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Today was wonderful day with grandparents, Mr.Grandpa and we enjoyed telling stories. later grandpa played mouth organ and a little genie sang a song, grandpa too sang, the little genie too played mouth organ. Mr.Grandpa with his presence and energy made every little genie happy . Though we had only one grandparent, he made up for the other grandparents who could not make it. Jai hind!

Today we all together were singing the rhyme Ringa ringa roses in different way, were we do not hold each others hand. Every one tried their best, not to hold each others hand. But one child was not able do without holding hand, the child went on requesting everyone to hold her hand, which was interesting to see how the child was convincing other children.

Today in snack time a child started to sing national anthem song Jana gana mana. Aunty asked how the song is sung, suddenly two children stood with a salute and sung the national anthem song. aunty was impressed by this.

Today after snack, we went to the terrace to give food (seed) to the birds. We kept them on the wall & waited, there we saw crow, pigeon sitting on the big tree. We even heard bird singing but we couldn't find the bird. We all told the birds "Eat bird Eat". Then slowly a few crows came near the seed to eat but suddenly flew away.

Today uncle played different rhythm with drums, plate kadai, steel bowl glass etc and made a beautiful pattern of music. We enjoyed the show by playing with him and making sound and movements, some wanted to play with him and they enjoyed till end.

When we were watching shivamani(drum)clipping, one genie liked very much and started to tap on her thigh. slowly every one followed her steps and started to move their head & body. The children came with an idea to make their own music instrument using paper plate and rajma seeds. The children enjoyed the sound which came out of the instrument.

The monkeys in a group were going on the bridge to pluck some bananas. One monkey lost his tail he came back immediately took a strip of newspaper and made a tail and felt better after having a tail on his back.

Today after snacks we went to the terrace to watch nemo clippings, we were so excited to see their movement and expression how the fishes and tortoise were moving around. When the nemo came into scene everyone gave a chorus hey its "Nemo". One genie went to deep sleep while watching nemo clipping. Then we all Together in a big roll paper expressed what we saw by drawing, colouring and writing.

Today we all got into van and went to field trip to Karthik mithai shop. children were busy observing things outside, one genie recognised he stays in that road which is near sweet shop. When we entered sweet shop we were very excited to see lot of sweets with different shapes and enjoyed eating yellow yummy circle pedas.

Today we explored OHP placing our hand, head... but suddenly one genie placed his hand on OHP, the shadow looked like a monster every one enjoyed running before the monster could catch.