just a sharing.....

Inspiring words
yesterday we played reading cards differently.....i would show colours like brown and ask him to find the color around him...shapes when i say cone he would say ice-cream...then professionals...when i show doctor he would say his doctors name,driver and teacher n police he said police station...he is jst associating information he already has....its fun...and then cards with action like turn around,jump up,etc...dhruv is just loving it and so do we!!!!

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we role play alot....enact like mom dad teacher,doctor.....dhruv jst knows why he has to visit doctor and knows the medicines he has to take incase..he would ask for it and remind me with the names and the reason he is taking...

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we were enacting sm expressions (navarasas) my elder son was upset n said anger is bad it mks him bad in front of all when he expressing it...coz some bad words come out like stupid etc....answer was in his question...i jst reminded him that feeling happy,sad,angry are natural but the way u express is wht matters lik we dont laugh loud when a baby is sleeping..so anger also can be expressed healthy way..nd to learn to handle urself...ways to calm down...count numbers..go for a walk...say out whts mking u angry...finally meditate is the best...!!!! i left the room as he was deeply thinking........

its imp for parents and teachers to understand and handle with ease when children express anger...we never ask why are u laughing ?when sm1 laughs...but we ask why are u angry?why are u crying?stop it......instead of questioning thr expression...be thr...listen...go to the root cause and solve it.....they just need our presence...

Green Hour ...

well green hour is nothing but an hour of being with nature....we have been on for a nature walk and my 3yr old son was going around watching caterpillers eating the leaves and wondering how they turn to butterflies,enjoyed birds chirping, he pickedup some leaves and b4 he plucked the leaf he informed the plant and said thanks with a touch ...he was giggling saying that when he tickles the leaves ,baby leaves are laughing....he tickled all the plants and had fun...later he drew outlines of differents leaves....learnt the parts of plant.whenever i find his energy needs a direction..the best thing i find to settle them is taking them close to nature....they observe and obsorb the silence.... not just that ,he learnt basic concepts of science, maths ... the concepts big/little, tall/short, long/short, high/low, wide/narrow, thick/thin, deep/shallow, on, next to, in, outside, inside, down, and up. colours ..shades of it...he started asking should i color light green,dark or other...count,sort,patterns,size...Know whole objects are made up of parts (fractions)....it was just fun...and for now aftr his aftrnoon nap....we would go on to make a map of our layout to start with parks...and in the late evening ...we would touch upon measurements ,science experiments,reading and lots of hands on activities...it adds with the childs quest to know ....am just waiting!...actually i realized i did not teach him but he learnt by his own observations and his quest to learn...i was just present around him...may be thats what they need ..just our presence saying am their go ahead !! great...feel free to add on sm ideas,ur experience,ur learning...thanku,
srujana...