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Do nothing comes from the concept of spending time with yourself. This Friday after we made our own breakfast, we spent time with ourselves. No timings, no planning, no talking, no following, no working with anyone else…purely with self. A short film on ‘being friend to self’ helped us connect with self.http://upliftconnect.com/how-to-be-a-friend-to-yourself/?_utm_source=1-2-2 We explored mindfulness…

Some of us like maths, some are horrified…we explored with Sangeetha how can we study smarter when it comes to maths. Many times it’s not about the operations of maths or to know the calculations but about understanding the problem.So here are the few steps to approach any maths problemFirst Step – Check the units…

Feedback is evolving as an interesting process at Aarohi. It brings the comfort that we don’t have to be perfect and we can also change. Feedback adds value to our growth. Feedback on facilitation, parent involvement, and codes. FACILITATION What facilitation works – Guidance, mutual openness, fun, serious, lectures, discussions, understanding a point of view,…

We all are same because we all are different. Understanding of multiple intelligence allowed us to understand self and also others and their intelligence also. We began our term planning with multiple intelligence – the frame work helped us to know where one is going or rather where one is wanting to go. Some worked…

It starts with a “DESIRE” at Aarohi. I want to paint, I want to play Cricket, I want to cook food, I want to read, I want to teach maths to others, I want to perfect my art, I want to work with mud, I want to make mud wall, I want to make a…

Letter writing is forgotten tools of expression. Thanks to Supriya from Delhi to share her thoughts with us and sending us a box full of letter pads to write letters to our mothers. To begin we explored what is letter writing? We shared various experiences of receiving or writing letters. Later we also brain stormed…

Yes, We began with a dream to have our library in a bus. The community tried to get the bus in many different ways and one day we came to know about the auction of an old government library bus. We had only heard about the auction in movies, not in real life. Some kids…

It began with ponderingWhat is rock? What are minerals?Where all do we find?What all comes from rock ?Where all rocks and minerals are used ? When we looked around us, we realized that rocks and minerals are so much part of our life. We use them in wall, roof, floor, pen, watch, mobile, glass, blackboard,…

A screw of the pressure cooker lid came out. He decided to fix it. He stayed with it for 25 minutes. Trying….Trying….Trying…and finally he got it.Watch the video ImagineAarohi, a life education, where learning happens because children want to learn from their life – for their life.Imagine Aarohiwhichdoes not make the learning easy. Children like…

No occasion, just a day. It was enough for our team to make a cake. They got together to make a cake. They decided to make chocolate with coco powder, They did not find cream, no issue they made with milk cream, They did not get butter, they added oil. No maida, they made with…

Often holidays means ‘food, entertainment, and shopping”. At the Aarohi campus the life continues all days, we have no holidays as all days are holidays for us – We cook, we visit places, we work together, we watch movies, we discuss, we get the repairs done, we visit market with a BIG list for the…

A day with Permaculture with Upendra. Upendra, an engineer started his journey with a dream to build bridges. He grew up with a dream to play cricket. And every time he played, he destroyed something. As an engineer, he built few bridges and destroyed many resources to build that connectivity. Something did not feel good,…

Imagine Aarohi where there is no teaching – because we believe that children can decide how they want to learn – on their own, with each other and from various resources, etc. Hmmm… this sounds skeptical as many of us believe that one can learn only when one is taught. At Aarohi we look at…

The topic of Monday thought club comes from our life at Aarohi. Teasing is part of our life at the campus. We expanded it to “Bullying”. First, it was about exploring what is bullying, we came up with our experiences of – gossip, name-calling, physical abuse, playing a prank, putting down, isolation, rumors etc. When…

From a mother’s diary – our neighbor’s son and my son (Advay) are both 6-year-olds and are very good friends. They play together a lot. 2 days back, Advay came back home inspired to do the same home work that his friend was given at his school: to create “Indian flag”.He first created the flag…

Our reporter at the campus shared wind speed 23km/ hr. Wind speed at the campus has changed from 8km/ hour to 23km/ hrs. We can feel the flying power of the wind at the campus. The experience of change in speed called for a session on an understanding wind. We pondered…. What is the wind?…

Two kids got introduced to Vedic Maths. They decided to teach other kids. They prepared the session, it took them a week to prepare. They shared what they learned. In the process, they learned double! Imagine Aarohi where there are no classes – because we believe that when children learn and teach each other –…

Community Satsang hosted by Jayita, Twesha, Lalit, and Kanchan at their home.Mythology was the theme and that brought a thought…what is Mythology? Characters of Kumbhakaran, Mahabali, Krishna, Water, Fire, Shiva, Ram, Ravana, Saraswati, Soopernekha, Moon, Prophet Mohammed, Prahald, Lakshmi, Sun, Greek goddess, Bahubali, Zeus, Poseidon, Air..all came alive with each one of relating to one…

They decided to paint walls at Aarohi. They had not painted before. They did not know what they have signed up for! Well, Desire to ‘paint wall’ was not as easy as it looked. It began with reading about the paint on the paint box (exterior or interior), direction to use and prepare…it was yet…

“I want to paint” was the desire.She was advised to just START and rest will follow. No guidance, no art lessons…she just started. Imagine Aarohi where there is no teaching – because we believe that children can decide how they want to learn – on their own, with each other and from various resources, etc.…

We can search anything with a click on google maps, but we can not find human interaction with a click. for that, we need to reach out and connect. Just dial Kelmanagalm was organized to connect with out the neighborhood. We divided ourselves into various teams, Each time reaches out to various people who support…

What will you like to do after you have visited science museum? May be talking about it (I went and I saw this and that) or may be wondering(how did that happen? why was it like that?), or do nothing. Outdoor to Visweshawaraiah Museum inspired us with a thought “what can I create/replicate at the…

Everybody loves a hero. You see, even if he gets left behind on Mars all by himself (referring to the movie ‘Martian’), he is unfazed, undeterred, unaffected, and unbeatable. He, to somebody ‘old’ like me, looks so unreal and un-human. But, everybody loves a hero. So, let us keep our skepticism aside, and see how…

Ask a child to draw and hear “I don’t know how to draw”. This is a commonly heard phrase. And we often encourageby saying “draw to express, don’t worry about the beauty, just draw”. And invaraibaly we get the suprisingresponses “how is that possible?” The skill of drawing is restricted to “nice”. Kids often stop…

Each day we spend time outdoors and we call it Active ME – bird watching, gardening, farming, playing sports, climbing trees, chasing butterflies or just simply trekking. Once in two weeks Active WE bring all of us together. This time we made mud wall of our upcoming sports cabin. We also spent time in our…

We re-visited our Schedule of last year. The need of more sports time in the evening brought some changes in our schedule. After experiencing for three weeks, it was time to get feedback on the new schedule. The feedback began with exploring “What is the purpose of schedule? and then followed by thoughts on the…

He has come to Aarohi for one month with only one agenda ‘to be independent’. He wondered for days ‘what is responsibility and freedom?”. And obviously he did not get any direct answers from us, all he got was multiple of experiences. He himself defined his own definition when he was allowed to do some…

Sharing own travel story – Lakshmi and Avani sharing about their trip to Spiti Valley.

Meditative…Exploring Mandala Art with Supriya

Jatre of Creative Writing with Supriya began with a question – What is creativity? The responses were – Thinking, discovering, doing differently, ideas, listening to mind, being with it, adding value, relating, imagining…We began to write a story, not with pen and paper but visualizing…a hero, a situation, a problem, a value and a solution.Our…