"Are you ready?"

My son's learning space (https://aarambhwaldorf.in/) has thankfully not had any online classes the whole year. He is 9 in grade 3. Teachers worked with parents and we learnt (sometimes happily and sometimes annoyingly) to take the curriculum to kids in a joyful, purposeful way. One great thing about this was that we got a inside experience of the curriculum itself and how it is brought to the children. The "work" starts with a verse. Always. In fact even in a community meeting, parent meeting, class group meeting, training etc at Aarambh we always start by reading a verse. (above is a verse Ayan and I read at home before we get to "work"). Why read a verse before starting? I will talk about what it does it us first. When we look at the verse, it makes us pause, it gives us a minute to realise that we ended what we were doing before and are now starting something else. As we read the verse together, the words slowly sink in (in Aarambh, Ayan says the children...