May 7, 2012 |
Smruthi S |
City Roundup |
Looking down the memory lane, all of us would recollect our childhood days when we soiled our clothes either playing with clay or with mud. Now, in this fast-moving era, one cannot imagine an entire family sitting under a banyan tree and playing with mud and clay. But it would have seemed possible for
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TAGS: children chennai, pottery, sundaram
May 7, 2012 |
Sara Karthik |
City Roundup |
Landmark at Apex Plaza was crowded with kids on the evening of May 4, 2012.
Children were seen hurriedly flipping through fictions and novels, They were sitting on the large red mat, introducing themselves to their soon-to-be friends.
A cameraman bustled about, snapping pictures of all the children
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May 5, 2012 |
Guest Reporter |
City Roundup |
P. Aravindhan shot this from the Loco Works bridge near Perambur. He captured it when he was on his way back, from an outing with his friends at about 6 O' clock in the evening in March this year.
He used a Nikon L120 camera, with the dusk mode.
Aravindhan loves photography and is just getting
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May 5, 2012 |
Smruthi S |
City Roundup |
The Chettinad Vidyashram school campus in R. A. Puram saw an unusual buzz of activity for a day during the summer holidays. It was on May 3, 2012.
If one thought it was probably the X and XII graders attending special classes or the teachers doing their exam corrections, then guess again! It was an
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By YOCee Team
Do! is a workshop organised by Hippocampus and Tara Books for children of ages 6 to 9 years. A fun way to learn verbs and an interactive workshop using Warli style pictograms. This is a free event.
The workshop will be held at Tara Books, Book Building, Plot 9, CGE Colony, Off Kuppam Beach Road, Tiruvanmiyur.
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By YOCee Team
A two day workshop on making books is being organised by Pappadum and Babel Books on May 25 and 26, 2012. The workshop will be conducted by Aditi Babel, a book artist and graphic designer from Bangalore. Venue: Sri Parvati Gallery, 28/160, Eldams Road, Alwarpet.
The event which is held in association
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By YOCee Team
Tulika, Chennai based children's publishing house is launching their new picture book The Sky Monkey's Beard on May 24, 2012 at 5.30 p.m. The launch will be held at Ashvita, 11, Second Street, Dr. Radhakrishnan Salai, Mylapore.
Niveditha Subramaniam, author of this book and a few other books will
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By YOCee Team
Tamil Nadu Science and Technology Centre is organising a three day programme on Astronomy and Astrophysics for students of class 7, 8 and 9. This programme will be held from May 17 to 19, 2012 fro 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on all the three days.
The sessions will include practical observations of stars, planets,
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By Editor
The ePaper for the fortnight May 13, 2012 to May 26, 2012
Click here to download YOCee ePaper May 13 - May 26, 2012 issue as PDF (5.11 MB)
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By Editor
Tamil Heritage Trust will be conducting a workshop for children on May 19 and 20, 2012 at Raga Sudha Hall, Luz Avenue, Mylapore.
The workshop will include sessions on Life & exciting Math of Srinivasa Ramanujan led by N. Balasubramaniam and Badri Seshadri, introduction to Astronomy to look up
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By Editor
Construct your own motor, see what is inside an iron box, make a 2 way switch. All this, and more will be done at Power Up - A Science workshop on Electricity and Magnetism at Vidhyapika Learning Centre. This workshop aims at understanding and appreciating the concepts of Electricity and Magnetism through
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By Editor
Heard of the children's choir songs tuned by M.B. Srinivasan?
In the Government run CBSE schools, these songs are sung regularly during the school events. Try if you can recollect - Odi Vilaaiyadu pappa of poet Subramania Bharathi and Cheluvina muddina makkale of H.S Venkatesh Murthy. They are among
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By Editor
Annual discount sale of Scholastic books are back. You can fill a Scholastic bag with as many books as you can and the whole bunch will come for Rs. 1000. The discount sale is on from April 16 to June 16, 2012 including Sundays at Scholastic India P. Ltd, 14, 29th Cross Street, Indira Nagar, Adyar.
Contact
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