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The food court on the 29th of April at Bhavani CDC by the students and for the students, created the two opportunities for the students to shop and cook and shop to eat , while reinforcing maths ideas taught during the school year.
The experience of spending. saving and accounting for the money they
had brought from home, also kept the student's memory fresh and active while challenging their maths skills.
The senior students became entrepreneurs, as chefs, who sold dishes they made to the other students, who in turn had to chose the dishes they needed to buy using ‘real’ money, count the money spent, saved and keep accounts too.
How did the idea of the food court begin?
The senior students who had completed their practical exams in the subject home science for their secondary board examinations were asking us
‘how are economics and home science related?
Simple. Become entrepreneurs, become chefs and sell your dishes to the other students, learn to do accounts!
   
Dental Camp at Bhavani CDC
*Dr.Balvinder Singh Thakkar*,Professor, Dept. of Orthodontics MGDC&H, Jaipur( Raj) conducted a dental camp for the students of Bhavavni CDC.
*Dr.Balvinder Singh Thakkar and his team built a wonderful rapport with the students and may be for the 1st time
'no child was scared of a dentist'
The dental camp will now become a yearly progamme at the center with *Dr.Balvinder Singh Thakkar and his team
 
Bhavani CDC is happy to announce a year long,
From the desk of Vimala Venkatesan
Playing ‘shopping’ was the problem solving solution that we at Bhavani CDC resorted to yesterday as an answer to our students asking us
Why learn tables?
How does it help to calculate
Why should we calculate mentally?
Why do we have to do mental sums?
Ksjitiz, Somya and Vishal from 10th std set up shops and the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th Bhavani-ites had to shop!
Each student was given Rs118 / for their shopping experience.
They could go round all the shops, bargain and buy anything they fancied.
But there were rules too!
Rule one
They should buy more than two of the same item for which they had to calculate the price by themselves!
Rule two
They should handle their money independently.
Rule three
They should calculate the costs quickly and not waste time in the shop
The shopping spree was for an hour after which the shops were closed!
Initially they were scared!
Where do we keep the money?
What if we miss out on the calculations?
Would the teachers help?
‘No’ was the prompt answer
As they walked to each shop and started to bargain and finish the deal they gained confidence!
The change in the students was stunning.
We overheard Shubham tell Yashvardhan,
‘ finally we used tables!’
which meant that they had developed skills and the ability to apply these skills to unfamiliar situations
Vishal sold a picture for Rs.100 to Aman who bought 6 pencils for the rest of the money and was heard telling Yash,
‘it so easy to organize a big amount and a small amount’
which showed us that the skill to gathering, organising, interpreting and communicating information was easily acquired by just a simple independent shopping experience
Annushaaka and Suraj told Dhairya to look around first, look out for something useful and then buy!
Was this not developing curiosity, confidence and open-mindedness?
Jayvardhan ,Prakhar and Harit had the best idea. They saw the pattern of cost that Kshitiz had planned. The 1st row had everything in counts of two, and then a row things that were costing just three rupees a piece and some that could be multiplied by five.
We overheard them say: use the tables and finish!
They had discovering patterns and similarities!
As I write this I just realized with a heave of sigh that
Playing ‘shopping’ was the single vehicle which seems to be able to achieve at school level all three of the values of mathematics that can be listed as functional, logical and aesthetic.
Classical Learning programme
for students of std IV and V of ‘SAHAOYG’ a mainstream school for the under privileged at Jaipur.
The Classical Learning Programme, a unified educational programme using modern and traditional teaching methods will empower the students to develop reading and comprehension skills in English with spelling and grammar with a main stress on their academic achievement.
The students attending the Classical Learning Programme are thrilled with our method of learning English using drama, art, creative play and the Total Physical Response method
The module of The Classical Learning Method consists of developing language skills in the areas reading and comprehension through,
Reading sessions and discussions
Games,
Activities &worksheets,
Story sessions and creative writing
Comprehension
Develop awareness of printed language and the writing system
Create an appreciation of the written word
Decoding and comprehension skills
Selecting the appropriate method to suit the child’s style of reading and comprehending
Grammar and Spelling
Spelling rules and methods to master spelling
Develop the students' phonological awareness phonemic awareness
Teach the relation of sounds and letters and methods to sound out words
Project Delivery and Logistics
Bhavani CDC has formed a resource group to develop reading and writing skills to the students.
The resource group has prepared work sheets co-related to the text book used by the students. Folk tales, puzzles and games will be incorporated in the classical learning Programme.
Reading aloud, discussions and dramatics will be the participatory part of the Programme which will help the students to build their confidence.
The year long project is supported by The Vijay Amrithraj Foundation California. |
Rising day report by Bhavani CDC
This discovery culminated as a ‘The Rising Day Programme.
UDAAN is the 1st magazine brought out by Bhavani CDC
in which every student has displayed his/her talent and creativity in the form of stories, anecdotes, puzzles, art and craft.
It was a delight to watch the tiny tots of the branch dancing and swaying to music.