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People are source of learning, Often people ask us “what will I be value to your children at Aarohi, I know nothing to teach” and invariably we say “We believe each individual is a wonderful story and our children would benefit by getting exposed to your story. Aarohi is a learning space where there is…

The book is written for teachers and anyone who is working with children. Each chapter talks about different research relevant to education and learning and concludes with suggestions to bring changes in our approach. The simple, language ensures readers are not struggling to understand jargon of research papers. The book deals with many other aspect…

The tale of princess Kaguya (Japanese). If your child likes ‘water painting’, the animation is treat to the eyes. Together you can also admire making of the movie, which took 8yrs to make each frame by hand.

We watch a lot of movies and these movies either give us fresh insights, or reinforce the kind of work we do. Some are simply inspiring. Since we are already be familiar with Indian movies like Tare Zameen parand 3-Idiots,we thought we’d share with you some foreign movies (in no particular order). Dead poets’ society…

The word ‘travelogue’ was new to many in the group. So we began our journey. Instead of knowing what it is we just started writing about the trip.After one round of travelogue writing we made a mind map using the following template ​We used only key words to fill the mind map and then used…

Another aspect of outstation trip is learning about the place, by experiencing, by being there. For any place we did not take guide, as kids expressed that they want to explore by themselves. Sea Shore Temple – We saw Sea shore temple early in the morning and it was wow! We were mesmerized by its…

Every outstation trip creates many aspect of learning. It begins with learning about travel and its adventure as it unfolds. Traveling in different weather. Every time we want comfort of shade or hot it is not available. We need to work without fans/AC when we are on road. We do not get always what food…

Every snake we spot in the campus, we learn from it. More we spot, more we learn :). Every new child brings own fear of snake and every spotting of snake allows each one of us to meet our fear in many different ways. Last time we spotted a snake, one child commented ‘ this…

Take a candle (done best in dark room) light it up, give one candle to each child, using the first candle, all light up their candle. Once all have lighted up, sharethoughts– some of thought shared One candle can make more light Some are poor, we can share our money with others We can help…

We have lots of different kind of board and other kind of games at campus, often hidden under other priorities…what we did is brought them out in welcome…and all were curious and indulged into playing all kinds of games.

No occasion, No festival, – the only reason was WIND. Wind is blowing in campus with good speed and some kids felt that its a good time to fly kites. Some flew for first time, some taught others … all ages enjoyed

Travelling is amazing education. Travelling together is even better. That is what are outstation trips – travel, see, meet, eat and learn. We go for roughly 3 to 4 outstation trips in a year. These trips can be anything from 2 days to a week long duration. Children together choose themes for the trips, then…

“If I were a painting”, a beautiful poetry. Lyrics written by Ewing Ii, Donald / Sampson, Donald, sung by Kenny Rogers was part of our sunshine. Kids found in collection of old cassettes and brought in sunshine. The thought of imagining self as a painting was exciting – We sang and sang whole day in…

Put up any song, take puppet and just dance with them. Goes with any age

Thirty eight children accompanied by 6 staff members from Advaith Academy, Hosur came for a day visit to Aarohi. The kids were at campus only for few hours – The children were mainly interested in seeing trees and plants, understanding how our campus works on solar and does water recycling, in climbing and exploring rocks…

Few kids have been working on making and creating using old card boxes, cellotape and chart papers. Last week we put constraint of using ‘other material’. They went out, decided to work on ‘upgrading tree house’. Few more joined them, they first drew the renovation plan, then came up with material list and finally implemented…

Focus on whole rather parts: many times we focus on my role and my gain rather than effect of my action on the whole. We played a game to experience ‘whole’. As a team we had to finish one round of passing ball, the game had some constraint like – no communication at all (full…

Take a break in between busy sessions, busy work and do jigs. It changes frame of mind, it is quick break it is re-freshening.

Why do we study history? We began the session with this question. Kids came up with some thoughts To tell others that I know To visit forts and have fun To read stories of kings and queen To know what happened that time? We kept on wondering ‘what do we gain when we read history’…

We had only half an hour to prepare for the b’day celebration. Few kids joined during lunch time -decorated the place, arranged to welcome b’day boy, arranged the music and WE DID IT !!! Thank you Sirihsa and Naveen to treat us with yummy food and pamper us with sweet and savories.

Thank you Narayan andArun Kaulige (www.kaulige.in)for introducing Millets to Aarohi. We enjoyed cooking and eating both. It was a new discovery to know about Millets, rice and wheat. Learning to understand what we eat and where does it comes from. Kids enjoyed millet Khidi and Dosa. Looking forward to experiment with our food, bringing change…

Two kids today announced ‘course on Drawing’. Both have been doing drawing in different forms, using different techniques and books. They designed course for different levels. When the participants came, they were given different levels to know where will they start. Both the kids brought different books and techniques for reference. The session was serious,…

‘CHEMISTRY’ is the word, was introduced in higher classes to me and now these days introduced much earlier. For years it was benzene ring’s diagram that was chemistry for me. Best time I had with chemistry was in lab identifying some compounds during ‘practical test’. While we see and experience chemistry all around, we rarely…

“EACH CHILD IS CAPABLE”. Every child has the immense capability but we are unable to see them. One child who hates maths, who is also labeled ‘useless’ by all around him, came to Aarohi. He could not relate to what was happening around him. He is not good in maths, but he has flair for…

Knowing how does things, which we use daily, are made, makes a huge difference in understanding our environment. We hear lot of buzz about how things are harmful for us (like plastic) but we are very less aware how they are made. I guess first we need to know how things are made to take…

I like textbooks for many reasons. Textbooks are designed to develop very specific skills. When the kids want to work on any specific skills, textbooks are very helpful. Often when a child asks for a resource to learn a specific concept, we give books from 1 to 10 levels, they choose which level they want…

Take few Bamboo sticks, few wooden blocks and some empty oil cans…play with them and see the magic.

Kids see mixie, some even use it…in two minutes activity they converted themselves in mixie and explored the working of it through body.

Someone has agreed to give old bus to Aarohi. We began with what and how to use this bus (bus has still not arrived). Last two weeks, some kids have been working on ‘bus designing’. Initially it was difficult for some to visualize the arrangements of racks inside for arranging books (library). They know multiplication,…

Mind Mapping – A visual tool for learning. This week we explored during planning, We planned in many different ways using symbols, key words in mind map. How will I use my body? How will I use making? How will I use my brain? How will I use my friends? Further we branched them as…