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The case put up on children by other children in open house in Aarohi. “Hurting by pushing and hitting hard on private parts especial chest and bumps comes near the ears and shouts “you cry baby”. Scratchesand pinches me, says fuck, threatens me and hits me especially on private parts, falling on me. Telling “Oh…

When space to learn and when the need to learn is there, the learning willdefinitelybe there and as a child I find a lot of meaning to the learning. We went to the sports ground to play cricket and after all excitement we settled in our teams. 1st ball, 1st show daphaak there goes the…

One child wanted to know how manychildrenI had? I said two. Others said we are not your children. I said I have 14 children. One caught her head and said so many cuts in your stomach. I said na only one cut, anothersaid imagine Girija Aunty giving birth t0 14 children. One came and said…

I used to express in my interaction with parents (in workshops) “we are some of the fortunate ones, who have luxury of money………….”. One of the child in my session asked me “aunty, why people who have money are fortunate? I think the people who do not money are equally fortunate. I see people in…

Dear Parents, Many of our children are reading, and they read a lot, they are read a lot by, peers, parents etc. Many of our children write “wrong” – they really write phonetically and hence it appear wrong. While it is not wrong to ask for a correct spelling, it is also not right to…

Someoen shared “during live station kids wanted to show “how is my drawing”.I experienced the same sometime inside me when kids show competition, eagerness to be praised In my workshops also people ask “I do not do, but my child compares”. Well,At Aarohi the child is experiencing “self praise, cooperation etc”.Outside child may be experiencing…

Me and one of the child – together committed to work one hour during learning time “exclusively on reading and writing”. We do work one hour, Monday to Wednesday. We work in the evenijg, noon – any time of the day. He does some from his side at home, we sometimes do in the train,…

What a way to start a Monday morning welcome … by receiving aParkerpen as gift to match the welcome objective of Writing. Screams of wow and ahs was followed by admiring the pen and the pad. Thanks to BritishEmbassyand our own Nayana aunty,childrenin Aarohi got a pen and a note pad as a gift. The…

On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 7:36 PM, Girija Nairwrote: Everyopportunityis a learningopportunityfor all adults and kids. Would anybody have thought that cleaning the entire resource room would be a learning opportunity? Well, in AArohi it is and all adults and children were involved in it. I am not sure why am I writing adults…

Often people wonder “what about big labs and other resources when a child grows?” Possibly often one’s sense of learning begins with controlled structures called “science lab”. While we ourselves have got very less form these labs at schools, we are still caught up with those structure called labs. Can the whole world be LAB…

We gave a WRITING KIT all at O-campus in the beginning of writing week. It had One Parker pen 1/3 paper pad 1/3 post-it-pad One pouch to keep all the stationery One pencil and one sharpener (whole week restriction of no eraser and scale). For Samarth we had put crayons instead of Parker pen One…

Sharing our journey at O-campus of “sense of belongingness”. First month was to just know our needs and soon the pink house became a place of dumped things. The house did not have any shelves, cupboard or any racks. The house has two small bedrooms (smaller than spring) and one hall as big as jungle.…

I have learnt from two kids in my session. One child 14yrs old had Jaundice and she took complete care of herself. Her entire treatment was based on food restriction to care for Liver and she did all by self – visiting doctors, understanding form them why I need to eat certain food and certain…

I have learnt from two kids in my session. One child 14yrs old had Jaundice and she took complete care of herself. Her entire treatment was based on food restriction to care for Liver and she did all by self – visiting doctors, understanding form them why I need to eat certain food and certain…

Our life at O-campus. We get up at 6:30am – none wakes us up, we get with some music. We get up because we know the importance of sports in our development. We fold our beds and no one tells us to fold our beds or go for sports. We are AMABLE! We play games,…

During project time, one child was exploring various materials – mixing mud, soils, cement, water, stones, and tiles……all kinds of mixtures….all quantity of water and so on. He was completely submerged into his exploration. At the end I announced for all “its 5pm, reflection time”. He looked up and said, “I am not DIRTY”. Possibly…

Dear all Partners,Many of you have been wanting to visit and experience O-campus. We invite you to experience O-campus with your child and family. You can join us any day (mon to thu), we also work on few Saturdays. Currently we will be able to accommodate one family at a time – so please inform…

Aarohi was infested with LICE. I read in detail about lice and was surprised with my own understanding or rather mis-understanding. “As per my reading is is just an insect in our hairs. It does not creates any health problems. One of the site quotes “Presence of lice does not mean lack of hygiene or…

Past two days have been having MANTHAN with kids at O-campus on self learning. Three kinds of learning needs came I know but I want do more like reading or writing stories I like but I do not know like pottery I do not know, but I need in my day to day work like…

All we need is to ACCEPT our children – We are constantly busy in creating “future”. No matter what you do or not do for your children, they will lead a happy life. Will they live the happy life with YOU depends on how much you ACCEPT them NOW? If your child is ugly, she…

The language was always a task to learn and they were categorised in first, second and third language and the importance of their weightage in examination. At Aarohi we began with leaning language for need. At O-campus all the people around us speak Kannada or Tamil. Two kids in the group know both the languages…

During KAA++ we had all maths around us – buying food in the train, buying our daily snacks, giving change, keeping our accounts to know how much one has spent, shopping in village haat, sharing chocolate equally to know how many grams (65 grams for Rs50) and so on. One child was calculating how much…

Story of X and Y – Math Logic in classroom X and y are siblings, as they are children of Math-Logic Intelligence. X’s real name is Logical, while that of Y is Illogical. X (i.e., Logical) resembles her parents quite closely, so is respected and sought after by many. Y (i.e., Illogical), on the other…

At the age of 4 Dhrupad did not start writingAt the age of 5 he did not writeAt the age of 6 he still did notAt the age of 7 he sill did notAt the age of 71/2 he reads and writes both. Asawari did not swim at the age of 6, 7, 8,9,10,11,12 and…

How does one enhances the process of justice?” Here is our story of Open House at Aarohi, O-campus, Open house is the place to file cases on each other for any problem – behavior responsibility, beating, not giving chocolate – you can file a case here. Well, the kids are judges, kids are audience and…

Can kids take decision? Are they aware HOW they are doing? YES, read below We have been having combined session of People and Self genie. This quarter after the review we proposed to the children to have separate sessions – Here are few thoughts they shared after the debate I used speaking skills that I…

One of the child has been showing resistance to write and read. He finds working on construction site quite easy. He moves his hands with ease and has learnt a lot on the site by just observing the masons. During Neelam Cyclone, we were not able to go to the site. We decided to explore…

Today when one child was shouting and screaming. Few times I spoke non-verbally, sometimes I expressed. Finally I said now I am going to take big help and file a case against you. She paused for a moment and with a big laugh shared – HA ha Thursday tho bandh hai”.

This week we had “speaking skills” as our weekly objective. My reflction as facultyKids may talk or not talk much but when they speak on specific topic, thought……………they are different – I realized that just because kids talk does not mean they can speak too on any topic or vice versa. Same is true for…

We had no case today – so began with public opinion. The topic was “should we call parent by mummy papa or aunty uncle in the session” We started with analyzing the role of parents. Each child made venn diagram “my need from parents, from faculty and both” Faculty also did “My role woth my…