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Our cycles were stolen.We are now very careful. Before shifting to cycles to campus, the need of “SECURE” cycle stand came up. Two kids worked on it – some more work to be done……….cycle path is on our way. Kids worked on undestanding the land, the behaviour of cycle, space needed, locking systems………….and team work.…

One child was teased by others “you do not know to read”. This child brought his anger in dirt cleaning. He shared his own past how he was not studying……what he think snow, what he wants to do now, how he had been mentored, and so on. He spoke for 45 minutes, and all listened…

At Aarohi, children are responsible for their own and common resources. That Includes first aid box too. As part of their learning they also go through their First aid training by a medical professional. They are responsible for checking the first aid boxes, packing it, and making a list of required medicines. They are learning…

It was a wonderful day. We began with “what we want to in open house on Fridays?” What should be the constitution of Aarohi? The session began with stimulation on safety watching few video on accidents, safety, hygiene and reading articles like “computer harms eyes”. The idea was not to teach them about safety, but…

It was another day for learning with constraints JMovie day at Aarohi brings a lot of excitement. We have the constraint “movies of different categories”. Kids got two movies “one was romantic and other was comedy”First it took time to understand that “what is romance for one is comedy for other”…………..Then, which one to watch?…

One child came with four horse toy to me and asked me to draw (he assumed that all adults knows everything).My first thought was “I do not know”.Then second thought was “let me try”. We together observed the shapes in the toy, we found many OAVL shapes in the horse. We drew few ovals and…

One child in session have been asking to sleep after some time. This week too his work by self and after some time wanted to sleep. I shared “I am not able to understand your needs, you are tired and want to sleep or your mind is close that if mummy is not in session,…

Have been playing football with a 8 yr at the campus. He has been very patiently working with me, guiding me ……….and also playing at my level.Yesterday he told me “aunty increase your speed”. It was nice to hear from him, and also to know that I can learn from each one in my session.

One child wanted to start with candle making. The first questions she asked “will I be able to do any work in Candle making?”. We began with “yes, we can, lets see how?”So first option came in mind “call Vishal uncle, he is coming today from Bangalore, he can bring all the resources”. I asked…

A child in my session wants to know “how does fashion becomes fashion, who and how it is decided”. She wants to meet people who understand about fashion, who like to follow fashion, who use fashion. If you are one of them, please let me know, if she can talk to you, or you can…

Last week kids worked with “NO goal, NO MI mind map and they did not follow objective of the week”.Yes, does this looks like that “they must have been lost?”, or They would not have taken the challenging goals”, orThey would not have learnt much? Nothing of the above happened.This week we began with stimulation…

One child joined few backs at O-campus. First thing he asked me “will y ou teach me English and Maths”. I said yes.We began with reading a book. He expressed “I cannot read anything in English”.I read three pages.At fourth page, I paused at few words and he was reading,Fifth page, I asked him to…

Yes !! and so was maths through everything else. Enjoy below. On 24th, adults and children spent their saturday with maths. Maths came to them in all forms and through many things. E.g 1. Getting lemonade and Jal jeera pushed them to questions like what is fraction? percentage? 2. Playing cards offered many learnings from…

We used to do all the preparation of each session by self, as teh time passed, in the name “busy” we began to take assistance from Laksmi aunty and soon she became the only one who would arrange for material for all. We lost touch with what is where in Amable (GK). One of the…

At campus, We have been living together, we have been working together, we have been learning together………..sometimes we work, sometimes we do not, sometimes we are very conscious of time, sometimes we are not; sometimes we are deep into some work, sometimes we are not………. Last week we talked about the culture @ campus in…

We had a dip in our progress of Kitchen. Just when the girls trained the labourers in working independently to lay the mud bags, they left; they found another place giving them more daily wages. Just when the girls wanted to work on it, we began the process of shifting to campus Just when kids…

We were working on the plastering the courtyard. We have tried in many different ways, different proportions of mud and cement. We tried it doing in many different ways – thick, thin, with rubbing, with splash, with tools, with hands……………. But the plaster is not sticking – we make it and next day we find…

We have finally shifted to the campus. Still, the campus is not ready, but we have shifted. The journey is beautiful Kids wanted to shift, we all wanted to shift – we set the dateOn the date (29th July) I was apprehensive and not mentally ready to take the unsettling. I assumed, I have to…

One personOne lightOne idea And that is what we had for Varlakshmi celebration at the campus. Leela, mother of Yashas joined us at the campus to share her style of celebration of Varlakshmi (live station @ Aarohi). It was less about religion (for me) and more about the way things happened. One coconut and it…

Often when I meet kids at the park, all I hear about is mobiles, laptops, video games, shopping, travel, food and friends. Often when I meet people at informal places like office canteen, café, or parties – topics which I hear about are mobiles, laptops, video games, shopping, travel, food and friends. Hmmmmmmm I do…

One child tells me many things in detail. And many times I do not have mental space to hear and hear. One of the days I told him “I am not able to listen to so many things, so many stories, please do not tell me all the stories”. After some time he came to…

If Aarohi, is not a way, or a method or an approach. It is a space, an environment, an acceptance, a belief, a soil for the child to grow and glow”, Then, what is faculty’s role to make Aarohi a space, a soil and environment” for the child to glow? A child who says his…

One of thing which we have is RICH RESOURCES within us (parents). We can create a HUGE learning environment – not only at our homes, not only for our kids but for the whole Aarohi community. Inviting parents to share their passion through different mediums. And we don’t need to do this only for children,…

At the campus we are bugeed by the culture of “booking”. It beagn with booking your place for the bath (we have one bathroom and 10 souls to take bath). I do not how the booking came in as a solution? Soon it has spread to Booking for who will sit on the eban bag?…

I normally do not work with all the kids at Aarohi. I get the opportunity to work during KAA, and every time I work with them after a long time, I am in AWE with what they do, how they do, their thinking……………..from calculating the distance, speed and costing of the trip to packing medical…

Any new projects which are announced for kids, or any opportunity of any new project/work/learning at any of the campus or Amable brings a natural wish from various people that “Aarohi kids should take part?” We bring these opportunities to kids through announcements as a part of exposure and leave it to the children to…

Dhrupad, wants to earn money to buy Archery set. He came to me and asked for “loan for the food stall”. He does not want to give me back the money, he wants someone to buy the raw material and he selling the food and that becomes his profit. During the interaction I came to…

Last year at the campus, we began with celebrating b’days with cakes. And we all decided to contribute Rs 20/- per month, so we have sufficient funds. But mostly it wa Me and Namrata, who were contributing Rs 100/- each and moving ahead. This year, after all kids had their one round of celebration, we…

This week in session math manipulatives were given to a group of children. I enjoyed the way they used the whole set.1st they just kept looking at it, one by one taking the things- I am sure they may be pondering over it what it was. Slowly at their own individual pace, they started a…

Are we based on Sudbury, Monetssory or progressive or KFI or………….? No, we are not; So what are we based on? Simple answer is “CHILD”. And what makes us follow the child – the answer is simple, that each child is ABLE, “I am able”. All we learn from any philosophy is about children and…