Name: Dharmangi Shukla

Grade: Play House

Topic: Illustrating Agenda on board..

WHAT HAPPENED? : On our campus, the concept of discussing the agenda of the day
and designing a day, from Pre K to K2 is always done through discussion between
teachers and students and is been listed down on the board for ready reference. But for
Playhouse children discussing the things abstractly to make them visualize their day at
school is truly difficult.
WHAT DID I DO?: I had learnt from my mentor Bella Maam that visuals work as a great
learning support for the children at this tender age of 2 and half. While discussing the
above mentioned struggle with one of my colleagues, it clicked my mind and I decided
to illustrate the agenda of the day on board.
PROCESS :

I started with illustrating different animals and character of the stories on the board to
attract students attention towards it at the beginning of the year.
Slowly gradually they got habituated towards it and started pointing and naming the
illustrations Didi, jo kana bhagwan, hathi/elephant.
Next step was to illustrate different pictures of particular days activities like bat and
ball, cycles, etc., to show the real objects and match it with the illustrations to give a
shape and concretize their imagination. Sometimes asking them to guess when they
demonstrated their curiosity about what next..for the day?

Thus, everyday illustrating all the designed activities for the day and discussing agenda
of the day with support of those illustrations in the morning.
Thus, this routine forever became a part of my classroom practices. I even shared this
idea with my team and many of them adopted it and yield good results.
STUDENTS RESPONSE:
At the starting of the year, students just loved to watch illustrations of different
characters of story on board and they got so habituated with it that as soon as they
enter the class, they used to go and observe the picture illustrated on board.
After practicing the idea of discussing agenda of the day through illustrations on board
consistently for about 3-4 months, children started talking about the agenda of the day
looking just through the pictures without any support from didi. They could also talk
about the sequence of the activities i.e. what next?
They developed the habit to reflect, recollect and ask their didis to tick right mark on the
activities explored already and put a cross against the activities those remained
unexplored anyhow. They also started inquiring and giving reminders for their favourite
left out activities to didi, just by looking at the illustrations.
By the end of the year, Students are able to reflect upon their whole day activities and
exploration on basis of those illustrations at the end of the day as reflection of the day.
And many of them recall and try to name the activities abstractly in sequence without
taking support of illustrations, answering the word then.
They are so much fascinated and habituated to it, that if we keep our board blank
sometimes due to some reasons, 1st thing they inquire about as soon as they enter the
class is: Didi aaje kem kai nathi draw karyu? Aaje aapne aakho divas su karvanu che?
Many of our children try to copy/illustrate the pictures of the activities in agenda like
slate and chalk, fruits, bat and ball on the slates/floor while scribbling with chalk.
MY PARTNERS RESPONSE:

 My Partner takes up this routine as completely new learning from me to her that caters
the needs of children at playhouse level. She practices it regularly, even in my absence.
She feels that it keeps us as well as children focused and serves many purpose i.e fulfills
few criteria of our report card, like checking the memory of children at regular intervals,
to know whether they can understand meaning of next/then, informal sequencing,
encourages thinking, etc. She was the one who motivated me to take up this topic as my
Walo 2, because she finds it new as well as completely age appropriate for Playhouse
kids.

My Partner Discussing Agenda of the day.

MY COLLEGUEAS RESPONSE: Along with others, one of my colleagues is also trying to
practice the idea consistently in her class from the beginning. She shared that its really
helpful at this age level and is serving many purpose related to report card even, as I
mentioned above. Her students are so much hooked with it that now by the end of the
year, they are able to visualize the activities, even if its not illustrated properly
sometimes. They also counter question the teacher, if there is some last moment
change in sequence or activity than the ones illustrated on board. They do talk about
the next activity too.