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During nature week few resources where kept like- magnets, magnifying glass, litmus paper, slides, compass, filler, filters etc. Children were working on their goal, slowly one came and took the magnets. He spend some time looking at it, smelling it feeling it and was wondering what to do. This magnet was the horse shoe shaped…

I was just reflecting upon the learning space event that happened in amable on 15th February. Initially, we watched a video about a lady who was talking about Swaraj university. This university is just like an extension of our own Aarohi school. I am part of this school as both a parent and a faculty.…

When you are struggling with something, what do you do? You just struggle and struggle right? You try to think of different ways.. You think on.. You ponder on… and if you have still not found a way out, you stay with it. Hey I am doing the same thing!! Somehow I found my goal.…

At Aarohi, O-campus we have kids of all ages. We have a child who started at 2yrs and one who started at the age of 15yrs. Both had similar need of MUMMY. Sometimes I wonder, is it the child is asking for mother or this is the limited vocabulary the child has developed to fulfill…

Student and teacher The child’s natural curiosity, the urge to learn exists from the very beginning, and surely this should be intelligently encouraged continually, so that it remains vital and without distortion, and will gradually lead him to the study of a variety of subjects. If this eagerness to learn is encouraged in child at…

Train security codes On the platform, stay in groups of 2-3. On the platform, stay behind yellow line. While getting inside the train or waiting on the platform, do not run in panic or excitement. Once you get inside the train, do not run, stay together and search for space to sit. Inside the train…

Last time, when I was compiling my notes on “leadership”, I realized a lot of thoughts came from what the children think based in various experience they – it was not coming out from learning from dictatorship. While I was doing preparation this, I did not get much relation between feedback and Lok Sabha (what…

Today was my birthday and one child, asked me; are you going to give us chocolates? and continued telling, only children give chocolates for birthdays and adults don’t. Then I said, I am giving chocolates today. Another child who was seated next to me immediately said, She is not a child. I wondered about the…

Yesterday, Anaghawent and knocked on the door of one of her friends house. Friend didn’t come out but her mother answered the door and told Anaghathat her friend can’t come today to play downstairs because she is busy with the homework from school. DisappointedAnaghawalked away and played with other smaller kids in the park. On…

Scintillating Shyamala**** shared: In her session, in response to something that children said, she replied, ‘We are in Feb, aabhi Delhi door hai’. Child’s reply to that,’Aunty, whether we are in feb or Jan it doesn’t matter. Delhi will always be at the same distance from bangalore!’

As a facilitator working with children, I understand that I need to know and understand many things to work with children. One such includes “LEARNING STYLES”. Learning style is a consistent way in which a person perceives, conceptualizes, organizes and recalls information. One of the most important things for working with any kind of children…

A lot happens during the week – sometimes I find it difficult to comprehend what all is happening all around me – the environment is highly stimulating when kids are at campus at Aarohi. If you visit the place, you will find a lot of masti, lot of discussions, chatting, sharing, doing, making, or just…

Paper and pen with me,A feeling inside me,Is the only trigger,That I got,To keep my hands moving,And my mind thinking. Today Live station by Ramya did this to us. All were asked to think of one feeling that they were expereincinng. All shared their feelings and then many got into action. Scribbling, drawing, thinking and…

We can talk using books, mind maps, photography. We should know how to speak then I shall be able to understand what the other person is saying. Speaking is about pronouncing the words, as each person will say differently and there will be confusion. Speaking is about speaking English. We can learn speaking the language,…

A new world of law opened up for me today @ the live station. Law has so much scope was an eye opener for me too. My knowledge about lawyers was limited to seeing the lawyers opposite to my college in Pune. They would be roaming around and any person entering that place was pounced…

One child in the group during the contact point, never responded to anything asked. The earlier contact point with him, I had asked him about goal setting and I explained to him about “goal setting”, gave him examples of how to work on some topics. Today I was with this same child for the contact…

One child had chosen to learn Egyptian language for learning to speak new vocabulary. She had taken a printout of the symbols of Egyptian alphabet. She was writing the names many people in the class. She was sharing to people how their names pronounced. She then went to look for more vocabulary from the website.…

Two kids had chosen their goal as “Speaking new vocabulary” and they choose their topic as hindi for the same. Both the kids were reading a hindi book. One child was reading what she knew and the other was reading what she knew. I asked them what are your thoughts of you both reading the…

Wrote on: December 27, 2013 at 10:24am This Christmas, the kids introduced themselves to hypothesis testing! Their hypothesis being: “Santa exists?” Chaitra and Advait, came up with an elaborate mechanism to test their conjecture. I am guessing the big sis just called the shots and lil one just followed suit. He must have found statistical…

During a session, whenever you look around and you see a group of children chatting,what is your reaction? Of course, oh these are chatting always, why can’t they be part of the bigger group etc etc. I was no different, but yet I was different. During sunshine time few children were skipping. Whenever I looked…

Today in Math lab we were exploring “written math problem”. When it was 1500 subtract from 2000 – it is a simple math problem and can be solved using process of subtraction. But when I say Rs 2000/ deposited and Rs 1500 withdrawn, what is the balance – it needs comprehension skills. SO before we…

One child wanted to share his thoughts in thought club, he began with telling mixed up things from different topic. I asked him “compose your thoughts and share”. After some time few more children shared their thought and I had forgotten about this child. Suddenly he said “I have composed my thoughts – my thought…

When I started working on speaking, it was about speaking a language. As I moved exploring speaking in word intelligence, I discovered many other facets. Speaking is not about saying anything, one of the child shared. Another child shared, speaking is about thinking, composing and then expressing. In one of the activity, we read our…

We began with water lab to explore water and its systems at the campus. We began with understanding our water needs, we measured different containers and for two days every drop of water was measured. We traced the source of water at the campus. And then traced where all the used water goes and how…

Biorhythms were introduced in stimulation activities as a part of rhythms and instruments. It was just an introductory activity. The resources provided for the same was having formula for finding out the value of rhythms. The formula was having sine, cosine and pi in it. Lot of questions started coming. I did not answer them.…

I was working with a child on menu making. First we both discussed what all he wants to explore in kitchen lab. We came up with menu items for the coming week. This child was writing in Tamil in his notebook and I was translating in English. We have a soft board where we display…

I usually talk to the child what he/she likes to do? Then planning happens for the child from there. For example: One child wanted to work on rainbow. Now whole planning of the week came from the child, like: draw a rainbow, colour a rainbow, cut the rainbow, make poetry and read story/book associated to…

One child in session was working on making of a car which can move. In reflection, he shared: “It all started when I saw a video of conserving energy and my peer making a rocket. Then I got the idea of making a truck which transports small things without a need of moving us. So…

Two kids are working on tree house at Aarohi. They began with loads of dreams sharing, ideas, inventions and so on. They spent hours on discussing with each other, what it should what all they will do and how and so on……………………..finally they came up with a design. I did not interfere with their design…

During the exploration of Professions, we got an opportunity to interact with Rani, the flower vendor who sells flowers outside the temple nearby. We would see each other every week and would acknowledge each other during out ground trips. Everybody was interested in knowing her own story. This was a bilingual live station. She spoke…