Handwork with Shan, ages 10+, 1:40pm-3:00pm
I am working within a Waldorf Education-based understanding that doing Handwork is a vital part of educating and aiding in the development of the child.
Handwork is included in the Waldorf Educational curriculum to help children with developing handwork skills and to help them develop their brain function to allow for critical thinking. Repeat that second part: “to help them develop their brain function to allow for critical thinking”.
Developing the handwork skills – eye-hand co-ordination, fine motor control, tactile discernment, observation of their work, completing a task and so forth – all lend themselves to developing both sides of the brain and to the development of the corpus collosum – that part of the brain which joins the two hemispheres of the brain. Critical thinking is impossible without the development of the corpus collosum.
I want children to be able to finish projects that they have begun and to have regular attendance in class. I work with the children to help them learn the various handwork skills AND to learn focus, observation and bringing completion to a task that they have begun. I will help your child choose an age-appropriate project and skill for their experience in handwork. If you want your child in the Handwork Class, please support them with your interest, encouragement and positive attitude towards this important work. Class size limit is 10 children
Session C - 2nd afternoon session after lunch: For children 10 years and older.
The curriculum for the 4th Grade is cross-stitch. Design, various forms of mirroring and the use of color are part of the X-stitch experience. In most projects the X-stitch design, itself, is completed and then incorporated into a beautiful and useful item: pincushion, tool kit, phone or glasses case. The design and sewing of these items are part of the completion of the project.
The 5th Grade curriculum is a return to knitting – knitting in the round! The children make a set of double-pointed needles and then knit socks, or hats or hand or leg warmers.
The 6th and 7th Grade curricula will be much more individualized, but often center around the creation of a stuffed animal (or a human figure – a baby): drawn in motion, then translated into a three-dimensional figure with belly and head gussets to create a more life-like figure. Some children respond very positively to a “story quilt” project.
Some of the older children have been doing more advanced knitting and/or sewing projects. Machine sewing is taught in 8th Grade, but I will not be using machines with the Elective Day program.
I am working within a Waldorf Education-based understanding that doing Handwork is a vital part of educating and aiding in the development of the child.
Handwork is included in the Waldorf Educational curriculum to help children with developing handwork skills and to help them develop their brain function to allow for critical thinking. Repeat that second part: “to help them develop their brain function to allow for critical thinking”.
Developing the handwork skills – eye-hand co-ordination, fine motor control, tactile discernment, observation of their work, completing a task and so forth – all lend themselves to developing both sides of the brain and to the development of the corpus collosum – that part of the brain which joins the two hemispheres of the brain. Critical thinking is impossible without the development of the corpus collosum.
I want children to be able to finish projects that they have begun and to have regular attendance in class. I work with the children to help them learn the various handwork skills AND to learn focus, observation and bringing completion to a task that they have begun. I will help your child choose an age-appropriate project and skill for their experience in handwork. If you want your child in the Handwork Class, please support them with your interest, encouragement and positive attitude towards this important work. Class size limit is 10 children
Session C - 2nd afternoon session after lunch: For children 10 years and older.
The curriculum for the 4th Grade is cross-stitch. Design, various forms of mirroring and the use of color are part of the X-stitch experience. In most projects the X-stitch design, itself, is completed and then incorporated into a beautiful and useful item: pincushion, tool kit, phone or glasses case. The design and sewing of these items are part of the completion of the project.
The 5th Grade curriculum is a return to knitting – knitting in the round! The children make a set of double-pointed needles and then knit socks, or hats or hand or leg warmers.
The 6th and 7th Grade curricula will be much more individualized, but often center around the creation of a stuffed animal (or a human figure – a baby): drawn in motion, then translated into a three-dimensional figure with belly and head gussets to create a more life-like figure. Some children respond very positively to a “story quilt” project.
Some of the older children have been doing more advanced knitting and/or sewing projects. Machine sewing is taught in 8th Grade, but I will not be using machines with the Elective Day program.
I am working within a Waldorf Education-based understanding that doing Handwork is a vital part of educating and aiding in the development of the child.
Handwork is included in the Waldorf Educational curriculum to help children with developing handwork skills and to help them develop their brain function to allow for critical thinking. Repeat that second part: “to help them develop their brain function to allow for critical thinking”.
Developing the handwork skills – eye-hand co-ordination, fine motor control, tactile discernment, observation of their work, completing a task and so forth – all lend themselves to developing both sides of the brain and to the development of the corpus collosum – that part of the brain which joins the two hemispheres of the brain. Critical thinking is impossible without the development of the corpus collosum.
I want children to be able to finish projects that they have begun and to have regular attendance in class. I work with the children to help them learn the various handwork skills AND to learn focus, observation and bringing completion to a task that they have begun. I will help your child choose an age-appropriate project and skill for their experience in handwork. If you want your child in the Handwork Class, please support them with your interest, encouragement and positive attitude towards this important work. Class size limit is 10 children
Session C - 2nd afternoon session after lunch: For children 10 years and older.
The curriculum for the 4th Grade is cross-stitch. Design, various forms of mirroring and the use of color are part of the X-stitch experience. In most projects the X-stitch design, itself, is completed and then incorporated into a beautiful and useful item: pincushion, tool kit, phone or glasses case. The design and sewing of these items are part of the completion of the project.
The 5th Grade curriculum is a return to knitting – knitting in the round! The children make a set of double-pointed needles and then knit socks, or hats or hand or leg warmers.
The 6th and 7th Grade curricula will be much more individualized, but often center around the creation of a stuffed animal (or a human figure – a baby): drawn in motion, then translated into a three-dimensional figure with belly and head gussets to create a more life-like figure. Some children respond very positively to a “story quilt” project.
Some of the older children have been doing more advanced knitting and/or sewing projects. Machine sewing is taught in 8th Grade, but I will not be using machines with the Elective Day program.