“Our preschool is a contemplative school. The teachers have backgrounds in Waldorf education and in contemplative education. We might do a little meditating and some breathing and yoga exercises on the day your child attends. We want to nourish the spiritual life of your child in a nonreligious manner. So we connect with nature and follow a Waldorf and earth-centered curriculum. Your child might come home talking about “Father Sun” and “Sister Rain”, fairies, gnomes, elves, root children, etc.
Teachers here are more likely to give a response to questions about how something works that grows the imagination and wonder in your child rather than provides a scientific explanation. It’d be great if you would encourage these possibilities for growing the imagination of your child at home as well. If your child asks whether something is true or not, you could simply smile and respond, “I wonder” and leave it at that. We tend to over explain things rather than leave it to the child’s imagination at the preschool age. Let’s put magic and wonder into our children’s lives this summer! There is plenty of time for them to learn the way things actually work but not much time to entrain their brains to view things imaginatively!!!”
(I can’t imagine anything more lovely. That is why I’m paying for her to go a few days this summer when she doesn’t really have to go. She loves it and I would, too!)
