IDEAS FOR HOME EDUCATION
Mulberry teachers and staff will be posting verses, activities, recipes, and more to do with your children during these turbulent times. This post is from our Early Childhood teachers.
Verse to celebrate spring:
“Crocus, crocus, open up
Catch a sunbeam in your cup”
(with palms together in ‘prayer’ position, slowly open them up into a ‘crocus’).
Nature table activity:
Create a nature table by covering a small surface with spring-coloured cloths of browns and pastels. Create a dish garden of grass or wheat berry seeds. Add branches, stones, beeswax creations, etc. Go on a “scavenger hunt” to collect signs that spring is coming. Keep the table ‘fresh’ and tidy.
Date ball recipe:
1 ½ C packed, pitted dates (we use Parnoosh Brand)*
⅔ C unsweetened coconut
⅓ C tahini
Put all ingredients into a food processor and run until blended. Roll into balls (they need a bit of warmth and pressure to stick together). Freeze on a tray, then keep in air tight container until ready to eat.
*Depending on the moisture content and texture of the dates used, you will have to adjust this amount to make the mixture the right consistency for rolling.
Enjoy this quick, healthy treat outside on one of your morning walks!
Links for Parents
Below is a link to a series by Kim John Payne, who wrote Simplicity Parenting and The Soul of Discipline. Many of you may be familiar with his wonderful work.
A special five-part audio series with Kim John Payne:
“We have been fielding an unprecedented number of calls, emails, and posts from parents looking for support in how to handle the current coronavirus situation with their children and teens.
In response, we recorded this special five-part audio series.
It’s available online at simplicityparenting.com and via our podcast.
In this challenging time, we feel it’s more important than ever for each of us to do what we can to support each other, so we wanted to put this together and make it available right away. If you find the series helpful, please think of any other parent, organization, or school community who might benefit from this kind of support and send them a link to this page.”
Episodes:
1. Preparing: How to speak to our kids and how to stay centered so our kids can co-regulate with us.
2. Signaling Security via Decluttering: When the world feels like it is in chaos and closing in, creating a decluttered space is like soul arnica.
3. Wrapping Warm Rhythm Around Our Children: When so much is changing and shifting, how do we strengthen predictability and the feeling that all is well in our family’s world.
4. Dialing Back Schedules in Preparation and Decisions Afterwards: How to walk children and teens off their busy lives in preparing for the cancellations of school and after school activities, and the opportunity it offers when life gets back to normal.
5. Filtering Adult Information is More Important Now Than Before: With so much scary information out there, how can we keep our kids informed in the right way for their age?
Verse to celebrate spring:
“Crocus, crocus, open up
Catch a sunbeam in your cup”
(with palms together in ‘prayer’ position, slowly open them up into a ‘crocus’).
Nature table activity:
Create a nature table by covering a small surface with spring-coloured cloths of browns and pastels. Create a dish garden of grass or wheat berry seeds. Add branches, stones, beeswax creations, etc. Go on a “scavenger hunt” to collect signs that spring is coming. Keep the table ‘fresh’ and tidy.
Date ball recipe:
1 ½ C packed, pitted dates (we use Parnoosh Brand)*
⅔ C unsweetened coconut
⅓ C tahini
Put all ingredients into a food processor and run until blended. Roll into balls (they need a bit of warmth and pressure to stick together). Freeze on a tray, then keep in air tight container until ready to eat.
*Depending on the moisture content and texture of the dates used, you will have to adjust this amount to make the mixture the right consistency for rolling.
Enjoy this quick, healthy treat outside on one of your morning walks!
Links for Parents
Below is a link to a series by Kim John Payne, who wrote Simplicity Parenting and The Soul of Discipline. Many of you may be familiar with his wonderful work.
A special five-part audio series with Kim John Payne:
“We have been fielding an unprecedented number of calls, emails, and posts from parents looking for support in how to handle the current coronavirus situation with their children and teens.
In response, we recorded this special five-part audio series.
It’s available online at simplicityparenting.com and via our podcast.
In this challenging time, we feel it’s more important than ever for each of us to do what we can to support each other, so we wanted to put this together and make it available right away. If you find the series helpful, please think of any other parent, organization, or school community who might benefit from this kind of support and send them a link to this page.”
Episodes:
1. Preparing: How to speak to our kids and how to stay centered so our kids can co-regulate with us.
2. Signaling Security via Decluttering: When the world feels like it is in chaos and closing in, creating a decluttered space is like soul arnica.
3. Wrapping Warm Rhythm Around Our Children: When so much is changing and shifting, how do we strengthen predictability and the feeling that all is well in our family’s world.
4. Dialing Back Schedules in Preparation and Decisions Afterwards: How to walk children and teens off their busy lives in preparing for the cancellations of school and after school activities, and the opportunity it offers when life gets back to normal.
5. Filtering Adult Information is More Important Now Than Before: With so much scary information out there, how can we keep our kids informed in the right way for their age?
