December 24, 2018 This month we have enjoyed three early winter stories from Sharia Oppenheimer. In today’s special blog post, we have included all three stories for you, PLUS the final story in the series, Sharifa’s Christmas Story. Sharifa writes: Just before Christmas, I like to tell these winter stories. They are stories of […]
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September 16, 2018 The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down – Helen Hunt Jackson As summer turns to autumn, the fall fruits are ready to be picked. Apples, pears peaches and plums fill our bushel baskets and our bellies. My mother-in-law and I
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August 26, 2018 The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new. -Socrates This back-to-school time brings us face to face with change. Parents line up their children for the ceremonial back to school photo and marvel at how much they’ve grown
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July 21, 2018 Air is the voice sounding from the depths of matter, the word made flesh. – Scott Russell Sanders, Writing from the Center A cool breeze on a hot day, or a mighty gale that knocks us off our center, the element of air blows where it will. It also lives within
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Transforming Circle Time for Mixed-Age Groups By Rahima Baldwin Dancy I have found that the “typical kindergarten circle” learned in Waldorf early childhood training needs to be simplified and changed in different ways for a preschool group of two- and three-year-olds or for a mixed-age group of children. At Rainbow Bridge we had a mixed-age
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The Play’s the Thing: “Spontaneous Theater” with Mixed Ages By Faith Collins What can we do to promote imaginative play in young children? How can we encourage and facilitate children playing together in ways that everyone enjoys? How do we help integrate the play of mixed-age groups? How can we increase our enjoyment of spending
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Thoughts about Circle Time with Older Children by Sharifa Oppenheimer Sharifa shares from her extensive work with kinder-garten-aged children: Circle Time has always been one of my favorite times of the day. What I love is that Circle Time incorporates many of the elements we strive to bring to young children throughout the day, all
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Here is a little autumn story poem for autumn harvest days. I make apple finger puppets to help make this visual. Just draw a small fingertip size apple – cut 2 out with red felt, add a brown stem and green leaf…easy! Sew around it, leaving room for your finger at the bottom. This one
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