Harmonic Resonance

So I've had my Enki materials for a few months, and I have been delving into it all. I've gone thru periods of pure excitement and pure overwhelmness and fear.

But here I am, at the end of an astonishingly delightful day, feeling pretty good about were I am in the process of "learning Enki." There is much that I have been working on over the past couple years, since learning about Waldorf, that is helping the family. We have some good rhythms in place; I am very aware of where we need more focus. I've taken the time to really analyze our days. I know what works for us and what doesn't (for the most part). My new buzz word these days is INTEGRATING.

I'm also beginning to feel more secure about beginning the more official blocks and not being so overwhelmed and thinking, oh crap I have to have a craft project, a folk talk, a fairy tale, movement circle, and songs every day. HELP! Where's the Play-doh? Really, once its broken down into the week its not so overwhelming:

Monday: Painting Day
Tuesday: Baking, Cooking, Home crafts day (knitting, or fixing buttons or broke toys or whatever).
Wednesday: Adventure Day (Park, play dates, nature walks)
Thursday: Craft Day (from the Enki Craft Book)
Friday: Adventure Day )Park, play dates, whatever)

So really. One day of painting - and all I have to do is read a story to help bring the energy of the colors to them, set up paints, let them paint, and clean up.
That just leaves me needing to prepare one craft a week.

Circle time songs - we practically have them all memorized and we don't do an official circle time. We sing them around the house or on walks. I burned a CD with about 9 songs and we'll use that for the season... and then I'll only change out the seasonal songs and keep the other songs for the entire year. This is flexible... as Will is only 4.5 years old right now.

I'm continuing to aim at building on our daily rhythms and establishing a solid ground.... really that is what Kindergarten is all about anyway...

And to end this - I have to laugh at the juxtaposition of our days sometimes. This morning we were all in the living room; I was knitting, Jack was "playing" the violin, and Will was playing the harp while we listened to our Suzuki Violin Lesson 1 CD (Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star). I felt very homeschooley.

The afternoon included Will and Jack playing Hot Wheels on the computer and screaming "Hot Wheels, Big Bad!" like they do on the computer game.

The evening ended with Will playing dress-up and pretending to be a preganant mama getting ready to have a baby and Jack walking around with my wedding veil on.




Suddenly this post seems quite corny to me. I sometimes wish I could have protected posts...

Hey, I just figured out how to label posts. Cool!