"This is an astonishing, impressive and magnificent work. ... this is must reading for every parent, would-be parent and teacher world-wide."
- Joseph Chilton Pearce, author 'Magical Child'
"Pure inspiration for teachers and parents."
- Nancy Mellon, author of Storytelling with Children
"Every once in a while one meets a 'real' Kindergarten teacher - one of those rare souls who shake their arms and Kindergarten magic comes flying out. Betty Peck, whom I've known and loved for years, is one of those."
- Joan Almon, US Alliance for Childhood
Teacher and parents working todether on behalf of the Kindergarten child is essential. Through weekly letter, parent evenings, craft afternoons, and individual conferences the teacher guides, informs and collaborates with the parent to nuture the Kindergarten child both at home and school.
The Spring Forum is dedicated to working with parents. Come hear how tow teachers have creatively integrated the parents into their programs and set up opportunities for them to work artisically together.
Betty Peck, author of Kindergarten Education writes "Blessings on all teachers who remember that the parents are the true educators of the child." Betty, who began teaching in 1943, will present practical examples of her work with parents over the years.
Njeri McGillicuddy, master teacher and craftswoman, invites her parents into the classroom as well as gathering them together to make beautiful crafts for both parent and child. While felting sloppers, paper-macheing lanterns, or other seasonal projects, the parents learn about their child's development and life in the class. Working together builds community and strengthens the home like of the child. Njeri weaves her magic at the Waldorf School of the Peninsula in Los Altos.
| 9:00 | Registration, Tea and Singing Games with Anna Rainville |
| 9:30 | Betty Peck and Njeri McGillicuddy |
| 12:00 | Spring Pot Luck |
| 12:45 | Spring Crafts |
| 1:45 | Toast to the Spring Equinox with Margaret More |
Please bring 30 copies of Spring activity for the Kindergarten child. Inspirational quotes, songs, poems, etc., have proven to be a valuable resource. The Kindergarten's Forum is held quarterly focusing on the needs of the young child, their teacher, administrators and parents.
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$40 donation includes a copy of Kindergarten Education
Working with parents has always been a must for the beginning: What Pestalozzi strove for his whole life - the restoration of the sanctity of the family, the training of mothers that they may take the fitting point of view for the education of the human race.
Froebel, says that this earliest age is the most important one for education, because the beginning decides the man of progress and the end. The Kindergarten life, according to its ideal, is a micrometric human life in the past, present and future. Kindergartens inherit the acquired riches of inward and outer experience and the knowledge of the human race of all times in its collective result; they carry man as child back into the original relations to the family, to nature and to himself. in order to fit him for living his life both in and out of himself with conscioud perception." Froebel as a Pioneer in Modern Psychology by E.R. Murray
The child is born with a trust in those who care for him, he brings with him the feeling of wonder and are and reverence . . . have we hept them alive in ourselves?" Parenting A Path through Childhood by Dotty Turner Coplen
Betty Peck, founder of the Kindergarten Forum and author of Kindergarten Education: Freeing Children's Creative Potential, has received an endorsement from Joseph Clinton Pearce, author of the Magical Child. "This is an astounding, impressive and magnificent work. Astonishing in the expansive vision it offers and scope of its material synthesized and offered with such clarity... Peck's offering could very literally save us from the suicidal path currently pursued by our (collective cultural imperative) The phrase 'this is a must reading' has been overused but surely this is must reading for every parent and would-be parent, teacher worldwide. Peck provides the grounds for a true spiritual awakening in each chidl and so in our specisa as a whole I can only praise the work and pray it will be widely read."
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