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Battery of our car got drained out – first reaction was to call ‘battery emergency service’ to fix the problem. Second thought was ‘learning opportunity’. With kids we tried jump start – did not work. It took two days to figure out how to open bonnet. As and when we needed help, we called people,…

What causes us to steal – is it temptation? If we delve deeper into this, living together brings all kinds of social dynamics. ​At campus we are experiencing children getting tempted and taking food items that either belong to others or belong to the campus (to be used at other time – these typically include…

Workshop on Non Violent Communication with Shammi brought a new way of communication in our life at Aarohi O-Campus. Living together does bring conflict and opportunities to learn from them. As Shammi said “celebrate conflicts”. We celebrated conflict and went deeper into the human needs. It began with solving conflicts of what schedule to follow?…

Let me do this for 10 more minutes, 10 more, just five minutes more….does this sounds familiar? Often we respond in many different ways – threats are some of them (If you do not come now, we will leave you here), or negotiations are some (only five more minutes, no more. OR attack on the…

Outdoor Visit to “The chocolate room” We all have visited various restaurants, many times, but our visit to the restaurant “The Chocolate Room” gave us different views and dimensions about a restaurant. We enjoy restaurants as a customer by choosing, exploring variety of foods and at times even cribbing about taste and quality. This time…

Lincy with her team from backyard factory joied at campus to share their love of gardening, https://www.facebook.com/greenbackyardfactory?fref=ts It began with understanding about pest (that’s where we shift to chemicals sprays) and we liked the idea of 3G spray. Some of the kids are into gardening and growing – they liked the idea of 3G spray.…

Last two weeks we faced death and loss – two of our rabbits died. One died due to disease and another one was hunted by our pet dog. Rabbits brought joy for some kids – kids nurtured them, They mothered them – gave bath, made shelter, gave food, cleaned their shelter, protected them from our…

Basic skills is a focused space for the child to work on areas like logic, language, nature, the body and/or enhancing skills or doing a ‘deeper dive’ into a specific learning area through actual hands-on work or application. The child decides on specific learning goals and works on these. Some examples are making a story,…

Thank you Shivednra Ji visiting us at campus – we re-lived the era of ‘trunk calls booking’. For kids it was an alien story to know how we used to book STD calls and wait for the calls to get connecetd – almost felt impossible or fairy land story. You very humbly shared that you…

Tools are very important part of our learning resources. They allow us to explore and make things and see the ‘real’ things happening. At Aarohi we explore all kinds of tools – from saw to cut wood and Bamboo, spades and other digging tools, trimmer for electrical works – basically any tool which any adult…

Ten enthusiastic Malaysian teachers visited Aarohi for a day. We cooked, we sang, we laughed and we all enjoyed together. We talked about culture, food and lifestyle. “Live station” session is one in which individuals from different walks of life spend valuable time with children at Aarohi – sharing their life, their skills, or their…

25yr old, started her life as normal as how many of us did – schooling, college and then work. Then she started questioning herself, could not stay for a long in job and started feeling need to do something more. She joined ‘teach for india’ and continued her journey – here she heard about ‘alternative…

This session was to explore ones emotions. This time we used different facial expressions to greet each other…Kids were involved and excited to show different expressions. Then they watched a short video of a song depicting different feelings… few wanted to catch up the front row, few were getting up in the middle, few said…

This session was to explore ones emotions. This time we used different facial expressions to greet each other…Kids were involved and excited to show different expressions. Then they watched a short video of a song depicting different feelings…kids enjoyed watching, few were moving their body to the song… few laughed… few tried to repeat the…

This session was also to explore strengths using puppets. Greeted the kids with two puppets…Kids were excited and involved.. Then kids were made to play 5, 10, 15 Bingo!! Game… They played the game by themselves…. By then the place was set for the puppet show.. When asked “Are u tired after repeating numbers? Shall…

This session was to explore strengths using puppets. Suddenly entered the class with puppets in hand and greeted with two puppets…Kids were surprised and excited.. Then kids were made to play 5, 10, 15 Bingo!! Game… One of the kid shared the 5 tables and after explanation of the game, they played the game by…

This session was to explore Multiple Intelligences using bottle caps. This session started with greeting each other with thumbs… Then we played the game, Do what I say and not what I do….Kids participated well… Then asked, what is intelligent? Many said brain, some studying, some playing, some singing….. Then a chart with different people…

This session was to explore the different Multiple Intelligences using bottle caps….The session started with greeting the person to the right and the left using the thumb. Kids did it with smiling faces… Then We played ‘Do what I say and not what I do’ game. kids participated well…. When asked, what is Intelligence? Some…

The session started with saying good afternoon differently…. Using our ears and hands…. Kids were involved in doing it… Then kids were made to sit in 2 concentric circles as we couldn’t make a single circle… Then we introduced ourselves one by one telling our names along with 2 things about us and something that…

The session started with a formal Good morning…..Then I asked the kids to say Good morning in different ways without opening their mouth.. So they did Namaskar, salute and few other actions also…. And then we said Good morning using our ears and hands.. Kids were very involved and enjoyed doing it….. Then we introduced…

Science is MAGICAL and it’s all around us and all we need to do is take out tags like physics, chemistry and biology. We began with science in Kitchen – What we use in our daily life we take it for granted and just use them. This week in thought club we pondered about things…

Words are all around us – Let’s play with them. Each day for 15 minutes we just played with words – looked for words from newspaper, rhyming words, words we know or don’t know – very simple and common activity, but worth repeating it many times.

Use games to bring awareness about various aspect of one word, we explored ‘SENSITIVITY’. We did not introduce the one meaning of the word, we explored it through the games for few days. We all started with five tokens (assumption that we all have some basic sensitivity within us). We added one token for every…

We had safety drill at campus on ‘people’. Your child may like to express more or not express at all, just listen and if require encourage to talk more. Safety means ‘being safe’. Today, in human society we are afraid of stealing, loss, threats, robbery and kids are not alien to these fears – they…

Kids were given constraint of not using ‘cardboard box and cellotape to create, SO INSTEAD OF MODELS – create something out in real and work with different materials’. They went around and choose to ‘upgrade tree house’. They choose to work with Bamboo and ropes, they worked with hammers and nails, they explored ‘creating. In…

Often when kids work with different paints they are depending on us to know which paint to use for which purpose. We realized that they have not spent time with different paints at leisure, rather used them often in hurry (I want to use now). This week we began the week with ‘spending time with…

Kept old cans and few stones – we invented games, played old games in new way (bowling with empty cold drinks cans and stones).

Most of us are healthy (no major disease) but are we all fit? Can we run 5kms, can we do regularly do push ups?, can we bend forward?….health, fitness, exercise, food consciousness are left to extra curricular activities in our education. We rarely bring the aspect of fitness as equally important part of living life.…

Each day we reflect and assesses ourselves and we do it in many different ways. Each week Thursday night we compile our reflections of the week and document it. It takes few hours for us to compile each week. Since this is a different way of assessing ourselves, each child takes own time, own pace…

“How is my painting? Is it beautiful? Am I doing it fine? Can you tell me which color to fill? I am not good at painting, do it for me? You finish for me…we often hear this ANXIETY in children. Last week asked kids to make ‘dirty painting’. Initially they rejected my idea. As we…