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One way to learn and get trained about SAFETY – is by taking a quiz – which we have purposefully designed not so much to test – but to help assimilate important SAFETY information in a clear manner. Link for Aarohi Safety Training Quiz 1: https://goo.gl/forms/3S1dqXhiRCi1SMe63 We will be making many such SAFETY quizzes –…

Watched this documentary on Friday in continuation of our “Passions o profession”. The movie was chosen consciously to not to bring any excitement or bring cool stuff. Few found it boring, few found it slow. few were restless while some were engrossed. But the movie brought reality and life behind any creation!A 52 minute documentary…

The journey of a 12yrs old, who grew up with a love for vehicles. As a child of 4yrs old, he would draw and draw jeeps and buses and trucks. He even started to save money to buy a bike when he would be 18urs old. Soon he grew out of vehicles and started making…

Jam just a minute – pick a topic and speak for a minute. Topic was “my fears”.We all have fear. But we don’t talk about our fear much. We just spoke for a minute and that’s all. None have a any suggestions to deal with it, none was looking for any solutions. We just came…

No knowledge, no degrees, no education in growing our food. Yes! this is where we began our journey of kitchen garden. All we had was desire to grow. We experimented, we failed many times, we read, we met people, we tried many things, we understood our land (soil), we visited places and continued to work.…

Jatre Halloween – The eve of celebrating holy spirit. Hallow (holy spirit), Eve (evening). Namrata took us through the journey of this festival. Its origin ( Celtics celebrating Samhain) to be safe from evil spirit.Belief – Most culture believes that in some or other forms spirits visits us. And that’s the culture behind dressing up…

Abhiram, a Khoji from Swaraj, shared what all he has learnt about trees and farming in last few years. It began with ponderingHow did life started on the earth? What is life?What is forest?What all helps in creating life ? How to water the trees? Or where to water trees? At the roots, around the…

Three years back we just started planting trees. We planted 100 trees in first batch, only 10 survived – we did not know how to care for the trees or simply we did not know anything about growing. We learnt as we grew with our kids at the campus. We experimented, we read, met people,…

We all dream of becoming something, we all connect with something or other but when it comes to doing often we are disappointed with our own lack of skills and our own capabilities. Each dream needs necessary skills to be developed – some skills we have , while some skills we develop. Isn’t education is…

Some kids at the campus during summer felt that the cats at the campus do not have the home. Kids of various ages got involved in making homes for cats using cartoon boxes. They watched vidoes on how to make cat homes reusing t-shirts and so on. Now that they had made the homes, they…

No hands are so small to make a difference. Four hands making a difference by handling bio gas and it’s maintenance during the campus care.

Horologist, a person who makes clocks and repair clocks. Naveen, now a entrepreneur in making Montessori material started his journey with his family business of watches. They were Horologists ! He shared his story. His grandfather (60 yrs back), a weaver was bored of his work. He was looking for a challenging job. He got…

Outdoor to explore Nature around us: We searched and connected with locals to find a place to ‘trek or do rock climbing’, Our search told us that there are temples to climb (many on the hilltops). So we settled with one temple to Sri Nanjundeswara hills. One of them went for Reiki trip with some…

We all play games – we at Aarohi also use games to reflect and add value in our learning journey. We played Tic-Tac-Toe in many different forms. We used the game to explore various skills we used the various works we did, what all we need to develop and what all we already have. The…

At the campus, experiences come in many different forms. This week we traced the skills and analyzed if we needed to reduce or increase any activities or change our schedule. Our analysis showed us that,rather than spending time on unwanted stuff which is not adding value in our development,all we need to do isdevelop efficiency,…

Bad News – Bad feelings for each other over some of the behaviors – “He took my stuff without asking me. He pushed me. He was teasing me. He was namecalling me. He was interfering with my work. He did not listen to me…” Good news – Opportunity to understand “needs and wants”. And explore…

Telling a lie Introduction: i am the pmo of aarohi (publicity media officer, I am 12yrs old). And i have taken an interview of some parents and children in aarohi. And as you know i am writing about what people feel and what kind of thoughts come in their mind when somebody lies or they…

Open any pageHighlight some wordsRewrite themAnd a poem is ready.And top it with some poetry reading, Just the perfect recipe for an afternoon magic of one!

Played the game of Rummy with Fraction. Initial reactions were “let’s play the same game as we played last time”. Last week we played the Rummy with addition.But we when discovered that 1/2 is same 2/4 or 4/8, the game of RUmmy became interesting. We played and played. Games to play using playing cards -http://aarohilife.org/home/resources/math-games-based-playing-cards

Lie down under a tree – Observe 50 new things. Look for lines, patterns, life, designs, feelings, thoughts and beyond….and write what you feel like aboutthe tree. A poem, a letter, a note or a story.

Art of asking in Jatre on Bus donation.We have a bus for our library, we need money for the bus. So what do we ask for? We explored the power of persuasion.Add Pathos (emotions).Add Logos (logic)Add Ethos (credibility) Just a small amount (Logos)When you visit, you can also visit (Ethos)This bus is good, had good…

AKD special – Estimation.We use Estimation on daily basis – how much to cook? How much to buy? How to plan our day? How much profit? Why my idea will sell? Where to invest? – we estimate based on our experience or data available or analysis.Estimation is a skill we introduced in Jatre for AKD.…

Meaningful conversation in Our Jaatre – The purpose to experienceConversation which adds value to me, to othersConversation which helps in knowing my friends more and deeperConversation which connects me with others Peer group of 7 to 45 formed a group and pondered on questions “What is education? Is caring is the only way to respect…

“Camping” was the word where it all began. Two of them started dreaming and just talking about it. With every conversation, their dream became bigger. Finally, they started planning – invited more people to join, wrote notices with details. And finally, they began. Few more joined. They tested tents, made safety notes, planned food, and…

Community Jatre, to connect to explore “profession”. To help community connecting to understand the process and role of parents/ facilitator to go deeper into the concept of a profession.To facilitate the process of “what profession you are in NOW” the community came together. We began with pondering – What does the word ‘profession’ mean to…

Bad news – Few kids falling sick very frequently Good news – Opportunity to understand food and health. The journey began with questioning “do we know how does food gives energy?”. Hmmm…only the discovery about food digestion, nutrition absorption by blood cells led to the understanding role of food in our growth. So when we…

Bad News – One child received several concerns – Abusive language, Teasing, Pranks, Shouting at parents, Taking other’s stuff without taking permission, Misuse of laptop/internet, Touching others inappropriately Good News – We get the opportunity to explore peer support! ​​ Five kids from the community came forward to be part of a ‘counseling circle’. This…

Bad News – Dome hall heating up. Good news – We understood about radiation The need to understand about ‘Radiation’ came from the need to make our Dome cooler. IT ALL INSIDE ME”. Yes its all about me and my experiences. A Jatre on radiation – where all the answers came from kids, most of…

A trip toTown Panchayat office was enough to understand many civic chapters. Themore important was to understand the working around our area – who arranges for the water? who is responsible for electricity? Who builds roads? How is garbage collected? What is govt around us? GOverenmnt is a very broad term, we never get to…

The need of more biscuits was raised in My Voice. My voice is an exercise to express thoughts, concerns, a suggestion in a forum! Two kids raised in my voice “Increase the numbers of biscuits from three to six in milk timings”. Currently, we have a restriction of max three biscuits. Based on options we…