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with Elizabeth Auer
This practical arts workshop offers creative ways to enrich the young child’s experience of the curriculum in the first three years of elementary school. Working through the grades, participants will create a math gnome, construct a times table dodecahedron, build and warp a basic Navajo style loom, and learn to weave, and become familiar with needle felting and fleece art.
We will examine how young children draw during main lesson, sample some beeswax modeling, work on blackboard presentations, and paint the story of creation. We will also consider ways to enhance the classroom setting with art displays, nature tables, bulletin boards, and alphabet letters above the board. Since we keep this class small, we can cater to individual needs and enjoy the process of creating just what we feel is most important!
Although the workshop will focus primarily on the creation of projects, there will be opportunities for discussion, reflection, and the sharing of ideas, songs, circle activities, and games.
This class is designed for 12 people, so early sign-up is recommended.
Materials fee: $40
Elizabeth Auer, having taught wood, stone, metal, and glass work for ten years, took on a class at the Pine Hill Waldorf School where she also teaches Extra Lesson. A graduate of both the Remedial Resource and Waldorf teacher education programs, Elizabeth offers workshops in painting, drawing, and clay modeling, as well as teaching drawing courses at Antioch University New England. She is the illustrator of the biodynamic agricultural calendar, Stella Natura, and specializes in water color painting for young children.
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