Exploring Toronto’s Humber River
This has been a week of practice and exploring. The Grade 4s have been learning lines and rehearsing for their class play related to their Norse Mythology block. Coach Ankamah has been running the Waldorf Academy Basketball team through their paces and drills in preparation for the upcoming Toronto Waldorf School annual invitational tournament. Good luck!
On Thursday our Grades 5-8 students took on the cold weather as they explored Toronto's urban nature. They hiked the ancient trails of Toronto’s Humber River in the snow, going where other schools may fear to tread.
Waldorf education encourages students to be doers. We provide opportunities for students to feed their curiosity, to ask questions that come from their experiences. Finding out why these trails were formed and how they shaped our modern day city is best framed after walking them, cold hands and feet provide a frame of reality to history and deepen lines on a map. It makes learning longer, because it is not answered and understood in one day, one question and answer. It makes learning stick.
