Wild Thing's Registration

Program details for Primary Year

We will be using Enki Education's Kindergarten Curriculum

Please read this overview,

http://www.enkieducation.org/html/holistic-education.htm

Curriculum table of contents are also available:

Early Childhood Guides

http://www.enkieducation.org/html/materials/tghs1-tghstgb-toc.pdf

Folk and Fairy Tales

http://www.enkieducation.org/html/materials/rsclib-rlstcoa-toc.pdf

Nature Stories

http://www.enkieducation.org/html/materials/rsclib-rlstcob-toc.pdf

Crafts

http://www.enkieducation.org/html/materials/rsclib-rlcrcra-toc.pdf

Circle

http://www.enkieducation.org/html/materials/rsclib-rlcrcra-toc.pdf

For Community and Festival Songs we use a number of resources, primarily:

Rise Up Singing: The Group Singing Songbook by Peter Blood

Sing Through the Day - 80 Songs for Children - Edited by Marlys Swinger

This Is the Way We Wash-a-Day by Mary Thienes-Schunemann

Every day Wild Thing will participate in a seasonal circle that incorporates sensory integration movement, fingerplays, nursery rhymes, singing and speech exercises.

We use the Enki resources listed above as well as:

Let Us Form a Ring - An Acorn Hill Anthology - Edited by Nancy Foster

A Child's Seasonal Treasury - Compiled by Betty Jones

Games Children Play - Kim Brooking Payne

Each week he will listen to multicultural folk and fairy tales, and seasonally appropriate nature stories. The stories will inform our choices for integrating activities throughout the week

In addition to the Enki resources listed above we use:

Sharing Nature with Children I by Joseph Cornell

Sharing Nature with Children II by Joseph Cornell

Earthways - Simple Environmental Activities for Young Children - by Carol Petrash

Roots Shoots Buckets and Boots - by Sharon Lovejoy

The Keepers Series by Joseph Bruchac and Michael J Caduto (details on series are in Maeve's resource list)

The Enki Kindergarten establishes a solid predictable rhythm for the week with each day devoted to different activities.

In our home it looks like this:

Monday - Nature Walk and guided activity in the environment

Tuesday - Painting activity with related story

Wednesday - Nature Craft

Thursday - Baking

Friday - Seasonal Cooking

Saturday - Farmer's Market and Library

Sunday - alternates between a Baha'i Children's Class and an outdoor adventure.

On Monday and Wednesday mornings he will be participating in a Waldorf inspired cooperative that brings together several families so that we can participate in more complex group games in circle and do group projects each season.

Creative play will remain the central activity of each day, Through play he has begun exploring counting, numbers, letters and writing. As preparation for more academic work in the years to come he will participate in the making of a "Good Book" where he can showcase his favourite artwork, stories, and document his activities through this year.

Wild Thing has been in speech therapy (problems with some initial sounds) and in September we will be meeting again with his Speech Language Pathologist to discuss continuing support.

Wild Thing will participate in the same cultural immersions, the same large projects (relating to food shelter and clothing) and the same outings as his sister Nature Girl, at a level that is developmentally appropriate.