Smar genie- Tata Sherwood- session9

SESSION 9

When the kids came in today, I was looking at some pictures in a magazine. They started asking me what I was looking at and that is how the whole thing about asking questions began. It was fun. Each one of us asked others questions about the pictures. We also told others what we saw in   the pictures. I was amazed at the observation of the kids especially the youngest ones. By now all the kids in my class , even the youngest ones are able to pin up their own badges to their clothes and today one of the younger kids wanted to help his elder brother wear his badge and even went ahead and told him, " you are big, you can do it".

Today we played a game where I pinned a picture to the back  of the kids one by one and they had to guess what was there in the picture by asking questions to the others who could reply only in yes or no. even this went off well. Some kids needed some help in asking questions but one of the kids did a splendid job of framing questions on her own.   After this game one kid wanted to have a frog jump race and we explored jumping like a frog, hopping like a kangaroo, walking like a giant like a teacher, policeman, and even slithering like a snake which was suggested by one of the normally quieter kids. When I said it was time for a break, they all said " so soon?" as usual. Today we even explored non verbal communication and using signs to communicate our ideas.

After the break, we again observed a few pictures and told what we saw in it. Then, we also explored how we could put a relevant sign in the picture to convey our thoughts or concerns about the situation. For eg, they came up with ideas like putting up a sign saying do not jump next to a pool, a do not touch sing to put next to a hot iron, use me sign in a room next to the litter bin to help keep the room clean and so on. When I asked if they would like to make a sign to hang in their own rooms, they were exited about it, and made very cute ones. They were very proud of   their work and also showed a lot of patience when I taped their signs on a chart paper one by one.

Since we had some time left, we also made cute little happy people puppets  which also was something they got very exited about. Now we are all looking forward to the next session where their parents are going to join us for some time.

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