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Put up any song, take puppet and just dance with them. Goes with any age

Travelling is amazing education. Travelling together is even better. That is what are outstation trips – travel, see, meet, eat and learn. We go for roughly 3 to 4 outstation trips in a year. These trips can be anything from 2 days to a week long duration. Children together choose themes for the trips, then…

‘CHEMISTRY’ is the word, was introduced in higher classes to me and now these days introduced much earlier. For years it was benzene ring’s diagram that was chemistry for me. Best time I had with chemistry was in lab identifying some compounds during ‘practical test’. While we see and experience chemistry all around, we rarely…

“EACH CHILD IS CAPABLE”. Every child has the immense capability but we are unable to see them. One child who hates maths, who is also labeled ‘useless’ by all around him, came to Aarohi. He could not relate to what was happening around him. He is not good in maths, but he has flair for…

Knowing how does things, which we use daily, are made, makes a huge difference in understanding our environment. We hear lot of buzz about how things are harmful for us (like plastic) but we are very less aware how they are made. I guess first we need to know how things are made to take…

I like textbooks for many reasons. Textbooks are designed to develop very specific skills. When the kids want to work on any specific skills, textbooks are very helpful. Often when a child asks for a resource to learn a specific concept, we give books from 1 to 10 levels, they choose which level they want…

Thirty eight children accompanied by 6 staff members from Advaith Academy, Hosur came for a day visit to Aarohi. The kids were at campus only for few hours – The children were mainly interested in seeing trees and plants, understanding how our campus works on solar and does water recycling, in climbing and exploring rocks…

Few kids have been working on making and creating using old card boxes, cellotape and chart papers. Last week we put constraint of using ‘other material’. They went out, decided to work on ‘upgrading tree house’. Few more joined them, they first drew the renovation plan, then came up with material list and finally implemented…

Focus on whole rather parts: many times we focus on my role and my gain rather than effect of my action on the whole. We played a game to experience ‘whole’. As a team we had to finish one round of passing ball, the game had some constraint like – no communication at all (full…

Take a break in between busy sessions, busy work and do jigs. It changes frame of mind, it is quick break it is re-freshening.

Why do we study history? We began the session with this question. Kids came up with some thoughts To tell others that I know To visit forts and have fun To read stories of kings and queen To know what happened that time? We kept on wondering ‘what do we gain when we read history’…

We had only half an hour to prepare for the b’day celebration. Few kids joined during lunch time -decorated the place, arranged to welcome b’day boy, arranged the music and WE DID IT !!! Thank you Sirihsa and Naveen to treat us with yummy food and pamper us with sweet and savories.

Thank you Narayan andArun Kaulige (www.kaulige.in)for introducing Millets to Aarohi. We enjoyed cooking and eating both. It was a new discovery to know about Millets, rice and wheat. Learning to understand what we eat and where does it comes from. Kids enjoyed millet Khidi and Dosa. Looking forward to experiment with our food, bringing change…

Two kids today announced ‘course on Drawing’. Both have been doing drawing in different forms, using different techniques and books. They designed course for different levels. When the participants came, they were given different levels to know where will they start. Both the kids brought different books and techniques for reference. The session was serious,…

We live, we buy, we shop, we do many things…wonder how does our markets looks like? How do we place them in our visual maps? We began the exercise of mapping our town market. We walked with our note books on the road, noted what all we SAW, we placed them visually on our maps…came…

We began online punctuation course. Initially some came with ‘know basics’. We began with online quizzes and self test. Quiz aroused curiosity when some did not score 100%. They wanted to know where they went wrong? Some went beyond online quiz. Text books came out, grammar text books came out….we wanted more ‘worksheets’, more games…

Few kids bought Nerf guns and wanted to play war games in the night. To make there play safe – they made their own shields and helmets etc, and then made own safety rules. The time and safety codes were put up on notice board for others to comment and give feedback. They identified a…

Take few Bamboo sticks, few wooden blocks and some empty oil cans…play with them and see the magic.

Kids see mixie, some even use it…in two minutes activity they converted themselves in mixie and explored the working of it through body.

Someone has agreed to give old bus to Aarohi. We began with what and how to use this bus (bus has still not arrived). Last two weeks, some kids have been working on ‘bus designing’. Initially it was difficult for some to visualize the arrangements of racks inside for arranging books (library). They know multiplication,…

Mind Mapping – A visual tool for learning. This week we explored during planning, We planned in many different ways using symbols, key words in mind map. How will I use my body? How will I use making? How will I use my brain? How will I use my friends? Further we branched them as…

We all make decision, but how do we make decision? We would like our kids to be critical thinker and develop the ability to take decisions. Wonder how we take decision? At campus we had to take decision ‘get up in the morning to go for running or not’. First we went for running at…

Making butter from milk cream (Malai) brought many thoughts and excitement. We spent our time in thinking and understanding what is cream? How it comes out? What churning does? Why add water? What is butter milk? Why Krishna liked butter? How butter is made in the market … and while we are chit chatting, we…

When we announced measurement course, response of many kids was”‘we know how to measure”.Well, we began with understanding what all is measurement and why do we need measurement and what if we don’t measure at all? We all then tried to find what all we can measure and came up with big big list –…

Solve this puzzle. Be aware how (what strategies, methods, tools) you are using to solve this. If day before, day before, yesterday was Wednesday then what day will be day after, day after, tomorrow? When you are solving this puzzle how are you solving? How do you normally solve any puzzle? Are you solving it…

in a span of 15 minutes, with zero instructions other than “HANDLE WITH CARE” note, children came up with so many different usage of mirror was a new experience for me. The excitement, strategies, discussion, group involvement and thoughts were amazing and i enjoyed being a child along with them, learning from them, and being…

Once upon a time, not so very long ago, I, the Body and Kinesthetic intelligence, was much sought after. Warriors depended on me; craftsmen used me to create both articles of utility and beauty; dancers and dramatists added depth to culture; sport was the primary pastime, and many professions used hands dexterously to achieve and…

Few kids wanted to draw, initially it looked like all wanted to draw the same thing. As we interacted more we realized all wanted to draw for different reasons Sketch to get the same picture Draw for neatness Sketch with proportions Sketch for shading Sketch for light and shadow Sketch for detailing Sketch real life…

Only one instruction “do not make any sense of what you draw”. It began with stimulating various senses…first sense of hear, sense of sight and sense of touch. Then we made story in 2 minutes using pictures and then we started feeling colors. Used music to stimulate imagination. One child expressed “this was real art”.Thank…

We sing poems to pre-schoolers, wonder why we do that? More wonder why we do not sing as kids grow up? Why we poetry is left to some English Text book chapters ? Last week explored poetry, we began with a question What is poetry?”Some said “rhythmic expression of words, an art, expression of feelings,…