The Sun with loving light
Makes bright for me each day,
The soul with spirit power
Gives strength unto my limbs,
In sunlight shining clear
I revere, Oh God,
The strength of humankind,
Which Thou so graciously
Has planted in my soul,
That I with all my might,
May love to work and learn.
From Thee stream light and strength
To Thee rise love and thanks.
-Rudolf Steiner
For the period between the change of teeth and puberty, it is important to present living pictures—or symbols, as it were—to the mind. It is essential that the secrets of nature, the laws of life, be taught to children, not in dry intellectual concepts, but as far as possible in symbols.
When one speaks in parables and pictures, it is not just what is spoken and shown that works on the hearer, but a fine spiritual stream that passes from one to the other, from the one who gives to the one who receives. If the one who tells does not have a warm feeling of belief in the parable, no impression will be made on the other. For true effectiveness, it is essential to believe in one’s parables as one does in absolute realities. And this can only be so when one’s thought is alive with spiritual knowledge.
A force of the soul that has particular value for this period of human development is memory. The development of memory is connected with the shaping of the etheric body. Since this shaping occurs so that the etheric body becomes liberated between the change of teeth and puberty, so this is also
the time for conscious attention from outside toward the growth and cultivation of the memory. If what is due to human beings at this time has been neglected, their memory will always have less value than it would have had otherwise. It is not possible to make up for later what was left undone.
The Grade 1 to 6 curriculum is designed keeping in perspective the growing children and the faculties that slumber in them. We attempt to wake up the children to the outside world in the most organic sens that is through the connection they build with their everyday life by way of sense perceptions.
The intellect is a soul-force only born with puberty, and we should not try to influence it in any way externally before this time. Until puberty children should be storing in their memories the treasures of thought on which humankind has pondered; later intellectual understanding may penetrate what has
already been well imprinted in memory during the earlier years. It is necessary for human beings to remember not only what they already understand, but to come to understand what they already know—that is, what they have acquired by memory in the way the child acquires language.
This truth has a wide application and through these sessions, we attempt to explore what this living growing curriculum means.
Topics covered during the explorations:
Yearly Curriculum Overview
Lesson Planning
Circle Time
Main Lesson Blocks
Form Drawing
Teaching Math
Reading and Writing in Grades
Speech development
Science through exploration
Study of Social Sciences
Rhythm and Movement
Art- Drawing and Painting
Role of Crafts- Handwork
Morals and Values
3 sessions of 45 minutes each per day
Each day will include a Eurythmy session, Steiner Text Study, Curriculum planning and Artistic explorations
Detailed lesson plans shall be shared
Supporting reading material will be provided.
Learning resources for the whole year shall be shared in pdf's
Video tutorials for select topics will be shared for future reference
12 lesson blocks of the year will be designed during the training
Grade 1 to 4
14 Days per grade
Energy Exchange on a sliding scale: Rs.21000-35000 per grade
Grade 5 to 7
14 days per grade
Energy Exchange on a sliding scale: Rs.21000-42000 per grade
I thank the earth beneath me
For there I stand and walk.
I thank the air around me
Which helps me breathe and talk.
I thank the sun so warm and bright.
I thank the stars who shine all night
So far away in Heaven’s height
To keep me safe till morning light.