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While freedom is dream, belief about freedom also brings anxiety for some who hear about Aarohi. As a open learning community or homeschooler / unschooler or alternate learning system we face this question. Query – I like the aspect of freedom, child led, Open earning; I’d want to know more about the child’s transition from…

Community get together are joyful. Kids at Aarohi not only have their own families but a larger community family to enjoy. Various parents have bonded with children at different levels and there is joy in community get together at Aarohi. We eat together, cook together, clean together and laugh together and enjoy each moment. Thanks…

Nothing stays still at Aarohi, nothing stays same at Aarohi…it evolves, it grows. Like a river who never stays at one place, keep flowing Aarohi keeps flowing with the flow of people who makes this community. It was time to review our schedule and reflect what we want to add and what we want to…

Each parent at Aarohi brings value and joy to the community. Few new, few old…we met together to know each other. We hugged…knee hug, feet hug, elbow hug, head hug and just simple hug.

Each desire, each dream gets attention. Nothoughtsor ideas are waste. We spend time on each dream,dream more and think in manydifferent.Nothing is impossible, we try each things which comes in our dreams and wish list. Whether we succeed or make products to show to the world is not important, what is important is that we…

We are beginning to learn about food, growing food and plants around us at Aarohi. Often we care for the plant which we know are useful for us, what we think are not useful (ignorance) we take them out as weed or throw out…..As we grow our own understanding we start looking value in weeds…

They designed a car, they took part in a competition, they won the award, they shared their journey. Four engineering students joined Aarohi for a day to share their journey of making a car from scratch. They began with sharing the learning from this project ‘experience of joy’. It was not only making of car…

Madhabi joined Aarohi to explore community living. She inspired some of us to explore Bengali language. Initially her accent was new for some at campus, as they have not met people from East part of the country but soon she was part of our life at campus. Bengali language session was fun and experiential for…

Birthdays reminds us to celebrate life and purpose of our being here. Each b’day celebration is different….because its for different person. What person likes we cook specially, what kind of decoration person likes, we try to decorate, what music person like we try to play….community come together to make person feel special on this special…

Birthdays reminds us to celebrate life and purpose of our being here. Each b’day celebration is different….because its for different person. What person likes we cook specially, what kind of decoration person likes, we try to decorate, what music person like we try to play….community come together to make person feel special on this special…

Akkas joining in adding beauty to Nector courtyard…..I invited them to join in paining. First response was ” we don’t know painting”. I just gave brush and paint in their hands. Soon they started adding designs and one of them expressed ” I love designing, call me whenever doing and design work.” We got more…

Phil and Laura from Canada, spent one week at Aarohi to understand open learning. They shared their joy of music and videography and made a vi doe on life at Aarohi as a gift.

Lost GAMES …. they are called folk games also..they were part of our growing up. We did not realized that how they added to our growth. Simple games which we could play any place, using any kind of available material (stones, seeds, twigs, broken bangles). Challenging games to work on our body and mind. No…

When it comes to music choices, we all have very specific choices. But when it comes to evening jam with music during community time at Aarohi, we all are open to explore various types of music. Dedicated time with music in the evening in community time allows us to listen, sing and explore music, which…

Thank to Tejasvi for looking at museums and Galleries a as interactive live learning spaces. Inspired by her work, we visited National Gallery of Modern Art in Bangalore. Some wanted to see exhibition of painting to get more ideas for designs, some wanted to get inspired, some wanted to know history, some just joined the…

Kids at Aarohi have been taking responsibility of various sessions, this summer they moved one step ahead by participating in planning and organizing the event of summer 2016. One notice ‘inviting volunteers to be part of summer organizing’ resulted into response from 5 kids. I was not sure what and how much they would like…

The stay at campus begins with choosing my own space. Knowing what I want to do is next step to understand freedom at Aarohi. Safety training is part of starting living at Aarohi. How do we live in harmony with wilderness around us, how do we co-exist? When we understand them we take care of…

Baking on wood fire oven was an experience we would like to have again and again. It allows us to understand fire as cooking tool and baking as cooking process. Also baking at campus allows us to explore and experiment due to limited ingredients available. Brownies – One Child was leading the team to make…

Journey of Roti making:We started exploring ingredients for rotis and found that dough was made of wheat flour. We wanted to feel the wheat and looked at all grains to find out which is wheat. Each one had different visual picture in mind about how it looks and how it can taste. We finally searched…

They danced, they acted, they wrote story line and they performed. Shalvi, a young adult at Aarohi sharing her journey of making of “MAAYI”, a musical act at Aarohi this summer of 2016. The summer camp week started.On Monday, while I was sitting during the planning time, I wandered into my own world where I…

Safety training is part of starting living at Aarohi. How do we live in harmony with wilderness around us, how do we co-exist? When we understand them we take care of each other. Understanding is beginning of knowing our own actions in case of safety Elaborate safety training on emotional, physical and sexual safety set…

Bath in natural pond breaks many of the unknown beliefs we grow inside us. Nearby pond gives us opportunity to explore ourselves. Bathing in pond, we call it ponding is very popular activity at Aarohi. Cooking after bath and enjoying our breakfast adds up to the whole experience. Pond bed is SOFT CLAY – it…

Different age groups living together and creating spaces for self. It was amazing to see how each child, irrespective of the age could find spaces for self. Initially there was apprehension ‘how will kids of 4yrs and 14 yrs will stay together? Will smaller kids get lost? Will smaller kids get their space? These apprehensions…

What is an NGO? Some have heard , some had no idea. Anu and Navin of Headstream joined with their team to share about NGO they run. Well, they began with a small dynamic skit to share problems people face on society and kids came up with the solutions (drunken father, helpless mother, drugged school…

Snippets from our weekly documentation of self learning – Its amazing to see how each one looks at their each week. All are in the same environment, but take away is different for different children.They like to document their week differently – some likes to write long stories (what all happened), some likes questions, some…

I met this ‘engineered mind’ this week at Aarohi. He came for summer camp and first thing he touched was electronic box which contained many components. He was happy to know that he could use them. Second thing he visited was mud house which house many make and break things. Most of the so called…

Summer camp is no different for us at Aarohi than our normal living at campus. Community time brings all of us together for care of campus, meals, catching up with our talks, spending time with each other just like that. Sports is another place where we spend tome together and play with all ages, all…

This session was to explore things and people we rely on to make each day possible. We started with discussing about how a plant survives, what are the things they are dependent on. Kids participated eagerly… Then the whole class made a human clock with children in the place of the numbers in the clock.…

This session was to explore about how does comparing oneself with others help or not help? Each kid was shared a piece of paper and was asked to duplicate a face that was drawn on the board. Many started with enthusiasm and were into their drawing. They were told not to write their names on…