NOIDA, 25 OCTOBER, 2018 - Thinking Thursday activities are fun to watch and experience as tiny toddlers of the school get behind the reality of the concepts and understand how various phenomenon actually work. Little wonders are engaged in practical activities that enhance their fine motor skills and speed their mental development process.

-  Painting the world around – An activity on painting with natural colours

Pre-nursery and K1 students of Global Indian International School (GIIS), Noida had a fun Thinking Thursday activity that was based on colouring using natural colours. Fruits and vegetables like beetroot, papaya, spinach, and turmeric were among the materials used to demonstrate the activity by the respective teachers.

With this activity each student got to touch and feel various vegetables/fruits; teachers used the cut fruit to show its natural colour on a piece of paper and to help students understand the phenomenon of natural colouring, and the difference between natural and artificial colours. This fun activity taught students how to extract colours from natural fruits/vegetables and how they are beneficial for use.

- Rainbow Clouds

KG students of the campus were engaged in a fun thinking Thursday activity that was themed around rainbow clouds. The activity was carried out by respective class teachers to demonstrate the experiment. The teacher placed two clear glasses of water separately on the table and added different food colours in each of the glass containers. Then she topped it up with some shaving cream and added some drops of coloured water using an eye dropper. It was observed that the closer one squirts the edges, the faster it will strike through the clouds and come down as a rain. At the end of the experiment, the children understood that water is like air, and shaving cream is representing clouds and these clouds when saturated with water, produces rain.