Weekly Guide
week 1:
Read in "Festivals
Together" about Celebration crafts.
Research appropriate projects
for our Harvest Festival.
Participate and create other Harvest Festivals
in the community.
For esoteric meaning of the festivals read The
Cycle of the Year As Breathing in R. Steiner lectures. This is his first
lecture. There are 3 more lectures in this cycle in the R.
Steiner Archive.
For the Saturday www workshop please have your TESC password and log-in. If you don't have them, please register ASAP. If you are having trouble registering contact the consultants at the TESC Computer Center ASAP.
It is important to finish all the paperwork this week.
Project
Introduction
Project Request
Classroom Observation/Participation
Contract
Field Activity Waiver
Week 2
This is the week of Ramadan and high holidays of Jewish New Year (Rosh Hashana) and Day of Attonment (Yom Kipur).
Read the Guide to week 2 as pdf file
Week 3
This is a week of Chong
Yang Jie festival. On Saturday we
are going on our pilgrimage to Mt. Rainier. In preparation please read
the excellent Curriculum
Guides developed by
Mt. Rainier Education department. If this link does not work, you
can get to it from Mt. Rainier site.
Click on Education Programs. Also please study the effect
of mountains on environment and weather. Do your own www searches
to better understand how to create a curriculum about the importance of
Mt. Rainier. Read mountain poetry:
" Here are the roots of all the life of
the lowlands with all their wealth of vineyard and grove,
and here more simply than elsewhere, is the eternal flux of nature manifested."
-John
Muir, Oct 1872
Read the Guide to week 3 as pdf file
Week 4
Liberal Arts Forum
Week 5
This is an important, half-way through the quarter
evaluation point. Please update your www Project Log and Project
Reflections. Bring and turn in your Nature Journals.
On Saturday we will meet at 9am in our TESC classroom. In the early afternoon
we will car pool to Skokomish.
Week 6
On Wednesday, 7-9pm we will celebrate our DÍA
DE LOS MUERTOS. Please bring a dish to share and,
if you want, pictures of your loved ones that have passed, for the altar.
Week 7
We will be celebrating Diwali, Please bring a sweet to share and a symbol
of "abundance" (could be fruit, flowers, nuts, chocolate, coins, etc.)
Research and read about Diwali. You can even download a screen saver with
Lakshmi to get into the mood.
Week 8
Painted Word workshop in preparation for the opening of the New
Year art show Painted Word at TESC library. Please research and try to
understand what does "In the beginning was the word" means?
Week 9
Bring your Nature Journal for a pier review.
Complete all WWW Project Log, Reflections,
Curriculum, and Plant Study pages.
Ask the teacher in the classroom where you volunteered your help to send
the evaluation of your work
