Category: Blogs

First crop harvest of the campus – It was different. For most of us, it was the first interaction with the farming and harvesting the crop by our hands. There were joy, excitement, and connection. I grew up without knowing where does the grain I eat come from. I read in textbooks so I knew…

Each leaf is different. All we need to do is spend time with them. Jatre on leaves began with stimulation of seeing a bunch of leaves and guessing the name of the plant ( all leaves were collected from the kitchen garden). Identification was done based on smell, looks, memory, and a wild guess.We moved…

Sketching Introduction: I am the publicity media officer of aarohi and my new blog is about sketching. I am going to talk about a few techniques on sketching. So let’s dig into it. Shading: Shading is when you make any object dark or light by applying a certain amount of pressure. It also depends on…

Visit to Maker Faire gave us the stimulation, experience, exposure of various fields all in one place for all ages. Maker soul came back excited, stimulated and inspired – just 3 hours of exposure stimulated us with the joy of experiencing innovations in makers space. Its is a gathering of curious people who enjoy learning…

Do kids plan their bday parties? And given a chance they start planning their parties by the age of 4yrs, some even earlier – whom will they call, where will they have the party, what shape of the cake, what candies to distribute, what snacks to have, which dress to wear and so on. If…

Sophrology means knowing of consciousness and knowing our emotions and manage them. A session with Marie from France allowed us to play with emotions. After working for various companies in accountancy in France, she opted for an alternative life and that led her exploring Sorphology and she enjoys it! We played with two emotions –…

Sophrology means knowing of consciousness and knowing our emotions and manage them. A session with Marie from France allowed us to play with emotions. (from wikipedia –Sophrology, from Ancient Greek σῶς / SOS (“harmony”), φρήν / PHREN (“mind”), and -λογία / -logia (“study/science”), is the study of the consciousness in harmony; a healthcare philosophy made…

“What did you eat? I also watched this movie. I went to a restaurant. I went to a party. That is cool”…often the talks are limited to limited experience kids have around them. To add value to our conversations, we engage ourselves in sharing the circle and meaningful conversations.Anyone is free to announce the topic,…

Just one book, few colur papers, few colur pens and just one person were enough to bring Origami fever at the campus.

This blog is wriiten by Asawari, she was part of Aarohi for few years and then joined Swaraj University at Udaipur and here are thoughts as guide, as learner and as a facilitator. Her blog also athttp://asawarimathur.blogspot.in/2017/11/peer-feedback-in-self-directed-learning.html My thoughts of Peer feedback as a process in self –directed learning, this is from my experience at…

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.