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Origami workshop

The ancient Japanese art of paper folding - Origami, is coming to life only at Open Window. 

Origami is not only fun to make, but also helps spark your child's creativity. The action of making a simple and eventually complex structures which will help calm your child down, and help them become patient... it also develops their eye - hand coordination, and helps them concentrate better and for longer time.

Open Window Presents Origami - the Japanese art of paper folding, conducted by a renowned Origami practitioner, who will take your children into a wondrous world, where they will learn and create new sculptures using only paper and spark the creativity within them.

About the trainer:

Mr. Manilal Dand is Origami enthusiast, who has taken his hobby to the next level. He is the member of Origami - Mitra, which is a group of people who love the art of Origami. He has been conducting classes and creating works of art for many years now, may it be school, or his backyard he is always practicing and teaching this ancient art.

For further details contact - 09820828261, 09819036502

Discover maths...

Math has always been the nemesis for most of us... thats why we hope that our children have a better time dealing with it... and hope that they find it fun and easier to understand and apply it...

Well we have got an antidote for this fear of ours...

Open Window presents "Discover Math" a workshop for both parents and children, designed to teach math through play, and to make it a friendlier version of what we experience!!!

Details of the workshop - 

Workshop 1 - EARLY MATH (age 2-5yrs)

Parents - half a day workshop to help you initiate your child into math

Concepts covered - big - small, tall - short, numbers 1-9, introduction to zero, basic 2D shapes, Shapes of numbers, ascending and descending order, addition / subtraction of single digit numbers.

Workshop 2 - PRIMARY MATH (5-8yrs)

Parents - 1 day

Children - 2 times a week for 1 month: Wednesdays and Fridays : (10 session) - includes group activities and assignments 

Concepts covered - shapes of numbers, place value concept, shapes and odd and even numbers, addition / subtraction of double digit numbers, parts of numbers, multiplication, square numbers and rectangle numbers, prime and composite numbers, division, DMAS, areas of square and rectangle.

Workshop 3 - UPPER PRIMARY MATH (9-12yrs)

Children - 2 times a week for 1 month: Wednesdays and Fridays:  (10 session)  - includes group and individual activities

Concept covered - squares and square roots, exponential, BEDMAS, 3D shapes, fractions, decimals, integers, profit and loss, ratio and proportion, percentage, introduction to algebra.

For more details contact - 09820828261, 09819036502

From Geetanjali

ON the seashore of endless worlds children meet. The infinite sky is motionless overhead and the restless water is boisterous. On the seashore of endless worlds the children meet with shouts and dances. They build their houses with sand and they play with empty shells. With withered leaves they weave their boats and smilingly float them on the vast deep. Children have their play on the seashore of worlds.

They know not how to swim, they know not how to cast nets. Pearl fishers dive for pearls, merchants sail in their ships, while children gather pebbles and scatter them again. They seek not for hidden treasures, they know not how to cast nets. The sea surges up with laughter and pale gleams the smile of the sea beach. Death-dealing waves sing meaningless ballads to the children, even like a mother while rocking her baby's cradle. The sea plays with children and pale gleams the smile of the sea beach.

In the seashore of endless worlds children meet. Tempest roams in the pathless sky, ships get wrecked in the trackless water, death is abroad and children play. On the seashore of endless worlds is the great meeting of children .

THE sleep that flits on baby's eyes does anybody know from where it comes? Yes, there is a rumour that it has its dwelling where, in the fairy village among shadows of the forest dimly lit with glowworms, there hang two timid buds of enchantment. From there it comes to kiss baby's eyes. 

The smile that flickers on baby's lips when he sleeps does anybody know where it was born? Yes, there is a rumour that a young pale beam of a crescent moon touched the edge of a vanishing autumn cloud, and there the smile was first born in the dream of a dew-washed morning, the smile that flickers on baby's lips when he sleeps.

The sweet, soft freshness that blooms on baby's limbs does anybody know where it was hidden so long? Yes, when the mother was a young girl it lay pervading her heart in tender and silent mystery of love, the sweet, soft freshness that has bloomed on baby's limbs.

WHEN I bring to you coloured toys, my child, I understand why there is such a play of colours on clouds, on water, and why flowers are painted in tints when I give coloured toys to you, my child.

When I sing to make you dance I truly know why there is music in leaves, and why waves send their chorus of voices to the heart of the listening earth when I sing to make you dance.

When I bring sweet things to your greedy hands I know why there is honey in the cup of the flower and why fruits are secretly filled with sweet juice when I bring sweet things to your greedy hands.I was tired and sleeping on my idle bed and imagining all work had ceased.

In the morning I woke up and found my garden full with wonders of flowers.

EVER in my life have I sought thee with my songs. It was they who led me from door to door, and with them have I felt about me, searching and touching my world.It was my songs that taught me all the lessons I ever learnt; they showed me secret paths, they brought before my sight many a star on the horizon of my heart.

Allow mutual talk in school, or in the classroom: Let children converse - Gram Mangal

• Many experiment on animals have proved that social contact is the principal factor in education. If communication is not allowed, it affects the proper growth of the brain.
• Studies conducted in orphanages, where communication is not allowed, it affects the  proper growth of the brain.
• Studies conducted in orphanages, where communications are similarly very limited, have also confirmed this conclusion.
• Communications amongst children and conversations are extremely important for the growth of their brains and especially for their education.
• Let children come in contact with and more people, during their learning years. Let them converse mutually, connect mutually.
• Create opportunities for such contacts and conversation in school and in classrooms too.
• Talking with each other helps in language proficiency and expression. Progress in understanding of language alone can help understanding of language alone can help understanding other subjects.
• Mutual contact enables control on emotions.
• A traditional classroom, so constrained to remain quiet, is not conducive to good education

CONSCIOUSLY NURTURE THE INTEREST OF THE CHILDREN - Gram Mangal

• Encouraging children in their fanciful interest is many times mistakenly considered whimsical. 
• Actually liking, for anything, means relating to it very closely and deriving happiness and benefiting form it, this is not something fanciful or whimsical. A whim is a very transient hobby or liking; the happiness derived through it is also transient and short – lived. But liking and interests change as the child grows and it is important they change for the healthy growth of the child. 
• When children develop interest in many subjects at an early age, they derive enjoyment through them. It helps to mould their personality in many directions and help their overall development. 
• Children feel encouraged to acquire more information in the subject of their interest. So they should get opportunities to learn those subjects which interest. So they should get opportunities to learn those subjects which interest them. 
• Receiving encouragement leads to strong ambitions in their chosen subjects. As a result, children learn to think about the future from an early age. These interests play a major role in influencing their career choices 
• Children derive enjoyment through their interests. The value of experiences gained through their interests is infinite. We all know that, we do not enjoy participating in anything that does not interest us. Similarly for the children, if they are not interested, they are not serious and so do not succeed.

Parenthood

Parenthood… If it was going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor!

Shouting to make your children obey is like using the horn to steer your car and you get about the same results.

To be in your children’s memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today.

The smartest advice on raising children is to enjoy them while they are still on your side.

The best way to keep kids at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere.