First class Waldorf

Imagination in action

In this video you will be able to access information about the accompaniment in first class:

  • The transition to elementary school.
  • The accompaniment of the teachers.
  • The drawing of shapes as a basis for the development of letters and geometry.
  • Artistic and manual activities as a way to develop the child's skills.
  • Dramatic art in the education of the individual.

If you want more information, you can participate in the online open house meeting of the 23 of May. Sign up in the following link:

A present for the whole life

Since i got pregnant, I was very clear that I wanted a different education for my daughter Sara.

During my years at the university, I had taught private tutoring to students of all ages and had observed something that worried me a lot..

At some point all children completely lose interest in learning. They live their passage through the school as a real torture, an obligation they have to accept because they have no other choice. I didn't want that for my daughter.

Learning cannot be an obligation, not a torture. That is why from very early on I looked for schools with active methodologies for Sara. In Madrid he was at the Ideo school. She was delighted, because in that school, children were protagonists of their own learning.

She has always been very happy to school. He loved to learn, He had an innate curiosity and kept asking questions and telling us at home all the things he had learned at school. However when we got to Alicante, things have changed.

As soon as you arrive in Alicante, We looked for a school with active methodologies and we enrolled it in one that convinced us, At first. But before long we realized that it was not what it seemed.

In a few weeks we find mountains of homework, of subjects that my daughter was not interested in at all.

A lot of exams and a lot of competition, In 3rd grade!

My daughter started telling me that she didn't want to go to school anymore, and so I made the decision to get her out of there as soon as possible.

It was still a school like so many others, in which children are considered mere containers of information. Where the content is the center of teaching and where the interest or motivation of the child is not taken into account, nor their individual evolution, nor its development and its vital moment.

Look for the options in Alicante, and the truth is that the possibilities are quite small.

I finally found the Waldorf School and fell in love. Okay, we fall in love.

First of all the environment, in wild nature, surrounded by flowers, with a garden cultivated by the students themselves.

Then we fell in love with the methodology. A teaching marked by respect with capital letters.

Respect for the child as a complete and upright human being.

Respect for their physical evolution, psychic and emotional.

Respect for your individuality.

Respect for their interests and their motivations.

In Waldorf I found an education that understands the essence and nature of the child and adapts to it.

A teaching in which you learn with the whole body, with all the senses and not only with the mind.

An education on the move, from experience and experience.

Playing, experimenting, understanding, singing, jumping, Playing, drawing, weaving, cultivating, writing…

We fall in love with the values ​​promoted at school, of how the limits are marked and the love that surrounds each act.

We also fall in love with a beauty that permeates everything.

Children's notebooks, the classrooms, the station tables, all the material used is precious.

My daughter Sara is delighted. He loves his school, and feels a great interest to learn more and more. In fact, she is proud of everything she does at school and everything she learns.

It's something I see in most of your peers. Waldorf children are different. It is something that shows in dealing with them. They are self-confident and very respectful children.

And I speak of respect, not only from them to others, but towards themselves. They understand where the limit is and they also set their own limits. They respect and they know how to enforce. And this in my opinion, it is very important in life.

The Waldorf Alicante school is part of our lives and our family.

And I sincerely believe, what is the best gift we can give our daughter Sara.

A present for the whole life.

So, if you live in Alicante and want to know the Waldorf school, I recommend that you come to:

Online open day.

Saturday, 23 May at 5pm.

It is necessary to reserve a place on the following website:

Delve into the Waldorf experience.

The first time…

Already 8 years of our first time. And the first times, you already know, do not forget.

Like the first kiss, I remember that sunny morning in May, when with his apron, We were received by one of the nursery teachers to interview us.

He told us a lot about the school, Of which now I could not remember a single one. What I do remember is a gesture that was enough for me, a gesture that still moves me when I remember.

sitting in the sun, we talked about pedagogy and how the school works, when suddenly, a child who had fallen to the ground came crying. She did not say anything, he only offered her his lap. The boy leaned his head while she caressed his hair. Not a single word. The boy must have found peace, and when he had enough, also without saying a word, went back to his own.

That's when I got it clear. It was something beyond words, that came from the hand of warmth, of welcome and trust. In what other space can the spirit of a child develop?

Since then, I have not stopped feeling every day that at school you look at the children in the eyes, they are listened to and taken into account: Like kids. Because there are neither good nor bad children, but children who are sometimes asked what they cannot give.

It's been many sunny Mays since that first time, but what has never changed is the confidence that my children are in a good place. They grow and believe in what they learn, they get involved… wish… and that's something, the desire, that we must preserve at all costs.

Carlos Garcia (Dad De Diego and Bruno)

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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.

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..

 

 

The first time…

Already 8 years of our first time. And the first times, you already know, do not forget.

Like the first kiss, I remember that sunny morning in May, when with his apron, We were received by one of the nursery teachers to interview us.

He told us a lot about the school, Of which now I could not remember a single one. What I do remember is a gesture that was enough for me, a gesture that still moves me when I remember.

sitting in the sun, we talked about pedagogy and how the school works, when suddenly, a child who had fallen to the ground came crying. She did not say anything, he only offered her his lap. The boy leaned his head while she caressed his hair. Not a single word. The boy must have found peace, and when he had enough, also without saying a word, went back to his own.

That's when I got it clear. It was something beyond words, that came from the hand of warmth, of welcome and trust. In what other space can the spirit of a child develop?

Since then, I have not stopped feeling every day that at school you look at the children in the eyes, they are listened to and taken into account: Like kids. Because there are neither good nor bad children, but children who are sometimes asked what they cannot give.

It's been many sunny Mays since that first time, but what has never changed is the confidence that my children are in a good place. They grow and believe in what they learn, they get involved… wish… and that's something, the desire, that we must preserve at all costs.

Carlos Garcia (Dad De Diego and Bruno)

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