Ehsaas @ CYDA with kids from Patil Estate - 5 - 6th May

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  Just a quick update on what happened @ Ehsaas classes over the weekend. Nikhil, Bipin, Mrs Zong and Ravi took the Saturday class, while Richa, Nikhil and Ravi took the sunday class. Ravi is Ehsaas' newest member.
  
  We have not been able to lay our hands on Grond's suggested books. Nikhil and I tried at local bookstores here, but when I asked for publishers with names like Rapidex/Navneet, they gave me very downmarket looks. The Parochial bas%$#ds.
  
  For Saturday's class, we checked homework that the kids brought to the class (Dhananjay actually brought 44 words instead of 25. That is indicative of the level of enthusiasm) The other kids did the brought nearly 5 pages of sentences that they had conjugated in the first, second and third person in the Present, past, and Future tense (including simple, continous, and perfect tenses for each of the former tenses)
  
  We did a very interesting functional english exercise with the kids, where we walked the children through the right way to speak on the phone (it was etiquette + conversational english rolled into one), and had them recreate the daily scenarios (speaking to a store owner, speaking to a mechanic) in English amongst themselves
  
  On Sunday, only 2 kids showed up (the other 3 kids called me up later. They needed to go to the hospital to support the family of a friend who had died the same day)
  
  I missed the first half of the class, but I think the kids were walked through simple exercises of the Std 5 Balbharati. Throughly enjoyable weekend for the kids and Ehsaas.