This important middle lesson can have resounding repercussions for the development of character in later life – this is the unit where the letters, the ‘character’s, receive their formal imprint on the unmarked etheric body of the 7-year old. Writing ins an expression of character, and character, in a lesser way, is influenced by writing. […]
BLOCK: G1 Language
Genii of Language: Story Re-Telling
Hello readers, I’m the Speech Bird. I have been asked by my master, Ares, winging along out there beyond the sun, to make my contribution to this little education manual. I’m a busy bird, visiting humanity both collectively and individually. Sometimes I’m not allowed into their souls at all, at others there’s a mere glimpse […]
Genii of Language: Letter “Magic” and Phonics
I guess I was pretty nervous on that first day, looming like a Gulliver over 20 or so Lilliputians. I was sitting in my first main lesson – called Letter Magic – with Class 1. The children eyed me curiously for a few minutes, then forgot about me in the scintillating stream of images presented […]
Genii of Language: The Class One Language Story
The Ice High Maid She saw the mountains, bush and shore, She saw the dark folk and the flowers, She saw the path of the seasons four, Through her crystals clear in her icy tower. There, that should be okay for the text I want my Class 1 to write today. Blackboard work begins to […]
Genii of Language: The Capital Alphabet
The Teacher crossed the last T and dotted the last I on his submission to the State Education Authority. It was on teaching writing in Class 1. Apparently, there was going to be a curriculum re-structure, and they wanted all the input they could get. “They must be desperate asking me,” The Teacher mused “after […]