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What do we do when there is a child (Shreyas) who is obsessed with road, maps and bus travel? We decided that we will go on a one day bus trip within Chennai. The plan was to go on an ad hoc route. That is to say that there was actually no plan. We just wanted to keep moving from one bus to the other - no pre-planned routes. We left home at 6.30 AM and returned home at 7.30 PM. It was one of the most memorable trips we had. Nothing to worry. No need to hurry or catch up with any timings. Just be relaxed, stay cool and enjoy the day. Here, is a report by Srishti. Here is the map drawn by Shreyas and coloured by Srishti.  This is the map that we plotted on Google maps to track our bus trip.

weaving  and  felting  workshop - srishti made a pouch using the felted cloth went to madras literary society  learnt to catalog the books  history of the library  role of a librarian nizhal -  played a game on the needs of a plant exploring the plants to be monitored at besant nagar tree survey at 3rd seaward road performances kathakali at kalakshetra bharatanatyam performance by bristi akka at  bharatiya vidya bhavan bharatanatyam arangetrum  by sitara  at  bharatiya vidya bhavan blindfolded piano concert by anil srinivasan, Naveen Napier, Krishna Kishore at egmore museum Chennai Bus trip Kingdom vegetalia presentation till branch Angiospermae Layers of the atmosphere presentation Squaring continuation Square root introduction Tamil - Colour names Hindi - Alphabets and duolingo (Shreyas) French - Duolingo (Srishti) Japanese - Duolingo (Jayashree) Timeline - History of ancient India - Sr...

Started off with a review of the previous month. Introduction to the concept of money and various currencies. Visited Semmozhi Poonga and Srishti tried photography with D-SLR. Chennai Coin Fair Kreeda workshop - Played various traditional games and first meetup with The Chennai Homeschoolers. Philately Workshop and visit to the Anna Road GPO Squaring using the DIY squaring board Completed the map game and the content for Map of Ramayana. Worked on sentence analysis and noun classification. Discussed about Child Sexual Safety and Child Sexual Abuse Srishti learnt to bake spinach corn cheese tart and chocolate chip cookies. Harry Potter Srishti joined Math Art and Origami classes Got subscription at Murugan Lending Library. Books read this month includes: Harry Potter Noddy Tiny tot - Akbar & Birbal tales Ramayana by Kamala Subramanian Reading the book "The hidden life of trees" Ainthinai - Planted few saplings Wall mural painting at KTP Visi...

Math word problems History research chart - Research on Egyptian Civilization by Srishti Yellow Area Material - Made by Amma and Shreyas First step into animation Cycling and exploring our neighborhood - Shreyas Map game (in progress) Mango sale (learning to use the weighing scale) Trip to vandalur zoo Discussion about learning - what is learning, how to learn and why to learn. Map of Ramayana (learning to type)

First game created by Srishti is here A game of race track created by Srishti. Click here to play. Wicked maze game by Srishti: Here is the first cut design idea illustrated by Srishti. The link to the game is here Quiz program: Here is the design idea and simple algorithm developed by Srishti. The script development is in progress. First game developed by Shreyas: The Shark game