It was wonderful to catch up with everyone at the parent teacher interviews to start the term. 

The children have brought all of their joy and enthusiasm back to school after the holidays and our classroom feels like a warm, colourful and bright place to spend these wintery days.

Special thanks to Kristi who has our hand washing water all warmed up on the verandah each morning!

We have begun Term 3 with a Form Drawing main lesson.  The children have enjoyed exploring continuous ‘ribbon forms’ and vertical symmetry ‘mirror forms’ using a variety of materials.

We experimented with forms in many ways such as using our bodies, walking along chalk patterns on the basketball court, and creating forms out of beads, gems, ribbon sticks, chalk boards and wool.

Working with form in such a wholistic way has also assisted us in our handwriting.  Through handwriting, songs and games we are consolidating lower case letters and learning that each letter has the special job of making a sound. 

We are all great knitters and have taken home our own knitted pot mits to keep by the fire or stove.  Now we are watching our pile of knitted squares grow as we collect enough to make a class blanket.

Our recorder skills are growing and we have been working on ‘It’s raining, It’s pouring’ which has been very apt lately! 

At this time of year we especially appreciate starting the day with Rudolf Steiner’s verse which begins ‘The sun with loving light makes bright for me each day….’

With bright and warm wishes from Class One.

Lisa