Vacation and Holiday Breaks for Dps Pune !!!!!!!

Summer Break 9th may to 21st june 2009

Dussehra Break 25th sep to 28th sep 2009

Deepawali Break 16th oct to 18th oct 2009

Winter Break 25th dec to 3rd jan 2010

Story about Gravity and Astronaut for age 4-6 year !!!!!!

View of our Earth from the Moon

Shourya was very much interested in learning about space and people who went to the moon.
He one day asked his mother about what do you do to go to the moon.
His mother said “ To become an astronaut, you need to study science, math and english.
You have to use a rocket to go to the moon in the space.
And you have to be trained for one year to walk, work, eat, float and sleep in a special suit wearing an oxygen mask all the time.”
“But mom why do they need an oxygen mask and a special suit?” Asked Shourya.
“Since the space and the moon do not have air like on our earth, they have to wear an oxygen mask so that they can breathe in the space and on moon.
They have to practice working in zero gravity wearing their special suit.” Explained Shourya’ mom.
“Mom! What is gravity?” again Shourya asked.
“Son, o read more…
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forkids/kidsclub/flash/index.html

http://www.kidsastronomy.com

http://www.kidsites.com/sites-edu/space.htm

Which Education Board to choose for my child !!!!!!!!!!

When it comes to confusing, the worst is when parents have to choose the right board for their children!
We have CBSE (Central Board of Secondary Education)
ICSE (Indian Certificate is Secondary Education)
IB (International Baccalaureate )
and the State Boards.
There are other Boards too which will be added once enough information is collected.

I have tried to do an analysis of all the important boards in India.
Since I studied in CBSE I have preference to it.

CBSE Board :
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ICSE is also a good board.

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IB Board

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STATE BOARD

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Which Education Board is closest to overall development of the children?(surveys)

SWINE flu is villainous !!!!

I have decided from today both my kids will stay at home for a week or two.

Reason, firstly , I think that’s the best way to prevent my kids from getting infected even if there is any remotest chance. They travel by school bus and definitely there is a good chance of getting in contact with dormant Swine flu virus. Since there is still no confirmed report on whether a person who has been cured of Swine flu may or may not be a carrier of the virus. What if the cured person IS a carrier of the virus? Then for next 5-10 days he /she will be easily infecting another 100 person who comes in contact. I as a mother do not wish to live in stress wondering what if’s .

In my opinion, if I were the Mayor or District Magistrate or any one in authority of Pune city, would have closed down all the schools, colleges for 15 days. Since as per the statistics the Swine Flu is infecting more kids than adults, it makes sense to keep the KIDS AT HOME. Citizens of Pune should be restricted to public places like Malls, multiplexes and restaurants as these places are the best places to get infected. Even going to the hospitals should be avoided unless emergency situation calls for going to the hospital.

My son’s classmate was down with fever for seven days. The paediatrician asked the mother to get him tested for Swine Flu. She went to the Naidu hospital which is authorised to do the test in Pune. There the hospital returned her back saying that we will not test everyone who comes here for Swine Flu ! Shocked mother came back and was very upset. Had I been there I would have taken the Naidu hospital to press and made their life hell for being negligent.

My request to all parents. Go by your instinct. If you have slightest doubt, stop your child from going to school and public places. And get him/her tested for the virus. Early detection is better than rushing in the last moment, knowing very well that Tamiflu, the only drug is not easily available in Pune, even in black.
One to two weeks of holiday from school will not matter anything. You have all the portions and books, you can very well teach at home. Working parents will have trouble taking this decision, but the trade off is between the short term trouble of taking off from the office or life long crying…

I am very upset with Dr Gosh from National Institute of Virology, Pune. In the process of calming the parents he passed an uninformed message to the parents about the Swine Flu. He may be right in saying that parents should not be panicked, but he should not have said that it’s like any other virus and getting infected is ok !

So parents without creating a havoc around you, listen to your instincts. DO not send the child to the school for a week. Wait and watch. Talk to the school is they can close down the school.

Two years back my son was suffering from fever for 10 days. I got him to Dr Sewani of Kalyani Nagar, Pune. She said, it’s nothing to worry about and sent me away. But my instincts told me some thing was not right, as my son was blabbering nonsense in his feverish sleep. I got his blood tested elsewhere. He was detected as suffering of Dengue !!!! SO my instinct did come true.

The passage below was written when we were called to the school by National Institute Of Virology ’s talk on Swine Flu.

Today, we were called to the St Mary’s school for a presentation on SWINE FLU.
Thanks a ton St Mary’s Management for pre-emptive step taken.
DPS also had last week sent a circular about SWINE FLU and requested parents to not send their kids if any had any kind of fever. These measures are very reassuring for parents, as it proves our kids are going from one safe hand to another . Also, it takes care of the psychology of many over protective/ carefree parents.

It’s just another variant of flu virus. It’s symptoms are all similar to the other viral flu that our kids keep encountering.

Just be careful and take the child to a good paediatrician if the child has SEVERE CHILL , shivering and redness of eyes , followed with high fever.
Else treat this poor flu like any other viral fever. Do not panic, but keep the child at home to prevent him passing on the flu to others. One can wait for 2 days of fever and if the fever does not lower on the third day, then contact the doctor around.

The virus became a villain only because, when it was detected as a new virus in Mexico, the hosts died , but all had other major diseases to blame. Due to globetrotting, this virus reached India too, but it’s variant got diluted after it mixed with Indian viruses. But the virus is infecting kids more than adults. Hence preventing kids from becoming infected will control the disease in Pune.

How to prevent H1N1 Swine flu and any other flu :

1. Wash hands everytime you come home.

2. After kids are back from school or play give them a warm water bath.

3. Use tissue paper to wipe and throw in a dustbin.

4. DO NOT SEND YOUR KID TO SCHOOL FOR NEXT SEVEN DAYS.

That’s all it takes to prevent any virus from spreading !

Do not try to cure any viral flu yourself, especially do not pop in any medicine yourself that is antibiotics ! Anyways no antibiotic can cure any viral flu as antibiotics are for bacterias , not for viruses .

A good site http://www.parentree.in/Parentree-editors/journal-1302/Swine-flu–H1N1—-Babies-and-Children—Precautions–Symptoms–What-to-do—.html

To know or report about SWINE FLU contact :
www.niv.co.in

www.edc.org

Dr. Ms. Chadha
Deputy Dir- Influenza
Ph Nos – 020-26006247 / 26006217
email add – basua@icmt.org. in

Baby Einstein for brain activity !!!!!

Its 12:30 pm, I have a meeting that is unavoidable and time bound hence cannot be postponed!
My kids already back from summer camp! All energetic and want my 100% attention like always!
SO the best I cud manage is keep the meeting at my house…..don’t like it much (Interruption …kids…phone…maids….door …friends….uff !) But beggars can’t be choosers! …So Multiprocessing is already happening… All are set to work that will leave me undisturbed for 2 hours!(…as if…in my dream huh! ) …………Meeting over, only 2 calls, and one interruption from my elder child to change over from MSEB to Generator …..that’s some achievement …!!!!!

Am I glad? No I am mighty pleased with my POA (plan of action) and its success !
Now the secret of keeping kids silent…not into Mahabharata mode….not into want attention…plus getting them creatively informed in my absence …. it had better be something I completely trust with my kids….( maids ….no way….can’t trust them…not even day care…)
I was looking for something on Amazon.com when I happened to discover this amazing stuff that changed my life pleasantly and brought a lot of peace to my maternal questioning , precisely 5 years back in Mumbai !
It’s called BABY EINSTIEN! A set of educational CDs / DVDs / VCRs. These one hours videos can manage to keep my kids singing , repeating after the voice over, dancing, learning..not fighting,….what a boon for any mother …!Baby Einstein was conceived by a mother who could not find appropriate educational videos in the US market !
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Choosing Right Pencil, Eraser, Sharpner for kids !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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A pencil is a pencil is a pencil!!!!!
No! No! No! How many of us have ever paid attention to the type of pencils our kids are using when they started out to write????
Well I am a good mom, as I would always make sure the pencils were all sharpened and placed in the pencil box with an eraser and color pencils/ crayons.
But just a month back (June 2009) I realized that with respect to the pencils I was NOT a good mom !
Cuz, just placing sharpened pencils doesn’t make you a good pencil mom .
Since my son is very bright, I never paid much attention while he breezed through the preparatory class, which is very much a revision of the playschool learning. But when he reached STD 1 in St Mary’s life suddenly changes for both him and me!
No more casually sharpened pencils.
I found he definitely has my genes when it came to writing, which is quite illegible. Now I do know the importance of good handwriting now, so I started making him write every day a passage or cursive alphabets on three lined notebooks.
I found he was pressing the pencil too hard, leaving impressions on 2 sheets below! Also when he erased the marks, he would invariably tear off the sheet!
Now having an analytically gifted mind, I used it to first observe, collect related data and then analyze them.
So here are my observations which are the most important part of any analysis.
1: My son would hold the pencil too tight, which automatically led to applying too much pressure on the paper while writing. (There is a psychology of why some kids hold pencils very tightly) .
2: If the pencil has rounded smooth surface read more…
TIP of the Day:
Also after sharpening the pencil, I rub the tip off a bit before handling over to my kid. This ensures that the tip does not tear or snap while writing.

Uncomfortable questions asked by kids !!!!!!!!!!!

Recently I was put in a tight spot by a friend. All thanks to my darling 4.5 year old’s ever so curious and imaginatively exploring mind.

My friend was a little uncomfortable when my son showed interest in her daughter. Like any curious boy he did not want to leave the room when her daughter was changing.
Her hubby scolded my son and asked him to leave the room! My son came home crying with the complaint. But he never mentioned the exact reason but mentioned that he was not allowed to stay in the toy room, ’cause for him it was the toy room that was more important than his daughter! I talked to my son and made him understand that since they were expecting guests, they did not want the toy room to be dirty and so the uncle had scolded him. Which was enough for the innocent little mind. He left happily to play again. I too forgot the incident as it was a no-brainer.

Two weeks later read more …

Teaching Verbs to standard 1. !!!!!!!

My son has started learning verbs in english.
He has very easily picked up the concept of Verbs as Action words !

So I thought of doing a bit of research in helping him learn better and applying the concept than just mugging up.

So I made him read a small story book and asked him to identify all the action words. And wow, he not only did underline them, he came back with a few more!

The next play exercise I did, involved my younger son who is in Nursery.
The younger one had to name any object he saw in the room. And then my older son had to speak out all the action related to that object.

So the first object uttered was “Apple”.
And now both my sons were throwing action words at me, where I was writing them down like a kid taking dictation!
So we had several action words as Verbs that we know . Eg eating, chewing, cutting, peeling and throwing was the last one added by my younger son

Similarly we moved to objects like football, eraser, rubber band, car. The last one was mother !
The notebook has two full pages of action words dedicated to the word “Mother” !

I plan to play today with them with other kids of the society and do a dumb charade of “Verbs”. Let’s see how they enjoy!

Happy teaching and mothering dears

Playschool and Kindergarten Pre Schools in Pune !!!!!!!!!!

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Living in a nuclear family has it’s merits. I have always managed easily using all my management abilities to keep the home and work balanced. But, when my one first baby was born, life became rather handful. I preferred to quit work and stay full time to nurture the life I had given birth to after six years of yearnings and physical trauma.

But what do you do when you are blessed with another one a bit too early than expected/planned.
Well, life became a bit too tricky to handle, without help. So I had to look for any external help I could get and would accept for my darling 1.5 year old!

Calling any relative was out of question as I am totally against the thought of turning any of the older relatives in the pretext of emotional bonding with the grandparents, into unpaid baby sitters!
Well if it’s volunteered, then that’s a different question after all.

Now handling two babies with my kind of mother was not easy on poor me .
My kind means over protective, net browsing, growing babies via wikipedia and online information, ignoring all advise from oldies unless presented with logic of whys, washing toys with dettol, making guest sanitize their hands before picking kids, making maids bathe before cooking etc. etc. etc…..

I look back now and wonder how on earth and why on earth was I so finicky? Was it all my maternal instinct. Or was it my desire to be the best mom? Or was that all my hormones making me go into an invisible/visible supermom.

When my son turned 1.5 yrs, read more….

DPS MANAGEMENT is Excellent !!!

DPS school, its management and the staff never stops to amaze me !

The DPS bus which comes to Kalyani Nagar to pick and drop my child would stop at a very filthy place. At the garbage dump, right after the bridge ended . It was not just filthy but was a nuisance to be standing amongst ragpickers, truck drivers and scrap collection shop. My kid started only this year, so I was trying to bear untill the rains started this june 2009. It became a nightmare to stand in the rains, with cars splashing water, flies tickling and men staring at buffons like us waiting !
That’s when I decided, no more bearing this unwanted trauma everyday in the scorching sun or pouring rains.
I spoke to a few parents if they wanted to get the bus stand shifted to somewhere decent place. Everyone obviously nodded. SO I went to the school and spoke to the office lady, who asked me to get a letter from all the parents who wanted the same. Then my hubby darling spoke to the transport head too. He said if there was a good number of students from my society, they will defintely consider the change.
SO I again made a letter describing the situation, took names of all the kids who would come to the bus stop and gave it to the principal. I also showed the management pictures of the area in the rains with the garbage.
The principal without a single word approved the change of the stop from the shabby place to my society Lunkad Sky Lounge. Now that’s what I call quick decision and appreciate the DPS school even more.

What a SCHOOL you have madamjee ! Hats off !

Moral of the story …. When you want to get something, all you have to do is ASK !

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PUNE St MARY’S BOYS STD 1 D are CONNECTED by YAHOO Groups !!!

A new yahoo group has been started by Madhurie Singh and friends for class 1D of St Mary’s Boys, Pune.
The link to the group is http://in.groups.yahoo.com/group/stmarys1d2009/

The group aims at making communication amongst the parents of all students of class 1D , easy and transparent. There are contacts, daily class / home work, school notices and many discussions happening there.

The class teacher will be pleased to have extra time at hand as she need not repeat answers of the same queries by all the parents. The parents who are working and cannot make to pick their kids everyday also are pleased to have easy access to all information online.

Hope similar idea is taken up by other classes in all other schools.

What AN IDEA MADAM jee !!!!!!