Gruffalo stole the show
On December 6, little ones at the library were delighted to attend a storytelling session by Asha Dash featuring the magical books by Julia Donaldson. They were excited to venture into the world of the Gruffalo and later the Gruffalo’s Child with Asha as they read the story together.
The event began by reading The Gruffalo to the children and discussing the story with them as usual. The children went through the story, taking different roles, including the fox, the owl, the snake, the mouse and the Gruffalo. The children were invited to explain how the characters felt at different times in the story.
As a rhyming, lyrical book, the story translated naturally to song. Kids enjoyed the catchy songs, humor and the role play too. The event emphasised both the importance of reading for children and its potential to be a pleasurable experience for all.
Project Management/Personality Development for children
Rajesh Nair, a project management expert conducted a unique personality development workshop at our library that enlightened children about the importance of setting a target, planning by building a schedule, managing time, communicating well and working together as a team. The workshop primarily aimed at promoting Project Management as a Life Skill for a group smart kids of age 10-15 who are all set to become scientists. doctors, engineers, artists, cartoonists, astronauts etc.
The group was very active, had lots of questions and quickly related to the PM concepts. Rajesh wrapped up the session with Project Management Institute Educational Foundation “Tower game” . Children enjoyed the game, that was fun and informative at the same time.
Thanks to Rajesh for making the complex topic simple and interesting for the children.
Butterfinger’s author at Schoolkutti.com Children’s Library
Prize winning author Smt. Khyrunnisa’s visit to the Schoolkutti.com Children’s Library on November 9 created a rich, powerful connection between children and reading. She had our young participants enthused, enthralled, involved and hanging on to her every word. Children were engaged from the minute she started narrating her journey as a writer right through the reading of her wonderful books!
It was a unique experience for the children to know about the writing process-finding ideas for inspiration, drafting a story through words and pictures, revising and editing before it goes for publishing. They asked wonderful questions and the author responded with patience, encouragement, and enthusiasm.
She read excerpts from her own book “Howzzat Butterfingers” followed by “The Puffin book of Funny Stories” and also from one out of Richmal Crompton’s William series. The session ended with a fun quiz that tested the group’s knowledge of children’s literature.
A young purposeful poet
Arundathy S Nair, a class 4 student of Cotton Hill HSS, Trivandrum got her first book on poetry released last sunday. The title of the book is ‘Colours’. Their school (Cotton Hill) took the initiative to publish it and got it released in the National book trust book festival that was held in the first week of October at Trivandrum.
Arundathy, maintains a poetry journal very systematically and writes poems mainly about nature. She recently attended a poetry workshop led by poet Soni Somarajan at Schoolkutti.com Children’s Library. Arundhati and her cousin Adityan were very encouraged and inspired by the workshop and said that they looked forward to more such events at the library. This is what Soni had to say about Arundhathy – “Arundathy is one purposeful lady! I look forward to seeing her journal sometime! She gives you a feeling that there is a lot of depth inside her and she is looking for a way to express herself, in her own way. I am glad it’s poetry. Purposeful is the word I would use to describe Arundathy.”.
Story telling fairies at Schoolkutti.com Children’s Library
‘The story is told eye to eye, mind to mind, heart to heart.’ – Scottish Proverb.
Two story-telling fairies visited Schoolkutti.com Children’s Library with a potful of tales.
Two comedians dressed up as fairies, turned up by “accident” in the library, “a little lost” in the midst of the children. To spread happiness, they sang, danced, and told stories from their homeland. The stories were magical, funny, engaging and enthralling.
Schoolkutti.com library oragnised a theatre-based storytelling workshop for children on Saturday. French actor Françoise Calvel selected two books named ‘Panda Goes to School’ and ‘Postman Pat’. She and Ajayan dressed up as clowns and acted out the characters for the children. The Workshop started at 5 PM and 31 children were participated. It was a truly interactive story telling session featuring lively music, fun masks, comedy and puppetry.
Story Art – A unique Art & Craft Workshop
The ‘Story Art’ workshop at Schoolkutti.com Children’s Library began with the story of gingerbread man, which was read out by the participating children, from the book ‘Traditional Tales for Boys’.
The workshop was aimed at bringing stories to life, much like the gingerbread man who sprang to life when baked by an old lady. Arts and crafts instructors from Green Butterfly Edu Group patiently taught children various forms of visual expressions through the story – Madhubani through painting gingerbread man and glass painting to make the old lady.
As you know, the story starts in the kitchen. So the first thing the children learnt was painting on pots. In bedtime story books, everything is painted in pastel colours. But here the pots was adorned with acrylic colours and pearl colours. The villain in the story, the fox, was made with a finger puppet. So were the animals – the cow, pig and horse – who ran after the gingerbread man. The story chosen for the workshop was kept a secret until September 14, in vivid and crazy colours.
Genius Mind Academy
Blog posted by Genius Mind Academy
Genius Mind Academy is an Internationally Certified organization which involves many beneficial programs for the children and as well as adults.GMA is a Malaysian company and is launching its first center in kerala at Trivandrum.
GMA has created a special system that is holistic, scientific and effective in communicating with kids that will bring maximum changes in the shortest time. We use the most modern tools and the most advance techniques that every child is able to understand. Most parents are amazed that their kids are able to be with us from morning till evening and still enjoys without feeling bored.
Super Sensory Development (SSD):
During the course, the participants are blindfolded and train their sensory perceptions. The visual dominant people are able to SEE the colors and details in a flash card while blindfolded. The auditory dominant people are able to HEAR the colors and details in a flash card while blindfolded. The touch dominant people are able to FEEL the colors and details in a flash card by touching. The smell dominant people are able to SMELL the colors and details in a flash card by smelling. Those who are taste dominant people are able to TASTE the colors and details in a flash card by putting the flash card near to the tongue. When the brainpower increases, the sensory perception improves. When the senses improve, the ability to comprehend is heightened. The five “radars” are able to capture information from outside easily and download into the brain, hence improves learning capabilities.
It’s a Concentration and a whole Brain Development Programme.
Age: Suitable for children between 5-15 years old.
Benefits:
1. Improves Memory
2. Improves Concentration
3. Improves Self Confidence
4. Emotional Stability
5. Improves Sensory Perceptions
6. Positive Personality
7. Easy to relax
Participate in Schoolkutti QuizBuzz to win free books
Hello kids! So what is special about August? Starting from the contest launching on August 3, Schoolkutti.com Children’s library is going to be the sponsor of gifts for the weekly online quiz contest featured in our website, namely, Schoolkutti.com QuizBuzz. Every week, 2 lucky winners who answer all the questions correctly are gifted free books. Excited? Participate in QuizBuzz every week and increase your chances of being the lucky winner. Good luck to all of you 🙂
Click here to participate
http://schoolkutti.com/competitions/schoolkutti-quiz.php
Independence Day 2014 Drawing and Colouring Competition
Submitted by Green Butterfly Group
Green Butterfly Edu was found in the summer of 2012, with the setting up of a Children’s Art & Craft Workshop in Trivandrum. The idea was to create a fun place with activities that kept children coming back for more and so, spread the love for creativity. Children come for various reasons – the cheerful ambience, friendly teachers, fun activities on weekends, team work and excursions including Adventure, Science, Cooking, Nature, Theatre and more…
Green Butterfly’s programs help in development of creativity among children right from their tender age. Art and Craft programs, colouring/drawing/painting programs provide children the opportunity to be creative and to gain self confidence.
Green Butterfly Edu has successfully conducted summer camps, craft programs, contests in schools in Thiruvananthapuram. Green Butterfly has published few Art n Crafts books for kids in KG and Primary levels.
We are organizing a Drawing & Colouring during Independence Day to commemorate the 67th Independence Day and to create awareness about history behind Independence and the need to aim at future development of India. The primary idea is to give a child an opportunity to participate, exhibit their creative skill, develop an idea and to improve their confidence levels. The first event is planned for Independence Day on 15th August at the Museum Ground, Thiruvananthapuram.
These competitions are evaluated by Senior Teachers & Artists and prizes are announced. Each and every child is also given a Certificate as a token of participation. A nominal registration fee is charged per kid for participating in these competition.
Special Instructions on Colours :
COLOURS ALLOWED – Saffron, Green, White, Blue ( Colours in Indian Flag).
USE OF OTHER COLOURS IS NOT PERMITTED STRICTLY.
For details, visit
http://schoolkutti.com/announcements/schoolkutti-announcements.php?id=317
Submitted by Green Butterfly Group
Child Safety Workshop – at Schoolkutti.com Children’s Library
Child sexual abuse is a complex, multidimensional and widespread problem all over the world. Schoolkutti.com presents a personal safety program for children aged 7 to 12, with a focus on preventing child sexual abuse. Through positive, non-threatening, simple key messages and stories, we introduce young children to the concepts of:
- Children’s rights
- Safe and supportive friendships
- Adults’ responsibility to protect children from harm
- Privacy, Safe and unsafe touching
- Simple and effective Personal Safety Rules
Our workshop aims to provide children with the knowledge and skills to:
- Recognize sexual abuse and dangerous situations that may lead to sexual abuse
- Understand body ownership and rights – “my body is mine”
- Be able to say “No” when required
- Run and tell a trusted adult if something is inappropriate
- Keep telling until someone provides help
Facilitated by
Mr. Babu Mathew (Child psychologist) and Mrs. Litty Mathew
Date: August 9
Venue: Schoolkutti.com Children’s Library
Click here to register online.
http://schoolkutti.com/events/schoolkutti-events.php?id=22