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Akka expressed “today It was too much work”. The community sat to create a comfortable space for Akkaa. Next day was announced as ‘Aaka day”. We cancelled our field trip, and all just worked for two extra hours to do all our chores for which we we depend on Akkas. Akkas were pleasantly surprised and…

Alabhya Singh, visited campus and mesmerized us with his yogic posture, his life style and his thoughts. He follows sun calendar, he eat two meals, he does not use artificial light (so what it is from solar), he understand his own body cycle. When he works he works, when he talks he talks 🙂 Apart…

People who visit Aarohi from few hours to few days/ months, inspire us deeply. We simply learn from people. Some of the kids who are into automobiles and speed and race and road travel were enthralled when Ashir shared about his jeep which he has modified to travel long distance. Some of us who are…

Visit to cold pressed oil mill. We saw different machines used at mill – one for coconut oil, one for cooking oils, one for making powder from seeds. We saw the process of making coconut oil and making shikakai powder from seeds. They also shared that waste generated from coconut is sold for cattle and…

Saurabh joined to share his passion of sketching, He arrived to the campus by cycle and that was enough for us to get interested in knowing his cycle journey. And then began sketching session, it was not only sketching but was also about ‘exaggerated sketching; and we got introduced to ‘caricatures’. We see caricatures, we…

This session started with trying to listen to any sound that we hear…Initially there was some sound in the class…. Slowly they became silent and started to hear sounds of people and things outside… Then we started an activity of drawing what they listen… I was dictating a few simple things like lines, circles, curves,…

One child was working on various activities like painting, crafts, paper Mache, dancing, makeup. She found her passion towards dancing. She practiced dance every day after lunch. At times practiced dance alone and at times with friends. She wanted to teach dance and so volunteered to teach dance to government school children. She prepared dance…

This session was interesting, one child from Aarohi joined to demonstrate making of a synthetic ball using glue and borax. The session began with introduction. Each child introduced themselves with an animal action mentioning their name and something that they like to do or dream about. Then a music was played and kids danced with…

This session is to explore problems and how feelings change at different times. Started with the word ‘PROBLEM.’ Many kids shared their explanations and examples of problems. Then introduced them to a Problem meter where they rate their problem from 1 to 10 using a paper needle. They also drew how they would feel at…

Learning from this project is not to learn about electronics…….physics and mathematics but “how not to give up”. Nihar, who is 12 yrs old, is also one of our resource person at Aarohi. He shared his learning of making uni cycle and his journey. He shared ‘every time any circuit blew off, I learned a…

Fitness Routine Warm up -10 minutes – any music any dance 2 times Tabata workout – 10 minutes, squats, hop and back, push up, mountain walk, plank walk, crunches, fish out of water Surya Namaskaer- 4-5 rounds Relaxation – 10 minutes (start with chanting a, u, aa and then relaxing each part of the body).…

We wished for a Telescope. We asked people to contribute. Our wishes were fulfilled by Asher-Simi, Kanchan, Mini, Navdeep, Nimmi, Poornima, Rajani, Rohini, Rupa, Sangitha, Sonal, and Srikanth. We ordered the Telescope – Skywatches added a bonus of free delivery just for Aarohi. On Thursday (18th feb16) children assembled it. Then these excited children got…

Small hurts, scratches, throat pains, cough, cold, light fever, and light headaches are part of our living at the campus. We all get sick or get hurt, and that becomes a learning opportunity to connect with our bodies. Whenever someone is feeling sick, Or campus medic (child on job) first collects the data – when…

Bruno from France, calls himself a plumber with pride. He was at the campus to make a solar water heater. few kids joined him and it was done in a day, including work in the moonlight.What appeared to be done in a day, took a month’s groundwork. Bruno contacted Aarohi when I read that we…

Two months back we made an open air urinal – specially to use the urine as fertilized-water for trees. Now the question was how to get it ALL the tree saplings most effectively. Bruno – our plumber man from France – thought that Drip irrigation would be perfect. A trip to local market, some innovation,…

Visit to Hasmukh farm was inspiring for some of the kids to start working with Bamboo. They saw tool stand at his farm and tried making brush stand at campus. Drill machine, safety goggles, adult supervision and get set go!!! One child is very innovative with paper work, keeps reproducing different models in paper –…

Often no means nothing or means many things but no. Kids expressed that inspite of saying no, others would continue….teasing, repeating, name calling, disturbing (actions).Well, the helpmates came up with the root problem “we actually do not take “no” so seriously. One poster was made and displayed prominently “no mean no”. We still don’t take…

We use Wifi..almost a life line for our learning. But when it is not working, Ratnesh was our life line each one of us would go to him and ask to do something about it’.We realized that while we all use internet, we barely know about its functioning. One of the child took this in…

We play sports, no matter how much we (Adult) not like competition, kids bring their own spirit of competition. Football is played with pure competitive spirit. When one makes goal, other one sulk, when one team wins they celebrate and other cry….we see hatred, competition, jealousy and all other emotions.While we not stop any of…

Anil joined Aarohi for a week to experience Aarohi. His presence inspired us to look at things differently. He has been working on converting vehicles into pedaled vehicles. He shared how he worked on converting a truck into a truck which can be pedaled by three people. Apart from his vision of working on making…

It was more about using the same material in different ways than making mask. Ramji shared about making mask using papier mache – soak paper, make pulp add Methi seeds and mix it and make creations. This sounds simple! It took 2-3 days to process the papier mache, mix it, and make a dough and…

There are many different ways of looking at anything, including our soap:) Yes, few years back, we never questioned “are there other ways that I clean my body? or why do I need soap? what goes in soap? what else? Well, presence of people from different walks of life allows us to re-think. Ramji shared…

Every year Sankranti or Pongal comes at Aarohi O-campus to bring joy. The celebration creates space for all – to play, to cook, to decorate, to play music, to sing, to eat and laugh together. Priyanka and family joined us to add magic with their music. While we explored some simple musical instruments from Rajasthan,…

Liza and Anya from Russia, passionate about movie making, announced about their wish to make movie. Soon the movie enthusiastic team was in place. It began with making a story with collaborative efforts. We came to consensus that we will make a horror movie. Script was made after many if’s and but’s. Then it was…

We started with saluting in different ways…..Then we took partners and each partner worked as a mirror to the other and repeated the actions of their partners… and then partners interchanged their roles.. Was interesting to see kids doing it with enthusiasm.. This session was to let kids choose a goal, think & plan different…

We started with raising our collars, ears, eyes, nose, lips, face, hair, shoulders, hands and legs. Kids participated enthusiastically. Then kids were asked, what is confidence? Few said it is a strength, and some didn’t know, some wanted to know… Then when I asked, what are the things that you think you are sure that…

‘It Starts With A Seed’ as we began with Ramji for making jewelry with seed. The workshop began with to ponder “What can you one do with a few humble seeds, some wire, and bits of paper?” A lot! we made jewelry that we treasured and most important now every seed looks precious! We created…

Nora from Germany likes to move…she likes to build and create…sculptures, construction, landscape gardening and exercising are some some of her interests. Casper from Denmark was wanting to make his own music, carried some recording devices as experiment, drumming, mixing music, bouldering (climbing rocks without ropes) and cooking are some of his passion. It was…