Teaching textiles

Thank you for coming along to experience a day in my world, teaching textiles to grades 1, 4 and 5. I loved your help and enjoyed our debrief in the sunny playground at lunch time.  

As you experienced, I incorporate a lot of regular verse and movement into each lesson. Through art the children not only develop their skills but important values - giving and receiving, patience, reverence, gratitude, inclusion and helping each other. 

Each project is carefully scaffolded through storytelling, song, bodily movement, form drawing; a very thorough process which links with Steiner's understanding of child development in each grade (Steiner, 2004). Elise

Steiner, R. (2004). A modern art of education. Yorkshire, UK: Anthroposophic Press.