April 2012
It’s party time for Gisela’s Light!
It is just a year ago when this blog started
and the activity here has been rather important: visits to many different
schools, thoughts about every educative issue that came in my way, readings,
fun stuff, music, poetry, articles, press, photography, praises, critiques...
and everything with lot of passion.
I give you here a little musical present En la imaginación, Sílvia Perez Cruz i
Javier Colina Trio.
How do children talk? I have the opportunity
to be in places where children are allowed to express themselves, and with
their early language there are many funny things that they say... I’ve laughed a lot
this past month, I give you here two examples (or the complete text in Catalan here PDF):
- two girls of 4 years old play with a magic
wand: “What do you want me to convert
you?” In Catalan, we conjugate the verbs, and here she said a wrong conjugation
and makes it funny.
- At the cau, we present the theme of the camp.
One of us say: “Maybe we’ll see deers”
(in Catalan: cérvols). Everybody goes excited and one of the girls goes: “has
it got four?” And we say: “Four what?” “Four petals”. She was confused between
the word trevol (clover) and cérvol (deer).
Read this documentation about the process of
learning to share the lunch that we made with the cau on a walk. Here PDF (in Catalan). We’re going to camp very soon that after all the theory preparation
we are looking forward to put it into practice.
We’ll tell you next month because lots of things are going to happen for
sure.
At the beginnings of las month we visited provably
the best school in the entire world!, or at least... among the ones I know
(haha): Martinet. I’ll post here a description soon.
We went to the amazing duo Pau Figueres and Gemma Humet…
and we couldn’t bear to feel such light and enrichment of music. We truly loved
it.
Talking about music, we will have many concerts
this April. Here we go with the Cor de Noies de Matadapera. We will be at:
Reus (Sala Auditori de Santa Llúcia, 18h
Barcelona (Casal Catòlic de Sant Andreu),
18h
Terrassa (Casal Sant Pere), 18h
And with Cor
de Dones de Sant Celoni, you can come to listen to us at:
Sant Celoni (Ateneu), divendres 13 d’abril a
les 21h
Santa Perpetua de la Mogoda, diumenge 22 d’abril,
12.30h
We have been to the Parents Weekend at
Brockwood with Marina. It is always a joy to come back and to meet old friends
and new friends. We sang on the informal evening, we visited the pavilions, we attended
to few classes, we talked and laughed a lot, we enjoyed the sun that the
English weather gave to us, but we also made a bit of rota, morning jobs, meetings...
which could not be missed out!
And my favourite party of the year is going to
happen again: Sant Jordi. Any book that I should read or have for my childrens
book collection, here the "50 to make 400 list"?
Love and light,
gisela
Welcome back,
It seems it
has been ages ago since we wrote because this last February has been speedy and
full of action, I’ll tell you everything now:
The most significant
thing is that after discovering Summerhill
(three years ago!), after knowing it still exists (last summer), after having
watched the film several times, after talking about it to every single person
interested or not, after almost being there working... after all... I finally
put my feet there!
The
story of the hole trip is a real adventure and everything that happened to me
until I saw the sign “SUMMERHILL”... everything that happened while there, all
the sensations, all the interminable questions and answers, the place, the
people, the environment, the emotions... everything you can read it here (PDF in Catalan). Please ask for
the translation.
In
this marvellous trip I met old friends, I almost slip on a dark, cold, snowy
London street, I met new people from here and there and everywhere but
everybody from the same world, after 3 years I came back to Brockwood and I realised it was just
yesterday I was there running throughout the corridor, having tea at the
Center, at the Grove, cutting tomatoes at the Kitchen and doing some
rota...
We’ll
be all the family back to Brockwood again at the end of this month and provably
again on May where I will establish some relationship with the kindergarden
Wildflowers and Inwoods!, with I shared different moments already, few years
ago.
It
is more than great that we have this TV program now, “Teachers” (Mestres). It
is exciting for me to have this “debate” even if it is through the screen
because it is amazing the opinions of so many people who actually talk about
the same. The program is in Catalan but you can watch but you can try o watch
the ones I liked the most (and if you are more interested about it, do not
hesitate to ask a translation to me). About different
methodologies here (pàgina web escola El Roure Gros). Or the other chapters (IV How do we
learn? And V School and family) here(tres a la carta)
We re-descovered Teresa Forcadas with an interview to
the ARA newspaper and this video about “the hyperactivity label after the medicine” (ARA TV).
Now I
am even more convinced that to learn has to do (almost only) with
self-confidence. Now is the time for you to watch a video in English “helplesslylearning” (youtube)!
You can also watch that other video (youtube in Spanish) with Esther Bonal
talking about the Xamfrà Center, very motivating.
You don’t need to understand or speak any language if you speack and understand the language of
beauty to watch this: “The fantastic flying books” (youtube).
Please, visit Marina’s blog with new
pictures abou her project Bedroom Series and other stuff going on at Brockwood
like our recent visit there! I opened a new page called “images” where you can
actually see everything I write here!
(Since the Flickr space is all full, but you can still visit).
Very early this month we have
visited already the Martinet School (Ripollet, Catalulnya) and we have liked it
a lot (more than anything we have been to). But I won’t be able to tell you
until April!
And
we’ll wait for you next month with all the news and new discoveries and the surprises
we still don’t know, they will happen. How exciting!
Feel
yourself like a princes but don’t treat the other like a subject,
gisela
WELCOME TO FEBRUARY!
This month is coming with excitement: we will celebrate the
Carnestoltes, Gitanes and my birthday! We’ll post the pictures next month; by
now, you can view the first snow pictures here (PDF). And more cool things will happen...
keep reading.
It has
started very well as a volunteer in the CAU, finally, with a good –well thought
pedagogical task with a great team. Can you believe it?, as a lesure
education... I can’t be more motivated. Thank you to all who have insisted. You
can read the preparation and realization of the first day here (PDF in Catalan);
every constructive opinion will be welcome. And you can read here (PDF in
Catalan) about the summery I wrote about the “agrupament escolta” to know what it
is all about; I loved it.
I will be travelling
again to England to visit Summerhill! I have been so close, I just have to be
there once. I will tell you the experience on my return!
You can
watch the drawings my children make here (PDF); this makes me think of another
curiosity: how do you see the quality of a drawing? What psychology can you see
in a drawing of a child? Although, this month the biggest curiosity is: What is
the systemic pedagogy?
We have been
back to the studio recording again with a new series of world traditional
songs! We have sung in English, Turckish, Japanesse, Basc, Finish, Braselian...
Listen to Momigí (Japan) and Syahamba (Africa). You can also visit the study
where we’ve recorded here (Green House Studio, webside in English) and please, listen to “ThanksRobbie”.
Read the press I have found over this past month, you’ll
find about homeopathy, Pep Guardiola, the Carles Capdevila articles, among
others here (PDF in Catalan).
Watch here (youtubein Spanish) the emotional video about the Biblioburro. And more
audiovisual news are here: TV3 has started a series called “Teachers” (“Mestres”)
and we already watched the first one. You can do it here (Tres a la carta in
Catalan).
With all
that, life becomes interesting with light and passion... and as they used to
say “Núñez is still the Barça president...” I could say: “university is still
in its place, or lower (we will end taking classes on hell), and a little proof
is here (PDF in Catalan).
A real big
hug, like the ones you like to give and to receive!
Gisela.
JANUARY Happy New Year!
I hope all your wishes become true and you have a good 2012 full of health.
We are still on holidays so the research has stopped a tiny bit. But Reis are coming soon and I planned a “list of children books” for my collection to complete it up to 400. You can find it here.
Of course, there are not English books because I do not know what is on
the English book shops!
Before the Christmas break we presented our CD “Cançons per a l’Escola
Bressol”. You can read the presentation here (PDF)
and download the music free, the cover, the images here (gisela’s light page) We hope you enjoy it and use it well!
Take care of your friends and, as always, LOT OF LIGHT,
Gisela.
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