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How do some people identify calls of birds? During one of the morning bird watching we only were chasing “sounds” – yes sound can be one resource to identify. Bird do have language, they have different calls, they can mimic other sounds – yes they do have a world of their own – to enter…

Storytelling is an art and often it starts with one event and one can build on that. We found a dead bird on our way to bird watching and that triggered a sharing of story of Salim Ali. Watch video for the story

One can throw or look at a dead bird and discard for the “yuckyness” – we found a dead bird during a trip to bird watching and our learning journey began – what a wonderful resource in a dead bird Learning about Birds body parts Identifying Using different methods to identify – size, colour, texture….…

We travelled 0.5 kilometer(s), and found 17 species :). The day was filled with watching birds, discussing about them during lunch and breakfast, listening to stories and making plans for our next trip :). Chandu joined us at campus for bird watching. Every wednesday RABBI club (reptiles, Birds, Butterflies and Insect club) goes for morning…

Demo of fire extinguisher at Aarohi.

Learning Hindi A group of kids got together to learn Hindi – They made their own rules, they created own learning. Each learnt diffrent and differently. Watch detailed video – 19 minutes Or small video – 3 minutes

Visit to Nagarhole – a forest. Experience the forest in its purest form by being in the forest. Experience the forest in the morning, in the noon, in the night with ALL the senses – feel it, smell it, listen to it, taste it and just BE WITH IT. Soak in the forest, No showing,…

KAA is not field visit at Aarohi – it is part of the curriculum.We believe thatlearning is from life and for life.Since learning has to be FOR life, learning should be FROM life. Learning that is driven primarily from real experiences and learning that celebrates and harnesses a child innate and voracious ability to learn.…

Often we play and play with previously known set rules. One way to develop the creativity is to go beyond what is obvious – obviously:).One child took few resources and recommended various usage of that resource beyond what it used for and recommended to others in the group. Another chidl shared different books on “visuals”.…

Banjara Academy agreed to our visit to their RT Nagar Branch. We began our visit with the Principal of Banjara Gurukul welcomging us and taking us through the origin of Banjara Academy, how the name of Banjara Hills lead to the name of this organisation. She spoke about the founder, his work, what all happens…

She wanted to make her own number line. Another child joined and they worked together – work continues..watch video.

I asked few kids “how do you learn?” This what they shared Child 1 – By doing, asking people (while chit chatting), failing, talking (describing), experimenting, thinking, visualizing, observing, reading books, researching from internet, let go and visiting places. Child 2 – By practicing, watching videos, talking (describing), books, internet, doing, teaching others, visiting places…

Exploring own beats, than jamming with other child. Watch two videos below

It was a challenging week for me as I was taking self-Image/self-concept objective for the first time. I was prepared as well as nervous. We started exploring self through different activities. I also took part in each activity as a participant. I enjoyed seeing self by others eyes. We gave and took feedback from each…

I was travelling with kids to a farm for harvesting groundnuts. I was with seven kids of age 9 to 16yrs. Kids were putting downmaking funshowing offsharinglaughingmaking fun of each other At the same time, they were not staying with one action. If they were putting down someone, second moment laughing with the same child….But…

This week we looked in our food and nutrition- we are experimenting with soups and different menu to accommodate raw food and more fruits.We also explore flexibility – we tested our flexibility.Praveen, one of Aarohi parent joined to share about fitness and exercise – we had fun dancing and exercising and also knowing about fitness,…

Rajaram joined us to install solar lights in one of the unit (we call it Venus). Before installing he shared about the fixture.

My first step in making of my own spellings – for you it may be just some random alphabets, for me they are composition of different letters making names of my family members – watch video to know what they are.

One child was cleaning all the dustbins as part of campus care – he was sorting and discovered all different kinds of things from paper to hairs. He announced “think before you throw in the plastic dustbin, if the plastic is sticky with chocolate wash and then throw”. It feels yuck to sort all this…

Visited nearby farm to take part in groundnut harvesting. It was all about WORK. We started with a huge pile of groundnut to pluck – it looked big and unachievable job for the day, as the day passed we could not only finish before lunch but also we took break from work to climb trees,…

Some snippets from our reflection When we were harvesting groundnut at farm, I was feeling that I won’t be able to finish so much in a day and I started, in the middle I felt that it is going happen so negative image cleared and positive image came, it helped to work and finish the…

The week was full of action It began with understanding what is “body coordination”. It is so much to do with our life and so less understood. Precision is a simple tool to explore but not much understood or practiced :).During the week we visited nearby farm to take part in groundnut harvesting. It was…

We drew a rectangle of 10.1 X 2.6 cm and found the center point – we all had a different center point 🙁 – We again drew and this time we worked on precision…. lines were straight, pencil was sharpened, posture was different, surface to draw was firm, we used geometrical instruments…the result was different.Some…

After stimulation children were gathering their thoughts in form of drawing on the floor. The coverage of thoughts and topics caught my attention. Observe them doing so:

Rocket launching was a great attraction and fun in space week. Let’s see Rajesh with children launching rocket in Aarohi:

As a part of space week we had a project called EGGSTRONAUT. It was a different project in which children were supposed to design a parachute for an EGG. Egg was our astronaut and we have to save him. The parachute design should such that the egg will land from terrace without breaking. To make…

How thing works is one of the major curiosity of children. With that curiosity they have their own imagination and explanations of it. One child in session kept asking different questions related to working of different machines. One day provided make and break kit. He found old remote of a remote control car and telephone…

Are we preparing for performance? Are we preparing to present? Do we have some choreographer? Are we fearful: what if I miss the step? Observe these girls dancing for fun, dancing for self, dancing to enjoy and not to perform, dancing from within not mucking the steps, self-generated steps in my own style. Dance for…

One is in love with numbers and other wants to learn. How child teaches child let’s see in this video:

After many changed decisions, we finally zeroed in on Gandhi Bhavan as the outdoor location for 14th Nov outdoor. It also happened to be Children’s Day. The authorities in Gandhi Bhavan gave us full attention – with a administrator waiting for us at the entrance, to rejuvenating Badam Milk and biscuits – we were given…