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Using “LISTENING” for learning in different forms.

In movie “Bhag Milkha”, my eyes saw the dedication and determination. One child saw “TYRE” and “MUSCLES”. Even the hurt, while he was running could not stop him from running more”.He was inspired to run with tyre and inspired to build muscles. We saw the same muscles in our neighbour who is black smith, he…

Few weeks back we were affected by lightening – our solar panels were damaged and needed repair.Although most of the kids were nor directly involved with this project (they have many other project running and they are busy), they were all learning passively with adults around. Vishaland Rajesh worked relentlessly and innovatively to ensure that…

One child in the session began with playing cricket. He naturally moved to reading about it, asking people to teach him and practicingand experimenting by self. He shared “I practiced my batting skills and made my new steps. Next day I tried spinning the ball in many different ways – front, back, sideways. Next day…

This is not a dirty drawing or just scribbling. This is “dark colur to hide the window”.

How do you learn about colours? Simple – sort all your resources in different colour bags.

I was working with a child on exploring shapes – we began with hunting for shapes around us. We found rectangle but not triangles.We were wondering why we do not see simple triangles around, while we saw many other shapes.Many other kids joined in our exploration and they began hunting shapes for us :). And…

Emotional safety is constitutional right in democracy. Last week was another session on constitution of Aarohi. We took the topic of “emotional safety”. We asked kids – “How do you feel when anyone teases you? Some of the responses which kids share I do not feel safe when people ask me questions to check my…

After the theft incidnet at the campus, security has become part of our learning. We all have committed “one hour a week” to work on security. Every Wednesday at the campus we have “security drill”.We began the first session with “what are our needs and HOW we want to do?We all came up with our…

Any life is exciting. One of the child sowed moong dal seeds, today he found moong coming out of the ground, he was excited to share his entire discovery.

During one of the activities we put lot of things on the floor and bring break in our walking patterns, The idea was to know self and how we get used of certain things and think this is the reality and this is the only way to move ahead. Kids kept trays, clothes, water bowl…

Our water pump is unrepairable at the pink house. That means we are back to fetching water from the tank for all our needs. Initially some shared “oh! We have to fetch”.Two children did not say anything, they just started fetching, They not only fetch for the need of that time, but also filled extra…

One child got up in the morning and was disturbed with the direct sun light on her face. She decided to stitch a curtain for herself.She began with Selecting appropriate cloth for her needs – colour, length and width etc. Then, measured cloth for her needs. Cut it to the size Learnt how to stitch…

One child since his childhood has been having issue with comprehending small stories. We were briefed and informed.Yesterday he began with reading a story. He was supposed to read and then share the story in show and tell. In the session he began with reading two page story. He began with mugging the story.I asked…

We made shapes with our body while we were exploring “how to use body for learning”. Some made shapes with their body and others described them. One of the children shared “I did different types of things which were new for me, because I though only moving my body and playing sports is body intelligence…

One of the child commented “we are like a big family” – here is why she said………

After youbreak your car’s side mirror what do you do with them? Simple use them to read!!!

We are finally shifting to campus. And first thing we needed was “hot water” to bathe.We have perfected the art of making Chulha by doing and observing our neighbours. The weather is windy and still we are able to use chulha…………a simple input from our neighbours “dig in the ground” helped us a lot. So…

How do we put a case on others? It was decided by the team that the stationery would be got from home. When I went into session I was not allowed to touch anything. Anything I was taking was met with you have to get it from home. Now I was a little excited and…

A topic quite intriguing for me. I love the fact that there is much in this topic and so little I am aware of. Few children had taken up this topic and I enjoyed watching them explore and discovering the meaning of BODY AWARENESS. From knowing my body to understanding ho different body parts respond…

Conversation between X child and Y child which is so much molded by adult thoughts. How do we work with our chidlren so that they work with awareness and understandingratherthan justfollowingthings? X- What all do you want to learn today?Y- I want to learn to be a good boy.X- What good boy?Y- Good boy means…

Last week the objective was SELF HOM. Children were aware of the term HOM and were eager to know more about the same. We started with working on understanding what is HOM. The next twenty odd minutes was pouring out of the list. Here is some of the things that they shared. It is a…

Last week on Saturday, we had theft at the Campus. Two people used knife to take away money, jewellery, mobile, and credit cards from Vishal’s brother and sister in-law (they were visiting the campus) at 6:30 in the evening, Vishal, his brother, bhabhi, nephew and Astha went through the whole incidence. Namrata and Samarth were…

I believe one of the bestsciencebooks is a fat blank book (preferably with TABS for categorization) On each page the child starts with a question (eg: How rains happens) Further on that page the child writes down all the possible questions related to the above question (eg: why it falls at an angle, why sometimes…

This happened in i-campus. When I was busy in my amable work, one faculty walked in with a Aarohi child. She shared, ‘child wants to share her feelings. Please record it in your camera’ I switched ON and asked her to share her feelings. Following things came out. ‘Aarohi is so frustrating. Here you have…

one of the days, one of the children was again and again climbing the dust heap, inspite of other children telling him not to do he continued to do, finally one of the mason scolded and teh child stopped doing this? One child refused to take other one as parther, becsue other one was not…

Aarohi means evolving.. One child, 9yrs old expressed “I want to move ahead without any boundaries of objective and MI frame work”. She spoke to parents, we all spoke together. I gave her a different perspective of her decision “this means, you may not be at par with other kids of your age, that means…

Thunder and lightening at the campus brought a new learning opportunity for us. After a thunderous lightening and heavy rains, our entire solar system came to an halt – we had no electricity at the campus for 3 days. We are still working on it……..we inferred “lightening struck somewhere around and it affected our solar…

We were talking about HOM (habits of mind). One child expressed that “I want to work on “trustworthiness”. So the next question in mind was “is only honesty means trustworthiness?” We began with a mind map and started exploring what all is trustworthiness. If I am listening, people will trust me that I listen. If…

How do you know by seeing a sapling that this a plant or a tree, a flowering plant or a fruit tree?Simple – plant it and OBSERVE. Two kids at the campus have taken up the responsibility of plantation at the campus. We were gifted few plants and we did not what is what. The…