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Making mandalas with different designs and materials (like flowers, leaves, seeds, coloured tiles, stones) helps develop the children's visual perception with colours/designs and a sense of beauty. <ref>http://wiki.auroville.org.in/wiki/SAIIER_2016:Nandanam_Kindergarten</ref> (under sense of beauty and concentration)
== Land Art ==
Eight to fifteen children of mixed age groups paint freely together with a few adults in a safe space enclosed in big vertical panels that shelters the inner necessity of expression from all distractions. No subject or theme is imposed. In the center of the room is a Table-Palette with eighteen pots of paint of different colors and special brushes. Arno Stern discovered that it is only in these specific conditions that the inner language of the organic memory can manifest itself as a set of 70 signs that he calls ―Formulation. Through this essential process, a transformation of the being can start whatever the age, nationality or cultural background of the person. <ref>http://wiki.auroville.org.in/w/images/b/ba/SAIIER_Annual_Report_2009-10_Vol._1.pdf (p.104)</ref>
 
== Clay work ==
Sometimes the students are taken for full moon walks around Auroville, where they experience the adventure of getting to know how places are at night time and what types of animals, birds, reptiles and other creatures live next to their existing environment. Star-gazing and getting lost in the quietude of night time are beautiful experiences. The creative streak comes alive through such activities.They learn to appreciate the beauty of stillness and darkness—when everything around them seems to be asleep yet awake. <ref>http://wiki.auroville.org.in/wiki/SAIIER_Annual_Report_2014-2015:_Kuilapalayam_Cultural_Centre (under night walks)</ref>
== Heritage Tour Tours ==
Such tours instil the beauty of wonder in the students by visiting temples and other places of historic importance. It is good to take them out for educational tours and expose them to first hand knowledge rather than studying about the same in books. For instance, in Auroville schools, all the staff and students had a one day heritage tour to Thirukovilur, Arakandanalur and Adhi Thiruvarangam about 90 kilometers distance from Auroville. <ref>http://wiki.auroville.org.in/w/images/b/ba/SAIIER_Annual_Report_2009-10_Vol._1.pdf (p.71)</ref>
===Examples of other field trips Other Field Trips in AurovilleSchools===
== '''Revelation Forest, Auroville =='''
On one of the field trips, a group of students and teachers went to Revelation, where they were taken on a walk through the forest and showed the work that has been doing there for many years. They were shown how carefully planned bunding and small dams stop erosion and collect the rainwater, so that it can replenish the aquifer. The thousands of planted trees hold the soil with their roots, and falling leaves create healthy topsoil. All kinds of animals and birds are attracted to this sanctuary. The ultimate goal is to re-establish the tropical dry evergreen forest of indigenous species that used to cover this land long ago. Such field trips and first hand observations stir children’s imagination and make them much more aware. <ref>http://wiki.auroville.org.in/w/images/7/7f/Annual_Report_2010-11_-_Vol._1.pdf (p.9)</ref>
== '''Field Trip to Adyar Ponga =='''
Throughout the last 2 years the children had been studying elements of Environmental Science. This culminated in a trip to Adyar Poonga, an eco-park in Chennai which is the result of the restoration of the vegetation of the freshwater eco-systems of the Adyar River and estuary. This was a very uplifting experience. The students saw that with attention and hard work even areas which had been made into ecological disasters could be restored. <ref>http://wiki.auroville.org.in/wiki/SAIIER_2013:Transition_School</ref> (under Farms, forests and gardens)
== Celebrating Festivals ==
Festivals like Navarathri, Deepavali, Pongal, Christmas and New Year days can be celebrated bringing out their inner significance. Independence Day and Sri Aurobindo’s birthday on 15th August, and Republic Day on 26th January are also celebrated. <ref>http://wiki.auroville.org.in/wiki/SAIIER_Annual_Report_2014-2015:_Arulvazhi_Education_Centre</ref> (under activities of the year)
 
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