A unique initiative was launched in Kozhikode on Gandhi Jayanthi this year..a "chillara vandi" that distributes coins because small change is so hard to come by. Nowadays everybody has big note(book) s, or big ideas, or big dreams.....but in kindergartens we know to value "small " too.
When children join a kindergarten as excitable 2 yr olds, they seem like "loose change ". happy to skitter around the playroom in no particular order , disappear into corners and keep us guessing as to where they will turn up next! ...and what joy when we do find them!
Slowly, by the time they are three and four, you can see an order creep into their day. They are ready to sit and listen, or follow an instruction or play with abandon. So in LKG, they've undergone a "small change".
Graduate to UKG, and it's time to lose their cute baby faces and pudgy fingers. They grow faster, learn quicker...all round they are in the "big change" phase of their kindergarten life!
A nice logical progression - loose change>small change> big change!
When children join a kindergarten as excitable 2 yr olds, they seem like "loose change ". happy to skitter around the playroom in no particular order , disappear into corners and keep us guessing as to where they will turn up next! ...and what joy when we do find them!
Slowly, by the time they are three and four, you can see an order creep into their day. They are ready to sit and listen, or follow an instruction or play with abandon. So in LKG, they've undergone a "small change".
Graduate to UKG, and it's time to lose their cute baby faces and pudgy fingers. They grow faster, learn quicker...all round they are in the "big change" phase of their kindergarten life!
A nice logical progression - loose change>small change> big change!
"loose change>small change> big change!"..I'm loving it
ReplyDeleteI still vividly remember the first time I entered O-1 and wondered when I saw the rooms labelled thus...and it made so much sense when I saw the transition happen!
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