This is to make you aware of the journey of creative classes at rithala. The classes are conducted at NGO partner 'Saksham' in shahbad dairy, B block under supervision and assistance of centre head Mr Santlal and activist Mrs Maya.
VISION:
The creative classes were in visioned as an out come of SOTY training where we realised the real ingredient missing among the kids was lack of confidence and exposure to things which very naturally is available to privileged kids. So main vision statement for the classes are to bring confidence and all world holistic exposure to these kids through creative, co curricular and unconventional methods.
We aim to provide them with activities apart from normal studies which help a normal kid in personality development.
INGREDIENTS:
LIBRARY - books we believe are a window to the whole world and a child's best exposure to both creative and real world . so we established a small library with help of fellow volunteers and need more books.
BOOK READING SESSIONS- each volunteer helps a kid in reading stories from books we have collected. Helping him/her with word meanings, comprehension and grammar involved in process. In the end each kid then dramatises the whole story in his/her own words with the help of other kids who play the role of different characters of the story. Aim is to improve in English and creative expression of acquired knowledge to other kids.
GAMES AND PUZZLES - scrabble for vocabulary building, colouring exercises to expand creative horizons. Various other such modules we are developing and will implement in coming classes.
DANCE AND MUSIC - we noticed dance and music is the real game changer for the classes and we now often have sessions where kids sing dance and even prepare small musical skits based on local community rituals. One of the volunteers miss kanika has started small dance teaching sessions for kids.
We are developing more creative modules and time to time will keep sharing with you but we would require a lot of input from all of you. Please do help us with your suggestions, teaching modules and resources of all nature
CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION:
We volunteers decided to celebrate christmas with kids at the centre and it was a brilliant experience. There was lots of food,music,games and gifts. We would look forward to have more such celebrations in creative classes and you all are welcome in it. Volunteers of creative classes would like to thank Anita, piyush logani and megha (unfortunately she was not able to make it to final event ) for support and participation in Christmas celebration with us.
Author: Kumar Abhishek
