A small note of appreciation to my teacher...
This week's (6th week's) theme of Jhanavi's art gallery being " A Visitor from Outer Space" I wondered what I could teach Sheethal in this...She is too small to understand about space....I thought ok at least she will be excited to color moon and stars. Since she was familiar with minion through her brother I drew a similar alien like cartoon and helped her to color.
We started with stars, I suggested her to use grey color but she firmly said no no...stars are yellow in color amma....I said ok ok, go on! It was then time to color the alien. When I gave her green color to color the face she asked me...."amma will our face be green in color "
That was the question I was waiting for...
So I told her if it was we then we would use the peach color to color normal human beings face. In our earth only leaves are green in colour.
So this is somebody from outer space up above the sky ( in a rhyming language that she could understand) near moons and stars. Have we seen any such person?? No right?...so this could be our imaginary minion who looks different from us....so let's use green...ok Sheethal? I asked...and finally she nodded in agreement. Quickly she colored following my instructions with utmost care.
It was a lovely sight for me as a parent to see her understand that we normal human beings are of one color, structure whereas the visitor from outer space could be a different one.
Yes it is difficult to spend quality time with kids amidst heavy household chores and school work during these pandemic times, however it was the teacher's effort and support that pushed me to spend the needed time with kids amidst all workload.
If not for "Jhanavi's Art Gallery contest" I would not have got such moments with my kids....The theme based weekly art gallery contest has been highly helpful in seeing the creative side of my kids, their learning abilities and most importantly help them develop patience.
Teacher's comments , continuous encouragement has been a booster dose and driving factor for kids work.
Definitely I owe a big heartfelt thanks to my dear Lakshmi teacher for taking pain in announcing interesting themes every week, judging , announcing and literally giving prizes to all the kids.
Feeling lucky to have one such encouraging, supportive teacher at our close proximity.
Now my heart feels light sharing the thank you note here.
Cheers,
Akshatha
