A jet plane on its way..

Clicked on my mobile on my way back  home after shopping.

-- Dhanesh Amma

An evening at the beach...

Recently we had been to Kanyakumari beach. Initially, when we made the plan to visit on the full moon day, I was informed that people will go on chithra powrnami (A full moon day on the tamil month of Chithirai). Still , we wanted to make it on the aavani powrnami day as we were not sure, if we will get a chance in the month of chithirai which is more than six months to go.

We reached the place before sun set and we waited for the moon to appear. The family outing was good and kids enjoying the beach sand play and eating snack. We decided to view the moon near the Vivekananda Rock.

Initially the moon was near the waist of Thiru Valluvar statue. Below is a picture clicked at that time.

It was not that dark at that time. After a while, it was getting dark and lights were put on in the rock. Below is a picture clicked in a good angle so that moon is shown as a"Ozhi Vattam" for Thiru Valluvar.

-- Dhanesh Amma

LKG interview for Dhanesh and Deepak

When we were seeking for LKG admission for Dhanesh, we had applied nearly in half dozen schools. which were in about five kilometer radius from our home. As people were behind CBSE board of education, there were around 2000 applications for nearly 200 seats. With our mission of no recommendation and no back door policy, we just gave our attempt in three CBSE schools and he was not lucky enough. Then our attempt to three matric schools were lucky. He got selected in all of them but we chose the best school out of them.

For Deepak, our choice was only one, but for sake of interview experience(!) we gave an attempt to one of the CBSE school. We were discussing what to do if he gets selected in the list, but  his name was not listed in selection list.

We were tensed, as we had not applied to any other school and it was mentioned that attending interview does not guarantee admission. At the interview, he was expected to greet the teacher, solve the shapes matching puzzle, identify the objects and tell a rhyme. Finally when they gave a chocolate, he was expected to say thank you. Though your three and half year old does all these, some times they do keep quiet and those kids were put in wait-list for admission. Deepak did interview well and he got seat in the school where his brother studies.

-- Dhanesh Amma

PreKG admission in chennai schools

Four years back , I had posted about LKG admission in chennai schools . Now it is PreKG admission everywhere instead of LKG.

Most of the schools have started their own PreKG and we have chance to reserve our seats in their schools for LKG. Some of the schools do not call for LKG admission saying it is closed as it will be filled internally in the alumni and sibling quota.

We can not sit and relax once you get PreKG admission in schools. It does not guarantee LKG admission. LKG admission process has to be followed and your kid should be performing well in the PreKG. Yes. Your three year old should be able to tell her/his name , parents and sibling name, school name, tell some rhymes, identify basic colors, vegetables , fruits, alphabets etc and should be able to hold a crayon pencil and do coloring.

When it comes to school admission in some of the BIG reputed schools, people say that application form alone is not enough and we need to have additional form, i.e some VIP's recommendation letter, Or some source where you can approach the school and block your seat with big donation. If you do not have letter and don't prefer to go for second option, then you have to depend on luck, as some open seats are selected by lot from the huge set of applications.

You have lot of options open for the first kid, where as your choice will be just one for the second kid as most of parents want to put their kids in same school.

-- Dhanesh Amma

wire bag

Recently I came across an advertisement online, where a hand bag got my attention. I was surprised as the bag looked just like the wire bag which was used in household for normal market shopping during my childhood.

However, I could not locate this handbag in the shopping Not sure if this bag was made of the wire or some other fabric painted in this way.

My mother used to buy the wires and make the wire bag and my father had used it for taking his lunch to office in that bag.

-- Dhanesh Amma

What an idea sir ji...

Recently when we were back to home in bike with kids, a crow pooped on Dhanesh hand and on his pants. As we were very near to our home, we asked him to stay as such. We washed him on reaching home.

After a few minutes, Dhanesh came to us and asked, Why this crow did this way on road. It can go in toilet in its home right ? I replied him that Trees are their home and it does not have toilet in its nest. It just goes and some times it goes while flying too.

In our country not all houses have toilets and vidya balan madam is requesting everyone to construct toilet in home for hygine and not to use public places. 

Suddenly our junior came and said, the crow could have worn pampers, so that it would not have fell on his brothers hand.

How kids relate and talk?? Imagine a diaper for all birds.. I could not stop laughing..

--Dhanesh Amma.

Craft Work - 8

We were asked to prepare Hat in Deepak School. Below is the hat made out of chart paper. 

On seeing the hat, Dhanesh also wanted to prepare one himself. So another one made by him, with some help from me.

--Dhanesh Amma.