Smart Genie-fern city-priyanka---session -8

 
Today's theme was perseverance. 

We started with an energizer hitting the castle (made of holes of toilet paper rolls!) by stacking it first and hitting it with a ball.  We played it like bowling.

We started with our day's activity with meditation and discussed what things do we require to make our living room comfortable.  I prepared one in advance and shared it with kids discussing the pictures I had placed in it.  Now I asked kids to design their own rooms.  Kids started exploring the magazines and I had also brought handful of them.  Kids stuck pictures on colored sheets, some made attached bathroom, some car garage attached to their living room.  They shared their thoughts and thereafter we took a snack break.

After that we started with stacking different sizes of blocks and carton boxes which was fun.  Then I showed model of house I had prepared in before hand – a bedroom with bed, cupboard, table, mat and attached bathroom.  Now it was their turn to convert their 2-d picture into 3-d model.  I provided them with lots of carton boxes, construction paper, magazines, streamers and many more things which they required while building their model.  3 groups were made, where the kids decided themselves who is going to do what.  One group decided to build bathroom model, while other group decided to decorate the walls of the houses and the 3rd group took the task of making objects like bed, cupboards, table, etc.  All the groups helped each other for this collaboration project.  At last our beautiful bedroom with attached bathroom and garage was ready. And last but not least time to have a photo graph with the house. 

Proud of what they had made, with the confidence that a design on paper can be translated to something tangible. 

I SENSED THAT THE KIDS ENJOYED THE SESSION AS MUCH AS I DID.