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In the summer vacation three years ago, there was only one child left in the little Waldorf Practice Park where my four-year-old son was located (the director's child was still there, but he went back to his hometown). The question is, now that he is an only child, should he go to kindergarten?
Had to turn to the park.
Within an acceptable distance from home, besides Fontaine, there are two Waldorf practice parks, which we visited one by one (well, it was a surprise visit, so we went straight to the door without making an appointment in advance).
In this way, one weekend afternoon, we took our children into this small classroom in the west of the world and met Mr. Yang Yan.
In the face of our sudden visit, Mr. Yang was not disturbed at all. While welcoming us in and chatting with us, he continued to make special cards for the children. Everything is so casual and natural.
The scene is fixed here. From this moment on, our peace of mind is settled. After the twists and turns in the first three kindergartens, we finally found this place where we can relax.
As for the twists and turns of Sanyuan before, this matter has to start from the year when the child just turned 2 years old:
First garden
That year, like most parents, we sent our children to a private kindergarten near our home. As a result, after half a semester and winter vacation, I couldn't go to kindergarten. In retrospect, it was really too early for him to go to kindergarten at the age of two. There must be a link or a place in the kindergarten that the children at that time resisted, but he could not express it well and could not ask why.
. On the other hand, the vast majority of formal "private kindergartens"
It is set for profit. There are many children in the class, but the attention of a single child is low. Teachers have low salaries and high mobility. It is unrealistic to expect a one-month-old teacher in 2000 to give love to your children. After months of struggle, I finally charged the teacher's mobile phone card with some money, but in a few days, I found that the teacher was not there. . . So, we began to look for a more suitable way of education for children.
The second garden
We have attended the parent-child classes of Ba Xue Garden, Fontainebleau and Little Oak before, and feel that these gardens are still far from home and work. Later, near the place where the children's mothers worked, we found a family garden that was transferred from Montessori to Waldorf. The teacher lived at home with five or six children (several of whom were transferred from Sun Yuan), painted wet watercolors, made a fire to cook, and made a small yard, a bunker and tires. So from occasionally playing around with children to gradually sending them there, I got used to it, until another big boy who was transferred by Sun Yuan and stayed for a month or two appeared, and he had some emotional release. He has some games that children can't stand. At that time, the garden was not mature enough to protect children, so the law of the jungle appeared. As a direct result, the child became unwilling to go to kindergarten, and then the big boy left.
During this period, we were fortunate to meet a mother who cares about education. At that time, she came here occasionally. Now I know that she teaches in Nanshan. A new child has joined the experimental park. Later, his family got a tight admission quota for Little Oak and went to Little Oak. Congratulations to them. We met another Cheng Cheng transferred from Waldorf Practice Park and his mother Zhu Yu (because the teacher in that park suddenly left). If you hear someone reading a poem at Miss Yang's farewell party, it's her. She first asked us to go camping in Xiwanzi, where she met teacher Hongyan and her son Shi. She insisted on being a small kindergarten in the village. Stone will be a primary school classmate with my children again this autumn. I also met an honest teacher Liu, who will be mentioned later. We have made new friends here, and let us realize that choosing a kindergarten is actually choosing a partner for the children. It takes time for the teacher and her ideas and her practice to mature and perfect.
The summer vacation is coming, and the big boy mentioned above will not come back for another month, so it is more and more difficult to send the kindergarten, and finally it is really impossible to send it.
The third garden
At this moment, I heard Zhu Yu put forward the idea that she wanted to build a garden. Although I saw her success only a few days ago, I was surprised by her good state. Being a classmate with such a big brother is very reassuring. As for the teaching team, there are teachers Liu Shu and Xixi. So, starting from this autumn, a small Waldorf Practice Park started in Jingcheng Home of Wangjing Atlantic New Town. Her name is Worry-Free Children's Home.
Teacher Liu's frankness, teacher Xixi's self-study and Zhu Yu's ideal, we all explored and practiced happily together, and a semester passed quickly. After the New Year, Teacher Xixi was going to have a baby of her own and left us reluctantly. So in the second semester, we ushered in some changes. We met Meixi's mother, who came to Beijing with her children from other places to pursue her educational dream. We also met Jingjing's mother, Zhang Ying. Our mother, Zhang Ying and Zhu Yu donated money, and Meixi's mother went out. We rented a house opposite the adult family and started further garden practice. But enrollment has been tepid. Seeing that there are only three or four children (it seems that there are only five or six at most), it takes courage to dare to put the children here. At the end of the leisurely second semester, under a series of coincidences and arrangements, the children returned to their hometown. Everyone who moved was busy moving, and some decided to go to Rainbow Class. When the next semester starts, only one child in our family will be here, so the scene at the beginning of the article appears.
In a carefree year, I lived a stable life and was sent to kindergarten, accompanied by my sincere brother, a quality partner. I basically don't want to go. On the one hand, I pay close attention to the adaptation of my peers in a high-quality small environment. On the other hand, three-year-old children do have internal needs and can adapt to kindergarten. The latter point varies from person to person. Some children were not used to it when they were two years old, but many didn't like it or got sick.
I am grateful to the people I met here. Here, I find that there will be communication barriers between some specific people, and one of them needs to change consciously, or through the same communicator or listener, in order to communicate effectively; As a kindergarten, we must have a firm director to take charge and promote it in order to develop healthily for a long time.
The world is west, a perfect kindergarten.
So, there are only two children in Worry-Free Children's Home (you can't forget the journey back from your hometown, and his mother Zhu Yu is also a professional who went to Chengdu to participate in kindergarten teacher training. Her home is far from Tianxia Creek, but she also chose Tianxia Creek like us and merged it into Tianxia Creek Natural Science Park, a perfect kindergarten with a gentle and firm perfect main class and teaching director Yan Yang. There are a firm promoter and director of the administrative department, Mr. Hao Bing, two effective teachers, Mr. Zhou and Mr. Guo, Mr. Ma's specialty, a little brother and sister who walk in the forest park twice a week and have sunshine, which is absolutely perfect for my family who has experienced so much before. The only thing is to strengthen organic ingredients. I used to have one and a half years' experience, and now it's easy to operate.
Three years passed in a blink of an eye. Here, we had three birthdays, three Dragon Boat Festival, three Mid-Autumn Festival, three graduation ceremonies and three deep winter gardens. In the second deep winter garden, one child failed to attend, and later, due to family reasons, he had to go home to attend a nearby kindergarten; The third deep winter garden, some children can't come. Later, her family had to move to other places to attend kindergarten for family reasons. Another mother and son rented a kindergarten from Cheng Nan. After finally owning Waldorf Astoria in Cheng Nan, they went back to reunite with their families. These three children are the only children who have transferred to the park halfway in Tianxiaxi for more than three years. If there is anything imperfect, there are no proprietary yard, bunker and other facilities, but on the one hand, hiking in the forest park twice a week is unique in the kindergarten I knew at that time. Every time I see the scene where teachers and children are ready to leave at the gate of the park, I am sincerely amazed. The kindergarten is in a relatively closed community yard. Although it doesn't have its own small yard, it has two or three big yards where people and cars can play every day. Under the care of the teacher, it runs freely, climbs trees and plays with plants. In such a perfect kindergarten, her blog almost never publishes children's activities and photos, keeping a low profile to the extreme. Several children now in kindergarten still listen to what other kindergarten teachers say before they find the world happy.
a fresh start
By the end of last semester, after three years of growth, Mr. Guo had been able to become an excellent teacher. Mr. Yang was relieved to transfer the head teacher to Mr. Guo, and went back to Chengdu to accompany his family. At the same time, he realized his dream of running a garden. We held a grand farewell party. I met the legendary Ms. Li Jie for the first time at the farewell party. She sang a farewell song for Ms. Yang. Please allow me to copy the lyrics again here:
I wish you many good things and few troubles. . . . . . Have a nice trip. . . . . . Have a nice trip. . . . . . No matter where you are ...
I guess so. If you want to listen to Teacher Li Jie's solo version, please click the button in the upper right corner of the screen, select the public account, pay attention to Tianxiaxi Nature College, and send "Listen to Teacher Li Jie's singing" to Tianxiaxi Nature College to hear it.
Teacher Li Jie, from the earliest Waldorf Practice Park in Beijing to the benchmark of Waldorf Kindergarten in Beijing, has now left. In the days after Teacher Yang left, she helped us supervise Tianxia River for a period of time. At the beginning, many kindergartens held lesson preparation meetings before the start of Tianxiaxi, all of which were led by Teacher Li Jie. Also turned to the poem that Li Jie promised to make a lesson preparation meeting for Waldorf kindergarten circle:
You listen to me
This is the best gift I have ever received.
When you know I'm happy to give it to you
Do you understand?
I'm not paying you to owe me one.
But because I want to live my love for you.
Accepting it cheerfully may be the best reward.
I can't separate the two
When you give it to me
I accept you.
When you take it from me
I appreciate your gift.
When Teacher Li Jie left at the beginning of this year, many parents were puzzled and surprised, but I know that, like Teacher Yang, Teacher Li Jie must have his own ideals and pursuits.
Since last spring, Tianxiaxi has been looking for a new garden site where more classes can be held. However, as soon as the landlord heard that it was a kindergarten, he turned and left. It is difficult to find a suitable venue. Now, thanks to the efforts of Feng Dan's parents to run their own primary schools, Tangjialing has an ideal outdoor environment that can accommodate both primary schools and kindergartens, and Tianxia is also honored to join it. In the new field, it can become an ideal practice base for kindergarten teacher training. Teachers can communicate and support each other more effectively, which will help teachers improve and mature. I think this is probably the corner of the picture in the minds of teachers Hao Bing and Li Jie.
Some children in Tianxiaxi cannot follow the new site of Tianxiaxi for some objective reasons, so several mothers are willing to continue to run a Waldorf Garden on the existing site of Tianxiaxi. In this way, more children can benefit, but running the park in this way will face new problems and challenges in terms of teachers and enrollment, which requires everyone's ability to deal with and solve. Let's work together!
Happy days always pass quickly. Three years have passed, and we are going to graduate. Because of children, all of us have come together and made progress together on the basis of common ideas. We are like a big family here. Now we are faced with many uncertain factors, such as moving the park, distance, transportation, playmates, teachers and so on. We have also reached the crossroads of origin and extinction, and are about to separate. I hope we can find the same solution, so that our wandering hearts can settle down and focus on what we really need to focus on.