th Cross, Opposite Graphite Apts,HAL2nd Stage, Bangalore-08.

Week of body intelligence, Aunty we will play cricket, we will play , play and play. All smiles we moved into the session. Content guide got them thinking. MI guide helped them how all can I do. Sat with few new children and prompt came aunty see cricket written we will play. What all you…

Read/ Share your favourite book or the book you are currently reading. Cook with kids Share recipes Play any game Skip and jump and hop with kids Share video of your office. Share jokes, Tell stories – imaginary, your own, or from the books. Make and Share tall tales Share pictures – your child, your…

Someone made a comment “we eat a a lot of Rusk and it is made of Maida”. It went on for fewdays – We realized that we have expressed the problem but not given any other option 🙁 We reflected and realized that we donot have much to munch, so we end up eating Rusk.…

Danger and deodorant and experience.One child got deodorant at the campus.He sprayed and the spray came on face.I did not want to tell him directly the do’s and don’t’s of the deodorants I asked him to give me 30 minutes to explore “how to use deodorants”.I sat with him We sprayed it at different places…

“Write a letter about your health after 26yr old” this was one the activity to explore “body intelligence”. Most of the kids wrote “I will be healthy, I will do regular exercise, I will not have back pain, I will not get tired, I will be doing much more work, I will be little more…

One child came and told me “today’s temperature is 80”. I looked in my scale and said “it is 27”. We both looked at the units – One was Fahrenheit and other was Celsius. Now the questions came “what is Celsius and Fahrenheit?” I started related to what he already knows (any other two different…

One child asked “what goal can I have for Open house”? Here is what I answeredMe – What happens in open house?Child – Cases?Me – So!!!Child – How can I have health in cases?Me – So, what health I need to do justice? How do judges remain healthy? How do people take care of health…

One child “I am tired, I cannot write more”Another “I cannot write fast”. We stopped for a pit stop The solution was not to give techniques to write fast or develop any interest in writing. But the idea was to open up the body and support what one want and can do.We began with MOVING…