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Finally all dogs are sterilized. They are back home and recovering. One of them was pregnant and kids took the decision to abort. Hmmmmmmmm the whole process of taking this decision was interesting and thoughtful. At many places we were thrown challenges and team came out of it :). It began with emotional decision –…

Aarohi was abuzz with Harry Potter mania a while ago. It caught the fancy of my then 6-year-old daughter. Since she couldn’t read these books yet, she was learning about it by what she heard. So, one day she declared she wanted to buy the ‘Harry Potter and the Order of Feelings‘ book. I asked…

She came to me and told “Today food is no good, bad news aunty”. After some time invited her to eat. She informed “I have finished eating”. I invited again, again and again. Every time she told me something different I have finished my lunch I ate rice I do not like eating rice I…

We work with peersNo age barWe work by ourselfno age barWe work togetherNo any bar.

Began stimulation differently, Began with a format of goal setting “goal, why I want this goal, what all I know and how many ways can I work on this goal”. After they wrote what all ways, we went to different places at the campus like resource room, rocks, courtyard, nature lab, kitchen, games section and…

When he came to Aarohi, he expressed “I cannot draw, paint and I write horribly”. We did not ask him to do anything about it, but also did not stop creating opportunity to write, paint and draw. Initially he will not show to anyone. Then, slowly he started becoming comfortable with sharing his creations of…

One child expressed “writing on black board is difficult”. We write our weekly responsibilities on the board. He was given feedback “what you write we are not able to read”. He expressed “I find it difficult to write on the board” After that we did not do any changeshe continues to writehe continue to try…

When I am curious, I tryWhen I try, I discoverWhen I discover, I say “I did it!!” A child exploring inner curiosity. My little son wants to travel around the world. He first bought a sketchbook and started collecting things related to various countries. Last week he showed interest in sketching. He wants to learn…

I read in book by Peter Lorie “Wonder child”. “The cold makes body jump with energy. Children feel it immediately which is why they become excited when snow began to fall. Snow also makes air cleaner. Also it makes home more comforting, more secure…….”.Here is what i saw at campus with rain.

One child informed “I am not doing anything today”. After some time, she was looking for her notebook, she looked all around, she did not find. After searching all over the place she asked me to write a notice for all. We did it together. We wrote the color of the missing notebook and size…

Leela, parent of Aarohi child, comes to campus every Monday. She began with helping in kitchen – we all welcomed change in our menu, some new stuff in food. She moved to taking up a project to trace flora and fauna, After some time she moved to making a solar cooker. She started with using…

Art week began with exploring colours and ended up with colours on the wall. We started with understanding colours, playing with colours and creating with colours. Next day went for colour walk, to see colour in the nature. We looked at tiniest of the colour in nature. This walk set the stage to mix colours…

This week started little differently. We had an exam. We all wrote seven questions of fourteen marks. This was surprise test. Time duration was 15 minutes. All questions were based on thinking. It was fun to conduct an exam. I applied my understanding of exam in stimulationJ, as our weekly objective was thinking skill application.…

Me get pamperingKids love meI love kidsTogether we make a loving team

Child sharing how he learns If you want to know how to read, come to me.If you want to know how to write, go to someone else.I learnt reading by understanding my own styleI learnt by doing it many timesI am still learningI learn in many different ways

Began with digging inside self “what is that I want really really I want to do”.Started with finding about Dinosaurs – the topic excites me.Constraint – no reading from books or internetBegan to dig and dig in campus to find some traces and fossils.Every unusual object was suspected to be a fossilBrushing, cleaning and finishing…

Solar cooker assembly – yet to inaugurate. Thank you Asutosh and Vaishali for all the efforts and sponsorship

Match club brings creativity – designing games in our own styles Combining alphabets and numbers Using dice USing numbers Using text books Using games

Today, one child came to me and declared “I want to give my I-pad to Aarohi, My mother has also agreed”.I thought he does not know what is he talking about (I was wrong) :-). I asked, “what does it mean?”He said, “it means I am giving to Aarohi”. He asked me to write a…

Today our flocci was on WAR. We started with mindmap, collected children’s responses. Why wars? its impact? different types of war? what is war? disagreement, conflict, invasion, stratagies of war – defence, attack, land war, animals used in war… etc. Children saw two videos of war, an ancient war(Mughal-e-Azam) and Iran war. Children drew pictures…

We sing any songWe sing in our styleWe sing from heart

A group children were assigned to the task to clean the attic in sunshine room. There were just told to do clean up. The next day the kids went and looked at the room. They had a discussion among themselves what all they need to do and how all to do? Each shared their thoughts…

Few kids choose their content of learning as making bags. The kids went and brought the required materials in a tray and were starting to work. I saw these kids using cross stitch materials to make bag. I asked them; “are you using these cross stitch materials for making bag?” . They replied, yes. I…

Last week we had a very on & off session, 1 day holiday and another was bandh (though we were open). On thursday,we had a very few children attending the session. Intially they shared its very boring day but still they continued with their work. In the middle of the session, one child said it…

PROPOSED ACTION PLAN For parents who are not involving in the community development (Manthan)?For Parents who are not participating in Mela?For Parents who are not doing Parents workshop on fridays by turn? Below are the action plan by Aarohi Faculty team If any parent is not coming for parent workshop by term/doesn’t want to do…

I am coordinating for Art week at O-campus. I have put a constraint for self that I will get more people, so kids get exposure of resources (else I am pretty good with art). I sent 19 mails to different e-groups 69 personal mails to people 19 post on meet ups 9 post on FB…

The O campus came in existence because we needed to create learning space. As kids were growing in number and age, we felt the need of bigger space and more resources. I-campus offers the comfort of home and leisure of time, while O-campus offers space and resources to take learning forward. I feel while the…

Some children like to meet people and learn from them. Some children when they meet people, they get inspired, they get motivated , they get new ideas, they get new directions in their learning and also get new ideas. Live station at Aarohi is to invite people as resource to learn from. If you would…

Post on Fb by a parent “Today some children were given PHYSICAL PUNISHMENT in Aarohi. They were made to do 50 sit-ups for not maintaining silence during silence time. Is anyone else aware of this? Plz share your thoughts.” When we read this post, it created an opportunity for us to know what made kids…