"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
The Senses lead young children into a relationship with the world around them. By feeling, seeing, smelling, listening, and tasting the environment becomes familiar, loved, and manageable. The child's body depends on the integration of the senses to support the brain and develop a healthy intelligence, both cognitive and emotional. Careful tending of the five senses in addition to a sense of life, movement and balance assures a strong foundation for all learning.
A program for young children requires lots of opportunities to move in order to help build the physical body and open the gateways to learning. The Spring Forum is dedicated to the joy of movement.
We are delighted to welcome Pamela York, the director of Educational Support at the Waldorf School of the Peninsula. In this role she leads movement groups from Kindergarten to 5th grade, conducts individual and class assessments, and works with teachers and parents to help students achieve developmental and academic goals. She is a Transdisciplinary Therapeutic Educator (Waldorf Remedial teacher) and a certified HANDLE (Holistic Approach to NeuroDevelopment and Learning Efficiency) Screener. She is currently completing her HANDLE Practitioner license. She will give practical suggestions for games and activities for the Kindergarten – including circle time, transitions, and outdoor play- and why they are important for healthy development.
| 4:00 | Registration |
| 4:15 | Singing Games with Anna Rainville |
| 5:30 | Celebrating Spring with Betty Peck, author of Kindergarten Education: Freeing Children's Creative Potential |
| 6:00 | Spring Potluck |
| 6:45 | Learning through Movement with Pamela York |
| 8:30 | to the Spring Equinox with Margaret More |
Reservations required: $40 donation. Betty Peck Ed. D. (408) 867-3156
Please bring 30 copies of fall activities, poems, stories, or quotes. Thank you!
*Singing Games for Families, Schools and Communities
by Anna Rainville with illustrations by Helen Caswell and Lee Anne Welch will be available.
"If you are a teacher and wish to invite the children you teach to find balance and gleeful kinesthetic skill, there can be no more enjoyable way to go about it. If you are a remedial specialist there's much to be learned from the old wisdom weaving in these tunes and dance steps." From the foreword by Nancy Mellon, author of Storytelling and the Art of Imagination
Call for Reservations (408) 867-3156
$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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