Kids Bake Some Christmas Cookies
Christmas is just around the corner and in anticipation our young bakers whip up a batch of special cookies. And so; Into a bowl goes butter and sugar, stir about, stir about, stir about next comes the flour and rawa in good measure mix about, mix about, mix about roll out the dough then […]
Green Print, Mansher
We wanted an early start so we set out on Friday the 13th at 4:15pm. As Tallulah had promised it were a long and an adventurous walk. At the start of our walk we noticed that we were walking along the mangroves. It was wonderful to see the mangroves so closely. She pointed out to […]
Our Saturday Mornings
At the start of the academic year in June, it was sad to lose a number of our core Preschool Morning regulars as they had moved up to class one and now have school on Saturday too. Over the next couple of months a fresh lot of kids came in but not on a regular […]
Green Print at 4 Pillars
I have crossed 4 pillars on a number of occasions but only discovered the treasures of this place on our green print walk. We set off in 3 cars from the library and parked near the sawmill at 4 pillars. As we saw the sun set, Tallulah told us how ‘Mansher’ gets its name from […]
Getting Ready to RiP (Read in the Park)!!
(posted by Flavia Lobo) The eve of the Reading in the Park at Aldona. The BW mouse? No – Krystal’s on the kitchen counter ensuring that BW has the appropriate stationary in stock for the first BW event in Aldona which is not in a school. Why does BW store stationary in a kitchen cabinet? […]
The Creek Trail
We were in two minds whether to go ahead with the walk as it was raining heavily that evening. But in the spirit of things, Tallulah, who leads the Green Print program, Suhani, Sushmita, Evans, Marietta and I set off to explore the creek at St. Cruz. On reaching the creek the weather let up […]
What are you afraid of? – Nothing!
Saturday morning is here again and this time I didn’t have anything to be afraid of. Elaine was here Most of the little ones in our group didn’t think of anything they were afraid of. Except Dhairya who told us about the “goon goon” that haunts him at night. Are there […]
Whose Mouse Are You?
It’s a wet, wet Saturday morning. But where are the kids?! It’s getting late…maybe Preschool Saturday won’t happen today?! 10:30 on the dot and in 5 minutes, Preschool Saturdayis on! The theme today is ‘Family Ties’ and in theme for the week to come, we’re celebrating Raksha Bandhan. The book for the day is ‘Whose […]
We set out to play with colour, and we sure did! – Art with Eva
Blog post by Eva We talked about our activity as the day got closer. Chetna will do the read aloud of the book “The cat and the bird”, inspired from Paul Klee’s painting “Cat and bird”. I would lead the art activity that follows, after saying a few words about his life and work, in […]
Racing around on a Saturday morning!
Driving, No! Racing around the Library… Saturday morning was back with a beep! Yes, you heard right! Beep! Beep! Coming through… Preschool kiddies scrambled into the library…Mete, Malaika, Marcel and we even had new faces- Meera and Gabriel. Elaine began tooting away with ‘the horn on the car’ goes toot! toot! toot! And all the […]