Friday, July 16, 2010
Beltane
A Hand Made Wreath
an Ancient Rite
Circling the Maypole
to Welcome the Harvest
the Marriage of the God and Goddess
a Beltane Celebration.
Monday, July 12, 2010
2nd Grade at a Waldorf School
Well, another year of school down. I am now the mom to a rising 3rd grader. Okay, I need to stop typing for a moment while I wipe the tears and blow my nose. All good now. Noah's year was filled with language arts, math, nature studies and playground fun. He completed last year's knitting project and started on a new one - a stuffed gnome. His class gave two wonderful plays and treated everyone to a Chinese New Year program.
In a Waldorf school, there are no textbooks. At least, not in our school. Each day the students begin with a blank piece of paper and create their own textbooks. When they learn to write, there is no tracing on workbook pages. It makes for beautiful work by the children.
In language arts this year, the children heard beautiful stories which were translated to artwork in the textbooks, they continued mastering print and in January they began cursive. Noah's cursive is great. Better than mine! He learned the multiplication tables through form drawing and bean bag tossing.
There are days when I wonder how the heck we can continue paying for private school, then I look at his work and I know that Great Spirit will provide.
In a Waldorf school, there are no textbooks. At least, not in our school. Each day the students begin with a blank piece of paper and create their own textbooks. When they learn to write, there is no tracing on workbook pages. It makes for beautiful work by the children.
In language arts this year, the children heard beautiful stories which were translated to artwork in the textbooks, they continued mastering print and in January they began cursive. Noah's cursive is great. Better than mine! He learned the multiplication tables through form drawing and bean bag tossing.
There are days when I wonder how the heck we can continue paying for private school, then I look at his work and I know that Great Spirit will provide.
St. George and the Dragon
St. George and the Dragon was a big part of the school year. They used it as part of the pedagogical study and this was the play that was performed. I LOVE Noah's Dragon.
The Crow and the Pitcher
Well, I have NO idea why these loaded like this. I even tried rotating them before uploading them. Oh well. This was one of my favorite stories as a child. The Crow and the Pitcher. I love that Noah wrote it out and illustrated it himself instead of reading someone else's book and seeing that person's art.
The Peacock
This is Noah's peacock and one of his printed pages from the earlier part of the school year. I love this picture. Did I mention there are no lines on the page? They use TOTALLY blank paper.
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