Kindergarten: The month of February is full of festivals and celebrations connected to loving friendship, family and community. This month we will focus on nurturing and appreciating our friendships, sharing and honouring our family and helping our school community with good and kind deeds. In the Kindergarten, social-emotional awareness, interpersonal skills, communication skills and… Read More »
On Friday we constructed shelters out of snow. Everyone was active — parents and teacher included, down on our hands and knees, scooping snow — working together to make a giant mound of snow, and later digging it out. I worked with one of the student groups and was amazed by their enthusiasm and motivation. One student cheered… Read More »
… perspective drawing by drawing a section of the Waldorf Academy campus. The teacher in grade 7 needs to continue bringing in the Arts in the process of learning the different subjects, in a way that appeals to the new, intellectual approach that the young students now have. The new intellectual and systemic way of… Read More »
This morning, students learned to lift their back thumb off of the flute to make a new note. In grade one, we are continuing to work on learning songs on the pentatonic flute. Stories are told to introduce new songs and flute fingerings. We’re also learning a song called “John Kanakanaka” that incorporates singing and… Read More »