Let's fill fun in a day of children

19th October 2013, CRY Noida volunteers organized a whole day event in a government school in Sector-12, Noida. The event was sponsored completely by Oracle Volunteers, the CSR wing of Oracle Corporation. Approximately 600 students distributed across class 1 to class 8 were catered to by 28 volunteers. Some of the major activities during the event were:

1. Class 7 and class 8 students were gifted Anglo-Hindi dictionary and taught how to find meanings and use phonetics.
2. Class 5 and class 6 students were gifted Hindi to English translation book and taught some basic lessons of the translation.
3. Class 3 and class 4 students were gifted Activity Book containing lots of puzzles and were taught how to apply logic and reasoning to solve those puzzles.
4. Class 1 and class 2 students were gifted Drawing Book and crayons to make them learn about colors and objects, while having fun of coloring.
5. Class 7 and class 8 students were taught some tricks of Vedic Mathematics to expedite multiplication of numbers. They were also provided tutorials to practice the tricks further.
6. Class 7 and class 8 students were taught Origami and were provided bundles of Origami sheets to practice further at home.
7. Class 6 to class 8 students did theme based painting on Diwali.
8. Students of all classes were given Activity Sheets specific to respective classes. The activity sheets had best in class logical/analytical puzzles corresponding to mental level of respective classes. Students enjoyed working on the problems together, discussing them and establishing consensus on solutions.
9. While having refreshments, children enjoyed comedy and educational movies on big screen.
10. Children also showcased their talent of singing, dancing, etc by performing in front of class.

This was the 3rd year in row when this event titled "Let's fill fun in a day of children" was organized. The children and teachers of the school look forward to the event throughout the year as if it were an annual fest for the school; this motivated volunteers to organize the event around October in all 3 years - 2011, 2012 and 2013.

Volunteers also enjoyed the event a lot. Sachin Sharma (Senior Director - Oracle BPM), who volunteered for the event from Oracle side, quoted "Was good fun, activities this time did generate lot of interest and enthusiasm, keep up the good work!". Nupur Vimal, a CRY volunteer, quoted "A huge heartfelt thank you to Divyanshu and Sushant for organizing these activities and making it memorable for all of us."

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