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Learning has no limits, no curriculums. Advay, 5yrs old working on making cardboard box. As a part of planning, he shared that he wants to work on ‘making with cardboard’. He was serious about his own commitments. He uses any opportunity to work on his goal of ‘paper cutting’. Exploring in many different ways, he…

Each child is unique, so the learning. 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…

How is my painting? How did I behave today? If people like my food, I get motivated? Does this happens to you…we pondered in thought club and we began with asking questions Does approval effect me?Can we live without praise, approval, and appreciation?What will happen if nobody knew or invented these words?What will happen if…

Last year in summer, Davin came up with his interest in PARKOUR. This word itself was new for many of us. He began with his fascination for ‘jumping building’.In the first practice session, he began with climbing a wall and jumping…something that did not click but we did not discard the idea. As our understanding…

This began with a request from a group of parents and teachers from Malasia to visit Aarohi and experience learning at Aarohi. Our initial response was ‘are we equipped?” The second thought was “let us ask all in the community”. A notice saying ‘your opinion’, generated few responses ‘YES!, another learning opportunity, YES! Let us…

We write and we write in many forms. This led to having a session with Sangeetha to master our writing. Five step writing process with Sangeetha, she began with asking a question ‘Why do we need to write?’ She shared “Ever wondered writings comes to us in various forms – Newspaper, book, blogs, instructions, advertisements…

This is the first time I ever made a story on story weaver. My experience was very interesting. The starting was very easy because I gave some random topic like dragons. Then I added some illustrations. After each illustration and page, I would add something to the story. That’s how I got this story. I…

We have visited Lal Bagh many times and enjoyed the rock at the entrance. Little we knew that the rock is a historical rock. Realized each thing has history, so do trees. Tree walk with Ulhas and Srini was to explore various trees, their history and most amazing was their adaptation for the surrounding. One…

Three kids wanting to work on maths. So the first question was ‘is it maths or logic?’They were clear MATHS!We read about logic and different ways to develop. They liked the idea of games to develop various mathematical skills. Why?“To use in daily life” they were clear. Now next questionwas How? -Games and Textbooks. Games…

in MANTAN (churning sessions with parents, some call it PTA) at Aarohi we pondered on what is NOT LEARNING ENVIRONMENT. While each family and each learning space will have their own opinion about each point on what makes it learning or not learning. Isn’t it a choice of the individual to understand and decide what…

The baking session was announced with a requirement ‘Come with your own recipe (make your own or read and research). One five-year-old came with this recipe (see picture). At first glance, it looked like few lines, as he explained we realized the drawing clarifies ‘teaspoon and tablespoon’. He also very diligently wrote ‘1 ½’. Read…

Fridays are different atAarohi Wevisit places, meet people, go around in theneighbourhood, work in farms, plan learningmelafor theneighbourhood, go trekking and sometimes just stay at thecampus and work all together to clean plastic or just work in the garden. One of the Fridays whenweworked in garden – wecalled it ‘activeWE’. We thought we will all…

Some life skills … like caring, compassion, passion, perseverance, responsibility, sense of humour, common sense, cooperation courage, curiosity, efforts, flexibility, friendship, initiative, Integrity, organisation … the list can go on. Few of these we wish that our kids develop. Each one of has a different wish list. Whatever is the list we can start with…

When we add ‘when, why, how, what, where else” to our planning – it helps us to go beyond the task to start thinking about the purpose. And reflection at the end of the day with reflective questions helps to think more. We gave a word and others came up with a question, We did…

Florence, from France traveling with her daughter Myriam (10 years old) to India to explore. As an artist (painter) she likes to share her passion. At Aarohi during her stay of two weeks, she inspired many of us with her passion. She worked on murals, wall painting, canvas painting, and charcoal painting.

Do you dream? Do you want to catch your dreams? The concept of Dream catchers come from the Native American people. It is meant to catch good dreams and confuse bad dreams. Amy introduced to us this art of making dream catcher during her visit to the Aarohi. It was a simple art but with…

Constraints are part of creativity. A small constraint can change the way we look at things and ourselves also. Often we get used to of doing things in one way and not even realize our slavery with that way of doing and we call it ‘normal’. We played ‘crocodile’ with kids. Its a very simple…

We eat chilly, a very common vegetable in our cooking, Harvesting them for the farmer couple whose land is near to our campus was a simple exercise in coming closer to the chillies. Small experiences can create understanding about the things happening around us.

Group of children conducting sports: Few children wished to conduct sports. Only constraint given we all need to play one game and all are included in the game. They explored different sports item in school,listed different games and pondered on which one to play? Explored ground if we can play the game in the ground?…

We watched a video on compost. Children shared the story with thoughts. We also pondered what do we do with our food waste? Do we want to make a compost ? Do we want to use the waste food for our plants? Do we like to make one for school? They shared we don’t have…

Group of children wanted to explore first aid. They wanted to make a kit in their classroom. They pondered about how to make the kit? why do we need kit in classroom? They felt its good to have one in class room. Next week the group came up with first aid box filled with medicines.…

A group of Children volunteered to setup a library in a class. This decision left them with pondering questions – about location for library? where do we get books for library? what kind of books? Can we get books from library ? what if library does not have books ? can we get our old…