Onam Celebrations At School

                       - festivals are happy occasions

the teachers of D.K's Learning centre 

 the "poo kolam" done by students and teachers of D.K.'s learning centre

learning can occur anywhere, any place and anytime 

















poo kolam  --  20% completed


















poo kolam  --  40% completed

 

















poo kolam  --  90% completed

paying respects to the festival and the hard work involved in making the magnificent kolam















the teachers trying their best to keep up with the students' work.......

guess it was hard for 'em

                 

     nendharanga chips,ada pradhaman and other kerala spl.s tried out by the students and teachers of D.K.'s

Dreams by Dr. Thiruvikram & Ms. Christina Deepa

As I was waiting in a doctor's clinic, I found something very interesting. An article on dreams.

Is your kid emotionally well?

Emotional intelligence of a child is more important than academic intelligence.

This has to be nurtured from young age. Are we teaching the children to take success and failure in the same stride? 

I think we should teach them that success and failure need not be taken objectively and should be subjective. Are we teaching them to do things at their pace and according to their capacity or are we teaching them to run a rat race?
Where are we heading to? Teaching the child to have a balance in life is important. This can be done only at home. Giving the child a lot of freedom, respecting their decision making ability, teaching them to be independent from the beginning, and having open discussions with them on anything under the sun, giving opportunities for questioning will help them nurture this intelligence.
They will be able to lead a better life,and take proper decisions. Thus there is no comparison as to who is successful or a failure.

KOLAM - an art

(In pictures below: Kolams drawn by children of D.K.'s)

Kolam is an art followed in south India. They draw kolams in front of the house using rice flour, to be eaten by birds and ants. These days the tradition is slowly deteriorating. This could be due to three reasons: flat system, no time, and last but not the least convertism. 

When I was a child we used to see people coming out early in the morning in the cold during the month of December” margazhi” and draw huge kolams inn front of the house. I remember helping my friend’s sister do that we used to gather in large numbers to finish that.

But hardly these are seen in front of houses. Actually kolam drawing is an art. It is maths in itself, there is the concept of symmetry, counting, joining the dots at the exact position. It was an occupational therapy in itself. It encouraged fine motor skills, eye tracking, tolerance and creative thinking. and visual learning.
So let us go beyond religion and culture and encourage this art. This is in no way connected to hinduism or godliness or anything. It has an aesthetic sense. 

Our institute encourages children to draw kolams and I was amazed that muslim children took interest in learning it and drew good kolams. They felt it was easy to draw in a sheet of paper but found it difficult in space orientation on the ground. So let us encourage this art and go beyond religion to encourage it.
This I have experienced has helped many dyslexic children become better readers and their hand writing have improved.
So kolams why not!!!!!