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The story of Jaggery cutting The big lump of Jaggery to cut in small pieces to be able to fill in small jar First idea was to break it – what to use for breaking was the question? Somehow got some ladddle to break and broke with a thud! But it did not broke into…

The story of Jaggery cutting The big lump of Jaggery to cut in small pieces to be able to fill in small jar First idea was to break it – what to use for breaking was the question? Somehow got some ladddle to break and broke with a thud! But it did not broke into…

Love of Rasam But how to make it was a question I have never made Never thought of making it Well, the journey began with finding out recipe Then collecting the ingredients And then making And guess what – it took three hours to make this Rasam, which Amma and Akkas makes in 15 minutes.…

During my trip to Andaman, I overheard one of the Scuba Diving instructor telling a participant “You are not doing too good with diving, but you don’t do good just by talking about it, you do good by DOING, so just go and DO”. Just one idea “Gift a Dosa to others in lunch today”…

They both love Video Games They both understand technology They both have not gone through any classroom teaching of computer programming But they both are our “System Admin” – repair laptops, setup internet for our campus and … solving all our technology problems. All they do is DO!

Growth is inevitable. Physical growth is something that happens naturally in a human being but how aware are we of it and how much do we understand our growing bodies. What about our mental and emotional growth, how do we develop that. Somewhere Teen club started to prepare the budding adolescents for the various changes…

AKD – Aarohi Ka Dukaanon We Bring in various exposure to experience through our AKD. Purpose of AKD :understanding Supply chain – manufacturers, dealers, whole saler, retailers. Our Lunch was to earn by being part of supply chain. We explored a small video on Supply chain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzLoo8cFJBI Our Supply Chain consisted of : Team of…

Every action in the community I do, it creates an effect. Knowingly or unknowingly – it’s an exchange. Exchange of thoughts, feelings, vibes, experiences, words, acceptance, support and skills. Learning Mela brought an opportunity to exchange skills. Learning multipliedin learning Mela.One child who recently learnt stitching with sewing machine, taught sewing to few more.Two children…

Open learning brings an opportunity to be AWARE of self. As we travel the journey of learning we realize that there are some things which accelerates the process, while some puts brakes in our journey. Weekly theme on brakes and accelerator brought the awareness on what can brakes and accelerator play a role in my…

Its not about study harder but to study smarter.Sometimes some simple tools can enhance the way one can understand a topic and grow. But any different way looks difficult. There is a inner battle to not leave what looks comfortable and adapt what is new or different or unknown. Why do we need a different…

Since we have no curriculum at Aarohi, the need of learning arises from living, interests and exposures – Painting, Baking, Fractions, Film making, Football, Craft, Crochet, Stone Collection, Stitching, Market visit, Cooking, Film making, Carpentry, repairs, playing drums, singing, dancing, Mud work … The list is simple from simple needs of life. The process is…

Multi session taken by kids of various ages – It was not about us knowing and learning from them – but it was all about various exposures and various opportunities to look at learning. A session about the life of an Astronaut in space by a 14yrs old child began with pondering “what is space?”…

Our Purpose: We Love animals and we wanted to know more about them and we decided to visit People for Animals. We started our day at PFA with an introduction about their work. They rescue, treat, care for and rehabilitate urban wildanimalswith the aim of ultimately releasing them back into their natural habitats. Awareness onhuman-animal…

Vineeta, a homeschooling mom, shared her experience of co-writing a book – book with stories of parents, children and teachers. We began other pondering “What is creative writing”? – Thinking, imagination, adding jazz, metaphors, using huge words, etc. Next was “What writing is called when you don’t use creativity? – text books, copy whatever on…

“I know nothing more inspiring than that of making discovering for oneself”George Washington The myth of learning is simple to state and prove. The myth says that only when we learn, do we learn. What it means is that unless there is a conscious and methodical method to learning, learning cannot happen. It is only…

Good news – Campus phone got lost. Concern of not loosing but the usage and question of care came up very significantly. Few kids have personal phone, some more planning to get – concern of phone becoming part of basic survival hence each one thinking or required to own one. Team voice brought the opportunity…

Often as an adult we explore various aspects of child development, we learn various theories and some of us even learn various psychological aspects of children’s world. But our learning and awareness is not complete without our kids understanding and participating to understand their own growth. A session on “Cognitive Distortion” to understand how we…

Coming together to make a play gym A sloppy surface Few strong logs Few ideas Few ropes FewTyres All of us together on a cloudy morning to make A place to doDangal A place to swing A place to dogymnastics Just the right recipe for our imagination to turn into action

Session on Sexuality and sex education started the journey of looking at the topic from a different perspective. What are porn video? How to understand your responsibility? How do we look at relationship? How do we understand basic needs of growing body? What all myths do we carry? Puberty is not only about hormonal change…

Teen age brings excitement as well as confusion. A little listening, a little awareness, a little understanding and that’s all to bring joy in this process of growing up. Teen club – exploring judgements and inner surface Are we into the habit of judging too soon? Based on appearance (cool or dumb), based on the…

Music bring people together (countries don’t matter), changes your mood, transport to memories … Often music is locked in “nice or bad”. We limit music within playing instruments nicely or singing melodiously.Is it possible to explore music to enjoy life?Is it possible to find music in the heart which beats, air we breathe, vegetable we…

Who are our teachers? The world is our teacher – anyone who is passionate about any kind of learning becomes our teacher. Living together with them not only bring exposure to learning but also bring an opportunity to explore various facet of the life. Iban from Spain, who works in a train fabrication factory came…

Have you ever wondered about “FindingNemo”? We all have ability to find that right Information or the resource we are seeking, but that is buried somewhere. A 3yr old child asks a lot of questions, while a 13 yrs old makes a lots of comments. Ability to find is lost and replaced with faults (in…

Questioning – not to question but to ponder. The week we asked questions, we asked why, how, how else, what, more and so on –Questioning? Questions can be about anything – experience, learning, self, and others and so on. Questioning is not necessary to get answer.We often ask question to others as well as a…

16 adult students of Bhoomi College, students of Holistic Education programme joined Aarohi for a day to explore the open learning. People from various backgrounds – software engineer, human resource, corporate world, finance,PhDin Physics, Engineering graduate, IT professionals – degrees did not meant for them, they are starting the journey again with questioning the concept…

Thought club on movie making with Kannada movie director Madhu. Since childhood he was interested in drama, and he started started with directing dramas, writing stories and now into film directing. But the question one needs to ask “whatyou want to tell and why?” He shared, Movie means motion picture. It’s different, how a film…

“A day in Auroville! For the list you have, you need weeks”. The person who said the above was the same person who was telling us the names of so many interesting places we should visit. Auroville sounded, and turned out to be like a multi-university. In every corner was a small organisation or group…

Bamboo is a grass. That a grass could be so versatile, so life giving and so artistic is something we related to the work we did with it.When eight of us from Aarohi (seven children and one ol’ man) reached, the tranquility, the earthiness and the forestry of Auroville welcomed us with a subtle touch…

Computers is a subject of fascination and desire to learn for all rural children. From the beginning of Karral at Aarohi children are asking to bring computers in the session. However we took around 2 months to settle down the program before we introduced computers. We also wanted to create a sense of responsibility towards…