Manuals at the Waldorf school
FIRST CLASS
Children need in this new stage a greater concentration and rest to carry out all the learning processes.
Knitting, helps them to gradually achieve it. The needles, the wool, the points next to each other, the tension needed to hold the needles and make the knitting happen requires greater precision in fine motor skills and other coordination between both hands.
The tissue as a massage, It only works well when a state of inner and outer calm has been achieved and, being present in the task that allows the actions carried out to occur in a coordinated manner, that's why it helps them focus and focus. This task is transferred to the intellectual work in the main hours, to read, write etc.
We use the images to present the wool, through storytelling. During the first weeks the children wash the fleeces, cardan them, they dye and spin. With these strands they make rings, bracelets, necklaces. Always useful and beautiful objects. Before inserting the needles, they learn to knit with their fingers long scarves, in this way they make their fingers independent.
The needles will be an extension of their hands and it is a tool that they prepare, las lijan, they are sharpened, they are rubbed with a fleece to make them very soft and a ball is placed on them so that the fabric does not come off.
Each part of the process is accompanied by an image that helps them internalize the task in a natural way, for example:
"Peter the Shepherd, take her quiet, enter through the door, takes a sheep and takes it to the corral "
It starts with a general image for the whole group but then the work is with each child individually.
The first thing they learn is to make the slip knot and the first point is the "fool", they knit a square with ten stitches to make a hen, a hare etc.
Each stage is taken care of and how the tasks carried out are also delivered, it is a very important moment in the process that the child lives, that recognition of your effort must be special.
As we already mentioned in the previous post, the second proposal is to make the cover for your flute. The dark colors go below as we go up the colors are lighter.
We already saw an example of work start poem and now I leave you another one that we use to finish the task, they know that after the poem they will put their material in their bag.
We give thanks
Gathered here
To do with our hands
Beautiful and useful things
With these precious tasks we leave it to continue with the next entry that will open the door to Second Class..
