Clubs at GLC (7-9 Years)

Humans have endeavored to make their life better but that has happened at the cost of the well-being of other species, flora and fauna. Evidence is all around that children's educational experiences have failed to provide them with enough engagement with the natural world and the immediate environment. As a result, we don’t know the world around us enough, thus, kindling in us only a weak desire to protect it.

As part of the Nature Club, participants will learn about their relationship with their immediate environment and the world at large, through an intense outdoor engagement that requires all their senses and no screens or lenses 🙂 Nature Club's activities are designed after a study of the science and environmental science curriculum of various age groups and will be a more practical & reflective extension of the curricular topics covered in classrooms.

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Jamuna

Nature Club Facilitator

Jamuna is the co-founder of Aripana Foundation, an NGO working for the past 6 and half years in the Mithila region of North Bihar to improve the quality of education in underserved government schools. With 15+ years in education, her core areas of work are strengthening environment education in schools, making libraries a central part of children's education, art in education, and early childhood care and education. Jamuna also runs the Greenwood Learning Centre and over the years has supported multiple teachers, students, and staff of various educational NGOs on the above topics.

Aiswarya

Co-Facilitator

An enthusiastic Early Childhood Educator with a strong academic background, Aiswarya holds an undergraduate degree in Sociology and a postgraduate degree in Education, specializing in Early Childhood Education. Her journey has taken her to various regions of India, including Uttarakhand, Chattisgarh, Karnataka, and Kerala, where she has developed and refined her skills in nurturing young minds through engaging and innovative teaching methods. Fluent in English, Hindi, and Malayalam, she strive to create inclusive learning environments that celebrate diversity and promote holistic development. Her dedication to education is evident through her involvement in academic research papers and her passion for empowering children through art, craft, and nature-based learning experiences.

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Much of our educational experience has become intellectual or cerebral. There is little that gets us out of our heads and connects us with our bodies, the most important tool to connect with the world around us. It is through art forms like crochet that we have ample opportunities to bring our body and our minds together in an experience nothing short of meditative! Through this art form, we not only keep our muscles and eye hand coordination in good health but also gain knowledge about new material like threads and hooks, exploring the limits of our own creativity. It is fun and it requires a great deal of patience and perseverance while also relaxing us like little can. The Crochet & Knitting Club offers a chance to learn a skill which has great practical advantages. The opportunities to be creative are endless too! An activity that relies very less on technology, Crochet allows for ample interaction with textures, colors, patterns, designs and much more.

Come, befriend this beautiful activity, with a forgiving material like thread that allows us to make many mistakes before we can create magic. What started off as a summer exploration can become your full fledged hobby or even a profession, you never know!

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Priyal

Crochet Facilitator

Priyal is a passionate crochet artist committed to helping children experience the challenge of learning a new pattern, mastering the grip of the hook, the thrill of finishing a project, and the kid-in-a-candy-store excitement of choosing new yarn! She believes in getting children and adults alike involved in learning new skills. Crocheting is one such skill whose benefits she cannot stress enough. From offering unlimited ground to test one's creativity, improving focus and concentration, developing patience and perseverance, and most importantly, finishing a project despite challenges, Priyal believes crochet is fun, demanding, rewarding and above all an ingenious art form invented by humans that we should definitely try.

Jamuna

Co-Facilitator

Jamuna is the co-founder of Aripana Foundation, an NGO working for the past 6 and half years in the Mithila region of North Bihar to improve the quality of education in underserved government schools. With 15+ years in education, her core areas of work are strengthening environment education in schools, making libraries a central part of children's education, art in education, and early childhood care and education. Jamuna also runs the Greenwood Learning Centre and over the years has supported multiple teachers, students, and staff of various educational NGOs on the above topics.

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Greenwood Learning Centre's Library is not just a collection of vibrant, diverse, age appropriate, good quality books but a space that is committed to nurturing ardent, discerning readers - readers who are expanding and enhancing their sensibilities, learning to read between the lines, picking up nuances and complexities, responding to issues relevant to them and perhaps, picking up the skill to also be critical of the content they are encountering!

In an age where there is often very little encouragement to read, too many other occupations, unmonitored television-viewing, addiction to computer games & mobile phones, and academic pressure, the imaginative flow of children is at a danger of drying up! At the GLC library, there are ways by which children's relationship to books and reading can be strengthened, in turn strengthening their imagination, curiosity and wonder.

Its many programs and activities, the GLC library will offer its readers, unhindered access to a curated collection of some of the best books and resources, including international and national award-winning titles, that have been written for children and young readers! This will be enhanced by planned and facilitated opportunities for meaningful engagement with the books, making the library a space for dialog and reflection for young readers. Thus, they'll find encouragement to move forward on their journey as readers, engaging with increasingly complex texts and themes.

Faculty:

 

Jamuna

Nature Club Facilitator

Jamuna is the co-founder of Aripana Foundation, an NGO working for the past 6 and half years in the Mithila region of North Bihar to improve the quality of education in underserved government schools. With 15+ years in education, her core areas of work are strengthening environment education in schools, making libraries a central part of children's education, art in education, and early childhood care and education. Jamuna also runs the Greenwood Learning Centre and over the years has supported multiple teachers, students, and staff of various educational NGOs on the above topics.

Aiswarya

Co-Facilitator

An enthusiastic Early Childhood Educator with a strong academic background, Aiswarya holds an undergraduate degree in Sociology and a postgraduate degree in Education, specializing in Early Childhood Education. Her journey has taken her to various regions of India, including Uttarakhand, Chattisgarh, Karnataka, and Kerala, where she has developed and refined her skills in nurturing young minds through engaging and innovative teaching methods. Fluent in English, Hindi, and Malayalam, she strive to create inclusive learning environments that celebrate diversity and promote holistic development. Her dedication to education is evident through her involvement in academic research papers and her passion for empowering children through art, craft, and nature-based learning experiences.

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