The document summarizes activities conducted by the Centre for Education and Voluntary Action with children at the British School Panchkula. The children were introduced to Cinquains, a five-line poetic form, and created their own poems. They also created stories, scripted dialogues, and made puppets. A variety of activities were used to develop skills like listening, visualization, thinking outside the box, voice training, puppet making, rehearsing, and teamwork. Finally, one group performed their story for an audience.

1. CENTRE FOR EDUCATION AND VOLUNTARY ACTION
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3. “@ British School Panchkula ”

4. The participating children were introduced to Cinquains, which is a poetic form that employs a five line pattern. They
created and recited their own poems. They created stories, scripted their dialogues and made puppets…

5. So what is a story?? The children created mind maps about stories and the skills required for performing a story.

6. An activity exploring the skill of “Listening”!

7. Story making started with visualization skills.

8. Activities to motivate children to think out of the box...

9. An activity of voice training to spruce up the children’s Story Performances. In how many different ways
you can say a sentence using different emotions, expression, voice and body language.

10. Time for children to make their own puppets according to their characters in the story. All the activities
we chose focused on developing different skills of the children – visual spatial, linguistic, kinesthetic,
musical, mathematical, interpersonal and intrapersonal…

11. Rehearsal time where children overcome their inhibitions to speak and act. And they worked in teams which
help build co-operative learning skills…

12. Finally the big day is here. One of the groups is performing in front of the audience