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This blog is dedicated to kids who have shown me many ways of reading story books – here is compilation of few of the ideas I stole from them. Open a story book and start from any page. After reading the text in the story – read the pictures aloud or with silence. How the…

This week started with good and bad news – when our pet team went for Tiger’s (cat) rabies vaccination, he ran away (Tiger was very scared after car ride).Previous week we talked about sterilization of our pets and on Monday we found that one of our cat (Pepsi), gave birth to two kittens.We all had…

Today our kitchen was turned into restaurant “Punjabi Dhaba, Aadab”. It was a surprise for all of us. It was a pleasant surprise to enter the kitchen and being greeted by “staff”. She took me to hand wash, offered hand towel and accompanied me till the food serving area. I was greeted by two chefs…

Give one card box, few card boards, fevicol, few lids, one hand drill, one big needle with thread and space to work and forget about kids for few hours. They made car, tried putting wheels in many different ways.

This week one of the welcome material was “different types of cutlery”. One would think they will explore different kinds of cutlery is available (I thought so). Hmmmmmmmm they looked through different glasses and explore the properties of glass :). They looked through the glass and enjoyed skewed and multiple images. None talked about variety…

How to use video game in experiential learning?Play a video game – we played video game in which we had to make a bridge.We played the game few times- purposefully made different designs which will fail.Then we identified a place in the campus to make bridge.We collected required material, and we made a bridge, we…

Give puppets any age and experience the magic.

Our Natural Disaster and Accidents team (We call them fire team) – After working on thunder and lightening, they bring fire safety for us. They first worked on wild fire, as we have dry grass at the campus. They bring safety for us, they tell us how to understand different kinds of fire, how to…

One child came running, few more followed her “I saw a snake!!! I asked the description of snake – color, size, ……..she said “ I did not see, another child told me she heard the sound of snake”. She was sacred, it spread in seconds “I heard, I saw, It was black, it was cobra………..”.…

This week we have many books on how and what to talk about sex, all about boys, all about girls and so on. Three kids came to me screaming “aunty gross, they are without clothes”. They showed me a sketch from chapter on intercourse. They talked about “bums”. We looked at more pictures from the…

What does it take to wake up a society that is so inured to child abuse? Abuse of all kinds – physical, mental, emotional, sexual. What does it take to create awareness about this epidemic called Child Abuse? The society is taking a knee-jerk reaction to the unfortunate incident that happened recently in Bangalore. Installing…

We present here a design of a session which can be done with children to prepare them to escape from child abuse. This is followed by a video example of one-to-one with a child. The text here can be used as direct speech with child SESSION DESIGN Intro: Some children get abused by adults. Adults…

We brought number line as part of flocci this week. We played game, read a chapter of time line and solved some problems based on number line. The number line on the wall was real excitement for children where they could feel it and play with it. All children explored it differently. At the end…

What is my role as a mother? What is my role as a father? What is my role as a faculty? What is my role as a leader? What is my role as a director?…………The list is long. What is the word role and what it does to me? Once we define the role we…

At campus we use chulha to make hot water. At times for few children it becomes difficult to take water from the pot. They expressed fear of getting burnt. So how do we move ahead? What are the options here? One option is one care taker or any peer or any faculty can help them…

Last week was full of assessment and evaluation. Monday we started with stimulation. Activities were weaved around evaluation thinking skills. After stimulation we concluded stimulation with writing a letter to our friend. Children started planning and goal setting. Throughout the week we explored different words like: assess, judge, evaluate, defend, decision, gathering, recommendation, criteria, important,…

First we made a mind map on advertisement. We spoke about ads, types, why, how, elements, about what etc…. Then we thought there is no need to go to an ad gency But we went Then we found out more about ads, types, why, how, elements, about what etc ……… And about copy, brand, design,…

A 16 yr old from nerby village came to me “aunty I want to learn English”. Another 5yr came to me “I am reading book, I want to work on my reading”. I asked “how about both of you working together?” They read together, Later they wrote together.

Four kids were working on tree house. Everyday they were doing something, and they did not need my help (intervention). I asked “how are you tracking your progress?” They said “we did not think about this”. This started a new chapter in their life. First they guessed how many day, how much time everyday and…

One of the value faculty adds up in Aaorhi is different resources in different ways. The resources can be – visual, tactile (kinaesthetic) and auditory. Some samples from one week – this is excluding designed activities, stimulation, bioscope, stimulation, flocci etc. Making Tree house – Introduced tracking and time planning, They choose graph. Introduced the…

One of the child is my session likes to copy winners and heroes. He will buy their clothes and accessories which makes him look like than (latest is football players), he will watch their actions in the match and copy the exactly same actions and will announce “i did like him”.For few days it made…

Read one quote by “Sri Sri Ravi Shankar) – “Life is simple and yet complex. When life appears most complex, turn to simplicity. Simplicity brings peace. When you are peaceful, attend to complexity within you, that will make you more skillful”. Well, I related this to facilitation. As a faculty I move from silence to…

Is the Job of education to get us a job? A child says “I want to become a doctor” At the age of four – we smile At the age of 8 – we start feeling nice At the age of 12 – we feel relieved the child is on right track’ At the age…

During KAA, an outstation trip, one child got down from bus and went to dark side. I had just announced that it is dark on left side, go towards back of the bus, take luggage and proceed towards the hotel. After she went into the dark, I asked “lets discuss your understanding about safety”. She…

We began with understanding about. Session was about how to do different activities at home related to the theme going on in class. We picked up the theme of “Shopping”. We all came up with different activities related to the theme like Few expression from parents What if child is not interested in doing funwork?…

As the parents came in they explored the welcome materials. Later the materials for stimulation were displayed and they were asked to do the activities, none of they came to be part of the stimulation, instead the parents choose to spend time with the content and MI guides. Later they were briefed about the objective…

I have seen children having fun from anything and at any time. I am quite surprised with their capability to have fun and take things not soooooooooo seriously. I need to learn from them. We had a fun filled lunch on our back journey of kaa. See food and fun filled photos.

It was the first KAA of the year. Energies were very high. We decided to start early morning so that we get more time to explore on the way. All children reported to the centre by 6:15am as the departure was decided at 6:30am. On the way in the bus children started with games, singing,…

It was my first KAA. I started with the decision of theme. What should be the theme?? We decided the theme as land. Next was how do we explore land and planning of the same. We decided to explore land of different states of India. We wanted to keep first kaa short. So, we decided…

Children went to a 2 days trip to Tamilnadu. They came back with their understanding, learning, and observations. Here is their self created land, with dams, river and all.