Author name: Tiny Tots Pre-School

Teachers’ Day in a pre-school: 8 activities that actually work

Eight things a three- or four-year-old can genuinely do on 5 September — and one popular idea we would skip.

One evening a year, every child stands on a stage in front of their parents. For most of them it is the first time.

Ten minutes inside a classroom will tell you more than any brochure. Here is what to look at while you are standing there.

For Earth Day every child potted a plant of their own. The harder part was the fortnight afterwards.

On 5 September the children take charge of the classroom, and the teachers — for once — sit down.

Threading a rakhi is fine motor practice wearing a festival costume.

A procession of three-year-olds with cymbals, tulsi pots and considerable conviction.

Small Krishnas, a dahi handi hung deliberately low, and rather a lot of butter.

Tilgul ghya, god god bola — and a kite that never quite gets off the ground.

A gudi raised at child height, and the annual negotiation over the bitter neem.