“What are you doing, Mommy?”
“I’m making a newsletter for your school. See, here’s the last one I made. There are pictures and stories of things that happen at the school. Look, there’s a picture of you pushing Jackson on the swing.”Malcolm (he’s 4½) took the December newsletter and looked at it seriously, turning the pages. Then he said, “There should be a newsletter just for kids.”
“That’s a great idea. Would you like to make one?”
“Yes,” he replied enthusiastically, and set to work in his drawing corner in my office while I continued laying out this newsletter on my computer. He drew a picture of a very important event in his life at school and wrote the caption, asking me how to spell the words:
“JYSELLE
MAKES FRIENDS WITH MALCOLM.”
(The word order is a bit jumbly, the Ss look like 3s, and “friends”
is divided by “with”. But you can see the arms reaching out
between the two figures for a big hug, and they both look very happy.)
Ms Startup told me that some students have submitted work in the past for the newsletter and were disappointed that it was only printed in black and white. But now we’re putting a colour version on the school’s website. (See the School Calendar page at www.waldorfns.org and take a look at the December newsletter.)
So how about it, kids? It would be great to include your illustrations and writings about things at school that are important to you.
Deadline for
submissions for the next newsletter: April 15th.
Meanwhile, let’s remember to take the time to enjoy the earth’s
gradual awakening under the strengthening sun.
Heather Holm
Cover photo: Ross Bunnell. Other photos: Heather Holm
Homeopathic Family First
Aid Workshop
by Dr. Inga Nomm N.D.
Thursdays beginning March 24 from 3:30-4:30p.m.
There will be a minimum of four sessions and possibly five or six depending
on the topics participants want to cover. Feel free to invite
friends. There are spaces still available. Contact Allison Rew
to register
(527-0741 or dancingduck@tallships.ca).
Topics:
1) Homeopathic ABC
2) Colds and flus
3) Tummy upset
4) Physical trauma (cuts, bruises, burns etc.)
5) Other emergencies (performance anxiety, phobias, cannot sleep, misc.)
Optional:
Children's types in homeopathy, tissue salts
Pregnancy, childbirth, "women's ailments"
Helping older family members
Now meeting weekly on Tuesday afternoons at 4 p.m. at the school. All are welcome. For more information, call Birgit Dumke at 634-3780 or Judy King at 624-0781.
with Louise Coigly
April 7 in the evening
(The next day she will meet with the faculty and therefore April 8 is a Professional Development day.)
Louise Coigley is a Specialist Speech and Language Therapist with children with severe learning disabilities, and Freelance Consultant in Live Interactive Storytelling, a method she has been developing for over twenty years. She is a tutor at the School of Storytelling at Emerson College in Sussex, England and works in a school for severely and multiply profoundly disabled children. She has also trained in Curative Education and Creative Speech and Drama. She is most interested in working with groups of mixed ability, showing how the skills of each can contribute to mutual development. Recently she has worked with GASP, a Group to Aid and Support Parents of children with complex language disorders and with The Unlimited Company, the first Storytelling training for adults with Learning Difficulties. Her method has inspired new approaches to working with children with autism in schools in the north and south of England.
