Yikes. I understand so much more viscerally now why my Waldorf K buddies rarely answered my emails in a timely fashion, when i was still a librarian. I do not know how anyone has the time to live a satisfying life outside of Waldorf Land.
I was going to write each day .... this year... about daily life in the K. But whoosh! There goes a week, with faculty/COT meetings after school and nothing quite getting accomplished what needs to be accomplished.
Things to do: a partial list.:
Write to Holly Koteen
Write to Jim and Maureen
Practice the lyre
Establish a spiritual practice
Work on my master's project
IMPORTANT
organize my stuff
write minutes for COT - constantly
clean house
aaaargh.
The circle for this week has been from "Movement Journeys and Circle Adventures" by nancy Blanning and Laurie Clark. Jill M. has jumped off from the "Sunflower Circle" on pages 71 ff. It is charming and light, a real winner. I realize that I had elements of this in the circle I wrote for Sunbridge. What I needed to do was SLOW DOWN. Fascinating.
I played the lyre a bit tonight.
Sunday, September 16, 2007
Thursday, September 06, 2007
First day of school
Yesterday was the 1st day of kindergarten, though two days ago was Rose Ceremony where I saw my erstwhile Kindergartners enter in through the flower gate with nary a backward look (though some were nervous or self-conscious.) I went to COT in the afternoon, such a long day that I wondered if I would survive this year.
The first day of Kindergarten, I was there early and started the millet. It was a bit chaotic and not very reverent in mood, with parents zooming through the K to set up for their tea on the playground. JM was in the hall greeting, and at a certain point she came in with children on the round rug, doing a little fingergame, and I went out in the hall and helped Terry with nap bags. Finally we got most of the parents out of there.
Two parents stayed - Mitch with Leo, and Betsy with John. John is going to be a big challenge, a choleric boy with a loud voice. But i was interested that JM not only allowed Betsy to stay but also gave her instructions on how to be. I realized later that JM was using thistime as a way to start modelling behavior for Betsy.
Actually, it was a good thing she was there. She ended up doing all the dishes when i ended up caring for Sam who threw up and needed to go home.
Our rhythm is different this year. But later for that. I have to get ready. Getting up at %:30 am still doesn't give me enough time! By the way, Chris and I had four sleepers yesterday already!
The first day of Kindergarten, I was there early and started the millet. It was a bit chaotic and not very reverent in mood, with parents zooming through the K to set up for their tea on the playground. JM was in the hall greeting, and at a certain point she came in with children on the round rug, doing a little fingergame, and I went out in the hall and helped Terry with nap bags. Finally we got most of the parents out of there.
Two parents stayed - Mitch with Leo, and Betsy with John. John is going to be a big challenge, a choleric boy with a loud voice. But i was interested that JM not only allowed Betsy to stay but also gave her instructions on how to be. I realized later that JM was using thistime as a way to start modelling behavior for Betsy.
Actually, it was a good thing she was there. She ended up doing all the dishes when i ended up caring for Sam who threw up and needed to go home.
Our rhythm is different this year. But later for that. I have to get ready. Getting up at %:30 am still doesn't give me enough time! By the way, Chris and I had four sleepers yesterday already!
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