FOREST MATERNAL SCHOOL. SPRING 2024. OUTDOOR PARENTING GROUP

On April 12 2024 we reopen a Parenting Group, which we have called Maternal School Forest, for children from 1 to 5 years old with an accompanying mother or father. We offer a natural, beautiful and harmonious space that facilitates free and safe movement. We create a Learning Community where adults and children enjoy being in company in a warm and familiar environment that enhances vital needs: health, vigor and enthusiasm. There are 8 family gatherings to accompany the kind golden age. Dates: April 12, 19, 26, 2024 May 3, 10, 17, 24 and 31, 2024 Hours: Friday from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Presentation and informative talk: Friday, March 15 from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the Sa Llavor School.

2024-03-04T11:19:13+00:00March 4th, 2024|

KINDERGARTEN: FOR CHILDREN FROM 2 YEARS OLD

The novelty of this course in the Sa Llavor Kindergarten group is that we welcome children from 2 years old. The Kindergarten is a large home where children from 2 to 5 years old form a unitary group and live as in a big family. They learn the social sense and cooperation in a warm and homely environment that pays attention to the care of vital qualities: creation, initiative and imagination. Childhood is one of the most important times in life as it creates our attitudes towards the world and towards other people. It is the basis of our physical strength, sensitivity and intellectual capacity.

2024-03-04T11:12:11+00:00March 4th, 2024|

FIRST CYCLE: READING TIME

A-S-T-O-N-I-S-H-M-E-N-T. ASTONISHMENT! Joy of discovery. Happiness to be able to transmit. The unique and spontaneous moment of discovering how letters sound when we say them together out loud and a word is born, and with it, everything it can make you feel. The joy of being able to share those stories that move. The First Year of Primary group each week enjoys a reading space where they immerse themselves in the world of letters, words, sentences, which draw us stories and images with teachings and values: friendship, honesty, respect, loyalty. Through the fables of Aesop, Leonardo da Vinci and other authors, we have created our first Reading Book. The great amazement is not only to discover reading, but to discover the gift of being able to transmit and move others.

2024-03-04T11:06:43+00:00March 4th, 2024|

SECOND CYCLE: DRAWING SHAPES

Rangoli is an ephemeral geometric drawing from India created with colored holi powders. It symbolizes transformation and offers protection to the community. During this 5th period of drawing shapes, the second cycle of primary school group has created their own Rangolis, they have experimented with the lines and with colored powders creating shapes. Additionally, two of the class projects were selected to be in common spaces at the school.

2024-03-04T11:01:19+00:00March 4th, 2024|

THIRD CYCLE: MATHEMATICS PERIOD

In this math period we have started the day with a rhythm game in the garden alternating jump rope games and rhythm games with our hands. Later, in the classroom, we did a short meditation to listen calmly, with eyes closed and stillness to the noise of silence. Next we have continued with the mental calculation that has been present during the 3 weeks. During this period we have worked with fractions, decimals and percentages based on visual proposals, where they have had to solve practical problems. They have been introduced to the problems of the family economy solving situations that can be found on a daily basis: discounts, taxes, etc. It is the beginning of the economic mathematics that will be found later. Hypatia of Alexandria has accompanied us throughout the entire period. Discover that in the cultural capital of the world there was a woman like Hypatia, where her memory still endures, defending until her last breath wisdom, bravery, humility, justice and truth.  

2024-03-04T10:54:58+00:00March 4th, 2024|

1st YEAR OF ESO: BIOLOGY PERIOD. THE NATURE OF THE HUMAN BEING

What is needed to study and know the nature of the human being? A holistic vision is needed that includes geology, botany, zoology, geography, meteorology. A comprehensive vision is needed that can relate the systems of your body. With the 1st year of ESO group for 3 weeks, we have begun to discover the particularities that the human organism has, and to do this we have first observed, drawn and described the qualities of the Mineral, Vegetable and Animal Kingdom. What similarities and differences do they have between yes and what is the essence that characterizes them? How are they interdependently related? What are the differences between the Animal Kingdom and the Human Being? Through question and reflection, we have discovered that the human being contains the mineral kingdom in his physical body, especially in the bones and teeth, where crystalline structures appear. The growth, metabolic and reproduction processes are linked to the plant kingdom, since formative forces participate; and in the same way as the animal kingdom, the human being closes itself by creating an inner world and opens to the world through the sense organs, influenced by psychic forces. The great difference between human beings and the rest of the kingdoms lies in their ability to think, which includes the freedom to create something new. And in the possibility of learning and developing infinite capabilities in the learning process.  

2024-03-04T10:47:37+00:00March 4th, 2024|

2nd & 3rd YEAR OF ESO: ENGLISH LITERATURE PERIOD

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way." A tale of two cities by Charles Dickens (the opening)   In the XIX century, Charles Dickens astonished the world with the publication of his novel that detailed the contradictions of its own time. Since then, we believe that each era of Humankind is full of Beauty, Truth and Goodness but at the same time also contains brutality, evil and decay. Students from 2nd and 3rd years of ESO are also going through a moment of their lives full of contradictions. They are like raw diamonds that need to be polished in order to become the most beautiful stones in the mountain. Adolescents have to decide what kind of person they would like to be and for that they have a very powerful ally: words. We are made of the same material of the words we say every day. There are thousands of words: spoken, written but also in our inner dialogue, those words that we never share with anyone. They are all important. The group of 2nd and 3rd has been navigating a sea of words with Charles Dickens, George Orwell and Virgina Woolf, searching for the words they love and they identify with the most. For final project of this lesson block, each student has created a Blackout Poem showing the hidden message that they have found, an opportunity to let their inner voice speak out.

2024-03-04T10:38:33+00:00March 4th, 2024|

KINDERGARTEN: FAIRY TALES

Fairy tales have existed in all cultures. For centuries stories lived in oral tradition at the same level as myths or sacred texts. They tell in powerful images the development of the human being as an individual and the evolutionary path of humanity. When we listen to an original story, we become part of it and it leads us to our interior. It is spiritual food for our soul. Stories influence and stimulate the forces of fantasy and imagination, cultivate astonishment and enhance language and listening. Every day at the end of the morning, we tell fairy tales in the Kindergarten. These stories always have a happy ending, which allows us to develop trust in the world.

2024-02-19T10:33:03+00:00February 19th, 2024|

FIRST CYCLE: KNITTING

From a pedagogical point of view, manual work and finger agility facilitate flexible thinking as well as understanding and tolerance towards complex life situations. The rhythmic and repetitive activity of knitting is calming and makes us enter a meditative state. Children keep the needles in both hands, assigning each hand its respective activity, establishing laterality and achieving a degree of control over their will from the beginning. The power of concentration is transformed into awakening; in fact, there is no other activity carried out by six and seven-year-old boys and girls that can generate this level of attention. All of this helps concentration, strengthening “the will to learn to think”. This skill is what will allow you to achieve problem-solving ability in later years. Recent neurological research confirms that mobility and fine motor skills, especially in the hand, stimulate cellular development in the brain and reinforce the foundation physics of thinking. Children in the first cycle of primary school enjoy every week knitting with their fingers and with the knitting needles that they themselves have made. Thanks to their skill with needles and sheep wool, they are making knitted animals and the case of his flute.

2024-02-19T10:19:23+00:00February 19th, 2024|

SECOND CYCLE: CARVING

Just as we file, carve and sand a piece of wood to give it a defined shape and a smooth finish, in wood carving we strengthen our will every time we accept the challenge of starting and finishing a project. After the initial enthusiasm, the difficulties of woodworking arise and this is how it is when educated for life, developing perseverance and achievement of objectives, cultivating in turn the artistic, spatial and aesthetic sense. Attention and concentration are put into practice in a natural and artistic way, since without them the handling of the tools and the carving process would not be possible. Thanks to the atmosphere created in the workshop, the creative process is lived with the joy and confidence of learning that if you persist you will achieve it: everything is possible. Every week the second cycle primary school group carries out the wood carving activity in the school's outdoor workshop cultivating their life skills.

2024-02-19T10:10:43+00:00February 19th, 2024|
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