It’s easy to make our young ones reach for the stars. Spectators watched as children of RCB’s Lighthouse Project dressed as stars performed the lively Starjump Dance. It was the finale of the Lighthouse K.G. summer camp, held on April 15th, 2022, and the Starjump Dance was followed by three-year-olds swaying to Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star. The show...
Our Lighthouse students visited Meandering through a Mapped Canvas, an exhibition pf restored maps organised by the Royal Asiatic Society at Asiatic Library and the Rotary Club of Bombay. The youngsters were taken on a guided tour of the city (and country) through maps. From 400-yearold specimens that had been painstakingly restored to ‘new’ 75-year-old ones,...
Rotary child Ishti Agrawal gave an end of the year treat to Lighthouse children We thank Rotarian Charu Agrawal’s daughter Ishti for raising funds to pay for a full year’s education of 5 Vaidu children. She also organised an end of the year treat for Lighthouse children. Our tiny tots of the Lighthouse class got a chance...
Doing art and craft together is so much more fun in offline class for our Lighthouse students. In keeping with the theme of the month, Insects, batches 1 and 2 of the kindergarten created an ant craft and a pretty dragonfly using wooden spoons. The students of standards 1 and 2 listened to ‘Janice in Chinatown,’ a...
Team Partners-In-Service of the Rotaract Club of Hinduja College conducted ‘Blast of Love’ for Lighthouse students, to share the idea that Valentine’s Day is only for romantic love. The host explained how love can be felt by everyone. They encouraged students to express what love meant to them and what they would like to tell their...
Colourful balloons greeted K.G. tots as they entered Lighthouse to attend their first offline class on Tuesday, February 8th, 2022. After sanitising their hands and a temperature check, as per Covid protocols, the little ones enjoyed putting together alphabet foam puzzles. It was all song and dance for the babies as they jived to Hokey Pokey and...
Community helpers play an important part in keeping us happy, healthy and safe. To highlight their contribution to society, the K.G. students of Rotary Club of Bombay’s Lighthouse Project were given the opportunity to enact roles of community helpers on January 31st, 2022. From soldiers and commandos to vegetable vendors, tailors and barbers, all types...
A poem about our tricolour, some lesser-known facts on India and a skit on the Indian Constitution were just some of the items showcased by Lighthouse students at the virtual Republic Day event held on January 26th, 2022. The highlight of the programme was the much-awaited Lighthouse quiz modelled on Kaun Banega Crorepati. Teams of students...
Lighthouse began its Christmas celebrations with the K.G. class hearing Jesus Christ’s origin story. The little ones then sang popular carols and learned how to make brown-paper Rudolphs and Santa. Standards 1 and 2 enjoyed making a paper snowman and drew various Christmas symbols. They then played Christmas Bingo in a way that enhanced their vocabulary,...
English literacy classes for the Mothers’ Programme at Lighthouse continue to be conducted weekly. This is an online initiative to enable mothers engage better with what their children learn. It also makes them more confident when dealing with their child’s school. Over the months, we have noticed a change in the attitude of the mothers. They...
‘Keep the ocean clean! That’s the most important thing!’ sang our oldest Lighthouse students at the Litfest finale held on November 13th, 2021. The Litfest is an annual Lighthouse event where children explore different themes using language as a bridge. This year, depending on their grade levels, kids learned about the inhabitants of Earth’s deep, hydrological...
Here’s a quick glance at what the students have learnt in the last three days: the tiny tots of K.G. have been getting acquainted with the many inhabitants of the sea-like octopus and jellyfish. The little ones are even learning to mimic the actions of these sea animals. Students of classes 1 and 2 have begun...