Kindergarten day celebrated as Fruit Salad Day at Bharatiya Vidya  Bhavan

April marks the beginning of a fresh and exhilarating academic year designed so as to create an environment of fun and frolic for the kindergarten children of IES. The kindergarten wing  of  Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan at IES- Jleeb and  Jack and Jill-Mangaf,  which is  built upon a series of innovative principles that uses the innate curiosity  in a child’s mind to see, feel, touch and experience new things around them, celebrated April 21st  as Kindergarten Day in honour of Friedrich Froebel who advocated the first Kindergarten .What better way to begin the year of playing and learning for these inquisitive little souls than have a theme day-The Fruit Salad Day.

To celebrate the “Fruit Salad Day”  children were asked to bring one favourite fruit to class to share with their friends. The teacher mixed it into a delicious fruit salad and the children  got a taste of a  variety of fruits. Who said children are fussy with food? The tiny tots not only enjoyed the varied tastes, but also learned to appreciate  a variety of  flavours of fruits. As always theme days are celebrated with a dual purpose of learning the fun way. On this fruit salad day the tiny tots learned more about the taste, smell, colour and physical appearance of each fruit. Beside this they also learnt the importance of washing fruits before eating, care that needs to be taken while cutting them and benefits of eating fresh fruits.

So to honour the great visionary Friedrich Froebel and dedicate ourselves to make Kindergarten teaching a fun-filled and an interesting journey for the children “The Kindergarten Day” was celebrated as “Fruit Salad day” at both branches of Bhavans with equal fervor and gusto.

Someone has rightly said- “Most of what I really need to know about how to live, what to do, and how to be, I learned in kindergarten.”