Celebrating human values

Sense of Values Is The Best Gift We Can Give To Our Children

In the spirit to realize the dream of Dr (Mrs) Amita Chauhan, Chairperson, Amity Group of Schools and RBEF, of making Amies true ambassadors of kindness and empathy towards society and environment, ‘Human Values’ month/week was observed at every Amiown centre as a part of her birthday celebrations. The objective of the celebration was to inculcate the virtues of kindness, care, and compassion as a way of life in children, right from their formative years. Here is a glimpse of the multitude activities, based on virtues like sharing, kindness and empathy, that are learnt, practiced and imbibed by little Amies during the month/week.

   Amiown, Pushp Vihar  
Kindness is contagious

Shilpa

Amiown celebrated the birthday of their beloved Chairperson with her and observed ‘Human Values’ week from April 23-27, 2018. Throughout the week, children engaged in several activities based on the prime human value of ‘Kindness’. Little Amies learnt more about kindness by forming kindness community, making kindness wreath, kindness quilt, kindness tree, etc. They also did role plays and narrated stories like ‘The New Girl’ by Kylie Logan and ‘How Kind’ by Mary Murphy and also made craft items based on these stories. As a way for positive reinforcement for good behaviour, ‘Kindness Jars’ were introduced. Each time a child did an act of kindness s/he was recognized with a tangible reward from the jar. As a beautiful act of kindness towards plants and celebration of Earth Day, tiny tots sowed seeds in old plastic bottles as planters, imbibing the value of 3Rs (reduce, reuse, recycle). They now daily water the plants in garden and take proper care of them.
Token of love: Children made beautiful birthday cards, sang mellifluous birthday songs and cut a birthday cake.

   Amiown, Vasundhara  

Kindness is heartfelt

Vinisha Mary George

To celebrate the birthday of Dr (Mrs) Amita Chauhan, Chairperson, Amity Group of Schools and RBEF, who envisions to make every Amitian a sensitive and caring educated human being, the little ones learnt, practiced and imbibed value based education on the act of kindness, gratitude, and care. They were sensitized to be kind towards the birds and learnt to take care of them by feeding them. They enjoyed making collaborative bird house using hay and pasted colourful finger dabbed birds on it. To boost the spirit of care towards nature, children participated in   activities like watering plants in the school premises. Children also helped their parents at home in small activities like tidying up home, helping lay dining table, etc. Within a month, it was observed that they had started using magic words like ‘Thank you’ and ‘Sorry’ with their parents and other people around them.

Token of love: Children made a beautiful wind chime by painting and decorating old CDs using 3Rs (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle).

   Amiown, Noida  

Kindness is powerful

Yashasvi Bansal

Amiown inculcated the value of kindness through various activities based on virtues of compassion and benevolence. Throughout the month, children learnt about the ‘Power of kindness’, ‘Kindness to family’, ‘Kindness to the environment’, ‘Kindness to our community’ and ‘Kindness to oneself’. They also learnt and started using magic words like ‘Please’, ‘Thank you’, ‘ Sorry’, ‘Kindly’, in their day-to-day tasks. Each class created a ‘kindness tree’, where their act of kindness were displayed. They also shared their experiences practicing kindness in their daily lives. ‘Earth day’ celebrations had children sowing seeds, watering plants, making bird feeders and cleaning up the garden area as ‘Shramdaan’. They made cloth/jute bags and learnt about saving water and reusing old materials.
Token of love: Children collaboratively created different flowers and watering cans by using newspaper and different techniques of painting and printing. They were then assembled to form a greeting card.

   Amiown, Gurugram  

Kindness is sharing

Shilpi M Ghosh

‘Human Value month’ observed in April to celebrate the birthday of  Chairperson Ma’am, saw the little ones learn about the power of kindness and practice the same in their daily life. A number of activities were organised like ‘Soulful Sharing’ where students and staff shared food items with an NGO. In ‘Gratitude treat’, Amies prepared and served food to school helpers as a token of gratitude and kindness. During ‘Earth Day’ celebrations, each class prepared a beautiful poster on how they can contribute to greener tomorrow. Amies also initiated a new activity ‘Composting is Fun’ as a part of their year long ‘Value Educational Project’ to enable children understand the importance of reusing waste products in an ecofriendly way. Children also prepared ‘Bird Feeders’ and placed it in the Amiown garden.
Token of love: Every child decorated an ice-cream stick with vibrant patterns and wrote a letter to create a special message - ‘The light of your strength and passion shows us the path to change the world’