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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 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…

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.…

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…

I was working with one 3yr old. We were copying “postures from nature”. We began with making posture for various things we see around us like mountain, tree table etc – I did not show him my actions, I asked him to make his own actions. His actions were completely different than what one would…

One of the parents suggested the song “Torero”. We played in sunshine this week at the campus. The song generated the curiosity “Is it Spanish, French???? We did not know the language, did not know how to pronounce, but the music made the whole song alive in our minds. When we sang the song without…

Normally when kids ask for spelling we write on slate, or look into dictionary or say it aloud. Last week in session, I asked kids to write first their spelling and then I wrote. We started looking at the patterns of spellings like “whyle for while, compyl for compile. We also understood the “leaf and…

As part of weekly self assessment one of the child assessed that “I have moved up 1.5 ladder. (tracking)”. As per the tracing system, decimals are not available so she had choice of going back to level 1 or moving up to level 2. She choose to stay at level 1, I suggested her that…

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…

During the week of scientific thinking different kits were got into the session. We have few 5 years old who with their actions totally bowled me over. Initially they were observing the kits being used by others, waited patiently no questions asked may be lots inside them but nothing in the open. As they got…

An interesting journey with children through thought club. We started thought club in O campus (I) last week. Few shared, few were with their thoughts, few did not share. For me as faculty it was a bigger challenge just to listen to them, without adding my own coating on it.Many times reminding myself not to…

Around 20 kids and 20 adults came for learning event at O-campus, Kelmanagalm. Kids were completely soaked in doing. Adults were curiously finding about the place, concept and learning opportunities. Few kids want to come back and learn earth bag construction, some want to come back and see how the final structure comes up. Astha…

One child had brought kannada song this week as weekly song in sunshine. I never liked kannada songs till now. I had listened a limited number of kannada songs, mostly through loudspeakers which scream during festivals or marriages. With my limited exposure, I had formed a belief about not only all kannada songs but, the…

Dirt cleaning circle is an important part of our routine. The idea is to exppress any dirt – feelings, complains, dislikes – or appreciation/gratitude that you may have for anyone in the group. After few weeks of experiencing this process, one day I suddenly realized that one of the children rarely brings dirt for others…

One child was exploring sound in my session this week. She was observing different sound through out the sesison. She was using different material to produce sound. She was using different surfaces to produce sound. She wanted to check how sound passes through different surfaces. She placed a steel glass on a wooden surface and…

Last week,i worked on “Self Concept” as a part of our weekly objective.Before preparing for session,i started building up my own blocks.I was constantly questioning myself,when i am not clear and not getting clarity how will i be able to facilitate the children.Becoming aware of self was becoming a uphill task for me and this…

As a part of the session environment we made a place for “dreams, wish, fight and peace”. Kids spent time in that station dreaming, wishing and fighting. At the pf the week – they announced “we will have this as dream corner ALWSY in our sessions”. A small bed with few puppets was enough for…

Last week we worked on self intelligence as part of weekly objective. Some of the kids took goal as “dreams beliefs” and the objective was to “know self”. It was a difficult topic, with kids it flew smoothly – there we lot of discussions, expressions, explorations. Kids read books on dreams, took interview of people…

One child is self genie session took the goal of “dreams”. During interaction she shared she is talking about “night dreams” – whay do we get dreams. And I was talking about “what is your dream (to have something, to become something etc)? After some time we both realized that we were on two different…

Mostly children do not do, not because they do not want, but may be because they did not understand or they are stuck or they are not asking to clarify. In sunshine only two kids were brining the show. One thought came up “may be all are not clear”. We did a brainstorming session on…