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Animals means ‘attack’. Knowing more about Tigers tells us that they are SHY animals!- very opposite of their images in human minds. Its November and Ragi grown commonly by villagers around the campus is in full bloom. Starting November Elephants also start crossing from around the campus and we call it ‘elephant season’. Elephants like…

I could never thought of making video from speaker’s point of view. Amazing comparison of parks of city and forest. Never thought that ‘parks’ are same, but they are different. The END is beautiful. Liked ‘question’ way of documentation. Liked the questions and self explanations (thoughts and self exploration) and observations. I have heard basic…

Each entrepreneur has a story behind…some success to celebrate, some mistakes to learn from. Visit to KidKen factory was with many learnings for us. It began with knowing the story behind making of KidKen – the journey is inspiring, starting from a small place and nowhere, reaching to a place where one is producing complete…

Imagination is good, its creative………we nurture it in many ways at Aarohi, we also nurture structure!!! Well, we worked on making things using step by step instructions. The theme was ‘how things works’. We looked in various resources which gave us simple steps to make things . Some kids wanted to just read and watch…

Kitchen is considered a place to just cook that’s all. At aarohi kitchen is another learning space with people constantly visiting to share their passion in many different forms. Sangeetha, brought history, chemistry and baking together at campus. She began with sharing about history of baking, moved on chemical reaction of yeast and water and…

Nature brings joy! While working at campus one of the child spotted a snake eating a frog, Soon the whole campus was observing. We wondered how can such small mouth gulp such a big frog… we watched the whole process for an hour from a safe distance. All our questions were answered. Our inquiring mind…

Neighborhood walk began with a small wish to know neighbours around campus! Some kids joined in the journey. We go out for an hour almost every day. No agenda, no routes … we just walk in any field, follow any shepherd, talk to anyone … go around the country side. After rains road was damaged,…

We all know we need to exercise 🙂 But we all do not exercise!!!And so our kids At Aarohi journey began with regular sports. It took time for kids to come out and play organised sports…we realized that while kids play and play a lot but when it comes to organized sports it brings self…

This session was to explore ones beliefs using stories. This time we greeted by placing one hand on the back of head and one hand on tummy and bending down. Reversing hands alternatively. Kids participated joyfully. Then we played Yes/No game…. Kids answered a few question without verbalising, but with actions. For Yes, hands behind…

This session was to explore self. We greeted with thumb on nose and waving other fingers. Kids were excited and happy to greet this way… Played a game to perform different actions for different fruits… Kids were excited and involved in the game…. Then we watched Barfi song 8 times each time focussing on 8…

Exploring a game in different ways…. We started to discuss about cricket and most of them were in to it… some had already played the game, some had watched the game before… We were talking about the way the game was played and were reasoning out a few things like…. Why only 2 people enter…

This session began with greeting right with left hand and left with right hand wishing ‘Have a great day!’ Then kids crossed hands and shook hands with their neighbours forming an interconnected circle and wishing ‘Have a great day!’ Kids enjoyed shaking hands. Few kids didn’t know the meaning of ‘Have a great day’. Few…

Fastest Diwali preparations – no instructions, no pre plans. We all got something from home to celebrate Diwali – Diyas, Crackers, Sweets and our joy. At campus we opened two boxes full of Puja material, kids choose what and how they wanted … and we celebrated the festival of joy with our JOY.

Dance is therapeutic – Let newspaper guide you to dance. Let dupatta decide flow of your dance. Melt like a ice cream while dancing and meditating. Session with Asawari on dance therapy with kids.

When we went to Kanha Tiger Reserve, for most of us, TIGER was on top of our mind. After two days of Safari and roaming around we went for a Forest walk to experience what else the forest is made up of. We had already experienced Deer, Sambhar, Gaur, Swamp Deer, Owls, Eagles, Fox, Jackal,…

Trip to Kanha Tiger Reserve was not only about tigers! It began with preparation and understanding our own fears and beliefs about travelling in sleeper class. Then, next in the line was series of apprehensions on or rather images of travel – getting lost, fear of strangers, appropriate toilets, travel arrangements, food, away from parents,…

We were served with love and care for every meal at Kanha Resort restaurant at Kanha. One of the days our breakfast got delayed, we had option of waiting, playing or also getting bored. We decided to take part in working of restaurant…the place which was serving to us for so many days, we like…

This session began with doing Namaskar in all 4 direction. Then with music, kids were asked to imagine themselves as water and were making waves using their hands…initially with one hand, then with both hands, then with interlocked hands, then holding hands with the person next to them in a circle. Kids were excited and…

The session on Images began with greeting each other good morning with eyes closed, nose closed, mouth closed and ears closed…. Kids explored the way it feels to greet this way. Throughout this session we were all sitting in a circle…. Started with playing a pass game… We passed sa, re, ga, ma, pa, da,…

Why only adults are considered ‘teachers’ or rather when we think about teaching we think about adults. We miss out on a HUGE learning resource and that is children themselves. Informally they learn many things from each other including how to operate mobile to repair cycles. But when it comes to learning division or Newton’s…

Often we are asked ‘how do you manage fighting, conflicts, safety, and discipline”? Well, there are many ways the community handles conflicts and ‘helpmates’ is one of the way. Helpmate is a platform where one adult and few kids take the role of helpmates. Anyone can approach them for help, they can share their concern.…

One more trip, new learnings, opportunity to prepare, to learn and to understand the world around us. It began with three kids planning the trip with their mentor. Kanhaa Tiger Reserve was selected for various reasons. So after History now its turn for some Jungle adventure and we are fortunate that parents of one of…

We often express our needs through our emotions “I am angry, you made me angry, I am upset”.This often does not tell the listener what I need.We explored what all can be needs? We made our own bookmarks and kids selected their own needs form the long list. They want to be listened to, to…

Just few Bamboos…..few ropes…and a place to hanging. Kids working on “Building hanging skills”. Our firstdomeusing bamboos and rope – 8 feet bamboos (25nos), made by 8 people (5 excited children and 3 equally excited adults) in 8 hours – all thanks to some amazing and comprehensive instructions at this website –http://geometrydome.com/ Special Thanks for…

No text books, no instructions to follow – just thoughtful collection of random material and wild imagination makes the life beautiful. Watch the simple video…

No direct taps to get water in washbasins lead to many experiments to make hand wash system comfortable. It began with buckets and tumbler. Then small buckets and tumbler. But it did not satisfy us, we started looking for more. One child took it and tried different styles of tippity taps – he was given…

Two kids who were putting rice in solar cooker were wondering how to set direction for the solar cooker. We looked up, we looked around and traced sun direction. We drew, we guessed and finally we set solar cooker to wonder what will happen to our rice?