Integrated Learning @Home Batch #1

Nature intelligence is an ability to fe el the different elements of nature, notice the patterns, sequences happening in the natural world. The ability to become a participant of the various different aspects happening around us, caring for it highlights the presence of nature intelligence. The intrinsic curiosity towards the living and nonliving elements, the ability to identify, differentiates, to organize the natural surroundings, phenomenon points towards nature intelligence. To read more: Elements of Nature Intelligence: Being Related to Nature Scientific Knowledge Scientific Thinking More details - The Original Article - https://aarohilife.org/home/content/nature-genie Activities examples, Real Life experiences, Places where and how one create opportunity of exposure. Show or share “a creeper climbing in without any root. A leaf changing its colour, a creeper climbing on different trees in different form, different chargers having different ratings. Use tool like magnifying glass...

Nature and Science is all around us, it is inside us. We open our eyes a little extra wide and we can help the child see the world in a grain of sand. It makes learning and living marvelous, magical, and mystical. ALL Session recordings available as part of this youtube playlist The videos are unlisted - pl refrain from sharing with your friends. Instead, share your learning with them. The recordings are only meant for the participants and not to be made public. 

  Designing   Experiments - Session harvest   All your sharings are so precious to us that we have collected all of them in one place here in one blog. We will share all your sharings of each session. Enjoy this COLLECTION (and continue to add more) Bindu Sharing: My daughter experimented with cushions and blankets and created this structure that provided creative entertainment for the day. She experimented with different ways of falling on it, trampoline, long jump etc... it was fascinating to observe how she used basic home resources ! Anuj Sharing: As my son said- "mom this is my experiment... When I don't have legs and I want to slither like a snake or a slug or a snail!.. " 😁 Bindu Sharing: What are the different ways you can drink juice from an orange ? “Why do we need to squeeze from an orange ?” Was the question my daughter asked. So she decided to explore inserting a straw directly into the orange and drink out of it ! 😀 End result ! 😃 we enjoyed the p...

Self and People Intelligence - Session harvest All your sharings are so precious to us that we have collected all of them in one place here in one blog. We will share all your sharings of each session. Enjoy this COLLECTION (and continue to add more)  

Someone asked  - what values will I teach my child? Here is my FIVE MUST-HAVE lists:  So what values will I teach my child? Here is my  FIVE MUST-HAVE  list:  1. The value of Experimentation (or Trying) I will let my child, who is a born experimenter, keep trying different things in life. The more the child tries, the more the child explores. The more the child explores that more the child learns. The more the child learns, the more the child gathers raw material and tools for life! I will let him fail and treat every failure with as much regard as success and just keep trying. 2. The value of Consciousness (or feelings) I would teach my child to be conscious of his or her feelings. Let my awareness of my feelings be a guide to what I should do and what I should not do. If I am aware of my feelings, my behavior becomes more regulated and my days become more rewarding and joyous. 3. The value of Reflection (or thought) When I think through a situation, ...

19 people from the age of 8yrs to 45 yrs spent three hours to see just one pair of endangered vulture (small things became joy like how they were cleaning their wings, how they took to flight, where they were perching, and so on) spent nine hours in being with rock climbing - while we waited for our turn we observed, some sketched, some learned new techniques, some relaxed while some got indulged into the mathematical calculation of the height of rocks. spent six hours exploring the art of making wooden beads and clay articles - While we got the chance to work on the pottery wheel only for few minutes, we spent an hour observing every detail of the making of clay Ganesha and Horse. While we did all this we waited a lot - waited for our turns, waited for vultures to fly, waited for our turn to make try making beads. We observed each detail of the making of clay horse. We took part in listening to guides in museums. We talked about those in detail.  All this would have been possible ...

  It began with “design your own festival”. Last time we celebrated Baishaki at Aarohi – it was designed by faculty, we arranged all the resources, food items, music etc. During the session all the adults were busy arranging for material, putting up music, making Lassi and so on............kids danced to the music we had selected………..they waited for Lassi, one child was continuously asking “when is Lassi coming?” Well, we knew what was our mistake, children did not have “ME” in me. We learnt from this mistake and this year we began with “what would you like to do during festival celebration session”. First session was chaotic, kids were confused “how can we? what can we????? They read, they were moving here and there in  utter confusion……….. the second session they came with their own thoughts Within 10 minutes planning was done - how to celebrate, what to celebrate, and who will do what, and within one hour all preparations were done. Different groups for different festivals ...