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After the theft incidnet at the campus, security has become part of our learning. We all have committed “one hour a week” to work on security. Every Wednesday at the campus we have “security drill”.We began the first session with “what are our needs and HOW we want to do?We all came up with our…

Any life is exciting. One of the child sowed moong dal seeds, today he found moong coming out of the ground, he was excited to share his entire discovery.

During one of the activities we put lot of things on the floor and bring break in our walking patterns, The idea was to know self and how we get used of certain things and think this is the reality and this is the only way to move ahead. Kids kept trays, clothes, water bowl…

How do we put a case on others? It was decided by the team that the stationery would be got from home. When I went into session I was not allowed to touch anything. Anything I was taking was met with you have to get it from home. Now I was a little excited and…

A topic quite intriguing for me. I love the fact that there is much in this topic and so little I am aware of. Few children had taken up this topic and I enjoyed watching them explore and discovering the meaning of BODY AWARENESS. From knowing my body to understanding ho different body parts respond…

Conversation between X child and Y child which is so much molded by adult thoughts. How do we work with our chidlren so that they work with awareness and understandingratherthan justfollowingthings? X- What all do you want to learn today?Y- I want to learn to be a good boy.X- What good boy?Y- Good boy means…

Last week the objective was SELF HOM. Children were aware of the term HOM and were eager to know more about the same. We started with working on understanding what is HOM. The next twenty odd minutes was pouring out of the list. Here is some of the things that they shared. It is a…

Last week on Saturday, we had theft at the Campus. Two people used knife to take away money, jewellery, mobile, and credit cards from Vishal’s brother and sister in-law (they were visiting the campus) at 6:30 in the evening, Vishal, his brother, bhabhi, nephew and Astha went through the whole incidence. Namrata and Samarth were…

I believe one of the bestsciencebooks is a fat blank book (preferably with TABS for categorization) On each page the child starts with a question (eg: How rains happens) Further on that page the child writes down all the possible questions related to the above question (eg: why it falls at an angle, why sometimes…

This happened in i-campus. When I was busy in my amable work, one faculty walked in with a Aarohi child. She shared, ‘child wants to share her feelings. Please record it in your camera’ I switched ON and asked her to share her feelings. Following things came out. ‘Aarohi is so frustrating. Here you have…

One child was teased by others “you do not know to read”. This child brought his anger in dirt cleaning. He shared his own past how he was not studying……what he think snow, what he wants to do now, how he had been mentored, and so on. He spoke for 45 minutes, and all listened…

one of the days, one of the children was again and again climbing the dust heap, inspite of other children telling him not to do he continued to do, finally one of the mason scolded and teh child stopped doing this? One child refused to take other one as parther, becsue other one was not…

Aarohi means evolving.. One child, 9yrs old expressed “I want to move ahead without any boundaries of objective and MI frame work”. She spoke to parents, we all spoke together. I gave her a different perspective of her decision “this means, you may not be at par with other kids of your age, that means…

Thunder and lightening at the campus brought a new learning opportunity for us. After a thunderous lightening and heavy rains, our entire solar system came to an halt – we had no electricity at the campus for 3 days. We are still working on it……..we inferred “lightening struck somewhere around and it affected our solar…

We were talking about HOM (habits of mind). One child expressed that “I want to work on “trustworthiness”. So the next question in mind was “is only honesty means trustworthiness?” We began with a mind map and started exploring what all is trustworthiness. If I am listening, people will trust me that I listen. If…

How do you know by seeing a sapling that this a plant or a tree, a flowering plant or a fruit tree?Simple – plant it and OBSERVE. Two kids at the campus have taken up the responsibility of plantation at the campus. We were gifted few plants and we did not what is what. The…

Our cycles were stolen.We are now very careful. Before shifting to cycles to campus, the need of “SECURE” cycle stand came up. Two kids worked on it – some more work to be done……….cycle path is on our way. Kids worked on undestanding the land, the behaviour of cycle, space needed, locking systems………….and team work.…

At Aarohi, children are responsible for their own and common resources. That Includes first aid box too. As part of their learning they also go through their First aid training by a medical professional. They are responsible for checking the first aid boxes, packing it, and making a list of required medicines. They are learning…

It was a wonderful day. We began with “what we want to in open house on Fridays?” What should be the constitution of Aarohi? The session began with stimulation on safety watching few video on accidents, safety, hygiene and reading articles like “computer harms eyes”. The idea was not to teach them about safety, but…

It was another day for learning with constraints JMovie day at Aarohi brings a lot of excitement. We have the constraint “movies of different categories”. Kids got two movies “one was romantic and other was comedy”First it took time to understand that “what is romance for one is comedy for other”…………..Then, which one to watch?…

One child came with four horse toy to me and asked me to draw (he assumed that all adults knows everything).My first thought was “I do not know”.Then second thought was “let me try”. We together observed the shapes in the toy, we found many OAVL shapes in the horse. We drew few ovals and…

One child in session have been asking to sleep after some time. This week too his work by self and after some time wanted to sleep. I shared “I am not able to understand your needs, you are tired and want to sleep or your mind is close that if mummy is not in session,…

Have been playing football with a 8 yr at the campus. He has been very patiently working with me, guiding me ……….and also playing at my level.Yesterday he told me “aunty increase your speed”. It was nice to hear from him, and also to know that I can learn from each one in my session.

Last week kids worked with “NO goal, NO MI mind map and they did not follow objective of the week”.Yes, does this looks like that “they must have been lost?”, or They would not have taken the challenging goals”, orThey would not have learnt much? Nothing of the above happened.This week we began with stimulation…

One child joined few backs at O-campus. First thing he asked me “will y ou teach me English and Maths”. I said yes.We began with reading a book. He expressed “I cannot read anything in English”.I read three pages.At fourth page, I paused at few words and he was reading,Fifth page, I asked him to…

One child wanted to start with candle making. The first questions she asked “will I be able to do any work in Candle making?”. We began with “yes, we can, lets see how?”So first option came in mind “call Vishal uncle, he is coming today from Bangalore, he can bring all the resources”. I asked…

A child in my session wants to know “how does fashion becomes fashion, who and how it is decided”. She wants to meet people who understand about fashion, who like to follow fashion, who use fashion. If you are one of them, please let me know, if she can talk to you, or you can…

Yes !! and so was maths through everything else. Enjoy below. On 24th, adults and children spent their saturday with maths. Maths came to them in all forms and through many things. E.g 1. Getting lemonade and Jal jeera pushed them to questions like what is fraction? percentage? 2. Playing cards offered many learnings from…

We used to do all the preparation of each session by self, as teh time passed, in the name “busy” we began to take assistance from Laksmi aunty and soon she became the only one who would arrange for material for all. We lost touch with what is where in Amable (GK). One of the…

We have finally shifted to the campus. Still, the campus is not ready, but we have shifted. The journey is beautiful Kids wanted to shift, we all wanted to shift – we set the dateOn the date (29th July) I was apprehensive and not mentally ready to take the unsettling. I assumed, I have to…