Getting children to feel safe, secure, and heard is all we need to allow them to thrive in school. If a child is not learning, find his passion, activate his senses, and he will soon start to achieve.
If a child is skipping school, make it his second home, and he won't ever want to leave. If a child is lying, ask him questions, and he will reveal the truth. If a child looks sad, give him your time, your hand, and your ear, and his smile will appear. If a child doesn't know how to share, model sharing, and he will soon follow. If a child is disengaged during lessons, observe him, and he will show you how he likes to learn. If a child is hurting other people in the playground, sit with him, show him care, and he will tell you why. If a child is misbehaving in class, notice the good in him, and the behavior will subside. Meenakshi Trivedi #waldorf #experience #work #food #gratitude #farming #change #waldorfeducation Sharing the glimpses of the farming experience they had till now. Farming will also be a mean for them to develop gratitude toward farmers who work hard to bring food to our plates. Through farming we aim to expose them to the complete journey of food. They are experiencing the abundance of nature. Our Grade 3 have been visiting a farm and experienced the transplantation of paddy. The Earth is their home and it is good and beautiful. With each skill learned, they gain comfort, confidence, and experience joy. They learn to measure, to weigh, to use tools, to reap and sow crops, to make bread, follow the seasons, and keep time. They meet the earth around them and discover they have the power to transform it. Through the activities of gardening, cooking, building shelters, and making clothing, they learn that they can use what is around them to thrive. For the third grader, nourishing is experiencing that the world is a good place to be.
Life certainly takes on quite a different quality. Now the child may suddenly feel very insecure their relationship with nature, with eternity, with others, and with themselves, has to be reestablished. Now, however, an experience arises of self as something independent of everything else.
They feel inwardly related to everything, and can identify fully with almost anything. Before the age of nine, the major part of the child's being is not yet incarnated, and instead, it lives within everything and everyone they perceive. Rudolf Steiner describes how the nine-year-old experiences, at a spiritual level, what the three-year-old experienced when first using the word "I". The eight-year-old is going through a change that is particularly profound. The third grade is often called the turning point of childhood.
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