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Home Term

This week is the home term! The children are off with different people, doing different things. Here is the rough plan. We hope there will be a blog post on each activity, as it happens.




PALLAV

KIRI

TARANG & ISAURA

MONDAY

Holiday. They made a trip to Kaigal over the weekend.

Visit to Anubhava Science Centra with Nagaraj, Aditya’s father.

Book-buying for the library at Blossoms, a used book store.

TUESDAY

Activities organised by Viji (mother of Srishti and Tejasvi) at her house.

Theatre was planned with Saraswati, a theatre artiste.

Because she suddenly fell ill, an art activity and possibly a film has been planned by Aditya.

Programme planned by Leo, Lakshmi and Latha, parents of the school. A visit to Agara lake in Sarjapur, with bird-watching and discussion. Also, observation and discussion of the traffic and transport issues of Bangalore.

WEDNESDAY

Holiday

Baking with Shruti, Ved’s aunt.

Programme planned by Leo, Lakshmi and Latha. A visit to Avenue Road and then Turahalli Minor Forest.

THURSDAY

Rock-climbing at Nataraj Gurukula with two teachers and Michael, father of Yannick

Rock-climbing at Nataraj Gurukula with two teachers and Michael, father of Yannick

A day with Usha Mukunda. A library activity as well as a heritage walk in Malleshwaram has been planned

FRIDAY

Puppet-making and watch a puppet show at Ananya school

Puppet-making and watch a puppet show at Ananya school

Puppet-making and watch a puppet show at Ananya school

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