Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner
everywhere. ~Chinese Proverb
Welcome to the Blog of Rediscovering Minds- A summer programme with a difference.
Rediscovering Minds is designed for students to enhance their interests and build life skills, to go beyond books and curriculum, and to discover the sheer joy of learning.
The blog will be updated regularly with the latest happenings!!!
Tuesday, 19 June 2012
Thursday, 14 June 2012
Art - 3 D Structures
Reflections by the Art Group
I enjoyed the first
activity where I used acrylic paint on circular paper and got our photographed
clicked. I could apply many bright colours on it. -Divya
I like the 3D wall
sculpture activity and I also liked all the activities here. I like art very much.- Elim
Mask making was exiting and
paper making was interesting to me. I enjoyed touching paper pulp and I like 3D
wall sculpture also. -Dev
I like mask making because
it is interesting to me. I enjoyed art here. I like bright colours which I applied
on 3D sculpture. -Devmay
I liked art and I want to
do more art here because we were allowed to use many bright colours. I also enjoyed
mask making. -Prishha
I like collage making the
most. I liked making mask because we
were allowed to use silver spray on it. I also find two colours painting
interesting. - Nikhil
Wednesday, 13 June 2012
Life Skills
Day 1 What
A bingo...
Learning the traits of a Leader could not
have been such a BREAKthrough. The leaders in the making identified the 5
traits of the leader through the traditional stone blocks that read BREAK.
Though traditional it wasn’t the usual
BREAK. It was gathering the traits of the Leader to Break the old Patterns,
Break the old perception, to break the limiting beliefs & touch the zenith
of their life
B- Belief
R- Relationships
E- Effective Communication
A- Act of Courage
K- Kiss the zenith
The day ended with an extraordinary assignment where they left to interview important people in their
life
Day 2:
What an outstanding response from the participants.
The Interview assignment was a huge hit. Some said they never realized they had
so many qualities in them which people admired. A few became emotional to share
they felt closer to the important people in their life. Some shared they got a
renewed level of confidence. One of the participant said for the first time he wanted
to improve on his shortcomings & become the best son he could be.
Creating a Belief that never says
impossible. Replacing the CAN’T of simple things in life with ‘I can Learn to
do everything if I decide to’ was fun. The fun activity with try could not have
been more hilarious.
The challenge maze had innovative hurdles
& was great fun to complete. The 3 teams named after the Indian heroes Viru,
Gauti & Yuvi competed well but Yuvi Team with their belief, task
distribution & team coordination stole the show.
The inspiring Audio visuals of people who
never let go filled participants with a new zeal & enthusiasm.
Learning could not have been so much fun.
Thanks to all of you for being so courageous & leaving lifetime memories. Tomorrow
is going to be EXCITING. Let’s see how many accomplish the challenge that they
have accepted.
Day 3:
It was one of the best sessions where everyone learnt the value of people and the importance of Team. Having Trust in Team probably couldn’t have been easier to learn.Relationships are the basis of success in any sphere of life and we need to value people the way we want people to value us and acknowledge them for all that they contribute in our lives. This was the central theme of the day and all the activities and games like Caterpillar crawl and Sponge Squeezer revolved around relationships and teamwork.
Young people went home with an Assignment to acknowledge the important people in their life for their endless contributions and spread happiness.
Day 4: What an accomplishment it was for
all to realize thatjust saying some words of appreciation can raise the relationship to an altogether new level. Indeed a great success for all when the participants came into the session bubbling with enthusiasm to share their experiences with their mom and dad when they acknowledged them.
Day 4 was all focused on Effectively Communicating to understand and for the first time most of the participants realized that communication was less about talking and more about listening and giving due respect and putting an effort to understand each other better.
In the activities segment what began with a chaos of No Communication in the initial stage of Treasure Hunt reached to the level of great understanding and communication as it progressed. Block and Tackle taught them the fine distinction between discussion and argument and how in an argument no one gets to win. Buddies’ calling was great to test the improved listening amongst Team Mates.Overall a Superb session.
It was one of the best sessions where everyone learnt the value of people and the importance of Team. Having Trust in Team probably couldn’t have been easier to learn.Relationships are the basis of success in any sphere of life and we need to value people the way we want people to value us and acknowledge them for all that they contribute in our lives. This was the central theme of the day and all the activities and games like Caterpillar crawl and Sponge Squeezer revolved around relationships and teamwork.
Young people went home with an Assignment to acknowledge the important people in their life for their endless contributions and spread happiness.
Day 4: What an accomplishment it was for
all to realize thatjust saying some words of appreciation can raise the relationship to an altogether new level. Indeed a great success for all when the participants came into the session bubbling with enthusiasm to share their experiences with their mom and dad when they acknowledged them.
Day 4 was all focused on Effectively Communicating to understand and for the first time most of the participants realized that communication was less about talking and more about listening and giving due respect and putting an effort to understand each other better.
Monday, 11 June 2012
Art- Circular designs
Students
had a fun time today with their colours, brushes and paper. They were
asked to complete two paintings each on circular surface .
After completing the work, we had a lovely photo session.
Sunday, 10 June 2012
Music
Third day 6th June ,2012
Song writing: students learn how to write a song, structure e.g. intro- verse- chorus- etc... They choose summers as the title and wrote a song on it. Students continued learning more chords and rhythm patterns e.g A, D and E Major chords.
Fourth day 7th June ,2012
Students learnt about different kinds of microphone and stage equipments. They started practicing summer song and had discussion about the performances. They also continued learning drums with the help of drums notation and ‘My rhythm’ a beginner’s drums song was also played by every student.
Fifth day 8th June ,2012
Song writing: students learn how to write a song, structure e.g. intro- verse- chorus- etc... They choose summers as the title and wrote a song on it. Students continued learning more chords and rhythm patterns e.g A, D and E Major chords.
Fourth day 7th June ,2012
Students learnt about different kinds of microphone and stage equipments. They started practicing summer song and had discussion about the performances. They also continued learning drums with the help of drums notation and ‘My rhythm’ a beginner’s drums song was also played by every student.
Fifth day 8th June ,2012
Students continued practicing summer song as well as ‘My rhythm’ drums song. They practiced playing drums for their solo performances .
Thursday, 7 June 2012
Wednesday, 6 June 2012
Music
Guitar lessons |
First
day, Monday, 4th June, 2012
We started with an Ice Breaker round to introduce ourselves
and get to know more about our musical interests .
The lesson began with knowing the parts of Drums and students
learnt how to play simple rhythm on Drums. Then we moved to learning Guitar in
which they learnt about parts of Guitar, string names and Chords C and G major
using basic strumming. In the end, we did fun filled- ear and vocal training
exercises of imitating sounds and we agreed on getting written reflection about
our learning.
Second
day Tuesday, 5th June 2012
Students loved learning Drums notation and playing Drums
using notation. Then they learnt how to play C, G, A minor and E minor Chords
using simple strumming on Guitar.
Kamleshwar Verma
Kamleshwar Verma
Orff method Percussion Instruments |
Tuesday, 5 June 2012
Drama
The theatre sessions
for the summer camp started off a to welcome start on the 4th of
June . A group of 9 very eager and enthusiastic students braving the heat have
been reporting enthusiastically for the sessions . On day 1, we started
off with some theatre warm up games aimed at familiarization and loosening up .
Subsequently , we started work on the theme of the 9 emotions as described in
the Natya shastra . On day 1 itself , we
moved into improvisation using anger as a
theme . The students were amazing with their ebullient energy and well thought
out pieces.
On day 2 , we carried
on the work and created some interesting pieces on Haasya Ras – ticlkilng the
funny bone , which the students seemed to enjoy immensely .
Kriti Verma
Kriti Verma
Some reflections and
statements from some of the students :
Is a nice workshop and I have learnt team
work and drama skills .- Samridh
I like this
workshop because it is my favorite subject . I have made new friends .- Vishesh
I felt this
workshop fun and enjoyable . Now I know that I can perform between people I
don’t know and I have made friends .- Madhav
Felt this
workshop very interesting and I have
gained some self confidence in me so that I can perform any time related to
anything .-Manthan
Entertaining , interactive and interesting . It is fun acting openly among
people.- Raghav Goel
It s ok. I
think it is very nice . We don’t have it in our school and it would be very nice if it was there in
other schools also .- Aditi
Art
Student learnt to make paper on the very first day. They tore the newspapers into small pieces and made pulp initially. Pulp was used for making the paper later on. Students were excited to use paint so they were given papers which were made before from ‘paper making machine’. Using the acrylic paint was very exciting for them. They used many stencils and broad brush to explore their creativity. Everybody could complete one work each.
Orientation
The orientation to the program was held on Sunday, June 3rd , 2012 at 10:00
am in the Primary Multipurpose Hall of Pathways School ,Noida.
The purpose of the orientation was to provide with the
insight into the program and also give the parents the opportunity to interact
with the recourse persons for the different activities.
It was heartening to see such a good turnout on a hot Sunday
Morning!
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