Introduction to the drawing of shapes Credit: Text based on the book “Do Movimento ao Traço e à Escrita”, by Luíza Helena Tannuri Lameirão – Ed. João de Barro, 2016 The drawing of shapes is a pedagogical activity created by Rudolf Steiner, and is used from the 1st school year onwards, when the child is around…
Images, inspiration and transformation Every day the main class ends with the teacher telling a story, which is chosen according to the age of the children in the class and what is important for their development at the time. These stories are also used as motive and inspiration for children to draw or paint.…
Introduction to shape drawing Shape drawing is a pedagogical activity created by Rudolf Steiner, and is used from the 1st school year onwards, when the child is around 7 years old. At this stage, drawing shapes forms the basis for learning to write and helps the educator…
The scenic expression of speech and singing In 1912, responding to a young woman's yearning for a “type of dance or gymnastics” that could harmonize with man's spiritual knowledge, Rudolf Steiner gave the first indications for the creation of a new art. movement, based on the conception of the world and the vision…
Theme: geometry In one of the chapters of his book Mathematics Recreativa, mathematician and storyteller Malba Tahan talks about the geometric images in this poem by Murilo Araújo.
by Julia de Mello e Souza My late cousin Julia de Mello e Souza was a teacher of Neo-Latin languages and wrote several chronicles. I was still going to write a headline “What the end took to the end”, but I don't know if I had time. It's just that dictionaries already accept the word "final" as a noun, when it was an adjective of…
From the book “Recreation Mathematics”, by Malba Tahan Doctor Túlio, a mathematics teacher, to punish one of his students, a young vagrant and inattentive, gave him the following task: Multiply decimals: 2.4142136 x 1.4142136
Aesop's Fable An ant fell into the water, and would have drowned if a kind dove had not tossed him a tree branch as a lifebuoy. A hunter arrives and prepares his weapon to shoot the dove. The ant seeing this, and the danger that his benefactress was in, quickens its pace and...
Aesop's Fable A dog went to lie down in a manger full of hay, and when the oxen came to the stable, he would not let them eat. A couple of oxen came over to take some hay, but the furious dog started barking and baring its teeth. – “Petty animal”, said the ox, “how bad you are!…
Aesop's Fable A soothsayer was in a square, predicting the future, when he was told that the doors of his house were open and that everything had been stolen from him. He immediately began to run home, and then someone said to him: – “Man, then you, who guess the fate of others, did not know how to guess your own?”…
Aesop's Fable A crow stole a cheese and took it up a tree. A fox, who saw this, began to praise him with the intention of taking away his cheese. and said to her: – “Certainly, beautiful bird, there is not among all the birds anyone who has the splendor of your feathers, your elegance and…
Fábula de Esopo Uma rã convenceu-se de que poderia ficar tão grande quanto um boi, se conseguisse inchar sua pele. Com esse fim, começou a fazer tanto esforço que daí a pouco já se julgava tão grande quanto um boi, e perguntou às irmãs se tinha crescido o bastante. Responderam-lhe que não, e ela continuou…
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