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How many times have we heard this rhyme being parroted? After listening to this rhyme for the gazillionth time, a thought occured to me, did Johnny really eat the sugar? Pause, think about it… Did Johnny really eat the sugar? Did Johnny really tell a lie? No, there is no logical way of concluding that…

One child was brooming the courtyard and the broom broke. The child said “tell me how much it costs, I will pay for it?” I asked “how about repairing it? He tried, he tried many ways with many mediums. Finally he gave up and came back saying, “I cannot repair it, I will pay for…

This week was musical week. Personally I only hear the music (that to when someone else puts the music for me). I enjoyed music in different ways this week. I got introduced to Karaoke and my singing abilities along with kids. I never liked western classical, but while I was preparing for flocci, I heard…

Reporting live from i-campus aarohi. Children are doing campus development. One group was busy making shelf for keeping bags in the classroom. They shared their design too (in the short video below). Some children got busy hunting for seeds. Some said they are closing the hole and creating wall to stop sand from going outside…

Anagha insisted that I record this video of her and write a blog too. She wanted to share with others how she learned to play keyboard on her own. Here is a short video.

What is training? Training means the process of bringing a person, etc, to an agreed standard of proficiency, etc, by practice and instruction. The word training gives me the feeling that I need to train myself, I am the receiver, I have to learn…as if training is a task. When I was working as lecturer…

This was the first outdoor of the year. Till Wednesday we did not get any response from the places which we were trying for outdoor. I was not at peace. At one end I was challenged to settle new children in the session and outdoor kept running in the back of my mind. I wanted…

We went to a fitness center for outdoor. It was a nearby place and we decided to walk. It was a sunny day, full of traffic at all signals. Crossing the road was a great challenge for us. When we had planned we had decided to take help from traffic police. When we reached the…

Here are some photos from welcome activity at o campus. Welcome is the first thing that happens everyday. For welcome activity, faculty brings material, it can be anything from the big wide world, children just explore. This came out of one of such days.

This week was the first week at O-Campus after summer holidays. I was so excited throughout the week. It was also challenging for me. First time I was dealing with 12 to 13 children at a time. The age group was 4 to 15:). On the first day, we had a discussion on different elements…

This week I was coming back to Bangalore with o-campus children through train. At kelmanglam railway station we were waiting for train and one chips seller came on cycle. All children were excited to buy chips. The children who were without money tried to borrow from their peers and succeeded. All deals were done within…

This time we are trying flocci differently. We are involving children in doing things, thinking about topics in that time frame. It is not a five minutes duration now. Till now it looked collection of resources to me which they can do by themselves also. I was looking for more value add (than what we…

Yesterday in training one of my friends told me that because you are in GK you did not experience midage crises. Majority goes through it in normal jobs. It triggered chain of thoughts in my mind. What is different? Why did she tell this? She was so confident while sharing this. I did not conclude…

Now that children are here in i-campus. Creations are flying around. Here are some pics. We are enjoying everything from armour, swords, guns, chapals, mix and match picture books, mud blocks, crowns to blubs, planes etc.

New Academic year,some new children and new buckets. NEW BUCKETS ???? Buckets are the new advents of our session and we are using these in our day planning.During session, 4 buckets were intoduced i.e SELF DEVELOPMENT,CAMPUS DEVELOPMENT,COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT & CAMPUS WORK, using these buckets we do our day planning.Some children welcomed these new additions in…

Our first open house of the year was aligned with the theme of the week – I am able. I am able to find where all I need to be safe, how can I be safe and what will I do to be safe. First was brain storming – what is safety & what are…

We have a wonderful opportunity in our laps. The September issue ofTeacherPlus(TP) magazine will be completely done by Aarohi – cover to cover.TeacherPlus(TP) is a national levelteachersmag subscribed by many schools – so this is a huge PR opportunity for us – should put us on the national map. The brief given to us by…

My family shifted to campus last year with some basic belongings including toys and books for kids. It was 10% of what we had in our house. Rest of the stuff was packed and kept in our basement. Yesterday all the stuff came to campus and 80% of that is getting merged with campus. My…

One child was angry with another child and was sharing with me. During the conversation, I rephrased “so, you are feeling angry”. He said “and disappointed”……………And feeling hurt also, and …………..he cried and shared and talked and talked.

Learning is happening from what I know to what more can I do. As achild I come with a understanding of many things, as I work I realiseI need more and I go scouting for that. For e.g If I want to write story I start my journey with what I knowthe once upon a…

How does one enhances the process of justice?” Simple – Use MI. Here is our story of Open House at O-campus, Aarohi life learning. Open house is the place to file cases on each other for any problem – behavior responsibility, beating, not giving chocolate – you can file a case here. Well, the kids…

These days one labour is helping us in making road in the campus and cleaning up the whole area around ambrosia (Aarohi kitchen). One day, we briefed him about the work we needed from him and he immediately started working. After one and half hour, I went to just see how the work is going.…

This week I was available in kitchen. Two children were in to cooking that week. They arranged barbeque, made water melon juice. One of the days, they decided to make paneer butter masala. Both of them were very excited. They came to me and asked the recipe. I told them the recipe. They came to…

This was different experience for me. First time children were working on putting up a stall. Few summer camp children were also part of the stall. We started with planning; stall details- where to put? What all do we need? How many days we will run the stall? Finance: How to decide price? How to…

We were exploring strengths last week. One of the days we shared our strength in form of riddle. Following are different riddles we shared with each other: I have a king in me, I am not soft, I work but cannot move, I bring out amazing results. (Hard working) When I am open, I do…

As an outdoor we went to new place. We were looking for some cave whose information was collected during the history camp. Finally we spotted the place. We started going up. The place was on the top of the hill. We started climbing. Few of the children were feeling hungry. We were carrying our breakfast…

If I have to finish this blog in few lines. I would write. ‘Let your child decide what he/she wants to learn. Then let your child decide what your role is in his/her learning. E.g You be his ATM, security guard, resource provider (e.g internet, material etc), driver, coach (only if he wants it) etc.…

Overheard this converstaion of my daughter who is 8 yr old now. By the way, she started aarohi at the age of 2. Yesterday she came back from her friends place and immediately called her friend on the phone. First she apologized for breaking something and mentioned that her intentions was not to break it…

This week we were exploring “question” – it was all about kind of question we asked, the images we have about questions, our beliefs about, response to questions, question to think or to respond and so on. Few poems on questioning written by some of us (kids and adults together) Me and you. Oh! questions,…

None taught them, we did not plan any activities, we did not tell anyone what to do and how to do but we all did lot of new things, few challenging, some boring and some exciting too. The week began with stimulation on “I am able”. Through group activities we explored what constraint does, some…