The Easter hare arrives
Click on the images to see the process of making an Easter hare from carded wool:
Making easter eggs
Eggs, eggs, eggs!… Colorful eggs!!. The Easter hare has brought them to us!!!.
Hello everyone:
Do you want to know how we make Easter eggs in our kindergarten with maternal and infant children??
We have prepared a very complete tutorial so that you can do it at home.
Let the fun!!!!
School library.
“Books have value when they lead to life and are useful to it?”. Hermann Hesse
Something that usually happens when your children go to a Waldorf School is that their rhythm also reaches home and the rest of the family.. It arrives as an essential story before children go to bed, in special care when it comes time to eat, in giving a special value to play in children and art in primary…
Due to the interest of parents in delving into several of these topics, since last year we have a free library for members, workers and families.
The Library is located in the College store, the loans are for fifteen days (expandable if no one is waiting for that book) and their loan schedule is as follows:
mornings:
-Friday of 13:00. a 13:30h.
Afternoon:
-Monday and Friday of 16:00 a 17:00h. -Wednesday of 16:30 a 17:30h.
We hope that this service of the School will be of interest and use to you..
Waldorf Olympics
There are experiences that accompany you throughout your life ...
The 10-11 years are the heart of childhood, a period of harmony prior to the arrival of adolescence. In Waldorf schools it is accompanied by immersion in the world of classical Greece, their mythology, your science, his art, Homero, Socrates, Alexander the Great ... Throughout the course those images accompany us in narrations, theater plays, songs, verses ...
The final part of this tour is a meeting of the 5th grade classes of Waldorf schools in Spain and Portugal in Ampurias, to participate in an Olympics in the magical setting of the ruins of a city, first Greek then Roman. Athletes are tested in jump, carrera, struggle, javelin and discus, not to be first, but in search of his gestures of the ideals of Beauty, Truth and Strength, not to outperform others or to seek the best result, but to find yourself in the process of giving your best.
The stone remains of the amphitheater and the arena of ancient Emporiae bear witness to the experiences of these children, dressed in their robes, representing Sparta, Athens, Delfos, Eleusis or Thebes. The ruins bear witness to the resurgence of the Hellenic ideal in them, in those pure experiences of themselves, of his strength, of its harmony, of her perfection ... you can see it in the brightness of her eyes, in the determination of his gaze, in the fluidity and speed of actions, in the passion of their movements… Everyone has reached perfection at some point, the memory of that leap they took is engraved in their souls, how his partner managed to throw the javelin like never before, how his partner managed to finish the marathon test and they hugged him at the finish ...
They return as victors, but without losers, victors of themselves, enriched and transformed by the Beauty experience, Truth and Strength, for the authentic experience of themselves and their companions on an unforgettable trip, fruit of past experiences and seed of others that are yet to come.
Juan Luis Alegria Ibáñez. Waldorf Alicante School. IIP Dharma College Alicante.
Bremen Town Musicians
“At the Alicante Waldorf School we have received a pleasant visit. Children in Early Childhood and Primary Education, we have been able to enjoy the play of guignol “Bremen Town Musicians” that have been offered to us by the members of the guiñol group of the Centro Dr. Left, of the Alicante Provincial Council.
The tale tells the story of four animals (a butter, a dog, a cat and a rooster) whose owners have decided to sacrifice them. The animals are found after each, in an independent way, has fled the home of their respective masters. Upon meeting, decide to start a trip to the city of Bremen. On their way, they arrive at a hut where bandits are spending the night. With the aim of intimidating them into occupying the house, form a grotesque figure with their bodies and emit the sounds of their species, in unison, what makes the bandits flee in terror. A wonderful story that transmits values such as teamwork, The overcoming, empathy and generosity, courage and determination…
We want to thank this admirable group who have attended our school Escuela Waldorf Alicante and who have shared this work with us, fruit of many hours of work and rehearsal. We have had so much fun! And with it we continue to awaken in our students an interest in the world of fantasy, magic and stories (resource used in Waldorf Education to promote the integral development of the child).”
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..