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To do my own research on not to teach, I came across this article and I found it interesting – The author says “It was not a good idea to tell students that “multiplication is repeated addition”. Explore WHY……. http://www.maa.org/devlin/devlin_01_11.html| You may like this article to do some kind of brain storming ormay like to…

Children, faculty, Staff everyone are part of center development. We all jump outside our comfort zone to do things that are part of center development. That include accounts, library mangement, electrical, plumbing, cleaning, resource kits, stationery management and many more. Basically everything and anything. Learning from facility management.

We had been to chaukul as KAA++. First day night we all sat in circle and were introducing ourselves. People from various places had come and we were total 25 of us including children and adult. We started from one corner. When our children’s turn came, they started introducing themselves with lot of confidence and…

Yesterday in my session, as part of our goal we were cleaning the floor. Due to recent done painting there were many paint drops on the floor. We were using different things to remove those paint from the floor. One child was reluctant to work. We all got busy working on cleanup. Slowly he joined.…

Dream with your childDream for todayDream for tomorrow Encourage your child to DREAM. In session as a welcome we dreamt “the dream I want to dream today”. All kinds of dreams were discussed from becoming a wizard to turning 18 to buy a bike……………they were golden moment to connect with kids and their world.

My eight year old got interested in cursive writing. The reason “it looks nice”. His source of inspiration – Comic books of TIN TIN. He used to spend hours on just looking at the comic book (that time he did not know how to read). He still looks at these pictures, look at them in…

I am hooked on to “learning by listening”. It began with my journey at Aarohi as part of weekly objective. Me and kids listened to various AUDIO stories. We explored that to work on “linguistic intelligence”. We understood that we can listen in various forms Listen for learning – Listen to gain knowledge. or to…

I have 3yr old in my session andone 14 yr old in my session – rest are in the range of 8,9,10yrs old. So this is the story about 3yr old. He ispart of all the events at Campus. Morning he is part of circle to share hisday plan, eveninghe is part ofreflection and thought…

My thoughts… After the experience of one week in the new schedule, it was time for me to introspect… to put down my thoughts. And I am happy. Liked the feeling of the whole group working on one objective with in a super sized session of 3 hours. We all made full use of this…

First outdoor with different age kids. The goal was to explore “maths in Traffic”. We began with collecting data at two different signals. We counted vehicles, categorized them as colour, size, shape, brand and so on. We explored a lot of concepts – counting, addition, subtraction ratio and proportion. We analysed the data in different…

Who say puppets are only for small children? Pictures will tell you the story.

Today, train was late and we were waiting at the platform. Two kids started balancing on the “tracks”. soon that became a balance beam for all of us. Other child used that to do some more exercises. Two of them marked the safety limits and made game of the codes. One child said “in Body…

What is listening?Where all do I see listening?How do I understand listening as a word genie objective?What all resources can I take for children?Will I be able to facilitate children on this objective and many more doubts were there in the mind when my journey began. Once I began to read about listening as a…

All the work I did in last two months on listening, I did not use directly in the session, or you can say “children did not need” my understanding of listening skills. They constructed the understanding with their own experience and thinking. I went with a CLEAN mind and did not want to start with…

Two Bindis on my forehead – one to press when I am listening, other to press when I am not listening. Ah!!! This became a fun element in the session. They were calling my name and If I do not respond they would press “not listening”. One tag on my arm “Today I will LISTEN…

Last to last friday (24th May 2013), we installed the cute looking Shurflo dc pump which we had got from US through Prakash’s friend. The pump was placed at around 130 feet below ground level. – pump is hanging on two thin clamps placed at the top of the borewell cap. It’s hanging there through…

What is literature? Few children have picked this up as their goal. They chose the goal based on the name that they read in the content guide. Eager to explore what it is, this group of enthusiastic learners went ahead to find out from few people. They came back it is something related to writing.…

One day in the ,,,, oh, aunty what a boring song. We do not like this song. Aunty moved ahead humming; one said let us listen to the song at least. Yes, yes let us. As the song played children took time to listen to the song, the music and the words. Listening to the…

There is something happening everyday at home and at the center and I want to share it with everyone. However I am not getting opportunity to do that. I am doing it today Anagha (7 year old), from Aarohi, wrote a poem and recorded it on mobile in her own tune. Poem is titled Oomp…

This learning saturday, lets take a morning train to kelmangala for learning journey. Bangalore-Nagor passgengar express from Byappanhalli (Bangalore) at 7.30 am on 29th June. Along with eatables and necessary things, carry your open mind bag. Empty all those “I cann’t, will not, impossible”. O-campus openly invites you for doing things. You could be making…

Event@Aarohi, Saturday 25th Jan 2014 from 11 am to 1 pm at I-Campus of Aarohi (Geniekids Learing Space, 3023rd house on the 8th Cross besides the 13th main in HAL 2nd Stage, Indiranagar) Forum to meet ex-students of alternate education.

It was one of the lovely morning at aarohi, O-campus. 16 kids, went for rock climbing – all at different level and had different goals for self. All I had to do was to watch them and be there with them. One master code was decide before we started “go one by one and wait…

I am working on “five senses”. This is the one of the topic for next year sessions. I only knew “senses as see, hear, touch, smella and taste”. While digging deep in the topic I came to know about the sense of pain, temeprature, balance……………………. Working more on the topic through multiple intelligence, I came…

Our family is shifting home, so we all are involved in packing. Yesterday Dhrupad was given the responsibility to “empty the bean bag and give for wash”. First he took 20 minutes to figure out how and where to open bean bag. Then we took 10 different types of scoops to scoop out the beans…

Today I had fever, so Dhup found me doing nothing and found this as an opportunity to catch without any distractions. We read a book together and after that he wanted me to dictate the story so he could write. We explored so many things while writing When and where commas come? (Fullstop is traffic…

Journey of self assessments at Aarohi Self assessment began with kids setting up their own goal in the second year of Aarohi. Initially the assessment was “I wrote a story”. It was more of information or a report of what one did. There was no assessment of “how I did, what all I included in…

Every Manthan has been a great discovery for us to know parent’s perspective and we re-work on our beliefs. Some thoughts like “every parent has their own journey” has been a very valuable inputs for us. We want to start the initiative of “synchronizing” with parents. You as parents have your own sets of beliefs…

A day before ManthanGracy found that the Jungle toilet flush “float valve” was broken and we needed the toilet working for Manthan. Selvi was surprised to know that we can just buy the valve from the market and fix it ourselves – me too 🙂 I do not know what happened after that. Today I…

Yesterday, while doing analysis about animals, Asawari came across “the weight is 60 to 70 kg”. She needed AVERAGE weight for calculations, so she asked me “what is average”.I thoughts for some time and shared “I know the process, I do not know how to explain the concept”. We played around with data on average,…

One child was taking attendance of other chidlren who are going for KAA to match with our list. He said a – he is here b – he is here c – she is here d – she is not here, she is there outsdie somewhere, so she is present.