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If you know – you teach me. Anyone can teach us – we learn from all. One child lerant playing drums by observing other people in village, He shared his skills with others – I tried learning from him, a long way to go to get this skill…trying.

Visit to nearby village to understand elephants behaviour, their path and effects on villagers. Apart from tracing elephants path, foot print and identifying elephant potty we also explored stones on our way – we could not stop ourselves from collecting various rock/stone samples on our way and also watching a water pond to watch fishes.…

Trip to Waynad was not complete without meeting people and learning from them. Learning from a scientist at M S Swaminathan Research foundation was enriching. Listening to scientist on the work they do and how they do was an unique learning experience for all of us. Why does one research?What to research?How to research?What is…

Trip to Waynad to explore soil – exploring it many different ways Sometimes it was just playSometimes it was exploring different toolsSometimes it was visiting different places like butterfly garden, medicinal plants nursery or seeing just display of seeds and samplesSometimes it was exploring soil in different places like forestSometimes it was just wondering –…

Trip to Waynad to explore soil had fun in various form in our way It was fun to climb rocksIt was fun to sip tea with friendsIt was fun to climb treesIt was fun to make own tools and do stick fightingIt was fun walk in the forestIt was fun to ride in jeepIt was…

Learning about soil by being with soil at Waynad. The trip to Waynad was to understand soil. I was part of the group as a learner. I learnt by being with people who are working with soilI learnt by exploring soil in many different waysI learnt by experimenting with soilI learnt when I was with…

The Past (French: Le Passé) is a 2013 French–Italian–Iranian movie. The movie is about divorce and relationship, but has parenting lesson in it. The movie deal with how we’re all constrained by our own perspectives on our lives: It is about responsibility – the taking of it, the lack of it, the search for it,…

Enough Said, (a 2013 Americanfilm written and directed by Nicole Holofcener) is a romantic movie with parenting lessons in it :). The movie is not about parenting, but one can draw parenting lessons from it. Two people falling in love, the relationship finds turbulence when one of the partner starts doubting other partner based on…

How fish swim? Is it that every action has a reaction or it is because of the mass or it is that fish just knows how to swim? Explore science in our day to day life – feel it, explore it and live it. We were debating how fish swim? We know fish breathes in…

It began with playing songs on Piano. Then it was time to find out “what is sound? Peer reading and then learning together. Discovering not only how sound is made but also how elephants were used to create sound – Elephant tail, tusk, and body as musical instruments – have you heard about it?

Peer to peer learning – one is teaching while other is learning. In the process both are learning. Replace you in the video in place of teaching child – what difference you would like to make? We played this video in our training. We were wondering What role a facilitator needs to play? What and…

Some of the kids who set their goal as ‘play’ spotted some worms under a rock. They got busy in observing the movement of the worms and debating to identify them. “How many legs?, what do they eat?, are they babies? …the exploration continued. One of them got the idea to make home for them…

I drive car – I know how to start and where to fill petrol and also what is puncture and how to get it repaired – beyond this i have no learning connection with car – I wondered why not! This week we explored what is inside the car. We opened the bonnet and looked…

Week began with “scientific knowledge” – why it is important to know? We read a little about soil, mist, plants, carbohydrates and explored how this knowledge is helping us? Well, some could find connection, some could not, some were wondering, some were helping others to find value out of what we read. Through out the…

Newton said three simple laws Things wants to stay the way they are Force and acceleration are proportional Every action has a reaction Just wondering such a simple realization was translated in mathematical formula of F = ma. We all can see the things do not move by themselves, they stay where they are unless…

Wonder how does phone and remote control car works. A chidl exploring and sharing what does he thinks about how things works.

One of the design of parachute – we tested all p[arachutes with an egg in it.

Often welcome surprises me – we keep the material with certain thoughts and the exploration surprises us. This week it was no surprise – the welcome was some old watches as part of make and break. They not only tried opening old watches to look inside but also read about various things how do they…

Some shared the concern about plastic thrown in the ground – next day our morning walk was converted in plastic collection drive with all of us together and singing “plastic where are you, we have come to pick you up”.

Today we were served pineapple in our fruity with a reading on “pineapples” – next to cut pineapple, kitchen leaders kept a book which talked about “pineapples” where are they found, how to store them and what are they…During dinner we were read “where does the rice comes from and different forms of rice –…

We explored tribal dance as a part of flocci. We watched few videos of tribal dance of different states of India. We discussed about their steps, costumes, rhythms and energy of the dance. We also compared different tribal dance based on three criteria: Energy, Fun and rhythm.We closed our flocci with making our own tribal…

As part of an activity children cut different photos from magazines and paste them in to their notebook. They came out with a story using those pictures. Have a look at Interesting three stories in the video attached. Child 1: Child 2: Child 3:

It was an outdoor day today. We all were aware that we are going to Ananya trust which is a NGO- which helps under privileged children to learn. All of us were excited due to various reasons. Few were excited because they met their peers after long time, few were excited about the bus journey,…

The week started with stimulation activities where we explored visual observations. We observed each other’s eyes, different liquid’s flow, weighing scale of grams, tattoo designs and map of different districts of Tamilnadu and so on. We planned our week and did some commitment to self for the week. In safety club we explored bullies, fire…

All walls done, worked for many months to make the structure – one heavy rain in the night and whole structure came down. The team worked again, this time learning from mistakes.

It was my turn to take parent workshop – we cooked together lunch for all of us.

As per dictionary “rapport – noun –a close and harmonious relationship in which the people or groups concerned understand each other’s feelings or ideas and communicate well. So how do we build this connection with children? Interacting & Facilitating … as a means to empower childrento do what they want to do, learn what they…

Democratic learning

Self learning in a democratic enviroenmnt – all learning together, all learning what they want to learn and how do they want to learn. Peer to peer learning is gift we give to each other – the feedback needs to flow in all directions. 17minutes video.