19 May 2019 | Education, Photos, Primary, Uncategorized
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..
07 May 2019 | Primary, Uncategorized
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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16 Apr 2019 | Photos, Workshops, Uncategorized
Click on the images to see how to make delicious Easter monkeys:
22 Mar 2019 | Events & Events, Photos, Uncategorized
“like every season, Infant students from the Waldorf School in Alicante have been able to experience the harvest of oranges. Kids, teachers and parents enjoyed a nice sunny morning in the field of a former teacher and founder of the school.
First thing in the morning everyone was very excited.: “Let's go on a big bus!” For some little ones it was their first time… And being already there, in addition to collecting many delicious oranges, Boys and girls spent their time in endless outdoor activities. While some explored the environment, they caught ball bugs and other tiny animals or gathered pine cones, sticks and stones to increase your collection; others ate the sweet oranges, They made beautiful bouquets of flowers to give to their parents., They climbed trees or waited their turn to swing on one of the three swings..
back to school, everyone came back exhausted, thirsty and hungry, Even though they all had lunch together in the field, they haven't stopped all day! Backpacks and baskets were overflowing and hearts were full of beautiful memories that were difficult to forget..
Thanks to Ana's generosity, who year after year opens his house to us and welcomes us with so much affection, We can continue enjoying this beautiful experience.”
16 Mar 2019 | Education, Primary, Uncategorized
Crafts at the waldorf school.
By Johanna Fernandez Martinez. school craft teacher.
What our present coexists as a constant, sometimes without measure, so many visual stimuli, the screens, etc. Definitely, a technological scenario with an excessive use added to the fact that even the clothes we wear are made with synthetic fibers, the food we eat is chemically synthesized and even the materials of our children's toys. For so much, It is logical that these questions appear:
So what our senses perceive is misleading? the child who comes into this world with that desire to know, Is that relationship with the Earth in danger??
Manual activities and the subject of the Waldorf curriculum since the creation of the first Waldorf School in Stuttgart in 1919, has today more than ever, a relevance in the pedagogical work with children.
It is through contact with noble materials such as cotton, wool and wood, products of nature with appropriate activities, will be able to use their hands, his feeling and his thinking in the creation of useful and beautiful objects, developing a bond of respect and veneration for the Earth.
It is when the child makes "something" that he can use, for example the case of his flute, can be linked to a human instance that would otherwise be outside of their cognitive experience.
In textbook class it all starts when your hands are put in motion to get a job done from start to finish., taking all the necessary steps. An apprenticeship that undoubtedly balances his entire personality; awakens the thought of dreaming children, favors activity in children with difficulties to develop their will and in very intellectual children it moves the feeling. This is the great challenge of the teacher.
If you liked it and you want to delve deeper into this wonderful world, stay tuned that in the next post we open a window to the classroom of First class.
Fourth class station table:
Stars in the sky
flowers on earth
everyone in the center
spring has arrived
first class crafts
My hands have five fingers
that help me play
but at homework time
how do they know how to work,
Right hand, left hand
always willing to help
one comes to the other
And the work will begin
Another proposal of the year in a First Class is the realization of a cover for the flute. Its function to store and transport something, bear a weight, just like the earth holds us.
First class at the open house.
Open day: fifth class.
From two-dimensional to three-dimensional space with the main job of making socks. Children of this age experience a transition between the first and second passage through the Rubicon. It is the first work that takes the body itself as a guide in carrying out the task.
07 Mar 2019 | Events & Events, Photos, Uncategorized
At the Alicante Waldorf School we have been celebrating our particular Carnival for several days. Last Friday the children of infantile, together with some families, they enjoyed the day of the services; they worked as carpenters, washers and cooks. And the maternal children toured the classrooms with their peculiar costumes.
Meanwhile, in Primary, It was celebrated on Shrove Tuesday and the children had fun representing their carefully prepared carnival plays. In them there were Vikings, fairies, in years, warriors and all kinds of mythological and extraordinary characters. Here you have a small sample.
