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Consider this scene inside a restaurant: 20 children really hungry for breakfast. Two of them are to take everybody’s orders, collate and give it to the restaurant manager, and distribute the food when the order arrives. What will you do? The adult in me was itching to help, interfere, take over. I knew how to…

During the open house session we explored what is “government”. We began with sharing what we know about government – rule, take decisions, team of people working, take care of city, do repairs……………..,Then we pondered what government we have at Aarohi – kids shared It is our govt by us. We can choose what we…

Last week in open house the case continued on faculty. The case was to “force to take decision”. 10 kids put the case Before the first hearing 6 took the case back. After first hearing, the case was on “the process of voting to take decision”. Last week the case took u turn. The case…

Good news, we left our Bangalore house!!! We have been celebrating all my son’s b’day parties at home – thought behind it “we have space, then why do we need to go out”. This year we are at campus – a community space. My son worked on his needs “celebrate b’day parties using various spaces”.…

During the open house session we explored what is “government”. We began with sharing what we know about government – rule, take decisions, team of people working, take care of city, do repairs……………..,Then we pondered what government we have at Aarohi – kids shared It is our govt by us. We can choose what we…

During Diwali we had 10 days break. Just before this break we had puppies at the campus and it required some amount of commitments. Kids committed to work on medical, training and understanding hygiene of pets – they promised to work from home. Commitments are part of learning process at Aarohi. Failing to do the…

My son was screaming from the room inside – help me help me. I replied “I love you”. He screamed with double volume “instead of telling I love you can you help me”. I expressed “I thought you need emotional help, so I said I love you”. He finally said “okkkkkkkkkkkkkk can you help in…

During KAA-Belur, Two kids decided to order same food for all and after interaction we understood that they they were working with few assumptions If we allow all kids to order as per their wants, then they will not take care and waste lot of food (assuming we will do it right and others will…

All kids were working in their teams. Some were arranging for food, water, some were making schedule, some were making arrangements for stationery etc etc……………. I was consciously not doing, I was following what I was asked to do by the teams. After discussion with the respective teams, I was relaxing. One child came to…

Two kids took the responsibility of managing food at the restaurants – they analyzed the needs of all, decided the order and re-order, minimum food was wasted – they managed with very tight look at the quantity of the food ordered. Last KAA, one child took all the responsibility and managed with everyone’s need. In…

Two kids informed me “We are taking bath together”. I asked, how are you going to take care of your private body parts? He thought for some time and told me “he will look somewhere else and I will look away”. I was expecting that he will say “I will wear underwear and take bath”.…

The trip to Belur started with loooooong breakfast. At the temple different children were busy in exploring different things – some were looking at the shape while some wanted to climb the pillars, some were exploring the soap stone, some were looking at design while some were tracing the designs. One child began with “what…

Kaa preparation opened up a Pandora box of understanding expiry dates of medicine. It started with sorting out the names and the usage based on creams and syrups. They then moved to read the names- the names I was aware it moved to one side, the names which were new did not find a place-justification…

As a faculty it was my first experience facilitating for Kaa preparation. I shared the same with kids. Children began their work. Few shared with me what all they did. Few did what they were supposed to do. Few moved ahead in their journey. Nowhere did they think it was their agenda to teach me…

During openhouse, One of the child shared “Aarohi government is a place where everyday teaches everybody something new everyday, lot of people are there and some of the people want to teach and some want to teach and practice”.

One child was coordinating for Ayudha puja with all the the workers at the campus, He estimated Rs 600/- for the event. When he went to buy material in the market with the mason, the bill went upto Rs 1100/-. At the end of the Puja, the workers asked for bonus, which was not planned…

One of the week was “visualization”. Kids went through stimulation on what is visualization – we did few activities to explore visualization for learning, for detailing and use visualization to learn from different perspectives. Kids shared I explored Tangram and Pentominoe through visualization. I understood accounts better by visualizing the transaction first . I explored…

Aarohi is a learning space Any resource which does not allow – mistakes, thinking, questioning, understanding, exploration, experience and experimentation is not worth at the learning campus. I am apprehensive about adults interfering with learning process – an adult uses immediate verbal instructions/ reaction and that seems to be the most appropriate reaction while a…

Last week I experienced the difference in action and theory. At campus we have gone through many discussions on “when you see snake what to do”. And one of the code we all have understood (in theory) is to leave the place if you spot the snake inside the house and the snake will abandon…

I have heard the quotation “make children laugh and when they are laughing, put learning in their mouth”. For many years I took this literally “make them laugh – I tried jokes…….jumping around to amuse them…………..used puppets and many more things……since last two week I have been experiencing laughing in terms of self achievement. Kids…

Aaron and Abhi are part of plumbing team. They do the maintenance of the broken toilet every Thursday. Looks like they want to keep their job. Here is why?

Body outside was a week packed with loads of action. For me as faculty it was a beautiful expierence to soak in. Observing children without emotions and expectations helped me to be with their needs. I could share with them their zones-challenging, comfort and frustrating zones. Few of them worked with the inputs, few continued…

Colourful curves in a tray. Oh I look at it, I am unsure should I touch it or should I not. I am seeing what others are doing. I go and grab the curvy pieces. Yeah what joy!!! I got it all for myself. What do I do now? I have seen my peers fixing…

Music and Singing In our outdoor visit to a musical instruments shop, children’s curiosity to explore and understand was the driving force. Eyes wide open, soaking in every detail of the rich display of musical instruments, time stood still for all of us Our hosts must be aware of the amusement level in their visitors….they…

I want to be a special child. My mom asks me to do maths. My mom says Maths has a way and it has wright or wrong.If I become a special child then I will not have to do Maths.

As we were working on making the constitution for Sexual safety @ Aarohi we came up with a situation. What if somebody touches your private parts and says “Oh! I am sorry, I did not know.”One said, “I will slap that person and say become aware where your hands are going.”One said, “I will ignore…

History was my weak point in schooling years. Through aarohi KAA (Queens and Kings), Parent workshop and Mela I am getting the opportnuity to be in my challenging zone. When history mela was announced,I wondered what to expect in the food stall of history mela. We even joked that it will be old fossilized muglai…

We talked about different words which are screamed as “bad words” – sex, babe, bloody, fuck, centre point, kissing bums…………. One group looked into the dictionary to find the meaning of these words. One group explored what else can be the replace words. One group explored what can be the need to use any word…

During the session to make constitutional rights for sexual safety we saw the video on “prevention of sexual abuse” – Some of the questions came up – How do you know the person is in love with you and kissing you for the love or to take advantage? How do you trust the person? And…

Sexual safety – It is my constitutional right to be sexually safe. Hmmmmm the session began with a quiz………………….and we moved on to “what are my rights and duty for my sexual safety”. They shared RIGHTS I have the right to take action if I am not safe I have the right to take action…