Independence day memories

Wow!! What a day it was..!!

Celebrating Independence is a joy to every human. This year’s Independence day would be bookmarked as a pleasant experience not only in the life of the children in PUSH, but also for the Shubodayans and Enexions. Here comes our memories...

When we reached PUSH, children had returned from their school after the flag-hoist ceremony. We split the children into 2 groups: 6^th and above, the elderly children and 5^th and below, the younger children. We started off with Calligraphy competition for the elderly children, who were given a paragraph of Indian history to write neatly. The younger children’s events started with coloring competition, during which each child was given a picture of peacock, our national bird, and were asked to color. While the children were busy in these events, we drew tracks for the upcoming games. Thank God!! we were not interrupted by rain on this special day.

After the first round of events, the elderly children were conducted Drawing competition. Children were given topics such as “Jungle, Nature” to draw and they were more creative in their picture. For the younger children games had then started. It was a joy to watch the enthusiastic children, playing games. They played Lemon & Spoon, Dumb-C.

The third round of events comprised of games for the children. While the elder children played Knotting the threads game and Passing the water game, the younger children played balloon bursting game. It was difficult for us to monitor and control the children who busted the balloons with the safety-pins provided to pin the flag, It was enjoyable though. All the games were conducted as a team-event and children exhibited a great level of team-spirit.

As the last round of the events, we had Quiz for the elder children. The same combination of children who played the games as a team participated in the Quiz. Children answered brilliantly to the historic and scientific questions. The younger children would have been inspired by their brothers and sisters performing wonderfully during the Quiz.

Finally, we had the prize distribution. Teachers of Vivekanda Vidhyalaya school. Perambur - Ms. Chellamal and Ms. Mythili and Founder of Enexions, Mr. Narasimhan presided the function and distributed prizes to the children. All the children who participated in any one of the events received a useful prize. While Mythili madam sung "Raghupathi Raghava..." song for the children, Chellamal madam and Mr. Narasimhan gave nice lectures to the children. We saw some inspired faces when Chellamal madam provided encouraging thoughts. We then dispersed after distributing the sweets and snacks to the children.

Overall it was a memorable day for Shubodayans to celebrate the Independence day in this manner. We were gratified by the children’s gratitude. Shubodaya rocks and will continue rocking J

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Welcome to celebrate the Independence

Thanks everyone for your valuable suggestions. Shubodaya is elated on seeing your trust on her. Based on your comments, we have derived a plan for the Independence day celebration. We have split children into 2 age groups - Children studying 1st-5th std will have these competitions: Drawing, Handwriting, Lemon and spoon (team event), Passing the ball (team event), Balloon blowing, Knotting small threads to form a big thread, Dumb-C, Guest a minute. Children studying 6th-10th std will have: Drawing, Handwriting, Quiz, Thambola, Transferring water to the other end as a team.

Apart from these, Shubodayans will also be playing Kho-Kho and Ring with children. Lot of useful prizes to be won by the children. We hope this would be a memorable event not only for the children in PUSH, but also for the Shubodayans. Shubodaya welcomes you all to join her and feel the joy of independence.

Timing : 1pm to 6pm.
Venue : PUSH orphanage.

Next is what?

Hello again! Seeing the title, don't think its a samsung add :) . This post is to describe Shubodaya's next event. Before that, let us know the current happenings. We are happy to say that Shubodaya's operations are going on well. We are going to PUSH regularly and spend around 3-5 hours with the children. We are creating interest among the students to learn English and Maths by using slideshows, games and videos that involve the subject of the day. For example, Pradeep illustrated "O God beautiful" poem, [the one which children in "Pasanga" film learn in the early morning :)] in a slideshow with the pictures such as Forest, Mountain, River etc. It created a difference in the 6th std children's grasping of the subject, which was palpable when the children said the next week that Yasoda (6th std girl in PUSH) got appreciation from her teacher in the school for telling the poem without any mistake. In the government school in which the children are studying, they will not have an oppurtunity to see such slideshows and so they show more interest on learning through such mediums. We are thinking to create slideshows/videos for each chapter in the english subject book so that children who currently hate english, can easily learn the subject. Similarly, we are thinking of mathematical games for each chapter in the maths subject.

While this activity is going on regularly on each saturday, some Shubodayans are eager to conduct events. We, Shubodayans ask ourselves - Next is what? And yes - we have come up with the proposal for the next event. Its going to be the Indian Independence day celebration in PUSH on Aug 15th. Remember those school days when your teachers organized competitions in the week before the Independence day? Similarly, we, Shubodayans are planning to organize competitions and distribute the prizes on Aug 15th in PUSH. But what competition shall we conduct? There comes the question. It can be drawing or essay writing or oratorical or if you can come with a new competition, please suggest us. It would be nice if this competition is based on patriotism. Please pour in your thoughts as comments in this blog about the concept and way to organize the competition!!! Shubodaya is eagerly waiting for your response.