At last i get down to another post.
The Readerbreeder plant is an effort to get the children to relate their growing interest in reading with the growth of the plant.Each leaf is for a book.As these plants grow pretty fast the children will have to do quite a bit of Reading to keep up and somewhere along the line the plant can be transplanted to the school and taken care of there.May it grow into huge bamboo thicket sized plant !
The best part is that the badges for the first level of reading were recieved from the printer(who incidentally refused payment saying " Saar, goodu idea saar, first levelu badgeu my giftu saar")
The two who got through the viva voce are Basha and Soundarya .. Pragadeesh,Dharani, Dhanapriya have already made the grade. It was a tough session and as usual the questioners discussed among themselves to shoot tough questions at the aspiring candidate. Some of the questions:
what kind of clothes were the elves wearing when they came to make the shoes ?
The answer is tattered and torn clothes.
What did Jack bring back the 2nd time he went up the magic beanstalk? Excuse me i forget now what he did bring back but not the children! They are waiting for the sessions and lets see who makes the Bookworm level next sunday. Till then......so long farewell !!!
That reminds me, the idea of showing the children classic films like - Sound of Music, came up and i think as soon as we have an LCD projector we can show good films and have discussions after. Letters mailed from the world over could also be thrown on screen for group viewing and reply.I hope known and unknown viewers of this blog will be soon flooding us with letters and the best video clips of their choice.
Thank you Dr.Vandana for taking us down the letterwriting path.
with regards,
vinu.
Hi Vinu - Keep up the great work. You have made a great impact on the Gurukulam kids through your knowledge, experience, and commitment. During my recent visit during your story telling session I was amazed at the intellect of the kids and the quality of questions that they asked. May God bless you for this invaluable contribution to Gurukulam.
ReplyDeleteDear Sir Vinu and facilitators,
ReplyDeletea brief sharing of The Plant-
This is an Dracaena Sanderiana or Ribbon Dracaena plant. It was from West Africa and marketed to the East in the 80s and it was very popular in Taiwan, China and especially in South East Asia - Malaysia and Singapore's Chinese Family. Back then in the 80s the price of this plant was soaring high for a small pot. Because Chinese families believe it is a very auspicious plant and it adopted a very wonderful name "Lucky Bamboo", and it is used in metaphysics practise for enhancing offspring, wealth and longevity luck till to date.
May GOD bless all. Happy Learning and Teaching.
from the desk of
Blessedmum