I found this story and i thought it is really high time for me to make 4 of these Gnomes for JE.
The Adventure of the Four Punctuation Marks (A 4th/5th grade skit by Gail Klar)
Several characters represent each punctuation mark. Each group enters as the narrator describes them. They then proceed to walk through the forest while talking.
Narrator: One day in the forest four friends were walking, and each of these comrades was doing much talking. First marched the FULL STOP- who often kept tiring. (Period marches and stops; marches and stops...)
Then came the QUESTION MARK - curious, inquiring. (Question Mark peers left and right, looks up, explores...)
The EXCLAMATION POINT followed, excited, surprised; (Exclamation Point makes excited movements, astonished pauses)
The COMMA, well-breathing, light-stepping, small-sized. (Comma weaves lightly from side to side, with measured breath)
FULL STOP: It's dark in here. The trees are high. I firmly trudge and heave a sigh.
Question Mark: Why are the trees so slender and tall? Where do they come from? Why don't they fall?
Exclamation Point: Alas! Oh look! It's so exciting! This place is spooky! It's so inviting!
Comma: It's mysterious, colorful, magical, gloomy, beautiful, soft, enormous, quite roomy...
(A Bear enters and the Exclamation Point interrupts the Comma and exclaims:)
Exclamation Point: Oh, my gosh! Help! Help! Look there! Look what's coming! A bear! A bear!
FULL STOP: Quiet down, friend. Don't jump in the air. Now, let me see. It is a bear.
Question Mark: Do you think he is hungry? Do you think he will eat us? If we try to escape, do you think he will beat us?
Comma: He's a grizzly, ferocious, massive, black heap. I think we had better flee, fly, dash, run, leap.
Exclamation Point: Well, let's not just stand here! No time to waste! He's coming much closer! Quick! Let's make haste!
(All the Punctuation Marks run very quickly off stage.)
CURTAIN.
Showing posts with label waldorf education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label waldorf education. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Rudolf Steiner's words
"The heart of the Waldorf method is that education is an art – it must speak to the child's experience. To educate the whole child, his heart and his will must be reached, as well as the mind."---Rudolf Steiner
Friday, July 22, 2011
Do You Really Need A Waldorf School?
That's the main question next to "To Waldorf or Not To Waldorf?"
If I choose to Waldorf, which and where is the Waldorf school that I can go?
I would regard all pricey schools as elite schools and all schools that cater for the rich and famous are not a healthy way of educating a child.
Waldorf way of education...has never been meant to be a branded and luxury way of educating.... I mean how could it be when it was first started on a factory and right after the world war II?
After a few encounters, I realized it has to be more important and most important to have a Waldorf way of living, i.e. Waldorf family then anything else.
Mrs M has compiled a list on what a Waldorf family would do:
-Get rid of the televisions, video games, and limit computer access
until age 12.
-Go outside and play every day, year round.
-Eat your food whole.
-Hug every day.
-Rhythm
-Be open to what the little ones will teach you.
-Make it yourself, and if you don't know how, learn
-Tell stories & play games. A lot.
-Think about how your things speak to you.
-Keep the voices calm, quiet, and as natural as possible.
-“Do not worry that your children never listen to you, worry that they
are always watching you.” ~ Robert Fulgum
-Meditate or do some form of inner work daily
-Rid yourself of anything that has not been touched in over a month.
-Sing and share lovely verses for important (and every) days
-To create rituals around bedtime, praying to our guardian angels and
sing lullabies.
-Singing throughout the day
-Hold back intellectual concepts from under 7 as they are mostly in the
motor centre before then.
-Try and keep a dreamlike quality in everything you do.
-Slow down and take time.
-Establish rhythm, use reptition, foster reverence, awe and wonder
-Create a beautiful and harmonious environment
-Honor the need for time and space
-Sing through the day
-Have conversations with the spiritual world
-Remember the elemental beings
-Be authentic in what you do and say -- kids are adept at sniffing out
a RAT :)
-Do not lie -- my example is that if I have say, chocolate, in the
house and my daughter asks, I give or say "let's wait until after
supper". I don't lie and say we don't have any -- If I don't want her
to have it, I don't bring it into the home. "white" lies really
undermine the trust relationship and teach your kid to be dishonest.
-Involve the children in the running of the house. Get them helping in
all areas of domestic work from a very young age 2+. in, of course,
age appropriate ways.
-Active learning - learning by doing, by observing, by making, by
experiencing.
-Make things from scratch, let the kids be involved and observe the
-TIME and love necessary to create something beautiful and lasting.
-Create gardens, meals, tree forts, gifts, art....
-Working on ones self (meaning the parent)
If I choose to Waldorf, which and where is the Waldorf school that I can go?
I would regard all pricey schools as elite schools and all schools that cater for the rich and famous are not a healthy way of educating a child.
Waldorf way of education...has never been meant to be a branded and luxury way of educating.... I mean how could it be when it was first started on a factory and right after the world war II?
After a few encounters, I realized it has to be more important and most important to have a Waldorf way of living, i.e. Waldorf family then anything else.
Mrs M has compiled a list on what a Waldorf family would do:
-Get rid of the televisions, video games, and limit computer access
until age 12.
-Go outside and play every day, year round.
-Eat your food whole.
-Hug every day.
-Rhythm
-Be open to what the little ones will teach you.
-Make it yourself, and if you don't know how, learn
-Tell stories & play games. A lot.
-Think about how your things speak to you.
-Keep the voices calm, quiet, and as natural as possible.
-“Do not worry that your children never listen to you, worry that they
are always watching you.” ~ Robert Fulgum
-Meditate or do some form of inner work daily
-Rid yourself of anything that has not been touched in over a month.
-Sing and share lovely verses for important (and every) days
-To create rituals around bedtime, praying to our guardian angels and
sing lullabies.
-Singing throughout the day
-Hold back intellectual concepts from under 7 as they are mostly in the
motor centre before then.
-Try and keep a dreamlike quality in everything you do.
-Slow down and take time.
-Establish rhythm, use reptition, foster reverence, awe and wonder
-Create a beautiful and harmonious environment
-Honor the need for time and space
-Sing through the day
-Have conversations with the spiritual world
-Remember the elemental beings
-Be authentic in what you do and say -- kids are adept at sniffing out
a RAT :)
-Do not lie -- my example is that if I have say, chocolate, in the
house and my daughter asks, I give or say "let's wait until after
supper". I don't lie and say we don't have any -- If I don't want her
to have it, I don't bring it into the home. "white" lies really
undermine the trust relationship and teach your kid to be dishonest.
-Involve the children in the running of the house. Get them helping in
all areas of domestic work from a very young age 2+. in, of course,
age appropriate ways.
-Active learning - learning by doing, by observing, by making, by
experiencing.
-Make things from scratch, let the kids be involved and observe the
-TIME and love necessary to create something beautiful and lasting.
-Create gardens, meals, tree forts, gifts, art....
-Working on ones self (meaning the parent)
To Waldorf or Not To Waldorf?
Whether or not you Waldorf has got to go back the first question on: "What makes you come to Waldorf education?"
The moment you started to search for an alternative for the current schooling system, you know you are bound to change for better.
You cant remain in a nutshell of ignorant when you are already directed to the door of Waldorf.
You can, of course, remain in your previous ways of educating your children, but one thing for sure, that you will never be the SAME old you.
You know, that, one thing for sure, you will keep learning....the Waldorf ways....
coz that's ultimately the main reason of education --- to keep learning and learning, even though you may know a lot but you will still remain as humble as can be, and at the same time enjoy the learning process as much as you can.
If not to Waldorf, I am sure whenever there is a seminar on how to make parent better/happier or how to destress a busy working parent, or a workshop on how to produce a smarter & brighter kid or how to score A the easy way, your heart will direct you to look on how to squeeze time out of busy calendar to make up for this supposingly 'influential and great enough' program. You are probably searching for a quick fix or one time deal solution that will ease you to better sleep days.
If not Waldorf, you will probably be thinking of.....
- migration? - but...hmmmm...that doesnt happen so soon, and what about the rest of my families?
- homeschooling? -- since this is a current 'trend' now. But what about curriculum?
- get involve in politics to change the education? -- neh, dream la. Get KOTOR first before this comes in picture
Back to the question again, "To waldorf or not to Waldorf?"
I think that has to be changed to "To change or not to change?"
Or "To learn or not to learn?"
Next Question: Do you really need a Waldorf school?
The moment you started to search for an alternative for the current schooling system, you know you are bound to change for better.
You cant remain in a nutshell of ignorant when you are already directed to the door of Waldorf.
You can, of course, remain in your previous ways of educating your children, but one thing for sure, that you will never be the SAME old you.
You know, that, one thing for sure, you will keep learning....the Waldorf ways....
coz that's ultimately the main reason of education --- to keep learning and learning, even though you may know a lot but you will still remain as humble as can be, and at the same time enjoy the learning process as much as you can.
If not to Waldorf, I am sure whenever there is a seminar on how to make parent better/happier or how to destress a busy working parent, or a workshop on how to produce a smarter & brighter kid or how to score A the easy way, your heart will direct you to look on how to squeeze time out of busy calendar to make up for this supposingly 'influential and great enough' program. You are probably searching for a quick fix or one time deal solution that will ease you to better sleep days.
If not Waldorf, you will probably be thinking of.....
- migration? - but...hmmmm...that doesnt happen so soon, and what about the rest of my families?
- homeschooling? -- since this is a current 'trend' now. But what about curriculum?
- get involve in politics to change the education? -- neh, dream la. Get KOTOR first before this comes in picture
Back to the question again, "To waldorf or not to Waldorf?"
I think that has to be changed to "To change or not to change?"
Or "To learn or not to learn?"
Next Question: Do you really need a Waldorf school?
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