I am a child

Colouring on big sheet is my favourite

Messing up my hands is my next favourite

Play with water is another one

Mud bath is one more

Tickling others is also my favourite

Making noise is in my top 10 list.

I can play games and I like to catch crocodile no matter how tired I am.

You know me, I am a child.

Awareness

I liked this thought “Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. - Eckhart Tolle -

This thought made me curious "When you find yourself in a situation that prompts your mind to engage in negativity, take that opportunity to practice 'observing presence.'"

And I found this - "Let’s say you’re in a long line at the supermarket or the airport. The line isn’t moving and you’re getting irritated and angry. If you’re present with it, you may realize it’s not the line that’s causing you to be angry. It’s your mind, whatever your mind is telling you. And the emotions are your body’s reactions to your thoughts about the situation. That’s a very important realization, because now an element of choice comes in. You see that it just makes your life unpleasant to be feeling those things—the irritation and anger serve no purpose. It doesn’t change the situation. And now you have the choice…………………………."

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Realizing this we call is "awareness" at Amable. My job as a faculty is to create “awareness” and then leave it to the child to choose. When I start “correcting/ teaching/expecting” based on MY awareness, I stop connecting.

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right or wrong

Many times we get trapped in "correct and wrong". We ask question to check the understanding, many times may be putting down the child when the responses are not as per our expectations.

Key processing questions (KPQ)  saves the adults from getting into the trap of right and wrong. We are conditioned to find right and wrong in maths, science and language.

I read the activity below and I saw a lot of potential to stimulate the child for various concept, think from various perspectives as well danger of killing it with the child getting into the trap of right process of doing the activity, drawing the bar chart etc etc.

ACTIVITY - LOGIC: Make three columns in your notebook. Name each column as "small", "medium" and "big". As the vehicles pass by you, put a dot in the respective column according to size of the vehicle and after 5 minutes count the total in each column.  

Some examples of KPQ for the above activity are below - initially ask questions to CONNECT with the child (not to discard the efforts), then ask questions which allows the child to think in different perspectives (avoid expecting answers or start judging the child or the answer). In some places you may share "I do like this" and ask child to teach his style. .Below are some examples -
You may ask more questions, not to teach but to learn form the child his perspective).

How do you normally count?
• So, what according to you is big and small?
What if medium is bigger than big?
• How big is big?
How else can you count?
Why do you count?
What else can you do to know to the total number of vehicles?

What else can you do with this data?
Do you see any patterns in the vehicles counting?
What if you cannot use fingers to count?

Open for more discussion on the above.