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I was working with one 3yr old. We were copying “postures from nature”. We began with making posture for various things we see around us like mountain, tree table etc – I did not show him my actions, I asked him to make his own actions. His actions were completely different than what one would…

One of the parents suggested the song “Torero”. We played in sunshine this week at the campus. The song generated the curiosity “Is it Spanish, French???? We did not know the language, did not know how to pronounce, but the music made the whole song alive in our minds. When we sang the song without…

Normally when kids ask for spelling we write on slate, or look into dictionary or say it aloud. Last week in session, I asked kids to write first their spelling and then I wrote. We started looking at the patterns of spellings like “whyle for while, compyl for compile. We also understood the “leaf and…

As part of weekly self assessment one of the child assessed that “I have moved up 1.5 ladder. (tracking)”. As per the tracing system, decimals are not available so she had choice of going back to level 1 or moving up to level 2. She choose to stay at level 1, I suggested her that…

Around 20 kids and 20 adults came for learning event at O-campus, Kelmanagalm. Kids were completely soaked in doing. Adults were curiously finding about the place, concept and learning opportunities. Few kids want to come back and learn earth bag construction, some want to come back and see how the final structure comes up. Astha…

During the week of scientific thinking different kits were got into the session. We have few 5 years old who with their actions totally bowled me over. Initially they were observing the kits being used by others, waited patiently no questions asked may be lots inside them but nothing in the open. As they got…

An interesting journey with children through thought club. We started thought club in O campus (I) last week. Few shared, few were with their thoughts, few did not share. For me as faculty it was a bigger challenge just to listen to them, without adding my own coating on it.Many times reminding myself not to…

One child had brought kannada song this week as weekly song in sunshine. I never liked kannada songs till now. I had listened a limited number of kannada songs, mostly through loudspeakers which scream during festivals or marriages. With my limited exposure, I had formed a belief about not only all kannada songs but, the…

Dirt cleaning circle is an important part of our routine. The idea is to exppress any dirt – feelings, complains, dislikes – or appreciation/gratitude that you may have for anyone in the group. After few weeks of experiencing this process, one day I suddenly realized that one of the children rarely brings dirt for others…

One child was exploring sound in my session this week. She was observing different sound through out the sesison. She was using different material to produce sound. She was using different surfaces to produce sound. She wanted to check how sound passes through different surfaces. She placed a steel glass on a wooden surface and…

Last week,i worked on “Self Concept” as a part of our weekly objective.Before preparing for session,i started building up my own blocks.I was constantly questioning myself,when i am not clear and not getting clarity how will i be able to facilitate the children.Becoming aware of self was becoming a uphill task for me and this…

As a part of the session environment we made a place for “dreams, wish, fight and peace”. Kids spent time in that station dreaming, wishing and fighting. At the pf the week – they announced “we will have this as dream corner ALWSY in our sessions”. A small bed with few puppets was enough for…

Last week we worked on self intelligence as part of weekly objective. Some of the kids took goal as “dreams beliefs” and the objective was to “know self”. It was a difficult topic, with kids it flew smoothly – there we lot of discussions, expressions, explorations. Kids read books on dreams, took interview of people…

One child is self genie session took the goal of “dreams”. During interaction she shared she is talking about “night dreams” – whay do we get dreams. And I was talking about “what is your dream (to have something, to become something etc)? After some time we both realized that we were on two different…

Mostly children do not do, not because they do not want, but may be because they did not understand or they are stuck or they are not asking to clarify. In sunshine only two kids were brining the show. One thought came up “may be all are not clear”. We did a brainstorming session on…

To do my own research on not to teach, I came across this article and I found it interesting – The author says “It was not a good idea to tell students that “multiplication is repeated addition”. Explore WHY……. http://www.maa.org/devlin/devlin_01_11.html| You may like this article to do some kind of brain storming ormay like to…

Children, faculty, Staff everyone are part of center development. We all jump outside our comfort zone to do things that are part of center development. That include accounts, library mangement, electrical, plumbing, cleaning, resource kits, stationery management and many more. Basically everything and anything. Learning from facility management.

We had been to chaukul as KAA++. First day night we all sat in circle and were introducing ourselves. People from various places had come and we were total 25 of us including children and adult. We started from one corner. When our children’s turn came, they started introducing themselves with lot of confidence and…

Yesterday in my session, as part of our goal we were cleaning the floor. Due to recent done painting there were many paint drops on the floor. We were using different things to remove those paint from the floor. One child was reluctant to work. We all got busy working on cleanup. Slowly he joined.…

Dream with your childDream for todayDream for tomorrow Encourage your child to DREAM. In session as a welcome we dreamt “the dream I want to dream today”. All kinds of dreams were discussed from becoming a wizard to turning 18 to buy a bike……………they were golden moment to connect with kids and their world.

My eight year old got interested in cursive writing. The reason “it looks nice”. His source of inspiration – Comic books of TIN TIN. He used to spend hours on just looking at the comic book (that time he did not know how to read). He still looks at these pictures, look at them in…

I am hooked on to “learning by listening”. It began with my journey at Aarohi as part of weekly objective. Me and kids listened to various AUDIO stories. We explored that to work on “linguistic intelligence”. We understood that we can listen in various forms Listen for learning – Listen to gain knowledge. or to…

I have 3yr old in my session andone 14 yr old in my session – rest are in the range of 8,9,10yrs old. So this is the story about 3yr old. He ispart of all the events at Campus. Morning he is part of circle to share hisday plan, eveninghe is part ofreflection and thought…

My thoughts… After the experience of one week in the new schedule, it was time for me to introspect… to put down my thoughts. And I am happy. Liked the feeling of the whole group working on one objective with in a super sized session of 3 hours. We all made full use of this…

First outdoor with different age kids. The goal was to explore “maths in Traffic”. We began with collecting data at two different signals. We counted vehicles, categorized them as colour, size, shape, brand and so on. We explored a lot of concepts – counting, addition, subtraction ratio and proportion. We analysed the data in different…

Who say puppets are only for small children? Pictures will tell you the story.

Today, train was late and we were waiting at the platform. Two kids started balancing on the “tracks”. soon that became a balance beam for all of us. Other child used that to do some more exercises. Two of them marked the safety limits and made game of the codes. One child said “in Body…

What is listening?Where all do I see listening?How do I understand listening as a word genie objective?What all resources can I take for children?Will I be able to facilitate children on this objective and many more doubts were there in the mind when my journey began. Once I began to read about listening as a…

All the work I did in last two months on listening, I did not use directly in the session, or you can say “children did not need” my understanding of listening skills. They constructed the understanding with their own experience and thinking. I went with a CLEAN mind and did not want to start with…

Two Bindis on my forehead – one to press when I am listening, other to press when I am not listening. Ah!!! This became a fun element in the session. They were calling my name and If I do not respond they would press “not listening”. One tag on my arm “Today I will LISTEN…