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.
