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I do what I love, dance every day and earn from dance, shared Bharat! His story began of dance began at the age of 8yrs, initially couldn’t dance, but was determined to dance and now he just dances and even earn from it! And we danced with him, just like that! Imagine Aarohi, An Open…

Each week the curriculum is defined by the learners at the campus – This week’s curriculum – Craft, maths, reading, dance, tracing dance, learning music, computing, research on culture and art, taking a bath, law and order, hula hoop, reading, playing basketball, making, drama, shoot, paper folding, piano, videos, weekly planning, campus medic, gardening, session…

Actions in DOING Session This Wednesday’s session on 13th Nov was a very unique one. Lots of energy, excitement, willingness to do and ownership was in the air. It was for a focused group of children who had chosen their projects two weeks ago. We had planned well as one would take care of permissions…

He fell sick He came into the kitchen and demanded: “what no food for me?” I thought, ‘dear you seem to have reached a different address Here we don’t serve to anyone Here the sickness is part of your learning journey When you fall sick – it brings an opportunity to know self And that…

Why go far in search of culture – we have many cultures within our community. Each one has some culture at home – Family Culture, Food Culture, Living Culture, Religion Culture, Social Culture, Festival or Celebrations or ceremonies Rituals, Money Culture, Roles and Responsibilities culture … Play a game of clapping from a different culture…

The session was about Introduction to the process of Design, Discuss, Do Design – Any Project we take, we start with the exploration of the idea called Design which includes What we want to do? Why do we want to do it? What resources do we need? Who all are teams? what role each one…

Experiencing Campus – Visit by Model School Children Model School Children conducted a Science Fair, in which Swach Bharat models were shown. I was part of visiting stalls and just felt that experience of what all we can do with the waste would be an added exposure and hence the opportunity created for the children…

Make your own breakfast on a Friday morning Some made for self Some made for others too Some made it together Some did it alone All ate and that all about one of the Friday morning Breakfast

Friday morning, Active WE Rain at the campus Some weeds Some growth in our paths Some harvesting to be done Fridays are different at Aarohi – visit places, meet people, go around in the neighborhood, work in farms, plan learning mela for the neighborhood, go trekking and sometimes just stay at the campus and work…

He reads He just reads He talks about it He can talk about it any time of the day He took two days to prepare He felt a bit nervous in the beginning, but once he started, he did not stop Words we heard during a session with on prehistorc birds and cats- What is…

Watch a movie and ponder over some random questions Do Not give the answers of all – no rights, no wrongs Just ponder A movie can bring thinking What do you say? Watch together to ponder together – talk more about it, share more about it and that’s about learning and living! On one Friday…

Make your own breakfast on a Friday morningSome made for selfSome made for others tooSome made it togetherSome did it aloneAll ate and that all about one of the Friday Morning Breakfast!

A session on “Love and relationships and their changes”with Dwiji We feel something for different people when we interact with different people and that is what we call relationship We are not alone in the feeling of love Have you observed how do different people interact, and how that has changed over time – relationship…

Manji Akka did not come What to do was the questions One said, let’s fast, have some fruits One said, go to a hotel One said, rice and curd Some said we will join in the cooking Few joined together and made Molli and Paratha, not Mooli Paratha Raw papaya salad made with a lot…

Have you heard the songDo (do) re (re) mi (mi)Fa (fa) so (so) la (la) ti (ti) do (do)Do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do!doe, a deer, a female deer(Re!) ray, a drop of golden sun(Mi!) me, a name I call myself(Fa!) far, a long, long way to run(So!) sew, a needle pulling thread(La!)…

Two Suggestions to bring changes in our scheduleSuggestions –“Planning to reduce to 45 minutes” –DIscussion in various groups – The challenge is to cater to different needs, different levels of clarity of planning, Different views, various suggestions – as a community we came up with solution which we all agreed upon “45 minutes of planning…

Our Rocket oven was not working, an opportunity to do the test-fire again! The test fire took just five minute but understanding about fire took 55 minutes. Understanding about fire took just 5 minutes, it took 50 minutes to observe the fire. Throughout the session, Dwilji was insisting on “let’s observe” – the flame, the…

It began with a desire to PAINTThen paint on the WALLThey searched and selected a suitable wallThey made a designGiven other art styles – Warli, Madhubani, Zentangle, Mandala, etcBoth made their own designMade a couple of designsAnd decided to paint on two different surfacesAgain searched for another surfaceSo now we have two wall paintingThey drew,…

Dadaism Poetry with Kanak – an Art moment followed by painters, writers.Politicians looked at war differently, the artist looked at war differently. People were lost, suffering, celebrating meaningless How to Make a Dadaist Poem Take a newspaper.Take some scissors.Choose from this paper an article the length you want to make your poem.Cut out the article.Next…

He likes to play football He also likes to play table tennis He likes land work He likes the job of “cash manager” He also works as “pet pal” He likes to take responsibility for pets food He likes to coordinate with the support staff at the campus He likes video games, watching movies and…

Celebrated reviewing HYGIENE– A game played to explore how the mind works – play a game to be played, swap the instructions and see the reaction body! Hygiene of the BODY– Played Tambola for just play and look at hygiene from a different window. Hygiene of the MIND– Image we carry about self – for…

Some younger member feel that they are being bulliedSome elder member feel that they are being bulliedIt’s not that all are being bulliedIt’s just that it is part of living A session on Bully was to explore options – Parents to connect with kids and explore roles in bully and being bullied and being part…

There are 101 ways to do anything, even football is just not playing – let’s explore many many more ways of doing/creating/connecting with our interest. Imagine, Aarohi an Open Learning Community,Aarohi …an Open Learning Community for learners of all ages. Open to all kinds of interests, abilities, styles and content areas. Learning by doing what…

What – Experiencing a water factory Why – just like that Many questions in mind (each one had 23 questions in their kitty) – the following questions were answered during the visit What is the material used for bottle making? Why do we need a high-pressure motor? How can the bottle blow from small to…

One child was dragged, hit and chokedThe forum of three kids (8,9 and 12yrs old) took up the caseThey listened to all, called witnesses and solved the case amicablyThey did what I would have done – ask questions, question their actions, advise them of safety and so on.The only difference was that they did not…

He likes animals He likes movie making He is clear he does not want to do make movies on animals which torture them during the shoot He is also scared of holding animals He started an Internship with Prani every Friday Each Friday is a new experience for him His session on “All about rodents”…

Identification of effort in any task needed “Efforts” – Reflection of efforts put in my own work, gave us an insight on efforts! Efforts of resources, time management, initiatives, make a plan, making checklist, commitment, stay focused and peeing self, not satisfied, be regular and punctual, time management, reaching out to people, finding new resources,…

Celebrating the gift of language – Some of us know basic language, some of us are developing the language, but how do we refine when communicating with the world, how to make it descriptive, beautiful, bring quality, bring clarity, vocabulary, etc. – So its all about STYLE, BEAUTY, and CLARITY! Words have stories Words have…

I felt a child acting on my nerves (I here am facilitators) The list was long of my discomfort with his behavior and attitudes and responses and actions and blah blah! (you know facilitators are also human, we also have many good days and many bad days) Ah! I felt helpless and overwhelmed I felt…