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Children's Day!



Kalpana Madam just wrote in describing the fun at the school on Children's Day. Here is her report:

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From 8.45 to 10am all the children were in their classrooms having fun with their respective class teacher. Then they all assembled down and the program started at about 11am.

Debate 4th class topic- Nehru(as november 14th, his b'day is celebrated as childrens day). There were 5 participants.

Debate 5th class topic-polution. there were 6 participants from rainbow plus 3 from other schools.

This was followed by singing and dancing.

After that it was drama.

3rd class did a great show, Lion and the rabbit/ the clever rabbit. It was all a great effort from Gowri and sujatha.They had made animal masks for each animal. The play was simple, with only masks and no other costumes, but it was a very good show.

2nd class also did a great show. The play was 'bottle gourd wedding'.
About 12to 13 kids showed up, each with a vegetable mask. The bride was the bottle gourd, groom was tomato, all other veggies performed a different task. one did cleaning, one did up the brides hair, one did the stage, one did the sweets, one performed the wedding, etc,etc.Children enjoyed it .This was organised by sunitha and divya.

Another play from 3rd class, with gowris help. This was a small kit about education of girl child.

Then there were songs and dance.
Last it was prize distribution for all the events they had today and yesterday.

class event 1st prize 2nd prize

5 essay writing Ranjit Satya
5 drawing A. Babu P.Babu
5 debate Raju -
4 essay writing Anitha Lakshmi
4 drawing Anitha Govinda
4 debate Devi -
3 drawing Kiran kumar Durga
3 lemon & spoon Kiran kumar Aparna
race
2 musical chairs Sharanya Bhoomika
2 bomb blast Basalinga Sairam
2 running Sreenu Shekar
1 running Devraj Supriya
1 musical chairs Devraj Soni
ece running Manisha Aakash
ece musical chairs Sai Manisha

Vijaya madam got chocolates for all the children and biscuits and prizes were from Prardhana.The prizes were mostly activity/colouring books,scrap books, sketch pens, clay.

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THANK YOU Kalpana Madam!


PS: Finances are update for this month, under "information"

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  1. Leigh Anne Miller9:57 AM

    Ranganayaki Srinivas writes: "I am going to the school now with Greta Jackson. Greta thinks the children are quick to pick up and are responding well. We are video recording her classes".
    And the next day: "Greta is having a great time working with the children. She said the children are quick to understand what she wanted from them. I will post the videos on the site and send you the links. She talked to the teachers individually, discussed the lessons and answered their questions. We will record for two more days."

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