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At Aarohi – learning comes in millions of ways. Children decide what they want to do/learn (content) and how they want to do/learn it (process). Often these goals involve making (a cake), creating (a movie), building (a house of pets), exploring (gardening or poetry), researching (about Ashoka the king), and so on. Most of the…

Three teams coming together for Planning, Preparing, and Participating Posters, Communication, Calls, Discussions were just some of the actions to make it happen How, What, When, were some of the questions to take us forward Excitement, Apprehensions, Eagerness, Confusion, Joy, were just some of the emotions Listening, Sharing, Cocreating, were some of the Ingredients of…

AAROHI – X is a BUSY place with more than 40 collaborations throughout the week – each space is created with “I decide”. All ages participate, someone leads, someone follows – no age barriers. All spaces are self-organized and have different styles, The style of each space is created by the participants of the space.…

Imagine aarohi which guarantees one definitive outcome – that learning will be self-discovery. Every day in the morning we meet to coordinate – our coordination sessions are chaotic, full of chatter and voices “I am making bulbs and want a volunteer help me, I am organizing trek – sign up, I am practicing dance, Kitchen…

We read a book called HELLO RUBY which is a very nice exploration of a computer..then he spent a few days exploring my old sony vaio himself (i wasn’t part of it but could see him sitting with it everyday)..then yesterday he decided to just make it himself..both hardware part and software part…explaining all the…

We rejoice when we see a child leading himself and herself in so many walks of his/her life (just as they led themselves in learning how to walk).In their leadership of themselves they stumble, fumble, go astray, even come to a grinding halt. We rejoice, because this way they are developing into better leaders of…

It was just at back of the campusWe wanted to go to a particular rock we call “owl rock”. Soon we realised that we are lost.We realised that I am confidently bad with the directionsAchalesh took the leadWe found the owl rock from another sideIt was getting darkOn the way, we had an adventure with…

My skill development is my responsibility – we can create this awareness, create the opportunity to reflect, and create our own planning to develop. We cannot develop for others. At the campus daily we get approx 6 hours of skills development – 9 hrs of sleep, 2 hrs of planning/reflection, 2hrs of community engagements, 5…

So what is the child’s interest?What if the child is not going deeper or leaving it?What is the parent’s role?” This week we explored “choices and nonchoices”.We say one of the roles is to bring the awareness that when I continue with one interest, I am leaving other interests. When I am leaving one and…

It began with an idea “how about a radio channel of Aarohi”RJ Visrtuhi conducted a session on how to start your radio shadow to spark the idea and the rest is a creation story. The first show was super enjoyable. Enjoyed the energy to bring music, speech, talk, story collection, technology, teamwork, planning, creation, and…

Shreyas has been learning and playing piano for the past 2.5 years. He likes to play the music of the songs that he has heard. He likes to recreate the music only by hearing. He does not look at the notes and play any songs. For the past year, it had been mostly online and…

Two Friends were excited about making a tyre chair Design Design Design, Made me crazy to think, Think, Think, Think, Never did in my College too, College, College, College, What did I do I don’t Know, I don’t Know, Imagine Aarohi, a learning communityWhere we all learnWhere we tryNo age barNo idea bar

The action of doing brings an opportunity for reality checks – your own questioning, understanding, learning, emotions, challenge, and a lot more……. The story started with the Child’s need for a drum pad. She knew the design and referred to the existing pad and did it with little effort and peer help and the making…

Who is this child? Who is this learner? Do we understand him or her? Do we know what lies inside and in the future of each? Who will show them, teach em, lead em. Each CAPABLE To Dream, To Think, To Decide, To Do, To Fail, To Achieve, To Assess, To Learn, To Enjoy, To…

No Typical days at Aaorhi – each is different The week started with a blank sheet – what happens during the week is what and how the people at the campus create them. What I WANT TO DO is the question one is encouraged to ask and go deeper with it. Sometimes it is just…

From Bhaval’s diaryThe beginning of the year 2021 brought some determinations. One of them was to learn a sport. As a child, I used to play quite a few street games but never went for any sport. As a mom, I have always gone to drop kids to sports class and have mostly waited there…

Pranav sharing his poem – he created based on his experience at Aarohi So you can call it experiential poetry

We asked “draw something you were Immersed in during the day” andthen, “draw what strengths others would be using – add to their drawing”.We were immersed in reflecting – recollecting, drawing, and thinking about other’s strengths. In some ways, the only real way we live (and learn) is by thinking. Hence open learning is all…

They visited the campus26th Jan was a holiday at the officesome time to create somethingwhy not a rope laddermeasure, buy ropes, watch some videos, do discussion and that’s allA day’s work togetherand the climbing rope and rope ladder ready to use

Children do not need encouragement, they just need us to respect their endeavors. Then they encourage themselves, lead themselves. the simple joy of doing – observe the actions of the hands

It has been interesting to understand what does the new normal means?We began with making extensive guidelines but the question arose “who will monitor the application of it?” The obvious answer that came to us was “self”, believing that each one of us is responsible for responsible living. And that led to us making 3…

She wanted to stitch a dress Found an old dupattaShe had her own imaginationHer own collection of designAnd the tools to startAnd her own motivation to createAnd the joy of wearing it!

Imagine a learning community for children (and adults) where there is no curriculum – because we believe that children can decide what they want to learn, how much they want to learn. So children effectively choose what they want to do or learn from whatever is worth doing or learning in this world. As we…

I made myself aware of observing Visual intelligence through drawings, craft, lights, and shadows through my own body lens(The EYE), After a long time, I am living in my present moment and thought that I took very seriously this challenge. Enjoyed every moment of my sublime nuances.1) Bathroom – Tile patterns, The leg feel of…

Designing a robot, with measurement – started with any measurement and then this much, that much, and then a big inch and small inch and feet.Understanding scale measurement – small inch, big-inch, feet what are these?? The detailed design of Robot, a lot of discussion on understanding big, small, medium and then actual size and…

Children can figure out their goals, chart their roadmaps, and plan their doing and learning. ADVIK (14yrs ), sharing how he is doing this as an Open learner in pursuing his passions.

Open learning is not without structure and rigor rather the very core of open learning is the process of “I decide, I do, I reflect”. Sreya talks about her experience of this process and how it opens up the possibilities to create her choice of learning which is of her interest. How this loop focusses…

Popular media would make you believe that we need to rejoice when our children achieve something. But we know the real rejoice is when we marvel at their capabilities, their energies, their intense involvement in what they like doing, et al. We rejoice in the fact that they have all the strengths anybody would need…

One parent-child askedPlease help us identify. Is this a caterpillar? We love the pattern on its back, the yellow and black combo also looks beautiful, it walks quite fast, it’s like a worm on a mission! And then they shared Update on the caterpillar we found! It turned from a bright yellow to a very…

What does my day look like? Each one of them making a different day for themselves. Aswtahy 17yrs old sharing “After spending time previously exploring the different aspects of filmmaking, doing some deliberate practice, making short films, and finally doing the visioning exercise, I stopped and asked the question, what am I really working towards?…