Learning Souls Activity Club : Rules/Points to Note

[Deepa Shahi]

Hi Moms

So here we are with a brand new Club ! Thanks to all the moms who could make it at such short notice to MCA to finalise the schedule, rules, etc, and a Warm Welcome to all newcomers !!

Bear with us on this looong message, we are trying to put everything down in black and white so there's no confusion later....

• Purpose : The purpose of Learning Souls is for the kids to participate in an activity that is informative and fun. 

• Regularity : Once a month, on a Saturday afternoon 3 - 5pm (with some exceptions in December and March where we'll meet on weekdays - more on that later)

• Cost : 3000/- per child, to be sent on or before the first meeting in October. (Erstwhile bookclub moms, we will send you a separate message since many of you have around 1600/- each left over from the bookclub)

• Hosting : Moms will host in pairs, schedule being put up separately by Kirti. Hosting involves arranging the entire activity including contacting the rest of the club members, as well as providing simple refreshments.

• Funding : The corpus money (3000/- x 16 kids) will move by rotation to the next lot of hosts, who will use some to fund their activity (please note the food each time will be sponsored by host moms, not taken from the club fund). We have calculated 3000/- per child assuming that we will need an average of Rs.500/- per kid per month (some will be more expensive and some activities may be very cheap). The overnight camp in December will obviously need to be paid for separately. If we run out later, we'll all chip in fresh funds. 

• Behaviour : We intend to outsource i.e. use experts/professionals where-ever we feel the kids will benefit - eg theatre workshop, cookery, science experiments, etc - this implies a need for our kids to behave with decorum, not disrupt the activity with loud disparaging remarks OR show their boredom by being immersed in gadgets - ipod, bbm, etc. It is very unlikely that every kid will enjoy every activity, since all have different interests. But they do need to learn to respect differences. After one warning regarding behaviour, next time the kid will have to leave the club and forfeit the money. 

• Attendance : A lot of these activities will need a certain minimum attendance to be confirmed to the experts/professionals. A lot of effort goes into any one such activity, by the host moms as well as the experts. It is important that we dont have last minute drop-outs. Also since the schedule will be known from now itself, please keep it as a part of the kids calendar, much as you would their exams, tournaments, et al. To instill discipline and also to prevent logistical issues, any kid not attending for any reason forfeits the money for that particular activity.
  

• Types of activities : Some wonderful ideas were generated - here's some of them just to give you a sense - cookery at Om Creations NGO, gardening, life sciences skills including basic first aid, visit to Dharavi, environmental awareness, movie review, creative writing, learning about the economy/visit to stockmarket, science experiments with NGO Pratham, visit to Nehru Science, Planetarium - and the big highlight : the overnight camp with trekking and other outdoor activities in December. Some of you have already decided what you are going to do, and that will be mentioned on the schedule being put up soon. We just need to co-ordinate with each other to ensure activities are different from each other.
  

The first meeting is most probably on 13th October, hosted by Kimaya and Mihika, and will be based on movie reviewing. Details will be posted once hosts have figured out what to do :)

Information regarding this and all future stuff will be done via this lovely Google Group that Priti has created..... thanks Priti !! 

Let us know if you have any queries, or need any clarifications.... and PLEASE acknowledge this message latest by Sunday 07th Oct so we know you've read it....

Regards

Kirti, Priti, Deepa

[Alka Nalavadi]

Read understood absorbed .... Will do my besest best to adhere :)

Thank u thank u for all the initiative

Acknowledged :)

Sent from my iPhone

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[Prakruti Vardhan]

Yes Deepa kirti and Priti .. I'm on for it ..
thanks PRAKRUTI 

On 05-Oct-2012, at 9:52 AM, Deepa Shahi <deep...@gmail.com> wrote:

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