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“A Welcome” is small little activity or resource – kept for each person to explore in their own way. One child kept two diff shape glass tumblers with water and spoon in it with a tag “observe 3 three things” One child kept a bucket of water with a inverted mug and a question “where…

We were exploring musical instrument with children from nearby village.After children used musical instruments, they explored about musical instruments – What is the material? How do they make sound? How else they can make sound? Then we all made sounds from parts of the body – some made from lips, nose, throat, hands, legs, mouth,…

We do not how motor works, do not know why things move forward – what all we do is just make and make the same thing in different forms. We are in the process of making our own ‘theories’ – not in a hurry to know what is the establish views about circular movements and…

We began with labelling resources. We explored different aspect of visual composition – size, letter styling, dimensions, spacing, color combination. It took one day to make one label for the child who was involved in making of this label. He likes decorating, he copies pictures from the books – but to compose something on his…

Sona’s (Fatmia akka’s cow) new shelter is in progress. It began with visits to nearby villages and surveying different mud houses. Apaprt from this our training included talking to few people whohave worked with Mud (Cob) construction. We also saw some amazing design of cob houses on internet. All of us at campus spend one…

Maths course in progress at Aarohi – Some of us meet regularly in the afternoon. Everyone is at different level of maths skills. We start with understanding where I am in maths – do I know process, am I clear about concept and where all do I apply? We together test our skills and based…

What Edison is famous for is inventing the lgith bulb, but we think what he should be famous for is for failing in 3000 ways. In many ways he showed the world what not do. His failing or mistakes were the corner stone of his journey. Lets teach our kids to make mistakes, play around…

One child was searching on youtube “how to make robots”. I asked him to try without youtube, he expressed “I do not know”. I asked “If you are on an island and there is no internet then what? Will you not learn anything if youtube is not available? He looked at me puzzled and said…

Story of making of wall painting. Video tells you the whole story

Last few weeks the topic of sex is being handled in many different forms at campus – It began with complain against one child. As we went deeper into the issue we realized how each one of us are contributing in many different ways – some tease each other, some make pairs, some use foul…

Like any other place, Aarohi is also not free from some discipline issue – stealing, teasing, hurting, bullying, breaking codes… We have been trying many different things, but mostly when it comes to discipline, children would approach faculty and would seek support from adults, including parents.Current situation of self discipline at Aarohi was rated as…

Sona (Fatima Akka’s cow) – joined the campus few weeks back. Her presence at campus makes us realized, so much less we know about the life around us. It all began with some kids responding “I am scared”. But we did not do anything to make anybody comfortably – slowly some kids started to go…

Few weeks back we had flies at campus – few kids experimented with eucalyptus leaves. We plucked few leaves, grinded them in mixie, sieved, added water and mop the floor. Though we added loads of leaves – we did not get smell. But when we added few drops oil. we got very strong smell. Still…

The week began with a display “Welcome to Math Mall – shop for Math Puzzle, Stimulation, session on why maths, or make surveyor’s wheel or use different Math Resources”. Day one Kids went around, many shopped for math puzzle, they had doubts about how to bring maths in daily life and browsed through various maths…

One child began with dreaming of owning a Go-kart. We dwelt more in making the dream reality, we found that it is Rs 70,000/-. The child was sure of himself that he does not want to spend this much money on something like this “what If I like horse or bike later?”. Well, he began…

New excitement at campus – just few swings made out of tyres, old shutters. One ladder made up of bamboo kept horizontally and few sticks tied horizontally to the trees. Every week we add some lids, boxes, and bottles in sand toys and kids scream with excitement “thank you”. Just few simple tools and we…

We began our journey at O-campus with hiring a small house in nearby village, hiring locals to help in construction…one of the vision of O-campus is have whole neighbourhood as a learning space for all. We met few parents from the villages to know how O-campus can be part of their children growing. Parents expressed…

We are all – we are naughty, we are selfish, we are caring, we are soft, we are harsh, we are gentle, we are ALL at different times. Let our children be free of us – let us allow them to be ALL. Listen to this lovely song by Lenka (video below) LYRICSAs sly as…

I did maths in my school, mostly as a process not as understanding. Till it was basic maths, I was fine, when it came to application of maths, my procedural methods did not work and I started losing maths in my life. Understanding physics became difficult – I used mugging methods and sailed through all…

Learning is when a learner is ready and want to learn. We cannot bound it in age or in subjects. One child is learning Bharatnatyam, she announced “I can teach Bhartanatyam”. She got three students…all were of different age. Watch video to see the relation of the learner and the teacher – all in harmony.…

Self directed learning is not always learning by self, it is when and how and from whom I want to learn. During winter camp, to begin with kids were surprised they can do what they want do and how they want they do. Soon the concept grew on them, things started falling in place, they…

Decide what you want to learn, how you want to learn, when you want to learn and how much you want to learn. 5 days of winter camp @ Aarohi had unlimited energy. Children and adults all were learning from each other – we had no boundaries of adult or a child, a teacher or…

No special week is complete without a movie. The week we saw the movie ‘The band’s visit”’.Eight Egyptian musicians who comprise the Alexandria Ceremonial Police Orchestra are visiting Israel to perform but get lost in the city and land up in the wrong place.With no transportation out or any hotels to stay at, the band…

Mr Saravana joined us to share about snakes. He is veterinarian doctor in cattle farm in Hosur, his one of the interest is to rescue snakes. He shared about various snakes, first aid and precautions. He did a live demo of rescuing a cobra snake which he rescued from a home near hosur. The live…

Language through senses Vinay from “Gift-able”joined to share about Sign language and Braille. The session started with watching national anthem in sign language – this set the stage for sign language. Often when I used to see people using their hands to communicate or see books on sign language, it used to look difficult to…

Language through Dance Nitya is trained Bharatanatyam dancer. She shared the language of dance through different demonstrations. Classical dance with contemporary and western music – in her words “making this dance available to next generation by connecting with contemporary music”.

Language through Art Story of “Tower of Babel” was the inspiration to paint this wall. It is said in the story that “God created languages to not allow human to reach heaven”. The story goes like this… “Everyone on earth spoke the same language. As people migrated from the east, they settled in the land…

Language through Art Story of “Tower of Babel” was the inspiration to painting this wall. “God created languages to not allow human to reach heaven”. The story goes like this…Everyone on earth spoke the same language. As people migrated from the east, they settled in the land of Shinar..read more on wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Babel

Explored language with people during language week Rema from coimbatore joined us on phone to share about Tamil language. She shared how words originate in different languages – “Did word ‘cash’ comes from ‘kasa’ in Tamil?” Her talk encouraged some of the Tamil speaking kids to communicate with her in Tamil and one of the…

Language through poetry Anitha Murthy, a published writer shared, “Poetry is like perfume in a bottle, it is not rose, but extract of that perfume”. This was different way of looking at poetry. She shared how senses are part of learning. Often skills like langauge, writing, poetry are taken as pure skill (subject) to learn.…