komala Aunty - 1 & 2yrs - sept 21 - parents get creative with their children

Todays session was producing something instead of consuming activities. Parents were asked to play or do something with their child with one thing they found in their purse. Few children were really enjoying the object which they found in their mothers purse and few mothers got clues as to what to carry in their purse :-) . It was interesting to observe one child explore one hair clip that it found in the mothers purse in various different ways. She held it up crossly and was saying "bird" to her mother. she tried to put it on to her hair, feel the teeths of the clip and was pretending it to be a butterfly. One child was feeling the comb . My observation was that all the children were first very kinesthetically exploring the object and then came various different ways. later I gave them different objects to play with the child which promotes different kinds of development . Again I was pointing at the mother who was incorporating various intelligences into the way she was playing with the object. First she sang and was counting with the object, she later made a structure out of the object, suddenly one child got attracted to the object and wanted that object for the visual representation attracted her more.....

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komala Aunty - 1 & 2yrs - Sept 19 - Explore Insects in Sand

The session was about insects and hide and seek the insects in sand. One child  who didn't want to touch sand did want to search for the insects which was hidden in the sand. Children just enjoyed playing with the sand and the insects which they found in the sand . Later discussed about discipling children as a parenting tip.

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komala Aunty - 1 & 2yrs - Sept 12 - Colors , colors everywhere .

The session was about colors .  The children were excited with the colourful bangles which was given to them to explore the colors so were the moms.  Some wanted to try it on their hands. One child was very upset as it was not fitting his hand, one child was just enjoying the different colored bangles . They had to put the bangles onto a tissue holder sorting in different colors with their mothers . Next we played with different colored streamers , identifying it one by one and the mother child had to make some colourful scenery out of all the colours . One child was so happy to see the glue in my hand and started showing me his index finger asking me to give him glue so he can start sticking . Later the children made colourful butterflies and sang  with those butterflies.  It was amazing to see the children sitting with their mothers trying to do the activity together in a circle .


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Painting with body parts

komala Aunty - 1 & 2yrs - Aug 22 - Self

The session was about self intelligence today. Parent and child together would do an activity were in  they would make a collage of things that the child likes. All the parents were very much involved in the activity . They really liked to do the cutting and the pasting. But the challenge was how would you get the child motivated , get into it . Later talked about what was the session all about , what was the objective and how did they all feel about it . Disussed few parenting questions  as a parent asked few questions as to what do I do when a child does this ?  Stressed on more observation as to what happens in the class .

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komala Aunty - 1 & 2yrs - Aug 18 - creative

Parents have been introduced to the concept of multiple intelligence.  Today the parent had to tell a story while drawing pictures to their child . Although few children were enjoying the story and the drawing few children found  something else to explore . It was a empty box  that was lying around. One child just wanted to hide himself inside the box. He was playing with the box the whole time when the mother was trying to call him to see what she is drawing !  Next they were given sand trays and some sand tools and animals and trees . Children just loved to explore the sand. One child didn't like the wetness in the sand . One child kept rubbing the sand to his hands, some even tasted it :-) . they were exploring it in all different ways. One mother was trying to teach something to the child  although the child was busy with his own exploration.  Few children didn't want to leave the sand .  It was their first exposure to sand .

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komala Aunty - 1& 2 yrs - Aug 3 - Kitchen

The objective for today was to verbalise what ever they were doing , parents
were given puzzles to put it to-gether with the child while verbalising
their process of putting the puzzle to-gether, they were asked to read
pictures to their child. Children enjoyed the free time when they could play
with the kitchen set. Everyone in the group pitched in and wanted to play
with it.

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