https://oldsite.awaldorfjourney.com/2017/09/movable-classroom-framework/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=movable-classroom-framework experiences, resources and advice from a Waldorf teacher on the journey Sat, 16 Sep 2017 15:05:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://oldsite.awaldorfjourney.com/2017/09/movable-classroom-framework/#comment-8510 Sat, 16 Sep 2017 15:05:51 +0000 https://www.awaldorfjourney.com/?p=5591#comment-8510 I love getting this little peek into my boy’s day. And I confess I was so pleased when I realized you were going to start the year off with benches. For me as a parent, my concern was how he would react to going from the primarily free play of kindergarten–with plenty of space for moving about freely–to organized sitting in rows of desks. The benches seem like such an easy and gentle transition to that. I’m glad it’s going so well for all of you! (By the way, he was disappointed and wanted desks. Lol! I think he associates them with the “big grades.” But now he loves the responsibility of moving the benches, and I look forward to the excitement that’s sure to come when it’s time to bring in the desks.)

]]> https://oldsite.awaldorfjourney.com/2017/09/movable-classroom-framework/#comment-8508 Fri, 15 Sep 2017 00:06:34 +0000 https://www.awaldorfjourney.com/?p=5591#comment-8508 Thank you so much for posting your experiences of the movable classroom. I am the first to do this in my school and I am glad to know that others are going through it for the first time as well. We are a few weeks into school and I also find that the children are very good at moving the benches. We did try turning some benches over and walking on the bottom beam in a very slow fashion during a circle activity and it went very smoothly. Every other bench in the circle was turned over so there was some relief between the challenges.

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