#5 DOING - Resources

 

Doing is a complex process; it involves observing, trying, failing, and perhaps succeeding. It invariably generates peer interaction. It requires the application of a complex set of thinking skills. It is nonlinear and often the learning is not obvious but deep. 

The week was not only about doing but discovering what doing does to my mind, body, and soul!

Herramientas, our tool room was busy designing a Bamboo chair, making joints which will last longer, making wooden dice to just play and experience carpentry, make dumbbells for fitness

Ambrosia, our kitchen was busy cooking a variety of meals to cater to different tastes, special food for b'day celebration, pickle, salads, kheer, and cake are just some of the items from our list.

Aarohi ki Dukan was busy developing products, packaging, and labeling.

Apollo, our dome was busy with pretend and play, explorations with blocks, and maintain the resources.

Athena, our library was involved with choosing books of different choices, dusting, organizing, and repairing books.

Acropolis, our music hut was busy drumming practice, inspiring a few more to drum and singing together.
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How children learn can be summed up in two words - by themselves! As they take ownership of their learning and then seek different ways to get it - use different resources, choose different goals, get taught by somebody, seek demonstration,  ... and the list goes on.

So Children decide what they want to do/learn (content) and how they want to do/learn it (process). Often these goals involve making (a cake), creating (a movie), building (a house of pets), exploring (gardening or poetry), researching (about Ashoka the king), and so on.

Most of the endeavors span multiple contents, skills, and abilities.  

Most of the endeavors necessitate many methods, tools, resources, and interactions. It's a very dynamic process with peers, facilitators, and anybody else constantly adding value and challenges and sometimes guidance to it. 

At the end of the day, I can reflect back what I did, liked, found tough, want to do more and so on. Reflection can be on what they did, how they did, resources used people interaction, emotions, etc.