Picking up Pace

With the launch of the Pre-school classes on 8th December 2014, the Project is now fully on the ground and is picking up pace.

Till yesterday i.e. till 11th December 2014, we had 8 confirmed admissions in Pre-school and 4 in progress. In the after-school classes we have a strength of 22 children right now.

The first center is thus gaining momentum and getting strong response. One reason is that we are personally teaching the kids over here which we initially did not want to do.

The next challenge now is to transfer the responsibility slowly to a teach (whom we still need to identify) and the move on to open the next center. We had kept a target of January 2015 for this but still there is no light at the end of the tunnel.

Kishmish

In one of his Hindi classes, Kanav was taking dictation and was given to write "Kishmish", a word he had practiced several times earlier and was a simple one for him.

But when his teacher checked the dictation, she could not control herself and went to the nearby class, where Kanav's former teacher "Kimmi Maam" (who used to teach Kanav in the same class till a week back but was shifted to class 1 recently) was teaching and showed her Kanav's copy.

She immediately came to Kanav's class and showered her love and blessings on Kanav as Kanav, who was in his own deep thoughts had written Kimmi Maam instead of Kishmish.

Chiklets

A few days back when we went shopping to a supermarket (VISHAL), Kanav went straight into the toys section making his selection. When he had selected one, he came to his mom and asked to take the toy home.
His Mom while explaining him about the game, told him that all children should be above 5 years age and Jay was just 3 years yet.
Kanav immediately responded - "Then why don't you get another baby! I would be able to play chiklets then as it needs 3 people to play."

(Chicklets is a game of catch the slowest runner.)

Me and Preeti had a hearty laugh on Kanav's innocent logic.