September 2012 - Shepherd Valley Waldorf School

Parent Enrichment Speaker SeriesPresentsWednesday, September 12, 6:30pm-7:15pmUnderstanding Child DevelopmentEarly Childhood – Grade 4RSVP requestedWith Nancy Blanning, Remedial and Therapeutic Waldorf TeacherPresentation on physicaland sensory developmentPicture of how this developmentis a process that occurs over timeHow what happens in each stagelays the foundation for the futureNancy Blanning, Remedial and Therapeutic Waldorf Teacher, has been involved in WaldorfEarly Childhood education for nearly 30 years as lead kindergarten teacher and then educationalsupport teacher at the Denver Waldorf School for the past eleven years. Her particular interestis exploring how playful, imaginative movement supports healthy development for youngchildren. She and colleague, Laurie Clark, are authors of "Movement Journeys and CircleAdventures", a developmental movement resource for teachers. Nancy also travels widelyas consultant, mentor, lecturer, and teacher trainer within Waldorf Education and isprivileged to serve on the Waldorf Early Childhood Association (WECAN) board.(303) 652-0130 main(303) 652-0133 fax6500 West Dry Creek PkwyNiwot, CO 80503www.shepherdvalley.org

Parent Enrichment Speaker SeriesPresentsWednesday, September 19, 6:30pm-7:15pmMoving Geometry in Grades 5-8RSVP requestedWith David-Michael Monasch, Director, Sound Circle EurythmyCome move with David-MichaelExperience geometry from the insideIn movementAs students do in the upper schoolDiscover some of the lawfulness inherent in the universeAnd that for certain things in lifeIt really isn't a matter of "whatever"!David-Michael Monasch, Director of Sound Circle Eurythmy, is a eurythmist, actor-director,juggler-clown, and father/husband. He holds a BFA in Theater from the University of Minnesota(summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa) and a diploma from the Academy for Eurythmic Artat the Goetheanum in Switzerland. From 1989 until 2003, David-Michael lived in Seattle,where he was a founding member of Threshold Ensemble (a Playback Theatre company),and where he worked with various theater and dance companies. He also taught at AntiochUniversity Seattle, at all of the Waldorf schools in Washington State, and was on the foundingfaculty of Sound Circle Center. Based in Boulder, CO since 2003, he taught eurythmy,Goethe’s ‘Faust’, Ancient History, World Religions, and directed at Tara Performing Arts HighSchool until 2010. At the same time, he taught at Waldorf schools and kindergartensthroughout Colorado until the focus on the new Sound Circle Eurythmy full-time Trainingprogram forced him to give up all that work. He continues teaching children at the BoulderWaldorf Kindergarten, which he calls his 'favorite hour of the week'!(303) 652-0130 main(303) 652-0133 fax6500 West Dry Creek PkwyNiwot, CO 80503www.shepherdvalley.org