Tasting and naming: the senses at mealtime
Lunch is the richest sensory hour of the school day, and we spend it saying hurry up. A ten-minute weekly tasting helps children look, smell, touch, taste and find words for food.
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Looking at one thing for one minute
Children cannot pay attention on command, but they can practise it. One ordinary object and one minute of looking teach the real skill, which is coming back.
One minute of listening
One minute in which the whole class listens to the room, not to the teacher. A simple practice that settles a noisy class without a single shout.
Sri Aurobindo and the Mother: integral and physical education
Sri Aurobindo and the Mother gave the body a real place in education and equal ground to girls. They still kept it below the mind, and that is where this series parts ways with them.
Anubhava: experience as a source of knowledge
Indian philosophy separates knowing again from knowing now. Why a child’s own anubhava deserves a place in the classroom, and why the teacher still matters.
Sensorimotor learning: we learn to see by moving
We tend to think children see first and move later. Research on kittens, crawling babies and go-carts says the order runs the other way.