Classroom fun
PANKAJA SRINIVASAN
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Here is something to look forward to even after your schools reopen.
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Photo: G.P. Sampath Kumar
Express yourself: Perfect setting.
Do you have soft boards in your classrooms where you can pin up all kinds of interesting information? I am sure you do. So, now that schools have just reopened after a long and glorious summer vacation, why don’t you continue the fun a bit longer?
Here is how you could do it. Divide your class into groups with one group in charge of the board each week.
You can start with putting up information/photographs/paintings of the places you visited in your summer holidays. If you had visited Ooty, draw a map of Tamil Nadu, mark out Ooty on it and then proceed to list out the places of interest you visited there. You can give a little info about it. For example, if you visited Dodda Betta, find out its height, how you get to the top and what you see there. (This is just to give you an idea of what you can do.)
Jot down facts
Those who did not travel anywhere and instead spent a relaxed, lazy time at home, I am sure you would have read something or watched interesting films. Why don’t you pin up a list of books/films? Highlight your favourites. If you thought one of the books was just too good, or the movie gripping, then give some more facts about it so that your friends can try it out too (such as who wrote it, what is the story about, how many pages the book has if there is magic in the story, there are animals in it, or if ghosts haunt it, and so on and so forth). It would be great fun too, to do the same with books or films you hated!
Take it up as a challenge. Make the info board in your classroom so interesting that there are always kids hanging around wanting to know what is on it. Ask your teachers for advice. You could even have interesting information on a particular poem in English, or area in Geography or a particular period in history you are studying at the moment that you could put up. You could earmark one corner for current affairs. Another corner could be devoted to a great quote you have come across somewhere and a third could be used for laughs — a funny cartoon (you can cut them out of newspapers) or even a PJ.
Do it throughout the year and not just when there is an inspection at school! Think about it and have a blast with it. And, make your teachers proud.
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