thanks Maya and Mary!<br>another thing i might add is that for me, memorization is best in morning hours, <br>when it seems even sunlight smells fresh baked.<br>my morning mind is a glassy pool of spring water and I'm watching minnows<br>
move gently through various layers. By evening its much more stirred and sludgy! <br>(and by the way,...If we don't have time for watching minnows?....then we really are missing something!)<br><br>:-)<br>Richard Zane Smith<br>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br><br><br>On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Maya Tracy Borhani <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gmcmaya@gmail.com" target="_blank">gmcmaya@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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On Jun 26, 2012, at 6:46 AM, Richard Zane Smith wrote:</div></span></div></span></span></div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><span style="border-collapse:separate;font-family:Cambria;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium">Memorization requires a calm place, and often some kind of methodical routine , sanding, polishing, sweeping,<br>
hoeing, weeding, driving, snapping beans, twisting dogbane fibers for a bowstring....<br>these are the moments when the mind is free, unfettered , open and malleable.<br></span></blockquote></div><br><div><br></div></div>
<div>As does <i>any</i> significant, meaningful, learning. In our homeschooling efforts, all "mental" work was done with the accompaniment of at least ONE of the suggestions you name - especially math, in Waldorf style, involved real, hands-on counting units (blocks, rods, etc;), never just abstract theory on paper (for Gr. 1-6). </div>
<div><br></div><div>This paragraph should be incorporated into every school's curriculum policy. Thanks for stating it so beautifully.</div><div><br></div><div>Maya</div><div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><font color="#021f8c">Maya T. Borhani<br>
Master's Student, Language and Literacy in Education<br>Faculty of Education</font></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><font color="#021f8c">University of British Columbia<br>2125 Main Mall<br>Vancouver, BC<br>Canada V6T 1Z4</font><br>
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