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We asked children at campus ‘basic skills’ they would like to learn? They came up with – Speed reading, reading for understanding, beautiful handwriting, multiplication, spellings, fitness (exercises). They set their goals how much they want to learn, they set their timings (each day how much they would work), they set their levels, they decided…

Bring various weights Sometimes guess the weight Sometimes guess heavier or lighter Sometimes just balance All ages will enjoy 🙂 This week welcome was ‘weights’. We experienced weighing in many different forms.

Visual intelligence is left to art and drawings. Often this is not considered as a skill to express or learn. This week we planned our day with visuals only 🙂 We used symbols, storyboards and mapping.

One child drove bike in the campus, disciplinejury was set Case Driving vehicle and breaking safety codes Driving vehicle, under age Driving vehicle, without taking permission Nature – serious Jury – kids of various age with one adult took part in the case. They all met for 4 days, reviewing each day. Kids spoke to…

There are many ways one can learn, all we need to open up different doors to kids and see the magic. This week some new courses started at Aarohi. A Child can learn any concept or skill by taking up or joining a “course”. A Course typically is something that has a fixed time slot…

Three teams One team took care of food – Veg and chicken Biryani, and Sewai One team took responsibility of sharing stories of the festival One team took responsibility of decoration and music We had only two hours to do all the preparation. First hour we wasted. Second hour we all pulled up ourselves and…

See this funny small advertisement video and then do the above activities (in any order).https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4y1U3jrBTI Do as many as activities as you can do. Do it as per order of your preference. Where did you start? Why? What did you get out of these activities? Were you comfortable/easy doing any activity and not very comfortable/easy…

Many of us have our own fear about snakes and many other animals, we grew up with our fear and unconsciously passing to kids too.When we started talking about snakes at campus we had many reactions Oh !! snake, It bites, its dangerous, it will run behind you, it will chase me in the night,…

Visit to hospitals are reserved to adults and only in case of medical needs. This week we looked at hospitals as a learning space at Aarohi. First, we visited nearby hospital to know how far are we from medical facilities? We timed our watches, set our milometer to know the distance. We also visited to…

Sneha, Kabir and Naman along with Shailaja and Gauri joined us at campus from Snehadhara. Snehadhara works with children and adults who are differently-abled, their caregivers and families. They use Arts Based Therapy as the only methodology to work with children and adults with special needs. Initially we did not know how differently we need…

Two kids were working to understand about Butterflies and Cats, One was chasing butterflies, catching them, putting them in closed jars, making them dance by putting music in the net….another one was chasing cats, holding them, kissing them, making them dance in his lap. Does this all sounds gory, insensitive, inhuman, abusive, hurtful?…..well, this did…

I was an observer in the project of movie making. Kids knew what they wanted, how they wanted to do. They had so much in their head that it was important for them to do what they had thought, This was not the time for me as a facilitator to do anything in between. My…

Our children work/learn/play and continue to do so…. When a child gets reward for the efforts in terms of grades, stars and medals the self worth gets a boost. But if others fail to recognize efforts and fail to give grades, medals and stars kids are disappointed and this sets inside in terms of ‘inferiority,…

We normally do not talk about what worst can happen, but we do think about it (that is why we get anxious). Our kids also do not talk freely about what do they think what worst can happen, but the reality is they do think about it and sometimes get worried and sometimes also do…

ropes came in welcome,Just bring some ropes (jute thread), add little things metal plates with a hole, next day add Bamboo sticks….and see the magic of creations.

Do you get stuck with listening to same statement from you ‘listen to me, you do not listen to me, how many times I have told you, I am feeling frustrated, you better listen, all listen…. I think the statement ‘You listen…” is incomplete term. If we were to make clear statement we can add…

Listening to Nature by Joseph Cornell. A book to deepen awareness of nature. The book has many small chapters – each chapter starts with a photograph, thought on nature and one activity or an experience. One of the activity which I like is the concept of ‘time walk’ and ‘being walk’. Often we do time…

Few kids got together and started making films… they discussed, searched for props, made props, played with toys, made drawings and finally decided to use their ‘BODY’ to shoot. They had cameraman, director, actors, script writer … their work continues Kids shared “Then next day I thought of making movies, then I was cameraman who…

When we meet our child after school or a class (piano, chess, art etc) or sports we ask “ what you did? We often miss out the range of feelings a child has gone through in any experience, let’s ask “How did you feel today in or after the class?” Often we feel ‘playing is…

It was not about teaching children how to make roof so they can make their own roofs :). But the idea was to create an environment of work and experience how we can find joy by doing. We all worked together, some worked all four days, some left in between, some argued, some listened, some…

Share one weakness you would like to share with others (or rather you are apprehensive to share and open up yourself). Often we keep our weakness inside us and do not own it and many times they become deeper weaknesses and hinder our growth. Once we take this out, express to someone, may be we…

Thank you VK for bringing awareness about cycles in campus. We all knew that our cycles are neglected…your presence made us know our cycles more and understand their maintenance. Thanks for sharing simple tools and techniques to clean them (specially WD 40 and remove rust). It was like coming closer to what we posses and…

Self assessment is internal assessment, often bring internal awareness of self. It also works like a mirror to show us our own internal side – sometimes it is frustrating to see ourselves like that.Self assessment is part of living at Aarohi. We do it in different ways. One of the way is to rate ourselves.…

It began with a child sharing “I am not able to focus in session, I am only thinking about a demon and want to make one” He collected some cardboard boxes, old sheets and …..one more joined him, they drew from laptop…they also fought who will draw first. They talked about some business they can…

We are not one person everyday, every event… we are different at different times. When we accept our diversity we make ourselves free of images and their pressure on us. Here is what one child shared how he was different on different day I was a different person everyday. On Monday I was very happy…

Often we ask kids to dance when we want them to perform and skills like Dance and Art have remained ‘performing arts’ in our home and schools :). Bring free dance in your homes and schools….play music and dance freely First round – SELF dance – all dance in their own style, without commenting on…

Watch this video from movie Burfi (or any video) – http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xswxxq_ala-barfi-full-video-song-hd-barfi-2012-ranbir-kapoor-priyanka-chopra-ileana_shortfilms Do this at home with family and spend evening together OR do inbetween class to freshen up the minds. Watch it many times and each time Focus on the feelings of Barfi and other characters (Self) Focus on the colour comparison of Barfi’s clothes…