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It was 12:30 in the noon. Few children were in the process of thinking what to do next? Few approached me and asked me what all they can do.I asked them what they would like to do? What is their marazi? They came up with idea of fishing. And our journey of fishing started. Now…

It was first day of camp. In the morning, children decided to sleep in the terrace. The whole group was busy taking beds upstairs. One bed was almost 5 kg weight. They took that without labour’s help. I was amazed to see the whole process. They washed mosquito nets, came out with hanging system for…

Today in math club one group decided to play multiplication games, other group of two decided to solve math problems given by others and one girl decided to find out area of depdha. One is busy scratching her head to solve puzzles given by others and enjoying the challenge. Other is busy finding area using…

This week was about “multiple intelligence”. Every day we reflected on different aspect “how differently we did the same activity, how in a day we created new learning and which intelligence we used to create the new learning. What learned using the same intelligence and for which activity used different intelligence and so on. At…

Two kids from a Mumbai NGO are planning to visit Aarohi next week. NGO, Kranti empowers girls from Mumbai’s red-light areas to become agents of social change. This brought the discussion on what is red light area? What is body business? Why will someone like to do that? Why kids beg? What is kidnapping? Where…

This is the first year when we are exploring different format of holidays and that demanded change in the way we look at holidays. I had my own apprehension about “how will I change my frame of mind to work during holidays (so called). What about my mental break? What about my rest? What about…

Narrator – I am telling a bit of history of the common village, Kelmanagalm. I went there to understand the history – once a modern civilized man and an ancient man was having a fight. Ancient man said “do not underestimate the power of the wood.”.Modern man – our plywood is also wood and it…

On our ride I went to a lake and wondered how the lake was made and why are the small island made. And imagine if there was a palace under. I observed different kinds of things – mud and brick. Mud walls were standing straight, some walls were falling down. On our ride I went…

Most of the time I am amazed with what kids share about themselves. It is also an opportunity for me to know how different kids work. After every reflection, I know more about kids. Here is what some of them shared…………. Its very happy moment when I achieve what I wanted in just a one…

Making poem was never so easy. One child was making a greeting card. She wanted to write messgae in the card. I gave words like wind, sun, feeling and her own name – she made the sentences and poem was created. ‘Wind is soft, Tree is shaking, wind is making me warm, my name is…

Few kids wanted to learn knitting. It was fun to see how each one was learning in different style. One wanted to observe how am I doing, One came and asked me to tell different steps verbally. One wanted to first understand it logically – how loops are made, what is the role of thread…

One child started with “capitals of country”. She asked peers about the capitals they know. While she was doing this, I just gave her a book of flags – the book had many countries and capitals and visuals of flags. She was engrossed whole day exploring . Next day I was working on civilization and…

One child was making natural perfume. She added fresh flowers, flour and hot water – it became gooey . She packaged and labeled “glue” Another child was making natural colurs. She took some glue coming out of the trees, added with grinded stone, this also turned into glue and she is using for her craft…

Food – Tiffin items like idly, dosa, onion dosa. The competition is on the quantity, not about quantity says one of the restaurant owner at Kelmangalam.. One can see market invaded with Kellog’s chocos, kurkure. Bingo chips and at the same time local chips, local bakery items like rusk, murruku and mixtures are available. One…

Kelmangalam from a child’s eye On our ride I went to a lake and wondered how the lake was made and why are the small island made. And imagine if there was a palace under. I observed different kinds of things – mud and brick. Mud walls were standing straight, some walls were falling down.…

Narrator – I am telling a bit of history of the common village, Kelmanagalm. I went there to understand the history – once a modern civilized man and an ancient man was having a fight. Ancient man said “do not underestimate the power of the wood.”.Modern man – our plywood is also wood and it…

When I was designing the KAA for Kelmangalam, I was pretty apprehensive on how will kids take the videos of Bharat ek khoj and Chankaya? I kept the videos just to stimulate and then I was pretty open for rejection. Kids were hooked on to both the series and had intense discussions. Sometimes I wonder…

How do you know “When does a paragraph end?” – one child asked me today. He continued,- I am writing a book and I want to know, how do writers decide when to end a paragraphs. He took one thick book of “bharat ek khoj” and shared loudly-“I know when a paragraph ends – suppose…

When we designed KAA, we were excited. When we began the preparation, we were excited, a day before, we were apprehensive “will five days be too much? Will we be able to trace the town without any historical records available?…..”. First planning meet on day first diluted all the apprehensions. Kids were clear what they…

A day at campus with two dancers – Kathak and Odissi, Two D’jambe players (african drums). The day began with excitement and soon it was teaching the steps and after some time all the artists were inside and kids were exploring. Well, this was not the objective – it was purely to create a learning…

I was talking to caretakers and asked them to not to address me “madam”, instead can call me akka, if not want to call by name. She immediately refused by saying “you are educated, you can also teach children, you are only madama”. I tried explaining “me and you are same in different ways, you…

This is an incident that happened more than three years ago, when my daughter had just turned three. A well-meaning teacher from her KG class showed me pages with multiple black blobs on it, and said in a concerned voice ‘This is what she drew in the drawing class. She said that her favorite color…

For all those who didn’t come for mela today. This is what umissed.1. Cool shadow of the trees and Autumn leaves.2. Sound of leaves when we ran on it.3. All interesting sounds we made in the games.4. In the games umissed confusion and some cheating.5. Umissedloosing, and quitting.6. Umissedeating others snacks.7. If u are vegetarian…

I am ABLEI am able, I know myselfI am able, I know what I am doingI am able, what I think Sharing some of the reflection shared by kids at the end of the week. And all this reflection did not come just like that – week started with stimulation on what is self concept,…

This is Poorva reporting about Vedant’s farewell party. It happened on 5th March, 2014,Wednesdayin Bangalore, Geniekids, I-campus. The anchors of the session were Kasturi and Poorva. Cutlery people were Vibha and Ketaki. Photographers were Mitali and Dhruv. First we started by announcing what we are going to do. We had Pizza and while eating we…

Me finding out history Yesterday, I was observing KAA week which was about a History camp. Kids were asked what they want to find out from Kelamangalam region. Some kids started with ‘where is kelamangalam?‘, ‘what it is town, district..etc.?’, ‘Some grown up were behind who ruled it?’, ‘when was it built?‘, ‘what clothes people…

Agenda website movie fin update fees & leaving in the middle HP quiz Holidays Assessing Manthan Fear Learning KAA stall website structure am not able to find out information which I need not having a search option joining doc was read in the beginning search button move up comfort level comes little later FIRST MEETING…

Comrades Some thoughts that I have been having since the last few Manthans Some of the parents are comfy, some are expressing some concerns. Some express this concern overtly (when will my son learn to read/write) while others express through general questions (what is learning) Parents who are comfy address the concerns of the others.…

Poem 1 On a very hot day, A crow lost his way, He flew far, far away, Through the hot sun’s ray. He badly needed water, So, he talked to a potter, Potter said, ‘Talk to my daughter, Who’s gone to fetch water’ The crow didn’t find her anywhere, So he sat down after looking…

My son and his friend were discussing about Harry Potter. They were using some words which were beyond my comprehension. After listening for some time I picked up one word KORA- not sure how it is spelled. I asked them what it was. Phat reply simultaneously from both- Hey, Maa/aunty it is ok you won’t…