Class 4 News

Hello Families!

This term of consolidation has been challenging and rewarding for the students.  We are finishing up our fractions Main Lesson in which the students have seen the number of skills required for the computations and how they all work together.  The amount of growth the students have made this year is tremendous and they should all be proud of their hard work. We are beginning our Freehand Geometry Main Lesson next week, our final Main Lesson of the year.  From the Steiner Education Australia curriculum document: 

"Each of the geometric forms is first experienced as movement in space then via sensory observation its qualities are noted. Thus the circle is a point moving both forward and rotating. The ellipse rotates faster at the points than the straights. This method brings real understanding through the child’s own embodied experience. The children derive the 360 degrees of the circle from the rotation of the fixed stars around the circle of the earth and make a protractor. The relationship between forms is found through their

derivation, initially the triangle and the square from the circle.

At any time in the curriculum when an inner mobility of pictorial thought is developed this enlivens the future capacity in a way that fixed concepts and definitions cannot. To inwardly imagine and transposeforms is a forerunner to the same mobile quality in relation to more conceptual thoughts in the future."

We have been enjoying teamwork games with Katie on Wednesday mornings and have been putting in good work in the garden Friday mornings.  Persevering through the heat and working on jobs in the garden have been a further exercise in teamwork.  

Blessings on your week ahead.

Brittany