Thursday, November 30, 2017

Dino world- by Namay


"Once upon a time in Dino world, there were two dinosaurs. Their names were Raptor and T-Rex. One day, they were doing some thing. Suddenly from the sky two robots came, and the two robots and the two dinosaurs started to fight. The two dinosaurs won because the T-Rex held the two robots with his hands and threw them.


The end."

(Namay is a 6-year old dreamer, writer, artist. He loves to play, read books and write short stories.)

Photo credit: Stephen Leonardi on Unsplash

Tuesday, November 28, 2017

From slaps to claps- a poem

Not all children can read, write and perform in the same way. We have our own strengths and weaknesses. Einstein understood this and explained how our current education system is like putting a fish, a monkey, a snake, an elephant in the same classroom to judge their performance abilities by asking all of them to climb a tree!

We put an artist, a dancer, a scientist, a player, a singer, a reader in the same class and ask all of them to read and write in the same way. Do we put all of them in a dance competition and expect all of them to dance in the same way? No. But we do that when it comes to performance of letters and numbers on paper.

Our kids have started understanding this. They've tried writing a poem to express their understanding. Here are few:





Monday, November 27, 2017

African folktale- By Advait P


(Advait has shown great interest in global folk tales, infecting all of us too with the same enthusiasm)

Deadly Dragons- By Advaith Iyer




About the reviewer:
Advaith loves reading books. He believes in calling a spade a spade. He doesn't beat around the bush. He is very polite even when he disagrees. This is one of his biggest strengths. 

Tuesday, November 7, 2017

Roan and the haunted house- a chapter book by Ashwal

Ashwal is a serious writer now. At the age of 7, has fallen in love with StarWars, HarryPotter, PercyJackson and many more. This is his first attempt to write a chapter book. We are all amazed!






Book review- by Eshann Khandelwal

Eshaan has picked up books and how! Now he feels he can't live without books. Recently he read a Chinese folk tale as a part of our monthly reading challenge.

Book's name: The rat's gift
Adapted by: Seng Sak Puang
Illustrated by: Zhao Ming

Here are his views:

"This books is about a girl who was an orphan. She was poor. She married a rich person and became rich all because of rats. This book tells us to:
Respect others
Respect self
I liked reading this books as this is a folk tale from our neighboring country China"

Eshaan rates the book 5 on 5