Make your own forest food

In our place there is a plant called Baranga. It grows only in the monsoon. It is not cultivated in fields; it grows wild in the hills. You can eat it. It grows only in Panchgani Mahableshwar-Plateau.
Here is how to cook it
You need
Onion
Garlic
Tomato

Chop the Baranga finely. Boil it. Cut the onions and garlic. Make a curry out of them with some tomato. Remove the Baranga from the water. Make it into small balls. Brake the balls of Baranga up and mix them with the curry. Serve your dish with hot Jowar Roti.

Make your own bullock game

To make your own bullock game you need
An A4 sheet of paper
A pencil
A black pen
Some coloured pencils
Look at one of your board games and copy the design of your board game on the paper. Know make squares in the paper. In the squares you can make pictures of grass and fields.

You need some counters and a dice.
How to play?
You need two players. Each player is called a bull. Now throw the dice. If the dice falls and the number is two then move two steps. The winner is the bull who has finished ploughing the land first.

Indus Valley Classes

With the homeschoolers we are doing a co-op class on Indus valley. We are making classes on Indus valley and when we have finished the classes then we are going on a trip to Gujarat. In Gujarat we will be visiting Lothal a port town of Indus valley.
This Indus valley project is made by Muriel Kakani and Idania Duncan.
Here is how our first Indus valley co-op class was.

We were going to make clay toys of Indus valley so I made a power point on it. I put lots of pictures of Indus valley clay toys in the power point. Then we were given some clay to make some clay toys.

Here are som of our creations.

Shrutkriti one small made something with toothpicks.

Idania Aunty made a toy cart.

My mother made a toy bullock cart.I also made a toy bullock cart.

Then each of us was given a folder in which there were some notebook pages to do. There was also some colouring pages and a crossword.

Program of Indus valley Project

With the homeschoolers we are doing a project on Indus valley. This project is made by Muriel Kakani and Idania Duncan.
Here is the program of the Indus valley project.

On 10 September we are making Indus valley clay toys.
On 24 September we are making clay beads, which we will use for making jewellary.
On 8 October we will be painting Indus valley clay pots.
On 22 October we will be making Indus valley seals.
On 12 November we will be making a Indus valley game.
On 19 November we will be making a model of a Indus valley street.
On 3 December we will be finishing our model of the Indus valley street.
On 17 December we will be digging artefacts.
On 7 January there will be preparation for the Museum day, which will be the preparation day.
On 8 January there will be the Museum day.
This the program of the Indus valley homeschooler classes.

Make your own plough

Things you need
A thick stick
Rope
Two toy bulls
Cut your stick in two parts. One part of the stick should be smaller. Now tie the two parts together like this.
Now your plough is ready. You can put it on two toy bulls. Like this it will look as if they are ploughing the land.

The Buffalo Calf

Our Milkman’s buffalo gave birth to a calf so I and my mother went to see it.
On the way to the village where our Milkman stays I collected some grass for the buffalos.
At the house of the Milkman saw the calf. It was sitting. I gave one of the full grown buffalos little grass. Then the Milkman took the calf out. I played with it. It didn’t eat any grass because it is just twelve days old which is too small to eat grass.

The cloud forests

In the place where we stay there are cloud forests. But what is a cloud forest? A cloud forest is a forest that is always in clouds. They are dank and damp and are covered in clouds. A cloud forest is a perfect place for mushrooms, ferns, fungi, mosses and lichen. But where do cloud forests grow? They grow high up on tropical hills and mountains. The higher you are it the more cold it is.
We have forests like this in our place. Near our place there is a forest called Lingmala. It is a cloud forest. We often go there.