Children's Day - Celebrating outdoors

Yesterday was children’s day. I haven’t had the opportunity to celebrate children’s day for the last 5 years! It was such a pleasure to celebrate it with the adorable children from Mathru School. We went with them to the park nearby and conducted fun activities with them. Satish explained to me that this was the first time in this academic year that they had visited the park. Usually they would play there twice a week for P.T., till their P.T. teacher left at the end of last year. The sun was bright, and the air was pleasant. It was a perfect day to be outdoors. We started a few simple games based on sound – jumping in and out, copying the clap pattern etc. The boys seemed more excited however, to run around. So they suggested a game of dog and the bone modified to work on audio ques. I was amazed to see how fearlessly the boys ran towards the ‘bone’ – whether they were partially blind or totally. This was a great occasion to see the children outside of their school, running around, inventing games, and looking enthused. I hope the children had as much fun celebrating children’s day as we did.