The World Map 4

Now we have slowly moved on to painting countries. Muktanand sir bought a map which has all the colored countries. We decided to follow that map. And began painting. To have all the colors, we actually had to do a lot of mixing of colors and that was very interesting and new. We were half wy through and could imagine the final result. Every person who passed by stopped once and gazed the color

ful creation and appreciated us. That kept us motivated all the time.

The World Map 3

We are done with the maping. We have started painting the oceans. We all held our paint brushes and blue paint. All we had to do was to paint the oceans. Half of us painted the outline first of the countries and others painted whole of the oceans. But it was not as simple as it sounds. Now we realized that a mistake is not reversible, and we had to be even more careful and precise at work. Even a slight extra movement could ruin the outline. Muktanand sir kept monitoring us all the time and taught us the right way. And one coat of paint wasn’t enough, first we did one coat, let it dry, followed by two or three more so that the color of the wall was not seen.

The World Map 2

We had finished all of the grid till now and took our pencils out! We decided that each of us would take one country of his or her choice and draw that first. It was tricky to draw a scale up version of a small map. We used erasers more than our pencils, thanks to Muktanand sir as he gave a helping hand to all of us and helped correcting our mistakes. I drew some thing and then I had to move back to see whether it was good or not. That took some serious time and effort.

The World Map

Stage One : It was CAS time and we had to come up with something new this time, so all the students of my class and our Art teacher and our CAS coordinator sat together to discuss a new activity. We came up with Creativity, we all had decided that we will make a world map on a wall near the school stair case. On the first day itself we printed the world map and marked the points with pencil on the big wall, then made the guiding lines on the wall which were strings soaked in paint. What we had to do was to stretch the string across the wall from point to point and the string would leave its impression on the wall which in our case were straight lines and got our clothes dirty . The guiding lines helped us in scaling up the map from an A4 size sheet to a big wall. It was a tedious job and required control and precision. We somehow managed to finish a little bit.

Vanvasi Ashram visit 7

Today after a long time, we visited the ashram. As decided me and Sandeep sat together to study science. We started to study and I noticed that Sandeep was not in a mood to study, so I decided to take him out of the room where every one were sitting and we sat outside in open. Now I made sure that Sandeep is attentive. We began studying and soon finished with our pending work. We then studied about Sherlock Holmes and read one of his stories," A Scandal in Bohemia." We both enjoyed it. After all this we again went back to science and saw science practicals on the internet. He told that he is now more confident in science than before. After this, all kids sat together and watched short stories of "Mullah Nasruddin."
I will work my level best and help them in their studies, so that they do well!

It was 25 of december, it was Christmas! I woke up early and reached the botanical garden of my city for the bird watching meet. We began walking into the garden and just a minute later we spotted a Kingfisher Bird sitting on a branch, it was the first time when I saw a Kingfisher live in front of me . We went further in and looked up into the sky and saw Green Bee Eaters flying around and catching flies for their breakfast. We started moving in and thruogh the shrubs and spotted a Indian Robin. We reached the end and started to follow the narrow road and found a Black Drongo sitting on a tree,later we saw some Wasps flying around, and

also saw some Sun birds and a Common Hoope which is actually very rare to spot in open but i was lucky that day. It was a terrific experience for me and got to know a little bit more about my enviornment, I even learnt about bird behavior. There are more than 200 bird species found in my city itself and I am looking forward to photograph them all in my camera.

Vanvasi Ashram Visit 6

Finally the most awaited day had come! I went to Vanvasi Kalyaan Ashram again and met my little friend Sandeep.He face problems in his English subject and approached me for help. We managed to finish it up as quickly as possible. Then I asked Sandeep what he actaully loved to study in his school to make sure that he is not bored of the same thing again and over again. His answer was 'science' one of my favourites too. He bought his science text book and we started to read about 'Natural Resources'. He was very keen in learning science according to what I felt. We even learnt about some of the Newton's Laws and did them practically using tennis balls. I could see a smile on his face when we completed the chapter and he thanked me for that. I experienced something within me, somthing happy that i never had felt before. Maybe this is that something which encourages me to go there and do something constructive with them.