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So the story began with reviewing and reflecting in the month of May.We realized that it’s time start working on neighbourhood relationship. We planned to reach out to them through our collective skills of the community. Thsi year, last week of September was dedicated for that. Due to some or other commitments this again got…

Exploring movement this week with mindfulness…start with walking and paying attention to how you walk, which body part moves, how you touch, how to distribute your weight, how much do you lift your feet, how your skin, toes, heel feels, how your legs feel, how knees move, how hips sway, where is tummy, chest, back,…

Thinking skills can be developed – when we informed kids this week they were surprise ‘is thinking a skill like painting or tailoring?’. Began with an announcement for planning ‘make anything with newspaper ( not use any other tool) and come for session’. Some learnt from others, some made what they knew, some thought new…

Used Bloom taxonomy in reviewing proposal…In ‘my voice’ we got the proposal to review the usage of gadgets while travelling in local train in group computer to and from campus’.Currently 15-20 kids travel with few adults and one facilitator by train every week. During the travel usage of gadgets to play inside the train became…

TV show on electrical safety….Advay sharing about electrical fire. Advising us to throw sand to extinguish the fire and switch off the electric connect to and not ever mess up with bulb holders. He further emphasised that replace broken switches for safety and don’t use extension cords. Shiva, Dhrupad, Arsalan, Pratyaksh, Skanda, Shiva, Ally, TW…

‘Fire’ the word brings anxiety, fear and danger. Since many of us associate fire with danger and fear, we need to even more understand it better. In campus training we worked on fire safety.Drill of ‘stop, drop and roll’ helped to get some idea how to handle fire on body. This also created a need…

Each day in our schedule we have 30 minutes in the morning and 30 minutes in the minutes in the evening to get ready. Each room has eight people. Each person has one hour.So the maths is very simple, each room have 8 man hours in the day to clean one bed and one cupboard.…

Stories are wonderful. Stories from real life experiences are even more wonderful. And our parents stories are just awesome to hear. Each Friday in thought club we have stories from here and there. This week kids got ‘Stories of parents’ – this brought excitement in our story session – stories of their childhood, struggle, joy,…

Nothing stays same at Aarohi, we keep experimenting to create challenges.Last week was ‘reading’ during wait until dark (after dinner). Most kids fell asleep by 9:30 tucked warmly with their books.This week was journal writing. Few found it difficult to be with self, few stayed with self, few slept early while few stayed awake but…

Sound can itself be feedback Started with activity – observe what sound it makes when we do our regular job like …scratching head, turning page, typing, reading, writing, walking, running. Observe next time how you run..sound of our shoes can tell us how much force putting and how that can effect our knee in future.…

Imagine Aarohi which guarantees one definitive outcome – that learning will be self discovery. This week we tried new recipe of Stuffed Spinach. When me and Varhsa read the recipe, we felt ‘capsicum without cooking will not taste nice’. But we both decided to go ahead – it turned out to be DELICIOUS. In kitchen…

It joyful to celebrate together

Khojis sharing their journey of Swaraj -Samyukta says she Learnt a lot about self.Jawahar wants to live his dream so in Swaraj.Self Directed Learning was new for Abhiram. They shared, program at Swaraj is semi structure, because many of them come from main stream and it’s difficult for to switch completely into self directed. Program…

Togetherness – Forgotten board games – community games – Exploring various medium of entertainments,

One of the area we need to work as community is on our personal hygiene. This topic is vast, based on various feedback and needs, we have tried to define community hygiene requirements.

Can a campus Teach? Yes, We believe a campus can be the very lap of learning. It offers constraints to us which make us think, do, learn, and live differently. Making of hot water at campus using Chulha which is based on rocket stove principle require all of us to understand the working of rocket…

Longest toffee eating experience in mindfulness session. mindfulness ˈmʌɪn(d)f(ʊ)lnəs/ noun 1. the quality or state of being conscious or aware of something. “their mindfulness of the wider cinematic tradition” 2. a mental state achieved by focusing one’s awareness on the present moment, while calmly acknowledging and accepting one’s feelings, thoughts, and bodily sensations, used as…

Using different tools helps learners to discover self – Some of us use visual planning tools (mind map), Some like logical tools (step by step process), some like tactile tools (fortune teller). When we used fortune teller to plan our day we used – strengths I will use for various task, adverbs I will use…

This week our community sports saw ‘measured grounds’. Nanadini and Advay were set to organize community sports. Each day Nandini researched on various measurements of grounds – During the day she was seen with long measuring tapes and some drawings of how to play that game. She brought visual explanations along with verbal instructions. In…

In our path of self directed learning process, some of our actions acts as BRAKES, while some actions as ACCELERATOR. As a group we reflected on these two: BRAKES – Overconfidence, auto pilot, not open to take feedback, procrastination, laziness, Demotivated, distraction, anger, lack of interest, not taking feedback, not doing, not accepting, lack of…