Learning through Arts - Day1
Hey everyone!
My name is Sudeshna Pal. I am a software engineer based in Bengaluru who works from Monday to Friday. I am a simple Indian girl, who loves playing, talking and growing with kids. I have been volunteering with Child Rights & You (CRY) since June 2014. I have been a part of many activities conducted by us over a period of past 1 year. We love every moment we spend at Angadwadis and schools which are partnered with CRY. Trust me though we get annoyed & perplexed as to how to control them, their love and affection more than equalizes for everything.
Here, I thought I would share my experiences of a 10 day workshop of a simple puppet making program. This program is guided by ArtsSparks Foundation partnered with CRY. We love you Nisha, who is the founder of ArtsSparks Foundation for giving us such elaborate practice sessions before we could qualify giving instructions to children.
Day 1: 28th November 2015
We reached the premises of school at 9:30 am. This is a government school not like a Kendriya Vidyalaya or for that matter my Alma-mater Atomic Energy Central School, which have enough resources. Around 25 kids from 5th, 6th and 7th standard assembled in a class. Ahhhh very very noisy and disobedient. Believe me, 20 cotton plugs also won't be enough for your ears. We somehow tried to make them sit and they are like OK now what? Anyway, we introduced ourselves and asked them to tell their names and which standard they study. Even this simple task wasn't easy. If you are asking me why, then ask yourself how many times have you been a patient listener when you know the content of the person speaking in front of you. The only difference is we are groomed enough not to talk or shout when he/she is speaking to you, which children are still learning. After the introduction we went ahead with the lesson 1, planned for the day.
Goals: Drawing a portrait.
We told them lines and types of lines. This is what we had prepared: horizontal lines, vertical lines, zig-zag lines. Look what the kids learnt: sleeping lines, standing lines and mountain lines. Followed by shapes: circle, rectangle, square, triangle. Easy right. Yeah kinda... this part was comparatively easy :). They pointed clocks, my wrist watch :P, bulb, blackboard, door, bangles etc.
Next, we called the noisiest boy to help me with the portrait. We did a demo portrait of the boy looking at him and obviously with the help of most interactive kids in the class. Finally, the work time for kids. Now I will let the rest explainable by pictures.
My name is Sudeshna Pal. I am a software engineer based in Bengaluru who works from Monday to Friday. I am a simple Indian girl, who loves playing, talking and growing with kids. I have been volunteering with Child Rights & You (CRY) since June 2014. I have been a part of many activities conducted by us over a period of past 1 year. We love every moment we spend at Angadwadis and schools which are partnered with CRY. Trust me though we get annoyed & perplexed as to how to control them, their love and affection more than equalizes for everything.
Here, I thought I would share my experiences of a 10 day workshop of a simple puppet making program. This program is guided by ArtsSparks Foundation partnered with CRY. We love you Nisha, who is the founder of ArtsSparks Foundation for giving us such elaborate practice sessions before we could qualify giving instructions to children.
Day 1: 28th November 2015
We reached the premises of school at 9:30 am. This is a government school not like a Kendriya Vidyalaya or for that matter my Alma-mater Atomic Energy Central School, which have enough resources. Around 25 kids from 5th, 6th and 7th standard assembled in a class. Ahhhh very very noisy and disobedient. Believe me, 20 cotton plugs also won't be enough for your ears. We somehow tried to make them sit and they are like OK now what? Anyway, we introduced ourselves and asked them to tell their names and which standard they study. Even this simple task wasn't easy. If you are asking me why, then ask yourself how many times have you been a patient listener when you know the content of the person speaking in front of you. The only difference is we are groomed enough not to talk or shout when he/she is speaking to you, which children are still learning. After the introduction we went ahead with the lesson 1, planned for the day.
Goals: Drawing a portrait.
We told them lines and types of lines. This is what we had prepared: horizontal lines, vertical lines, zig-zag lines. Look what the kids learnt: sleeping lines, standing lines and mountain lines. Followed by shapes: circle, rectangle, square, triangle. Easy right. Yeah kinda... this part was comparatively easy :). They pointed clocks, my wrist watch :P, bulb, blackboard, door, bangles etc.
Next, we called the noisiest boy to help me with the portrait. We did a demo portrait of the boy looking at him and obviously with the help of most interactive kids in the class. Finally, the work time for kids. Now I will let the rest explainable by pictures.
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| Instructions to be followed. |
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| Kids pair-up to draw each other's portrait. |
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| Student's work-time. |
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| Collecting completed portraits. |
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| Hey! that is my drawing |
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| Look, that appears good and neat |
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| Oops! why are others seeing my drawing... |
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| Isn't it wonderful that every face looks different! |
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| Yeah! every portrait looks lovely. |
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| Let them look at those portraits, meanwhile why don't we give a pose :P |
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| Introspection time: So, what we did right and what wrong? |
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Finally, Manoj talking about Super-Hero. But what did kids get? Prabhas, Allu Arjun, Mahesh Babu... Lol. Next session we need to redefine Super-Hero to Inspirational-Hero. |
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