Smart Genie - Indira Nagar - Nehal - Session 1

 

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SESSION 1
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 Today was my first day with this group. The activity was about helping chidren recognize various feelings
and expressions. We used kites of different sizes and shapes for this activity.
We also had various faces cut out from the paper. Each face expressed different feeling. Some faces
expressed happiness, some sadness, some anger, some smiling etc. Chidrens were asked to imagine
a situation "how will you react if your ice cream falls down ?".  One of the 'genie'
answered "Sad" and everyone repeated the same answer. Since it was our first day togteher I was
not sure whether children would converse more. So I stopped the question-answer activity here.
Next I asked them to pick any face and stick it on one side of the kite and colour the other side of the kite.
I asked them what feeling did their kites expressed. One of the 'genie' answered "Happy" and all of them
answered the same :-)

 The second activity focused on the 'Strength'. During this activity everyone was supposed to introduce himself/herself
and tell one or two sentences about what they are good at. I started first - "I am genie Nehal. I am good in cooking and drawing".
All the 'genies' did the same one after the other. I learned that one of the 'genie' thought he was good at jumping,
other thought he was good at kicking. We do not judge our 'genies' or try to put words in their mouth. So
I accepted them as they introduced their strengths. Next. we used a butterfly and some objects to demonstrate
the 'Strength'. There was one paper-butterfly, a pair of paper-wings and 4 paper-objects for each of the 'genie' in our group.
(Those 4 paper-objects were clock, wheels, bag, sun-glass). Each 'genie' made a complete butterfly for him/herself by sticking
butterfly body, wings and objects on the ice-cream sticks.

 Then I started by asking them some questions about themseleves which would help them further understand the excercise.
The questions I asked were like - How did they arrive at Geniekids today, Who dropped them to Geniekids etc.
Then some questions related to the excercise - "If you wish to reach some place on time which of these objects would you
you use ?". Some 'genies' answered clock, some answered wheels for the cycle. Next I asked "Your butterfly is going
out in the sun to gather some honey. How would it protect itself from the sun ? One 'genie' answered sun-glasses.
This excercise was a realization for me that these 'genies' are only small by age, but not by their mind. I would
not have learned this without this group of 'genies'.

 In today's session, one 'genie' was missing her mom and did not want to join our activities. But during
the snack-break something made her come to the classroom and then she too enjoyed the activities.

 At the end of the session, all 'genies' flew back home with butterfly and kites.

 

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