INTRODUCTION TO TYPES OF SPEECH
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INTRODUCTION:
Introduce to the children about two kinds of speech.
GOALS:
To have the children understand worry..
CLICK OF THE TOPIC:
Speaking in is called inner chatter and this is worry.
ABOUT THE TOPIC:
Just watch your mind when you are worrying about something. You will see that a continuous stream of thoughts is being generated in your mind, totally disconnected thoughts and usually negative thoughts. An influx of negative and repetitive words will be like a current in your mind. We all use two kinds of speech, speaking out and speaking in. Speaking out is speaking to ourselves. Speaking in is a continuous process that goes on inside us.
Speaking in is called 'inner chatter' and this is called worry.
The dangerous thing is, with outer conversations, there will be breaks when no conversation happens. But the inner chatter is continuous.
Just try this exercise when you are by yourself. Just sit for a few minutes with your eyes closed. Keep a pen and paper with you. Don't focus your mind on anything just witness your mind. Just see what is going on in your mind. Almost as soon as you close your mind you will see there is a continuous stream of thoughts flowing through. Write down honestly what is going on in your mind, write whatever is there. Just write whatever is going on however disconnected they may be.
Do this for five minutes
Now site down and read whatever
you have recorded on the paper.
You will be shocked!
What you have recorded is your inner chatter.
If you read it, you will see how
disconnected, how irrelevant your
thoughts are!
One moment you will be here, the
next moment you will be in
America.
OBJECTIVES
¤ What is speaking in?
¤ What is speaking out?
¤ Which is inner chatter?
¤ Why don't we control what we speak inside us?
¤ Which is continuous?
ART OF THE DAY
ART OF THE DAY
DEPICT YOUR INNER CHAKRA IN A PICTORIAL FORMAT
MATERIALS NEEDED:
- Paper
- Pencil
- Eraser
- Sharpener
- Coloring items.
PROCEDURE:
Encourage the children to color the
Manipuraka chakra. Then ask them to
talk about what they have drawn.
INFERENCE:
Speaking in is speaking to ourselves.
There is a continuous speaking process
that goes on inside of us. This
speaking in is the inner chakra and
this is worry.
WORKSHOP OF
THE DAY:
VAAKYARTHA SADHAS
Make two teams, Nithya and
Anada. Have a discussion on
the topic "speaking in vs
speaking out"
GAME OF THE DAY:
BLIND ARTISTS
This is a very simple game to play but needs to be prepared in advance.
You need to have:
- Sheets of paper
- Colored pens or pencils
- Some pictures to be drawn such as 'at the beach', or 'at the zoo'.
❖ Divide everyone into groups of
equal numbers, 4-6 is a good
number.
❖ The people in each team elect a member to be blindfolded.
❖ One person from the opposite
teams will come and blindfold the
person who has been elected (no
cheating this way).
GAME OF THE DAY
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❖ Once everyone is ready you give a team a picture to be drawn.
❖ Once play starts each group has to
guide their artist how to draw the
scene by describing it to them, they
are not allowed to touch the artist
only verbally guide them.
❖ Lots of colors should be used. To
make it more fun, group members
can move around groups and
disturb the other teams. This can
get very noisy!
❖ After 5 minutes of play (could be
made longer or shorter) time is up
and the team with the best picture
wins. Or you can rotate the picture
to be drawn onto the next team, so
each team draws each picture once,
then the best picture of each team
can be chosen.
CONCLUSION
Conclude the topic by reiterating the important details
