Read Nandini Nair’s interview with Aparna Kalantri where she shares her passion for teaching and her vision for Gulmohar Days. Full interview available on http://www.littlewins.in/
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Its “Movie Day” at Gulmohar Days!
Its lovely how some books are brought to life through films. We thought it would be great idea to read out a story and watch the film too this Saturday with all our library members!
So get ready for a fun two hours as we screen the much loved Walt Disney classic “Lady and The Tramp” this coming Saturday, the 5th of June 2010.
Event: The reading of Lady & the Tramp followed by the movie
Time: Be there by 10. 15 sharp!
Fee: Free event for all kids who are presently library members.
Non members welcome too ! ( Rs 50 per child)
Pls confirm participation at at the earliest!
Thanks and look forward to seeing the kids!
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Activity Clubs at Gulmohar Days |
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Ages 3-5 years
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Ages 6 – 8 years
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Ages 9 – 15 years
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Story Club: meets every Tuesday, 5.30 – 6.30 pm
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Trinity Speech and Communication Programme: meets every Monday from 5.30 to 6.30 pm
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Trinity Speech and Communication Programme: meets every Wednesday from 5.30 to 6.30 pm
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Phonics Club: meets every Friday, 5.30 – 6.30 pm
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Fitness Club: A great mix of Yoga, dance and kickboxing that makes the perfect after-school fitness programme. Every Monday and Friday: 4.00 to 5.00 pm
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Art Class: A unique and advanced art programme we call “Art Experience” wherein kids will learn about the lives of renowned artists, understand their techniques and develop a style of their own. Still life, landscapes, abstract art and more will be taught through well structured modules. Basic medium will be acrylics on paper and canvas. Every Thursday from 4.30 – 6.30 pm
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Library: The best way to ensure your child bonds with books from the early years. Open 10.00 am to 7.00 pm Monday to Saturday
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Craft Club: Meets every Saturday from 5.00 pm to 6.30 pm
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Fitness Club: A great mix of Yoga, dance and kickboxing that makes the perfect after-school fitness programme. Every Monday and Friday: 4.00 to 5.00 pm
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Free Play: Drop your child off for a fun 2 hours of monitored play any time between 10.00 am and 7.00 pm. Ideal if you have an errand to run and want to leave your child with us for some fun and learning.
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Library: A must for children who wish to improve vocabulary, general knowledge and develop a love for books. Open 10.00 am to 7.00 pm Monday to Saturday
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Craft Club: Meets every Saturday from 5.00 pm to 6.30 pm
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Library: There is no doubt about it: A well read child stands apart the rest. A must for children who wish to improve vocabulary, general knowledge and develop a love for books. Open 10.00 am to 7.00 pm Monday to Saturday
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IMPORTANT: Enrollments for each of these activities is already underway. At Gulmohar Days our focus at all times is on the quality of our programmes. We therefore request your cooperation in understanding that we cannot take in more than the specified number of kids into any batch. Registrations are always on a first come first served basis.
Also, it is with a lot of thought we have specified age limits for each programme. Most times a child’s skill level predictably falls into the parameters specified by us. However we do realize that it is a child’s ability and not his age that should define his participation in any programme. Pls feel free to discuss this with us should you feel the age limit prevents your child from being part of any prog. at our centre.
Email us at gulmohardays@gmail.com for any further queries.
We have had a grand summer at Gulmohar Days. Summer sparkle 2010 came to a close today with our last session of summer camp for kids this afternoon.
Poetry, writing, art, craft, science, music, stories: its been a a hectic summer. Our heartfelt Thank You to the parents who enrolled their child/children in our programmes. The kids have been an absolute delight. It has been a privilege to have interacted with so many of them.
Wishing them all a fantastic academic year ahead. May they all have wonderful teachers and friends in their new classes and may the year be filled with good cheer. We hope to continue seeing them in the months to come. Please do keep in touch with us.
All our Activity Clubs resume from the second week of June 2010. We are adding new books to our exisiting Library collection. This year, make your child a “Reader”!! 🙂
Our Creative Corner craft workshop received a wonderful response this Summer. The kids as always amazed us with their fresh and new ideas. They took home lampshades, fabric paintings, handcrafted place mats, flowers, decorated thalis, tie and dye handkerchiefs and so much more in the one month they spent with us. Do enjoy the pictures! And we hope to see all of you at our regular Craft Club that meets every Saturday from the month of June2010.
Our 2 day art workshop “Discovering Georgia O’keeffe” was a great success. Thank you ladies for making yet another workshop at Gulmohar Days an absolute pleasure. Here are some pictures that capture all of you at work, trying to bring the orchid to life on canvas, in the true style of O’keeffe. Enjoy them!
The past 10 days have been a sheer delight! Our mixed bag summer camp for kids got off to a great start with kids ages 3 to 5 years coming together for a fun 2 hour session every morning. From block printing to painting, singing and yoga to magic ink and learning about the solar system….we attempted it all! To all parents who were part of this 10 day camp – our heartfelt Thank You! It was a joy having your child with us and we hope they enjoyed every bit of their time with us as well. Here are some of the pictures that capture all the excitement and action. Enjoy them and as always, please feel free to post your comments. and feedback!
Workshops in May 2010
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Programme
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Age group
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Date and Time
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Special information
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PC-based “Animation” Workshop
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For ages 8 yrs above
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A 15 day workshop wherein kids will learn to work with Photshop and Flash to create their own little animations, and presentations.
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Dates: 15th to 30th May.
2 batches: 10.00 am to 11.30 am / 12.00 pm to 1.30 pm
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This workshop will be mentored by teachers from Firebox Animations. Each child will be provided with a PC to work on during the course.
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“Experience Art”
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Art workshop for kids ages 9 yrs and above
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A week long session that gets kids learning about artists, attempting abstract art, working with different colour palettes and finding their own artistic expression.
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Dates:
May 17th to 22nd from 2.00 pm to 5.00 pm
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This workshop will be mentored by faculty with extensive experience and background in art and teaching children.
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Mixed Bag
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Ages 3 to 6 years
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A 10 day session for kids that combines music, craft, stories, games, yoga/exercise and science to give the little ones a great start to the vacations.
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Dates: 17th to 27th May
Time: 11.00 am to 1.00 pm
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Please note: The Story Club and Phonics Club will reconvene in the month of June.
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Creative Corner
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Ages 7 yrs and above
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A fun filled art and craft camp where kids can try their hand at fabric painting, embroidery, ceramic art, paper mache, sponge flowers, tile and glass painting, jewellery making and plenty more.
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Right through April and May 2010
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Kids can sign up for any 12 days and choose what they wish to make
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As always our Library and Day care facilities will operate right through the summer vacations.
Hello everyone! This is going to be a fantastic summer and our calendar for the months of April and May looks very exciting.
Our Library will be open 10.00 am to 7.00 pm right through the vacations. From the ladybird and early-reader books to our entire range of Enid Blyton, Indian fiction, Asterix, Amar Chitra Katha and mystery and detective series; there really is no excuse not to read anymore! And of course all our library members have access to our games corner with scrabble, pictionary, chess, carom and monopoly vying for attention.
Our special Summer workshops on offer combine variety, quality, fun and learning at the hands at some of the finest teachers and mentors. Here’s what Summer Sparkle 2010 has in store for the month of April!
WORKSHOPS FOR THE MONTH OF APRIL 2010
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Age group
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Date and Time
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Creative Corner
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Ages 7 yrs and above
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A fun filed art and craft camp where kids can try their hand at making lamp shades, fabric painting, embroidery, ceramic art, sponge flowers, jewellery making and plenty more.
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Starts: 6th of April 2010 and is on till mid-May 2010.
Time: 5.00 to 6.30 pm
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Kids can sign up for any 12 days and choose what they wish to make
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Mixed Bag
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Ages 3 to 6 years
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A 10 day session for kids that combines music, craft, stories, games, yoga/exercise and science to give the little ones a great start to the vacations.
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Dates: 12th to 23rd April Time: 11.00 am to 1.00 pm
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Note: The Story Club and Phonics club will continue to meet at the designated days during April.
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Discovering Georgia O’Keeffe
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A two-day Art workshop for Adults
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This workshop on will take participants through a hand’s on step-by-step process of understanding O’Keeffe’s style of painting while finding one’s own expression. Participants will paint on canvas and take home their work by end of Day 2.
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Dates: April 24th and 25th (Saturday and Sunday) from 1.00 pm to 6.00 pm
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This workshop will be mentored by noted by trained faculty from LS Raheja, Mumbai and MS University, Baroda.
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Quiz Club
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For ages 8 to 12 years
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A week long workshop that gets the kids quizzing and looking up facts and figures. Mildly competitive workshop that will focus on building Gk and quiz skills.
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Dates: 19th to 24th April. Time: 4.00 to 5.00 pm
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The Joy of Haiku
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Open to all ages: Adults from all professions and backgrounds and children above the age of 10 yrs.
A great opportunity for teachers and students to learn and hone the fine art of creative thinking and writing
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The most compressed poetry in the world, haiku has more than a four hundred year old Japanese tradition behind it. A season’s poetry or call it nature poetry, it often looks deceptively simple. This haiku workshop would present in simple easy steps how best to write one and get published too, if you pursue it with full vigour and passion.
In short you’d come to experience The Joy of Haiku and what it is to share this joy with others!!
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Dates: 3 day session from April, 20th to 22nd
Time: 10.30 am to 12.30 pm
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This workshop will be mentored by none other than Kala Ramesh who presently heads the World Haiku Club in India.
Kala is the deputy editor-in-chief of The World Haiku Review; is a member of the editorial team of Modern English Tanka Press’s new anthology, Take Five: The Best Contemporary Tanka 2008/2009/2010, is on the panel of the literary e-journal Muse India, for the areas of haiku and short verse; and was the in-house editor for Katha, New Delhi for the book Seeking the Beloved: The Poetry of Shah Abdul Latif (2005).
Since April 2009, she has acted as Katha’s Poetry Editor and, in this capacity, edited an e-book of haiku, senryu, haibun, tanka, and haiga encompassing the work of 35 Indian haiku poets–the first such book to come from an Indian publishing house!
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Please feel free to email for more information on course content and fee structure. Looking forward to some fun times at the Library! Here’s to a sparkling summer! 🙂
The summer vacations are almost here!
Announcing a Summer workshop for kids ages 3 – 5.5 yrs. This 10 day workshop will combine music, craft, science, language, stories and games to give the kids a great fun filled start to the vacations. Please note the details below
SUMMER CAMP FOR KIDS AGES 3 YRS TO 5.5 YRS
Dates: 12th April to 23rd April 2010
Time: Every day 11.00 am to 1.00 pm
Max No. of participants: 15
Registrations will close once the first 15 kids enroll with us.
Please feel free to write to us ( gulmohardays@gmail.com) for further details on programme and fee structure.