Makar Sankranti celebration at UWCEC !

Festivals are the lifeline of Indian culture. Makar Sankranti is a festival which marks the beginning of the new year with new harvest. It is celebrated all over India like Lohri in North India, Makar Sankranti in West India, Bihu in East India and Pongal in South India.

It is important that our children understand our tradition and how we celebrate different festivals in different parts of India. The children of UWCEC enjoyed the Makar Sankranti celebration in school by flying kites and exchanging tilgud. The children were shown power point presentation related to harvest festivals celebrated in different parts of India.

The children as well as the teachers wore black clothes and enjoyed basking in the warm sunshine while flying kites. The children also did various activities. The tiny tots of Nursery made colourful kites. The Juniors made cute little corn by actually sticking grains on it. The Seniors performed a sweet activity of sugarcane using ice cream sticks.

They were told about sharing and caring and how we should forget all the grudges and complaints and come together and enjoy every thing that we do by saying, “Tilgud ghya goad, goad bola”.