Monthly Archives: September 2021

Elementary children as problem solvers

By |2021-09-06T16:06:59+05:30September 6, 2021|News|

There were papers strewn all over the classroom for the last couple of days. I wondered why the children had not been filing their work papers. However, I made a deliberate effort to not address the problem, but waited for the children to bring it up themselves.

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The Hypothetical World of the Elementary Child – Suppose?

By |2021-09-06T16:09:37+05:30September 6, 2021|News|

“Suppose you were an animal, what would you like to be?” she asked her friend. The reply came as quick as a flash without a moment’s thought, “O, I would like to be a blue whale, I will be a largest sea mammal”.

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Lost in Another World – The Power of the Imagination

By |2021-09-06T16:19:30+05:30September 6, 2021|News|

They were two children, an 8 year old and a 10 year old, conversing about the information gathered from their research and reading. They were totally lost in their ‘space’.

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A discussion about needs of human beings

By |2021-09-06T16:12:32+05:30September 6, 2021|News|

I was with a group of 6 to 9 year olds discussing fundamental needs of human beings. We had a variety of labels with different basic needs written on them - food, clothing, shelter, love, education, transportation, protection and so on.

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A discussion about leaves with elementary children

By |2021-09-06T16:13:29+05:30September 6, 2021|News|

It was a fine, sunny morning and a small group of 6 to 8 year olds and I were out looking at leaves. We had brought a few samples into the classroom that we examined and now we were observing and exploring the leaves of trees and plants outside.

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Answering the Question ‘What’

By |2021-10-06T04:27:27+05:30September 6, 2021|News|

Keeping up with a moving toddler, walking around unsteadily helps us to look at our world with new eyes. The tin filled with lentils hardly noticed except in the flurry of cooking suddenly becomes the treasure which calls forth heart warming coos of wonder and delighted chuckles.

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