we are up to about 10 children, yes sometimes its hard to know.
they are all lovely and play so beautifully together.
its starting to get cold at night and might even snow this week!
looking down from the spirit hill
kindergarten
going up to the spirit hill
at play
outside
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Dear Trisha,
Just realized that you sent me this blog address - sorry I have a cold and am a little slow! Ten children, hurrah! Me too. It looks like such a contrast there, between the landscape, beautiful but very sparse, and inside, beautiful and warmed by human activity, especially children playing.
I hope they keep coming to you now - you have so much to offer. And I want to thank you belatedly for the birthday bamboo pink cloth and rainbow silk. I will be using them for the first time Wednesday for my first birthday celebration. Thank you! They are just right for doing the sotry that Karen showed me. I also had to spend my own birthday weekend concentrating on children's birthday and it was a blessing in disguise...funny how things work that way sometimes.
My own crew are settling down from their initial rambunctious state when I seriously doubted the wisdom of my decision to return to the classroom. I have been taking down and putting up my classroom every week, commuting an hour one way, working with the enthusiastic parent body which also has much "water" and formlessness...but seriously some part of me feels so very satisfied. The best part of the work for me has been what I've discovered about the difference in my teaching now - I listen more, it's a dialog...And storytelling that has helped us all incarnate. I have been leading them gently first through the sea creatures at the bottom of the sea, to the shore with a wonderful gnomy character in the dunes called Sandy White, up through the sea cave tunnel with the translated Snowflake and the Dragon story, through the sea cave tunnel to the orchard, and now we've arrived at the farm and have been enjoying sweet hay and scarecrows....so good.
But more later. Can i send you pictures too? how/ Email?
Love, Rena
hey rena my first comment i was ready to give up!!!
how wonderful to hear what is up with you, i was just asking cynthia about you'
yes email pictures
Dear Trisha,
I'm in Switzerland with jesse, nanna, and caspar! I was wondering where you are living and what the young people ended up doing for you before they left. Is that your house, the smaller building beside the school house?
the story of the straw bale house summer will either make a great chapter in a book or quietly fade away.
the house wasn't finishe
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