After the success of the painting class during Day2 and looking at the amount of interest shown by the kids towards it, it was decided that we go for another activity on arts and crafts. So the first half of Day3 was dedicated to "Mask Making". the children designed different kinds of masks using colour papers, paints, crayons, etc. guided yet again by Mrs. Sandhya who had taken the painting classes for them. This was probably the most exciting activity for the kids in the entire summer camp and the look of happiness on their faces after they completed their respective masks and were allowed to wear them over their faces, was really priceless !! It was followed by a long photo-session which included a lot of cheering and shouting.
Since all this consumed a lot of time, even brunch got delayed and after that, few of the major activities were postponed to Day4. But the children had another exciting thing in store, especially the guys. Mr. Makrand, or "MAC" as he's popularly known as, demonstrated rope climbing, and quick learners that they were, the boys hardly took any time to learn it and do it themselves. Even some of the volunteers tried their hand at this, and were pretty successful. At the same time, the girls continued to be trained by Anil on swiftness and agility.
Day 4: 2nd May '10
The day kick-started with a very useful session by Mr. Bhanuchandran, who's a professional speaker on career guidance. He spoke about the different aspects that together make up an ideal life, the key points to be considered by a student while deciding about his/her career and various other such useful topics. Some of the children expressed their dreams and ambitions- one of the girls wanted to be a Kannada teacher in future, one guy aspired to be a software engineer, other kids had various other such goals. At the end of the session, they were asked to prepare a CAREER MAP as a home work, illustrating the path that they need to take up to achieve their respective goals.
This was followed by another session of science experiments by Vidya, Girish, Vinay, Seetha and a few others. But this was a lot different from that on Day2, as it was not a typical classroom session but instead the kids were divided into 3 groups and were shown some practical demonstrations of a few concepts like- formation of spectrum, role of O2 and CO2 in combustion, inertia, etc.
Post brunch, they got another very interesting session by Jayanth on computers, where he actually dismantled a CPU and showed them the different components, explaining how each thing works. Even though the children were already exposed to some basic concepts about computers, this was something they had never come across so it was fascinating for them to realize how a computer actually looks from inside. Finally Anupam and I came up with another short session on English and today they learnt how to converse with another person in English when you meet him/her for the first time. So this was about Weekend-2. Overall a very packed and useful 2 days, which inspired us to continue the camp for two more days and hoping to cover a lot more interesting and useful stuff in the last week.
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