March 2024
After reviewing today’s session, I, Andika, informed the children about the Scrapbook; What it is and how to write it. When they heard the word Scrapbook everyone looked happy and curious and they immediately asked a lot of questions. For a while I was silent as I was not expecting them to have so many questions. But then I smiled and responded step by step. A Scrapbook is a method of preserving, presenting, and arranging personal and group history in the form of a book, box, or card. You can write, draw, or paint anything in the book regarding different themes such as a sports day, any festival, any visit or child group discussion, a family event, Saturday with friends, and many more. To reflect and review our memories or special days we need to express it and we can learn from each other’s feelings.
All the children looked very excited, and they didn’t want to wait – they just want to start immediately. Hence, I distributed all the materials like pencil, chart papers, colors sharpener, eraser etc. everything they need. All the children were excited, and they began to work with the Scrapbook. Some of the children were a little bit confused at first but then I explained it to them again. They were beginning to start in their own way and some of the children started with drawing, and some of the children were writing poems, and essays on the above-mentioned topics.
As an action plan, the children agreed to develop their Scrapbooks as per themes. And when they heard that they would keep their book – written by themselves – after the end of the session all of them looked very happy. Seeing their smiling faces, I felt so proud to be a trainer for them.