Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Day-3: Kids were asked to go out of the classroom for an hour and interview people from their area on "How students should behave in class"! What is to be asked and who is to be interviewed was left to them! I wanted to see both, whom they choose and what they ask.
The interviews + kids' thoughts on the learnings of the interviews, were put together and then the kids themselves made rules on how they should behave in the class. These rules are now stuck on the classroom door and kids seem to follow them so far! :)
By the way, these kids mostly chose boys and girls from their age group. Which finally made my position stronger. Because I could now tell them, “See, your own friends think this way... You have to follow it now!” I had asked them to ask “WHY??” to every answer they get. This made the interviews reasonable! :') Kids came up with surprisingly good questions and answers! Someone also asked “What do you think the teacher should do in order to keep her students interested??”
:-) They are too smart, you see!

Day-4: Marathi newspaper reading! Lots of new volunteers were present. Assigned 2 kids per volunteers. Gave newspapers to all kids. Aksed them to first scan their newspaper, find what interests them most, read it carefully, keep the newspaper aside, and then, write about what they found interesting and why. They chose news like the 'problem of waste disposal in Pune', 'water scarcity', 'solar eclipse', 'leafy vegetables and health', etc. They wrote intelligent reasons too. They do understand all these issues! :)

Explained about water cycle. All of them agreed upon one more rule, “If we come across running taps with water being wasted, we'll close the taps immediately!”

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