Woohoo! We completed our 1st term of the 2009-2010 school year, and we are all so excited to tell the parents what's happening in the school and what their children are learning.
Almost all parents came to our first Parent Teacher Meeting.
We started out with a quick introduction of our Teaching Staff and our Non-Teaching Staff. Then we talked about a few agenda items, such as; coming to school on time, curriculum changes, policy reminders and parent involvement.
We ended the meeting with the "Best Parent Award" for each class. We talked about how we picked the best parent and why that parent was chosen. We encouraged all parents to help us out by just reading the daily dairy and asking their children "what did they learn today" . Parents were gifted a Sari, and thanked for all their support!
Then we dismissed the parents, and invited them to their child classroom to see "what's new", and to meet their class teacher.
Overall the day was awesome!'
Way to go Gurukulam Parents!
Way to go Crystal :-)
ReplyDeleteHey Educational Facilitators…Nature the Best Classroom for children!
ReplyDeleteIt is so heartening to see many activities going on and a peace of mind to see the children were participated in planting greens in your school compound and cleaned up the coast. It is always a wonderful thought to make a date with nature, to make friends with nature…out of the classroom.
As many of you may know that our planet is greatly suffer from Global Warming, the Climate Crisis, the pollutions and many scientists are looking for solutions. But unfortunately, many of us living in the urban have lost and neglected their contact with nature is what known as “Nature Deficiency Syndrome”. This is simply of their rat-race life style leads to the ignorance of the importance of nature.
Has anyone of you, Educational Facilitators realized that schools evaluated or ranked the children on many issues but rarely use of the existing nature activities (cleaning the school compound surroundings, coast or adopt a plant etc) as a criterion. Why just confined the study (of nature) to the pages of textbooks? If our children don’t know what nature is, or cannot appreciate its beauty and joy, how can they be expected to love and protect our mother nature? Our children deserve to know more about their mother nature, learn the intricacies of the environment, build their awareness and character in the process of care, love and to contribute to it.
Personally, I find that one onus to teach children the charms of nature and, human-nature relationship lies with adults. And, schools could play a bigger role of facilitators in shaping our children’s awareness and their future as nature-lovers beside having them to achieve their academic goals. It is an unprecedented opportunity for a school like yours to have such a big open compound, to make good use of it for more open field activities of learning of nature. Perhaps, you can start with a small step of setting the foundation for an awareness to work on the earth, examples digging the ground, takes turn to grow plants: flowers, herbs, vegetables and watering these plants (as routine duty for older class). Through this process, the children will have a first hand experience in learning the ecology cycle, new vocabularies used in science and literacy, team work appreciation, developing a sense of well-being, self esteem and responsibility spiritual. There are many valuable lessons can be conducted in nurturing our children. So, I'm leaving it in your hands and hoping that you are able to discover your gem of nature together with the children.
GOD bless all.
From the desk of
Blessedmum