By FR and Communications Team | FR and Communications Team
Dear Supporters,
Wish you all a very happy new year!
We are back again with lots of updates about our programme. The last two months at Mumbai Mobile Creches were packed with many learning events and activities for children.
Book Week:
This year the Book week was celebrated from 12th to 17th of November at all our day care centres. The theme was ‘We are going to Space!’ The Book Week started with a grand inauguration at every centre. Guests were invited to conduct Book Reading sessions to start this exciting week. Our guests included site officers working on the construction site, authors, members from other NGOs, and supporters. Each day during Book Week our children focussed on a different book. The Book Week started with a very interesting activity called ‘Look Up!’, wherein all the children and teachers at the centre went out and observed the sky outside. The teachers asked the children about what all they could see while looking up. Many other interesting activities were planned at the centre. Children from the Crèche section made fluffy clouds out of cotton. They also learnt two new Hindi rhymes related to the theme of space Children in the Balwadi section enjoyed ‘read-a-loud’ (Read to me) session. Under this activity, parents choose a book and read a story to their children attending our centre.Children created artworks, played games, made charts and various craft items. Primary students also read out stories to children in the crèche and pre-primary section. It was a great way to make primary students feel comfortable reading aloud and to inspire pre-primary children to practice their reading readiness skills! They made amazing space suits out of scrap material available at centre. Children in the afterschool section wrote small poems which were then pasted on the walls of the centre by teachers. On the last day of the book week, over 1000 received books as gifts. With active participation of MMC’s teachers and children the book week was a grand success.
Annual Children’s Camp:
We organised an Annual Camp for our children between 10th -21st December 2018. Annual camp is one of the few opportunities that these young children get to step out of the construction site and spend two funfilled days away from the monotony of the concrete and cement that constantly surrounds them. This year, the camp was organised for children above six years attending its day care centres on construction sites in four batches from 10th to 21st December 2018. The batch of children went to the Yusuf Meherally Centre, Panvel and the other to Vidhayak Sansad at Vasai. 352 children from our centres spread across the city attended the camp. The two days were filled with fun and learning activities, cultural programmes, a fancy dress competition among the children and art & learning based sessions. Children thoroughly enjoyed different activities at the camp.
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