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Our New Life celebration (Easter Day) was on a bright and sunny morning even though we had a thunderstorm the night before. The children came in eager anticipation of the day ahead.
We always prepare our children for all our celebrations. They learn to identify the festival day by a countdown of the number of nights they have to sleep through. Poems and songs are taught and sung repeatedly in the classroom before the actual day. I am happy to hear you commenting that they are singing them at home too.
The poems and finger-play songs for Easter are both meaningful and cheerful. There is a poem and song about a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly. The other song captures the essence of Easter. It starts with the colourful Easter egg and ends with the Easter Bunny hop-hopping in the green grass.
The teachers presented a puppet show on the above mentioned theme to the children before they went egg-hunting in the garden. The experienced children went searching for the big eggs while the new children were satisfied by finding many shiny-wrapped smaller eggs (groundnuts). This year nobody burst into tears because they couldn’t find a big egg. It was probably because some caring children shared their eggs with the smaller ones that everyone was cheerful and happy that morning. I beamed at the children’s joyful faces during their ‘adventure’.
Later on we sowed okra (ladies’ fingers) seeds in the vegetable bed at the corner of our garden. We will show you when the plants have germinated.
We ended with a special Easter story for the children and we know their lives are so much more enriched by the activities of that day.
Junko Sensei and I will be travelling to Japan for the Asia Pacific Waldorf Teachers’ Conference on the 23rd of April. We will always have our children on our mind and I am certain that our conversations will center on the time that we have with them at Nania.
Another conference called the Kolisko Conference Malaysia is being planned and will be held from 28th to 31st of May in Kuala Lumpur. We enclosed herewith the brochure of the conference in case you are interested to attend it. You can direct your enquiries to the persons in charge mentioned in the brochure.
As Junko Sensei is going to be one of the facilitators for this conference, the Japanese class will be closed on the 28th and 29th of May. However, the English class remains open for these 2 days.
Boys’ day, a well celebrated day for families in Japan and also Mothers’ day, await us in May. Thus children are now busily preparing the crafts to bring home for both occasions.Teacher Nora
