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Butterfly migration from east to west – One announcement “The annual butterfly migration form east to west in India has started. There will be lots of butterflies flying in that direction right now. Sit down on a rock or place that commands a view of the open land ahead, Check the types, colors & patterns…

The purpose of activity club is to expose to different basic skills through games, doing, reading and researching. Reading day – Read for fun with a common theme, reading together, Sharing what I read, read and conduct quiz, read for action words, read for describing words, speed reading, read to comprehend, loud reading, Group chant…

We are growing Our kitchen needed a space to cook for larger quantity Rocket chulha was the choice for us Dwiji joined us on a Friday morning Most of us oblivious of what goes in the making of a Chulha We joined him, he came only for us! He first talked about heat, fire, oxygen,…

Animal stories all in one book with Drawings – He draws from his memory, and he draws just like that!

Open learning – road-less-traveled, we get caught up with doubts, confusion, and anxieties. Kids who go through the journey are also not away from this confusion/doubt and anxiety. The questions came from children How to make planning challenging? After I grow up – what about my qualifications, will I get a job? How to make…

FRIENDSHIP with TEEN CAFE – Some wanted to know “how to decide how to make friends. The session was not an answer to the above need, but to think for myself and be aware of my needs. It was more about co-creation and learning from each other. So here we go – The format was…

Any repair in electrical is good news for him – he likes repairing. He is 8yrs old, he has fixed many bulbs at the campus, repaired many circuits with the mentor, he has not read much about electricity – for him, it is all about DOING and that’s all!

REVIEW week began with reviewing the conversations – how frequently we talk about our interests, struggles, and needs? The weekly planning was not meeting mentor but to meet the group and have a conversation about current thoughts about self – Some spoke a little, some spoke more, some reflected, some gathered the courage to speak…

Weather at the campus keep changing – sometimes teaching, sometimes learning, sometimes just being self..here is one such TEACHING STORY – Teaching what I know, I share with joy and others learn with joy – no age barriers!

Every person on campus is our teacher, a source for us to learn. Praveen, a self-directed learner, traveling around to learn, brought his exposure to the campus – carpentry making chair out of tyre and ropes, carving – making gas knob out of waste wood with carving tools, creating with thread with macrame, gardening, storytelling,…

Weather at the campus keep changing – sometimes the dreaming, sometimes giving up, sometimes frustrating, sometimes just like that…here is one such DREAM STORY – A dream of business, money, and future. Let all the dreams find their space in this universe! Let the world be our curriculum! Let the curriculum coming out of our…

Often it is scary for parents “freedom to do what I want to do” and “what if the child does not choose what the child needs to work on. When the need to work on maths, science Hindi, English, history comes from our own thinking…………there is no freedom.When the need to work on the same…

Weather at the campus keep changing – sometimes the same, sometimes challenging, sometimes add value, sometimes add skills ..so our interaction with our learning continued with adding MORE SKILLS….here is one such SKILL STORY – Dream of becoming an artist, after drawing the same way the same stuff – adding some more detailing, some more…

When asked what is Amazon? Most knew about it -What we book, online shopping, courier to your home.Most of us at the campus have experience Amazon shopping in different forms -the excitement was to know the story behind Amazon with PremKumarImagine Aarohi, An Open Learning Community, a life education, where learning happens because children want…

Weather at the campus keep changing – sometimes yes, sometimes no, sometimes failing, sometimes success, sometimes ..so our friendship with our learning….here is one such STORY – as of today. Tomorrow we don’t know what the willweather be.

Weather at the campus keep changing – sometimes gloomy, sometimes sunny, sometimes rainy, sometimes hot, sometimes very hot, sometimes cool…so our love with our learning. Sometimes it is tough, sometimes cool and cake walk, sometimes rough and sometimes butter…here is one such LOVE STORY – as if today, tomorrow we don’t know what will the…

What research, what Google images, what stories, what books Nothing to beat my own personal experience The night bus ride to Rameswaram The excitement of traveling with my buddy The curiosity of new land, new experience, new town Humidity in real An auto ride to the lodge Basic accommodation a challenge for a few Walk…

Activity Club: Purpose – is to expose to different basic skills thru games, doing, reading and researching. The following were a few different ways we explored.Reading day– Read for fun with a common theme – We explored reading together and share what I read, read and conduct quiz, read for action words read for describing…

Learning is not only about the end result It’s also about the journey He did not get this in a day He got in many many days 8yr old sharing the story of his learning flute https://youtu.be/9YNCbzO5_x8

Imagine, Aarohi, A learning community where learning is the core purpose of all action that happens. Since the whole world is our curriculum, whatever the child decides to do – a chore, a project, skill development, a campus responsibility or job or working on one’s interest – everything is for the purpose of learning. Similarly,…

Questioning – not to find answers but to ponder. Some reacted with “it’s difficult to make 23 questions about the Marine Life”. Some pondered Some went through a session to explore questioning – The process of making questions from books – choose a word that I don’t know and frame questions, read and just frame…

Imagine Aarohi, An Open Learning Community, a life education, where learning happens because children want to learn from their life – for their life. Travelling is an amazing education. Traveling together is even better. That is what are KAA trips – travel, see, meet, eat and learn. The trip to Rameshwaram – the journey began…

Is there an abundance of ideas, thoughts, feelings, resources, kindness, help/support, etc. Look for abundance in people we meet, in nature, in man-made systems, in me! ABUNDANCE was part of the curriculum this week – We have in ABUNDANCE (collective wisdom of all in the session) – Abundance of Joy Food Space – universe Ocean…

Session on CreativityChildren were busy with the preparation for Exhibition as special for “Teachers day”. As I saw children were preparing, I gave the choice of continuing their project and only who were interested to do the activity can join for the session..We started with a jig “Rum Sum Sum”. We took little time to…

Three parts of this story – visit HAL museum Preparation and my struggles My visit and my exploration Kids visit and their exploration Well, this began with a child taking the responsibility of organizing a trip to HAL museum, Bangalore. He is skilled in interacting with people, finding routes, finding information, planning travel, etc. All…

Do you know about survival of the fittest? Do you know birds are modern dinosaurs? Contact her to learn more about evolution – She is 8yrs old, She read about evolution, she read about it from different sources. And She took a session on “evolution”. She left some of us with wondering “did in Ice…

Agastya foundation sharing science experiment with the community, their mission is to reach out to rural areas to create understanding about science. We explored science with them and words we heard – Eddie current, magnets, magic, metal, laser light, light traveling, fog light. convex, concave, reflection, mirrors, difference, snell’s law, focal point, imaginary focal point,…

A session with Sonal on feelings and body. Yes, this is part of our curriculum – curriculum which comes out of our living and learning. Teencafe – an exclusive space for Tween and Teen to understand self and social needs. In TEEN CAFE this week it was about body and emotions – Body has a…

he loves birds – talking birds, dreaming birds, hearing birds, watching birds, chasing birds, reading birds, drawing birds and sleeping birds. And if at all he got some time this week, talking/sleeping/dreaming/drawing… animals and insects.

A child describes Aarohi as Aarohi is the place where you learn with the grace Open learning a power you can embrace at Aarohi Life at Aarohi is not a race We are often asked “do you follow any philosophy? And we say none. As we believe so many, so so many – people have…