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Ask Teenagers
Ask a teenager about wet dreams or confusion in their life or crush….and tell them it’s all natural! When we shared this with kids, they really felt RELIEVED that there is nothing wrong with them and it’s all natural. They were fine to share all those tiny winy thing they feel inside, have self doubt…
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Young Adults at Campus
Young adults bringing joy and leaning with their experience at Aarohi campus. Preeti, an architect, her heart is in eco architecture. She sharing her skills with kids, making adobe mud bricks. She so naturally connected with kids. Guiding them to make bricks, sharing layout of our resource area, and sharing many different ways we can…
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Independent Learner
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish, and you feed him for a life time. Few years back I was reprimanded by my daughter’s teacher for not making my daughter learn her spellings for the dictation. Yes, I had seen the entry in her diary…
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Excellence is a Habit
Repetition creates the habit loop, then why not repeat the traits which are needed to live a good life. Stimulate children to build these traits. To know how, read on.
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if
Living together allow us to experience life as it is. Revenge, hatred, greed and jealousy are part of living together. We read the first paragraph of the poem IF by Rudyard Kipling. Some kids immediately related “waiting and not get tired while we line up for food or cake distribution”. Some related to “If someone…
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Elephants and Livining
Animals means ‘attack’. Knowing more about Tigers tells us that they are SHY animals!- very opposite of their images in human minds. Its November and Ragi grown commonly by villagers around the campus is in full bloom. Starting November Elephants also start crossing from around the campus and we call it ‘elephant season’. Elephants like…
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Fitness and learning
We all know we need to exercise 🙂 But we all do not exercise!!!And so our kids At Aarohi journey began with regular sports. It took time for kids to come out and play organised sports…we realized that while kids play and play a lot but when it comes to organized sports it brings self…
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Neighbourhood Walk
Neighborhood walk began with a small wish to know neighbours around campus! Some kids joined in the journey. We go out for an hour almost every day. No agenda, no routes … we just walk in any field, follow any shepherd, talk to anyone … go around the country side. After rains road was damaged,…
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Joy of nature
Nature brings joy! While working at campus one of the child spotted a snake eating a frog, Soon the whole campus was observing. We wondered how can such small mouth gulp such a big frog… we watched the whole process for an hour from a safe distance. All our questions were answered. Our inquiring mind…
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Learning Kitchen
Kitchen is considered a place to just cook that’s all. At aarohi kitchen is another learning space with people constantly visiting to share their passion in many different forms. Sangeetha, brought history, chemistry and baking together at campus. She began with sharing about history of baking, moved on chemical reaction of yeast and water and…
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How things work
Imagination is good, its creative………we nurture it in many ways at Aarohi, we also nurture structure!!! Well, we worked on making things using step by step instructions. The theme was ‘how things works’. We looked in various resources which gave us simple steps to make things . Some kids wanted to just read and watch…
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Making of a product
Each entrepreneur has a story behind…some success to celebrate, some mistakes to learn from. Visit to KidKen factory was with many learnings for us. It began with knowing the story behind making of KidKen – the journey is inspiring, starting from a small place and nowhere, reaching to a place where one is producing complete…
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Forest from kids view
I could never thought of making video from speaker’s point of view. Amazing comparison of parks of city and forest. Never thought that ‘parks’ are same, but they are different. The END is beautiful. Liked ‘question’ way of documentation. Liked the questions and self explanations (thoughts and self exploration) and observations. I have heard basic…
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Creativity
This session began with greeting right with left hand and left with right hand wishing ‘Have a great day!’ Then kids crossed hands and shook hands with their neighbours forming an interconnected circle and wishing ‘Have a great day!’ Kids enjoyed shaking hands. Few kids didn’t know the meaning of ‘Have a great day’. Few…
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Games in learning…….
Exploring a game in different ways…. We started to discuss about cricket and most of them were in to it… some had already played the game, some had watched the game before… We were talking about the way the game was played and were reasoning out a few things like…. Why only 2 people enter…
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About Me
This session was to explore self. We greeted with thumb on nose and waving other fingers. Kids were excited and happy to greet this way… Played a game to perform different actions for different fruits… Kids were excited and involved in the game…. Then we watched Barfi song 8 times each time focussing on 8…
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Beliefs
This session was to explore ones beliefs using stories. This time we greeted by placing one hand on the back of head and one hand on tummy and bending down. Reversing hands alternatively. Kids participated joyfully. Then we played Yes/No game…. Kids answered a few question without verbalising, but with actions. For Yes, hands behind…
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Letting Grow
Any growth is a change. Children also go through this change in various ways not just age. Question is are we growing as parents?
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Letting Succeed
Success is made of two things – one, to find what is one’s strength . Two, to strengthen those strengths continuously.
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Dance Therapy
Dance is therapeutic – Let newspaper guide you to dance. Let dupatta decide flow of your dance. Melt like a ice cream while dancing and meditating. Session with Asawari on dance therapy with kids.
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Diwali
Fastest Diwali preparations – no instructions, no pre plans. We all got something from home to celebrate Diwali – Diyas, Crackers, Sweets and our joy. At campus we opened two boxes full of Puja material, kids choose what and how they wanted … and we celebrated the festival of joy with our JOY.
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Act of Kindeness
We were served with love and care for every meal at Kanha Resort restaurant at Kanha. One of the days our breakfast got delayed, we had option of waiting, playing or also getting bored. We decided to take part in working of restaurant…the place which was serving to us for so many days, we like…
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Trip to Kanha Tiger Reserve
Trip to Kanha Tiger Reserve was not only about tigers! It began with preparation and understanding our own fears and beliefs about travelling in sleeper class. Then, next in the line was series of apprehensions on or rather images of travel – getting lost, fear of strangers, appropriate toilets, travel arrangements, food, away from parents,…
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Forest beyond Animals
When we went to Kanha Tiger Reserve, for most of us, TIGER was on top of our mind. After two days of Safari and roaming around we went for a Forest walk to experience what else the forest is made up of. We had already experienced Deer, Sambhar, Gaur, Swamp Deer, Owls, Eagles, Fox, Jackal,…