Happy Children's Day

It was like celebrating Children's Day when I visited Rio Grande, a Kindergarten School in Santa Fe, with my co-Fulbrighter Ms.Shohini. I played, danced and enjoyed there on Tuesday .

It was a part of exposing the kids to the International Culture The Class teachers ( Katy and Anna) invited us to celebrate India Day in their class room. We taught them stories about Hindu gods and all of them were curious to know about elephant headed 'Ganesha', flute playing 'Krishna' and ten handed 'Kali'. Girls are asked to tie 'brotherhood band' to boys and boys decorated the girls with 'Bindi'. We all danced to the steps of Shohini who taught them a nature song and I made them do boogie woo gee to an action song. The 4/5 year old kids enjoyed each moment.

It was a wonderful experience to spend time with tiny kids and it provided an opportunity to see the curriculum, schedule and innovative techniques of the American Primary Classes of a rich private school.

I extend the greetings from the Algebra II students of H.N.T.H.S, with whom I shared the details of Children's Day today.

Happy Children's Day .

Meeting the Members of Board of D.P.S

The board members

Last evening I was invited to meet the Members of the Board of Durham Public Schools. I was introduced to the Board by the Supeintendent and Dr. Logan. They welcomed me and wished me for the success of the program. It was an honour and a moment of pride to me.
I had a chance to express my views and share my experience as a Fulbright Excahnge teacher.

I thank the Board members for their time and I appreciate their kind guesture.
I was presented a T-shirt, a kind of -making me as a member of the Durham Public Schools. There were print and electronic media covering the event.

zoooolander

Today I went to North Carolina Zoo escorting the 10th graders as a part of their biology project.The zoo has two major divisions North America and Africa. It is at a distance of 80 miles from school. So major part of the day went in commuting. We were almost running while exploring the zoo as we had to reach school back by 2.30 pm. There were about 80 students divided into 4 teams. We led about 20 students in our team. Still managed to take some photograph for you. First ever with my American Students.