The children have been settling into the new school year and have been finding new games to play with one another that they love coming back to. Recently a popular scenario was the fire truck and the children enjoyed dragging chairs into a row, and much care was taken to put on their fire hats (silks wrapped around their heads), and fasten their seat belts (crocheted ropes). In fact, in games like this, children often enjoy putting far more energy into setting up the scenario than in actually acting out the scenario. So the enjoyment they get is in setting up the "fire truck", dressing themselves up, arranging "hoses", than in getting out and putting out "fires". But really it's this act of imagining possibilities together that is so beneficial to the burgeoning social being.
The children have been helping with changing our garden over to fall plantings. The tomatoes have come down and have been replaced with arugula, beet and tatsoi seeds. They helped strip the basil plants and shell our last remaining pole beans. Some kale, radishes and more carrots have been planted, and a few carrots harvested as well!
Our morning verse is a verse that we repeat all year and the children have learned it very well by now. Perhaps you can see if they can show it to you. This one is said and not sung:
Good morning dear Earth
Good morning dear sun.
Good morning dear stones,
and flowers, every one.
Good morning dear beasts,
and the birds in the trees,
Good morning to you,
And good morning to me!
Good morning dear Earth
Good morning dear sun.
Good morning dear stones,
and flowers, every one.
Good morning dear beasts,
and the birds in the trees,
Good morning to you,
And good morning to me!
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