Satya and Iti with parents...

“Parents need more counseling than children do” – said Dr. Itishree Mishra, a renowned child psychologist in a seminar with parents on 28th Dec 09’. We need to know the interests of children rather than imposing our expectations on them. The topic for the seminar was “Parenting the Children of Information age”. Dr. Mishra said that we should not overlook the feelings of a child. She suggested that our conversation with the children should be according to their age. We cannot expect them to be adults all of a sudden. She also said, that if there is some behavioral problem with the child, we need to look for the reason at home or with the parents, rather than blaming the child for it. Parents have to work in synchronization with school for the betterment of the child.

Next day on 29th Dec 09, the facilitator of the seminar was Chairman of Career Launcher- Mr. Satya Narayan.R. The Seminar was on “How to help your children to achieve their Dream Career”. Reminding the parents of their childhood he said that we had limited career options with us, either to be a doctor or to be an engineer. We had no options but to fit in the frame provide to us. We could not do anything which was of our interest or which fascinated us. We should now give that freedom and support to our children to achieve their dream career.

Christmas Celebrations

Since morning there was celebrations in air. All the children were very enthusiastic about their event and were busy preparing for it. We could see little Santas ans Marys everywhere. Soon all of us gathered for the celebrations. The programme started a dance of little buds of nursery, which was fun to watch. Then there were carols, role-plays, quizes and lots of stuff. Finally the certificates were awarded to children of Jigrasa group, who participated in extempore held on 19th dec 09’. The programme ended with recitation of “Jingle Bells”. There was a little Santa to distribute chocolates to children… we could see a smile on every child’s face…which was a big enough reason for all of us to be happy.

Spontaneous Role-Play

A wonderful thing which took place today was the spontaneous role- play that was enacted by Lubna and Jia, students of my class, PPII Hans. Seeing a couple of solo performances, Lubna came up to say that she and Jia wanted to perform a role-play in the assembly. As I asked her what the role-play was about, she answered that it was about ‘Christmas’. So I took them in front of the children and announced that they wanted to present a role-play before them, with no idea whatsoever of what they were going to present. To my astonishment, there was Lubna, saying ‘Kitna achchha din hai!’ and Jia responding to her in some manner. Again Lubna said, ‘Chalo, hum burf se khelte hain!’ and she pretended forming an ice ball and throwing it on Jia. Jia, taking clue, did the same. Then Jia came up to say, ‘Oh humein gifts mile hain!’ They sat down and again Lubna showed a flower with her hand saying ‘Oh mujhe flower mila hai!’ on which Jia said, ‘Oh mujhe Barbie mili hai!’ Saying, ‘Chalo sote hain!’ Lubna tried to conclude the role play at last. It was so exciting that it gave me goose pimples then and even now I cannot help smiling and feeling great about it!

Varsha Shrikhande
Mentor - PPII (Hans)

बारिश की बून्दे

बारिश आई बारिश आई,
छम - छम,छम - छम बून्दे लाई ।
रंग बिरंगे फूल खिले हैं ,
सभी ओर हरियाली छाई,
धरती ने नव रूप धरा है,
सभी ओर खुशियाँ मुस्कायी ।
बारिश आई बारिश आई,
छम - छम,छम - छम बून्दे लाई ।

Mrs Vandana Charate.

M/O Samriddhi Charate,

PPII Papeeha.

School Bus

Poem By one of our Parent.



We go to school by bus,
for which I always have to rush.
In the bus all friends make so much sound,
my mind goes round and round...
Didi and Bhaiya do Hssh-Ssshhh!...

I love to tell my friends what I did,
the bus-time is the best for all this.
Me and my friends love the time we spend in bus.
We wait to reach the school everyday,
as school is my favourite place.


Swati Sharma,
M/O Archisha Sharma-PPII Hans.

Our Experience at Science Exhibition

We started our field trip for science exhibition on 2nd Dec 09’ in the morning at 10:00.As soon as we reached there, we got the opportunity to attend a lecture by Dr. Vijay Bhatkar and Dr. Vasu. After the lecture we went to see different models that were there in the exhibition. One of them was named NREGA. The purpose of this model was to explain the process in which government provides job opportunities to uneducated farmers. Then we saw mind-blowing robots- one, which worked on Solar Energy, another had sensors and one was The Mechanical Moon Walker; equipped with antennas. It was all so new and exciting for us.
We also went to Taramandal. It was very nice. We learnt to recognize different constellation of stars.
After that it was time for which we waited eagerly. It was the time to interact with Dr. Bhatkar at Dainik Bhaskar Press Complex. Dr. Bhatkar is the first Indian to invent a Super Computer –‘Param’. He leads a team of engineers at CDAC. We all were bubbling with questions, like- why did he name his super computer ‘Param’? What was he like when he was a child? and so on. He answered to all our queries very patiently.
At the end he asked, “ What is it that a Computer can’t do?” To which one of our friends Amrita answered that “It cannot be a Human”. This answer of hers' made Dr. Bhatkar very happy.
It was a lifetime experience for all of us to interact with Dr. Bhatkar.

A Musical Morning...

We were fortunate to have Shri Dilip Mungi, a disciple of Pt. Jasraj amongst us. Shri Govind Potdhan accompanied him on Harmonium and Shri Balmukund Rao on Tabla.The session was held on classical music for the children of classes 5,6 and 7. The session started with recital of mesmerizing morning ragas by Shri. Dilip Mungi, followed by raag Malkaus on harmonium and tabla played by Shri Govind Potdhan and Shri Rao. The session left the entire children and mentors spell bound. During the session Shri Potdhan also informed children about several ragas and instrument. He also informed children about our renouned vocal classical singers. The session came to an end by bhajan "Shree Ram Chandra Kripalu Bhajman.." which was sung by children with Shri Mungi.