Preparation for the new session- 1

Our yearly working calendar is coming to close this week. I want to thank my teachers and aunties who have made it seem so easy to work, comfortable and fruitful.


I want to thank all the parents who believed us and gave us the opportunity to serve their children.


Chaitra being the last month of our Nepalese calendar is quite a busy one for the parents searching new schools and the school owners promoting their schools.


Every year at this time of the school session I go busy advertising and promoting my school for enrolling new students. This year too I have many flex print banners and boards with a new logo hung on the poles.


The boundary walls are painted white and the inside playground walls red. Ah............ quite tiring I spent the whole day looking at the painters work as it was holiday.


Well tomorrow is yet another day to think about promotion in a different way.

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Madal -musical instrument

The boys from U KG made madal- a musical instrument with corrugated cardboard. It was their dance accessory. I stapled it and gave it a cylinder shape and put pink yarn through it for tying around the waist. They painted it brownish green. The sides were covered with round chart paper and its center marked black to give a real look. L KG enjoyed helping them.

Busy boys painting 

Busy boys painting with sponge

Helping hands

Helping hands

Helping hands

Thanks to Bhawana Tulachan

Bhawana Tulachan, a bachelor's student of fine arts from Kathmandu University has designed a new logo for our school. She is an aspiring young artist who has also illustrated children's book -How did the caterpillar cross the river? for Room to Read and Rato Rumal for Kathalaya. Our school children love these books.

                                   Thanks Bhawana.

Pink Series-2

Here is my son's puzzle cards which I bought in Kyoto. Its a three letter words cards for further practice in making words. I love these cards because we can use it two ways both front and back.

This is another booklet in the pink series. I drew four pictures of fox in A-4 size paper, colored, cut along the outline, pasted on thick construction paper and covered with wide cello tape.

Sakura-Cherry Blossom

My cherry trees have just started blooming. It’s not the exact kind I saw in Japan but it brings back fond memories of my stay there. My kids sang "Sakura saitara ichi nen sei Hitori de ikerukana” a popular song among the preschoolers just before they go to grade one. In the song there is relation between Sakura and grade one. I wish I could translate into Nepali for my U KG as they are preparing for grade one.

Any way we have our preparations too. We have Annual function and Graduation Ceremony next Saturday and quite busy with rehearsals.

U KG made calendar for Chaitra the last month of Nepali year. They weaved papers, wrote numbers on it and laced the border. I punched holes for lacing. We will use stick and string to hang the calendar.

The calendar has three important days marked.

Chaitra 1st-Annual Function and Graduation Ceremony

Chaitra 7th- Picnic to Godavari with Grandparents

Chaitra 14th -Farewell party to U KG

I am getting more and more obsessed with Dr. Seuss books so I had children write their favorite book and one line from the particular book they chose.

Lets hope the weather cooperates on the grand day as the stage will be set up on our playground.

My voice

While I was making these hats I wondered if I am overdoing this kind of activities like -making teaching materials, giving to children, taking photographs and posting. But it’s my heart which says continue and don't stop. It’s my recently developed passion and I am enjoying every bit of it. I thank my preschoolers who are always hungry for new activities.

In Nepal we have course books for preschoolers. We are confined to these books and try to complete the course on time. We even mark them fail and do not upgrade them. I did the same until recently when I started my own preschool.

I remember I had 38 preschoolers to handle all by myself and even if I had made these kind of materials it won't have being possible in such a large group.

Right now I have pressure from parents who want their children get through reputed schools in Kathmandu. There are coaching centers running classes for entrance exam in grade one. I feel they are teaching more than what a child would learn in grade one.

As for me I feel preschoolers mean getting ready for school and not learning grade one course.

Well I am trying to make few changes even if small to make each child’s moment here in the preschool enjoyable and memorable.

I made these colorful hats for matching inspired by Dr. Seuss-“The Cat In The Hat”