Session 1, Class ||| C

I went for my first session with Blue Bells School, I was allotted a class of 20 kids. Much to my surprise the theater teacher of Bluebels school, Beatrice was one of the people from Adil Hussain's troop that had taught us in foundation.
For the session we had choosen the theme of SPONTANEOUS REACTIONS.
Let the children with he medium of body and movement express the elements of Water, Air and Earth.
We started of by introducing what i was doing and my themes of Water, Air and Earth. The were extremely excited as they were studying these in their EVS class. We began by first making a circle and closing our eyes to build concentration and feeling the warmth of each others palms. The concentration span of the children was zero. They were giggling and laughing. :) They were excited. We worked this excitement and energy to our advantage. We asked them to close their eyes and imagine a nice river a clam river...Blue, calming blue and you could suddenly see smiling faces. Choosing the right moment we asked them to start moving, all of them started moving in very very flowing movements with their hands and feet swirling from one place to another. We asked them to take diffrent moods of the river calm, rough, still and all of them understood the command and moved accordingly. It was fun to see their perception of the subject , but it was very difficult to keep their eyes closed. They didnt enjoy the slow part of the workshop and soon saw they were getting bored and suddenly we asked them to mover like rain with sound which they enjoyed very much. The made wishi-woshi sounds and tip-tip and pitter patter sounds. They knew the difference between the nature of the two water bodies. We did the same thing with the other elements of Air and Earth. They each Knew the difference of nature and material.
After the session we asked them to voice out what they felt:
" Air is all around us so, we cant move all around so it was a little difficult"
"Air was difficult because we cannot see air but we can only feel air, we cant even smell air."
" Rain was fun because I love the rain"
" Earth was fun because I like clay and made a figure."
" Water, I love moving like water."
Air was tougher for most of them as it was not a tangible object they didnt know how it looked or felt or touched and imagining that was difficult for them. I was very happy to see that they were not rigid to move or inhibited to express. They were very open.
A lot of their reaction came from their own basis of what they liked and what they didn't. After the class I gave them a sheet of paper each and asked them to draw what the saw while imagining and what they felt.
So eagerly waiting for the drawings! :)
My next session is on Tuesday with class |V D.

P.S : I didn't document this session as the kids are too small and they need to get accustomed to me and bring a camera would startle them. But I will document the Tuesday session as they are older kids.