6/28/11, 6/29/11
Sorting beans… Working on an area to add an entrance stone to the labyrinth… Lunch… Wood blocks… Drawing… Block “cell phones”… Finger [...]
Monday, 6/27/11
It’s rocks, gems, and minerals week as well as our first of five weeks of summer camp. The morning started with lunch prep…quartering red potatoes to roast… Sorting pebbles by [...]
Lifeways Training, Day 8, 6/22/11
In training today, we discussed the importance of creative play that does not have an external or pre-planned purpose. Because the child “thinks outside the box” in imaginative [...]
Lifeways Training, Day 7, 6/21/11
Happy Solstice! Today in class we spent time working with rhythm, routine and reverence. We are working to make sure that we have a personal plan to get what we need done at home and at work, but [...]
LIfeways Training, Days 5 and 6, 6/17 and 6/20/11
Hello! On Friday, we spent our morning at Lifeways training reviewing the importance of gardening with children. We spent time working in the 3rd grade garden at the Waldorf school [...]
Lifeways Training, Day 4, 6/16/11
Today we reviewed the history of the first Lifeways center in Milwaukee. Many of its trials and tribulations sounded quite familiar to Janie and I. Like us, it sounds like the founders there felt [...]
Lifeways Training, Day 3, 6/15/11
On Wednesday, we spent the morning looking at the seasons and the reason to conduct festivals and celebrations to mark a change in season, an important religious date in one’s faith, or a [...]
Lifeways Training, Day 2, 6/14/11
Here is a Lifeways video (in two parts on YouTube) which gives a glimpse into the style of early childhood work we seek to do at The Good Earth Day School. Lifeways North America addresses the [...]
Lifeways Training, 6/13/11
Hello from the Austin Waldorf School! Janie and I are enjoying our training (with Lifeways North America). We have danced, played kinder harps, and learned a lot about Waldorf/Steiner philosophy [...]
