LESSON: 1
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Introduction Introduce the topic of love; give them multiple clues so that they can guess the topic, introduce the concept of participation to the children.
Goals: Bring an understanding to the child, of the feeling of love, sharing love and participation. Overflowing Love and Participation.
About the topic: Talk about the general topic of love; how we express love to others, explain to them how we can give love to others when we are overflowing with love. Talk about the inner space where we experience love. How love can never be made to happen with just our logical decision. Love is a flower that blossoms deep within us and sends out a sweet fragrance. Love is the most beautiful feeling a human being is capable of feeling. Love is unconditional, causeless, without any logic all forgiving, manifestation of all that is beautiful. Love brings only the positive feelings like compassion, forgiveness, fearlessness, gratitude, freedom. Love is the only thing that increases as we give it to others. Love is an energy that radiates happiness in all people. Talk about how participating is important, everything is participation. Participation is to know and do the activity. Participating is the key for success. Participation gives tremendous pleasure.
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Assessment: ● What is love? ● What makes you happy “the most”? ● Who is the person you love most? Why? ● Where do we experience love? ● Can we create love? ● Can we make a flower bloom? ● What happens when we share love with others? ● How do you feel when somebody smiles at you? ● How will you feel when you look at a baby smiling? ● What is inner space? ● Which is the only thing which increases as we give it to others? ● What is participation? ● When do we need to participate? ● Why do we need to participate? ● Can we do activities without participating? ● Can we participate and not focus at the same time?
Evaluation: Evaluate their knowledge on the topic by asking multiple questions. Evaluate their language skills by asking them to share their experiences. Ask them what are positive emotions love can bring?
Conclusion: Conclude the topic by reiterating the important details. Love is a language that all the living things understand.
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Art of the day - Celebration Drawing
Materials Needed: Paper, Pencil or Sketch Pen
Procedure:
- Discuss happiness with the children, how celebration gives us happiness.
- How we enjoy ourselves with our loved ones during the festival times.
- Encourage each child to draw the picture of any celebration.
- They can draw by viewing a few pictures of celebration.
- They can also visualize and draw some celebration pictures.
- Encourage children to look at their drawings and talk about how happy they are feeling.
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Activity 1 - I, my, me, game:
To make children understand the importance of being in the now, about the ego, about the importance of participating.
Preparation: Make the children sit in a circle, encourage them to play the game.
Presentation: Children will sit in a circle and mentor will encourage them to talk by asking interesting questions about the children? The only one rule of the game is that the children must not use I, my, me while answering any questions. If they use these words they will be out of the game. Each child is allowed to share their experiences in turns. It is very difficult to express our views without using I, my and me. So encourage the children's effort to play this game. They can play this game only when they focus and participate in every moment.
Interpretation: To make the children understand how effective participation and focusing is, and so they can understand by practice that they can get rid of ego enhancing words like I, me, my. Instead of I, me, my they can use their names.
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Activity 2 - Cups of Overflowing Love:
Material required: • Disposable cups (1 per child) • Permanent marker • Water (food colouring powder if required)
Preparation: Get all the materials together and have the children gather in a circle after discussion time.
Discussion: Give an illustration on how we can be filled with love and overflow onto others. First take a cup and demonstrate how the cup represents a person, and the water is love. Add other cups on top of the first cup and when the water of love is poured on the first cup, it spills over to the others as it starts overflowing! Each child can use the permanent marker to write their name on a cup and take turns to realize the concept of sharing love by being filled-up, and then letting it overflow while sharing it with their friends.
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