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Exchange, Together, Interdependence, Influence, Freedom, Co-operation, Co-exist, Care, Togetherness, Openness, Support, Acceptance, Group Opportunity, Responsibility, Communication, Perspective, Feedback, Contribute, Respect were some of the words we reviewed about the community – the words came from the group, experiencing them in different ways We do we really exist in isolation or independently? We all are interdependent.…

A session with Praveen to explore fitness through our body. Our body is equipped with all the necessary tools we need for building strength, flexibility and stamina – few demonstrations were enough to experience a different aspect of our own body. We know him since he was 16yrs oldA quiet, young boy who wanted night…

Bird race, organized by Bng Birds and HSBC Bangalore, was more about a day with birds and less about how many more than others – No we do not train and put our birds to race, rather from Dawn to Dusk we go around some pre-selected areas in and around Bangalore and try to see…

A group of enthusiastic adults creating an open learning community for their children in TURKEY and EGYPT.On a Sunday afternoon, parents and educators from Egypt had a call with us to learn from Aarohi’s Experience.Parents and Educators from Turkey visited the campus to learn from Aarohi’s Experience. It was encouraging to see their eagerness to…

Manifestation means “anything which can be seen”. The manifestation of achievement is about seeing my achievements Activity – Set a goal to balance the stick for 30 seconds – Do it for five minutes. Put your efforts, Try in many different ways and see the manifestation of your achievement “balancing the stick for 17seconds”. Benefits…

Purpose – To be Aware, understand and measure – Happiness, development, Healthy Life. Session: We explored individual thoughts and group thoughts about :Why and which places you think they are developed? – Facilities, Temples, Buildings, tourism, Why and which places you think they are underdeveloped – No food, No fresh air, No water, No transport,…

Sankranti/Lohri/ Kite Festival celebration – Jaatre Festival is an opportunity for us to relook why we celebrate and how do I connect with the culture of the festival. This brought us to rethink why we do what we do in our culture. Tie mango leaves in the entrance of the door? Designing Rangoli? Making specific…

Story of Active We Once upon a time, in a small Village, there held an “Election Counting Event” in a Govt College. After the event, the Organizers cleaned the college premises but did not take care of Garbage created Outside the College Campus. This lead to Pile up of Garbage on entire roads and fields.…

Purpose: The purpose was to be aware of different emotions in us. Everyone experiences different emotions and all emotions are OK. What went well: Everyone in the class was participative, involved. Instructions were clear and few and understood. Understanding silence Visual helped me to start the session smoothly. Teacher and Children helped me to write…

Peer Pressure: We started with the story of a child who was playing tantrums to buy a toy and frustrated parents will buy finally. In the story, we explored – what was challenging for the child? What was the consequence What was the action?We then shared today’s session was to explore Challenge, Consequence, action for…

Family weekNew peopleNew opportunities Cooperation, Acceptance, support, help,understand,guide,adjustorganizearejustsomeofthephenomenonweexperiencewith different families atthecampus It happens unconsciouslyWe don’t know when does this happenIt happens, as we live together,It happens, just like thatIt’s all very unpredictable Sometimes small, sometimes old, sometimes young… We don’t know who is coming and whom we will learn fromWe know it’s an opportunity to…

Just a few rocks aroundSome small, some big, some slippery, some straightSome broke limitations of own fears, concurred the rocks with ease and efforts, made friends with slopes and difficult paths, trying, sliding and climbing!And this became our playground on a Friday morning!

Snacks with a twistChoose your plateChoose the snacksEstimate how much do you need to make a SYMMETRICAL PATTERNAnd gift it to your secret SantaAnd that all about eating snacks with a pattern!

Closing circle with a demonstration to understand our opinions/judgments Guess about this person in the pictureHalf Indian, half AmericanA girlBoy girl mixGoes to office, likes wearing a nose ringDoes care about othersSmiling alwaysLoves fashionLoves making hairs in different stylesLikes to drink soup or chickenBusinessman, going to an officeHappy with family, does not get angryWorks in…

Terrapin is a new name for usThey arrived at the campusWe adopted themAnd that was a reason to know more about themWhat to feed, how to handle, how to make a home for themA session to understand was plannedAnd many many questions Pet or wild?Adopted or caught?Tortoise or TurtleWild life, Injured, Legal, illegal, care, alive,…

We started the session with what is “Role-Play” and we quickly shared how we could play a character and be able to think about how the character feels, talks, etc. Children were told that they would be told a story and at a certain point in the story it would be paused – they need…

Research on elephants: At the campus, we have elephant movements during the months of November till March/April. We do follow elephant safety codes at the campus. We all have our own beliefs and fears about Elephants. This was an opportunity for us to know about the elephant’s life. Together we read, shared, discussed the facts…

Where does our milk come from? How does a milkman work? What is their life? What is a cow’s life…were some of the questions in our minds before our visit? A visit to our anna who brings milk for us brought many other questions – why the calf is not drinking? What happens to the…

Season Watch – A friend shared about the usefulness of this website and So an opportunity to explore. https://www.seasonwatch.in/First Session Reading – We opened the website to understand what this website is all about. We read together and found it interesting. Together we chose a tree to explore, observe and record and write our observation…

Dance to danceDance to express emotionsDance to share the excitementDance to reflect on the sadnessDance to remember what all bring peace in meDance aloneDance togetherDance with the communityDance to start the dayDance to end the dayDance to relive all the crazy eventsDance to be yourselfDance to explore AbhinayaDance to just Dance!This was all about Dance…

Last few days cloudy and cold weather at the campus – a good reason to explore seasons and monsoon. Watched a few videos to think. Ponder and kindle the curiosity – Why earth rotates at the same speed? Why is it titled? Why all planets are rotating? Why we do not feel the spin? What…

HOM’s Observation – Consciously observing habits of mind exhibited by children during the week – here are some of the observations and realized that most of the HOM’s were observed in some of other form – Managing Impulsivity while communicating, Listening with Understanding and Empathy, Thinking Flexibly to design/plan/do, Striving for Accuracy in replacing soap/,…

Friendship Circle – Session to understand issues with friends and help to enjoy being with friends in class. Preparation versus Practicality: Welcome activity: Planned was movement game, fire in the mountain run run run but the sound was too much, could not set instructions for the game In Session: Preparation for stimulating children about case…

We started the session a small quiz of showing some words written on the board and asked children to guess if there is some connection between all these words. After a couple of minutes, reading them aloud, thinkingchildren started associating words closely related like darkness & being left alone, water and ocean, cars & accidents,…

Gaming in an Activity clubWe play math but do not like to do the math.We played a game of bowling. We scored and scored and finally, we wanted to know our scores. We did the calculation to find our scores. We have fun and seriously calculate our scores and feel achieved to see our scores.…

We are born creators and all acts of learning are creations. We create how we walk, talk, and think. We create options, opportunities and decisions. We create relationships, meaning and joy. As a facilitator also, we are constantly creating: We are creating an environment for the child. This could be judgemental or supportive, didactic or…

While observation works on collecting, questioning on expanding, reflecting works on looking into or investigation or analysis. We ask why, we understand the cause – effects, connections, relationships, characteristics and the dynamics of the human mind and its world. So while questioning is akin to looking for different foods, observation is eating it, reflection is…

Actually, this should be titled ‘learning by questioning’ because anything can be learned by questioning. One reason why small children learn so much is that they question so much. The trick obviously is to just ask questions, not look for answers. If we start looking for answers, our mind becomes a seeker and instead of…