All schools in Pune will be closed till 19th August 2009, in view of the current spread of the Swine Flu caused by H1N1 virus.
A lot of schools are fumigating their premises.
Both kids from St Mary’s Boys have recovered from the swine flu infection that they got in the last week of July 2009.
A request to all parents.
Keep your kids at home and do not send them to any coaching class, activity class or sports class.
I am allowing my kids to go to their friend’s place by making sure the family has no cold, cough or fever. Similarly my kids friends are also visiting my home. It’s important that kids are able to interact and play in safe environment. I plan activites for all the kids before they reach my home.
Scrabble, Word Ludo (my innovation), online games, good vcds, carrom, chess and story telling are a few good way I am keeping kids around me engaged. It’s still very difficult. 😦
I draw pictures for them and they have to colour these pictures within a time span as neatly as possible.
Another messy activity that they love is cutting aphabets and pictures from old newspaper. Then they have to make a story out of these cut outs.
Another interesting activity that I am planning is mixing the three primary colours to make secondary and tertiary colour right on the paper!
I found a set of very very informative and interesting books which keeps my kids and their friends glued to me for hours. But the only trade off for that is my time.
I would recommend all parents to get this set of books. Its from Time-Life-Warner . I will be publishing a review on it shortly.
There is another fun and engaging game, where like dumb charade, an object is drawn on the back of a kid with only a finger. The kid has to imagine and say the name of the object drawn on his back.
There are many more such avtivites that we mothers can think of and keep the kids busy at home.
If there is any interesting suggestion, you can send it to me or write as a comment.
Happy bonding ! 🙂
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