The move from kindergarten to school is a significant one. This book, a companion to 'You're Not the Boss of Me: Understanding the Six/Seven-Year-Old Transformation', is a collection of essential research and resources to help educators prepare children for starting school. Experienced teachers, doctors and therapists give guidance in the nature and needs of the child between six and seven, how to observe children for signs of readiness, and creating and carrying a healthy transition from kindergarten to grade school. It includes four different sample observation forms, to help schools to develop their own readiness observation procedures.

First Grade Readiness: Resources, Insights and Tools for Waldorf Educators

Nancy Blanning

Waldorf Early Childhood Association North America

The move from kindergarten to school is a significant one. This book, a companion to 'You're Not the Boss of Me: Understanding the Six/Seven-Year-Old Transformation', is a collection of essential research and resources to help educators prepare children for starting school. Experienced teachers, doctors and therapists give guidance in the nature and needs of the child between six and seven, how to observe children for signs of readiness, and creating and carrying a healthy transition from kindergarten to grade school. It includes four different sample observation forms, to help schools to develop their own readiness observation procedures.

Supporting the Sense of Life, a collection of keynote lectures from the Waldorf Early Childhood Association of North America's Annual East Coast Conference, 2014-2016, offers keenly observed and researched insights on how to assist the development of children's comfortable orientation in the world-and how, as educators and caregivers, to support and strengthen our own sense of well-being. Featuring contributions from Susan Weber (Singing and Speaking the Child into Life, WECAN 2017), a founder of Sophia s Hearth Family Center in Keene, New Hampshire; Ruth Ker (Please, Can We Play Games?, WECAN 2018), a founder of the Sunrise Waldorf School in British Columbia, Canada; Patricia Rubano, early childhood educator and a director at the Center for Biography and Social Art in Northampton, Massachusetts; Adam Blanning, M.D. (Understanding Deeper Developmental Needs, Lindisfarne Books 2017), a founder of the Denver Center for Anthropsophic Therapies in Denver, Colorado; and Barbara Baldwin, a curative educator, therapist and speech pathologist.

Supporting the Sense of Life: Nurturing well-being in young children and the adults who care for them

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Waldorf Early Childhood Association of North America

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First Grade Readiness: Resources, Insights and Tools for Waldorf Educators

First Grade Readiness: Resources, Insights and Tools for Waldorf Educators

Supporting the Sense of Life: Nurturing well-being in young children and the adults who care for them