Merry X'Mas

Dear Be2 Aware Club Members

Have a merry X'Mas and a wonderful 2015.May every day see you grow into earth sensitive,earth friendly human beings.Spread environmental awareness in your homes,your locality.Spread goodness and cheer - Celebrate Life in harmony with Nature !!!

Special Assembly by former Be2 Aware Members

Students of class 9 performed the Special Assembly in the High School Block and the Junior Block on two different days - Dec 17 and Dec 18.The students spoke about "Swacch Bharat " - cleaning up the neighborhood and inspired their fellow students. Good work students :)Keep it up!!

Shibori Technique

Dec 15,2014
Shibori was originally an art of the poor. In feudal Japan, many people could not afford to buy expensive fabrics like cotton or silk, so clothes were often made of cheap hemp fabrics. People could not afford to replace clothes regularly either, so they would repair and redye them, and the art of Shibori evolved as a means of making old clothes look new. Under the Tokugawa peace, many different arts flourished, and many different techniques and local forms of Shibori emerged. Shibori developed along two separate paths: as the method of decorating the silk used for producing kimonos for the aristocracy of Japan (largely carried out in Kyoto), and as a folk art differing from region to region.
Here are few more interesting links :

http://youtu.be/XgSQSI8u-Yo

http://youtu.be/Yg-udpb8aRQ

Shibori -Traditional Craft- Part 1

http://youtu.be/t66HFQcRsv4

Shibori -Traditional Craft- Part 2

http://www.mukogawa-u.ac.jp/~ushida/e_ai_exp.htm

Indigofera

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigofera#

Ms.Neha Utmani conducted the session  on "Shibori" - you can use this technique to create eco friendly gift wrappers that are exclusive.
Materials Required

Plain paper napkins,Rubber bands,Edible color powders,Brushes,bowl,cloth peg,1 rupee coins(2),old newspapers.

There is another interesting way of painting that is also meditative,called suminagashi -  http://suminagashi.com/overview/.This site also talks of a Turkish - Islamic Art form called Ebru.

Thank you Neha Ma'am for the interesting session.You can view her sessions at : http://nehautmani.blogspot.in/

Our Responsibility?

       Happy Children's Day!!

On this occasion,take a moment to reflect on all the blessings you have.What can you do to make the world a happier place??

What does this picture convey to you?Write about this in about 250 words in your journal.You     may sketch/ print this on recycled paper and stick this neatly in your journals.

How do you connect to Nature?

Oct 15,2014

Students in teams , write about their connection with Nature after hearing this in class :

Source : http://www.ncsu.edu/project/treesofstrength/poems.htm

DIALOGUE OF A MAN AND A TREE
The Man: Why do you grow so tall, way up there in the sky?
The Tree: I love the heights that are clean and free, where the lonely eagles fly, where the crane and the hawk can nest with me, and my friends, the geese, go by.
The Man: What do you use for food, tree to make you grow and grow?
The Tree: I live on a diet of Nature's best from my roots deep down below; I never go hungry, I rest and rest and wait for the rain and the snow.
The Man: How do you grow so strong, Tree, sturdy and straight and true?
The Tree: I live in the light of the sunshine and yarn for the sky's deep blue; the clean, sweet air is always mine, and the cold winds help me too.
The Man: How do you live so long, Tree, so much longer than man?
The Tree: I've geared my days with the Creator's ways since ever the world began. There is no death when life keeps faith with nature's wonderful plan.--
Vincent Godfrey Burns, Poet Laureate of Maryland, 1965
I LOVE A TREE
When I pass to my reward.
Whatever that may be,
I'd like my friends to think of me
As one who loved a tree.
I may not have a statesman's poise
Nor thrill a throng with speech
But I may benefit mankind
If I set out a beech.
If I transport a sapling oak
To rear its mighty head
Twill make for them a childhood shrine,
That will not soon decay.
Of if I plant a tree with fruit,
On which the birds may feed,
Then I have fostered feathered friends
And that's a worthy deed.
For winter when the days grow short
And spirits may run low
I'd plant a pine upon the scape
T'would lend a cheery glow.
I'd like a tree to mark the spot
Where I am laid to rest
For that would be the epitaph
That I would like the best.
Tho it's not carved upon a stone
For those who come to see
But friends would know that resting there
Is he, who loved a tree
-- Samuel N. Baxter
My heart is glad, my heart is high
With sudden ecstacy!
I have given back, before I die,
Some thanks for every lovely tree
That dead men grew for me.
V. H. Friedlaendeer 

Here are few samples of students' works :

Session at DKS

Students learnt to make dolls from plastic bottles - cool up cycling :) conducted by Mr.Hetan,Art Teacher.Thank you Sir.

Session 3

This week students read the story of the Pipal Tree.They have been asked to write two stories about the trees in the school campus. Be2 Aware members were introduced to the website http://treesindia.indiabiodiversity.org/.Students can contribute their own observations on trees in their locality and upload these on the website.

Session 2

In this session,a story on "Nature Science" was narrated.Students were introduced to the Be-2 Aware Club blog.They were asked to design the cover page of their journals.

Photos of students' journals - beautiful works!!

Harshitha K,Class 7 F

Ipsita,class 7