Aarohi Life Education

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  • Sex education beyond physical act

    Almost every household uses a code name for body parts which are covered. Body parts and sex education are not seen together. Once we break our own barriers around sex education we can enrich child with this important knowledge.

  • I am my favorite

    Every role we play in child’s life as parent or teacher in the name of upbringing or education, they have those traits built in. The need is allow them to see these traits by themselves and create a life of their own.

  • My dream year at school

    Schools are designed in such a way that everything looks same except marks. We take this business of education too seriously. Child by nature is not serious so why not create Disneyland of school ?

  • Visit to Brain Museum

    Visit to brain museum was lifetime experience. Thank to Dr Shankar and his team we came so close to our own body. Touching and feeling actual parts of the body brought many emotions. The study of body looks so much relevant. Some kids felt disturbed to see actual brain and other parts of body. They…

  • Learning Language

    Any language can be learn if there is a need to know the language. Reading and writing happens by assimilation not by the milestone of age. As parents we can design the environment but that alone may not suffice if the child does not has the need to learn the language.

  • Freedom to think

    Teaching comes with responsibility. Responsibility of making children responsible for creating their learning or creating their limits of learning. We think freedom to learn is lucrative.

  • Whats in a name?

    We are accustomed of getting satisfied when we know the definition of something unknown. Introspect and we will find many examples from everyday life where we know without understanding of concepts. Is understanding more important than knowing?

  • Right Brain

    Our education system stresses much on logical and analytical process which is originated from Left brain. Can we combine it with the randomness and intuitive approach of right brain? After all we teach inclusivity then why to leave right brain in lurch?

  • Considering Concentartion

    Imposed concentration or joyful focus? If the work is attractive or it sparks the interest, children will cross usual concentration period of 20 min. If its enforced, one may not even wanting to do. Let’s be F-A-I-R to children.

  • Lovely Labels, Lousy Labels

    Our thoughts create our realities. Labels work same way. Have lousy thoughts, think lousy labels and create lousy children. Have lovely thoughts, think lovely labels and create magic. Choice is yours.

  • Learning to See

    As we grow we limit our sense of kaleidoscopic vison. This vision helps us to wonder about everything we experience. It brings a deeper experience. Let’s explore S-P-A-C-E.

  • Five Values

    Values should guide us to grow as a person. They should not be taught to be more socially acceptable. Bigger question is can we really teach values? If at all we can teach values then what would they be?

  • Locus of control

    Mostly we grow and bring up our children with a notion that “We and our behavior are the outcome of our environment (people and circumstances). Pause and reflect what it would be to have the locus of control inside you not outside you

  • Electrical Fire Safety

    TV show on electrical safety….Advay sharing about electrical fire. Advising us to throw sand to extinguish the fire and switch off the electric connect to and not ever mess up with bulb holders. He further emphasised that replace broken switches for safety and don’t use extension cords. Shiva, Dhrupad, Arsalan, Pratyaksh, Skanda, Shiva, Ally, TW…

  • Thinking in Decision Making

    Used Bloom taxonomy in reviewing proposal…In ‘my voice’ we got the proposal to review the usage of gadgets while travelling in local train in group computer to and from campus’.Currently 15-20 kids travel with few adults and one facilitator by train every week. During the travel usage of gadgets to play inside the train became…

  • Exploring Thinking

    Thinking skills can be developed – when we informed kids this week they were surprise ‘is thinking a skill like painting or tailoring?’. Began with an announcement for planning ‘make anything with newspaper ( not use any other tool) and come for session’. Some learnt from others, some made what they knew, some thought new…

  • Movement

    Exploring movement this week with mindfulness…start with walking and paying attention to how you walk, which body part moves, how you touch, how to distribute your weight, how much do you lift your feet, how your skin, toes, heel feels, how your legs feel, how knees move, how hips sway, where is tummy, chest, back,…

  • In Neighbourghood

    So the story began with reviewing and reflecting in the month of May.We realized that it’s time start working on neighbourhood relationship. We planned to reach out to them through our collective skills of the community. Thsi year, last week of September was dedicated for that. Due to some or other commitments this again got…

  • Baking

    Baking session started with one of us announcing it.As they entered kitchen there was excitement and anxiety. One of them announced so this is baking class? Another one was anxious for the ingredients, one was lost and just started helping others, one came to me with desperation where is flour, where is, how much should…hmmmm…

  • Tank Clean up

    Just few questions How do we store water? What all is at the bottom of tank? Is our water dirty or clean? Does stored water means dead animals in it? What does it feel to go 12 feet below the ground? How to organize water tank clean up? When to clean tank? How much water…

  • Experience – Kitchen Clean Up

    Every day, each one of us clean atleat one meal. Thsi includes clenaing tables, slabs, washing sttaion and floor after each meals. This is a skill which many of us are develeoping. Many of us do not know how to clean table after meal, donot know how and where to start brooming. Well, a training…

  • Aarohi ki Dukan

    It began with need to buy our snacks by ourselves. Aarohi ki Dukan opened up. Each week, each one of us get Rs 13/- budget. We can also use cumulative amount. We make our own bill and give to the shopkeeper. We can use any medium to calculate. We can take help but we need…

  • Steeplechase / Hurdle Race

    Steeplechase in Olympics inspired us to create our own Steeplechase / hurdle track (10 hurdles) and then we all did practice to master the same and finally all did a time trail to check our performance. As a community we learned (from each other) on how to form, and overcome hurdles.

  • Bakr-Id with Fatima Akka

    It joyful to celebrate together

  • Learning space in Kitchen

    Imagine Aarohi which guarantees one definitive outcome – that learning will be self discovery. This week we tried new recipe of Stuffed Spinach. When me and Varhsa read the recipe, we felt ‘capsicum without cooking will not taste nice’. But we both decided to go ahead – it turned out to be DELICIOUS. In kitchen…

  • Sound and Mindfulness

    Sound can itself be feedback Started with activity – observe what sound it makes when we do our regular job like …scratching head, turning page, typing, reading, writing, walking, running. Observe next time how you run..sound of our shoes can tell us how much force putting and how that can effect our knee in future.…

  • Challanges

    Nothing stays same at Aarohi, we keep experimenting to create challenges.Last week was ‘reading’ during wait until dark (after dinner). Most kids fell asleep by 9:30 tucked warmly with their books.This week was journal writing. Few found it difficult to be with self, few stayed with self, few slept early while few stayed awake but…

  • Parent’s Stories

    Stories are wonderful. Stories from real life experiences are even more wonderful. And our parents stories are just awesome to hear. Each Friday in thought club we have stories from here and there. This week kids got ‘Stories of parents’ – this brought excitement in our story session – stories of their childhood, struggle, joy,…

  • We or I

    Each day in our schedule we have 30 minutes in the morning and 30 minutes in the minutes in the evening to get ready. Each room has eight people. Each person has one hour.So the maths is very simple, each room have 8 man hours in the day to clean one bed and one cupboard.…

  • Fire and Understanding

    ‘Fire’ the word brings anxiety, fear and danger. Since many of us associate fire with danger and fear, we need to even more understand it better. In campus training we worked on fire safety.Drill of ‘stop, drop and roll’ helped to get some idea how to handle fire on body. This also created a need…