Many updates shared by WCA.
- Minutes from Class Parent Meetings
- New WCA Meeting Format
- Next WCA General Meeting
- Eurhythmy for Parents
- Book Group
- ECO-Cleaning
- Upcoming Events: CPR for Parents, Pi Day, Faculty Lunch, etc…
- Current Volunteer opportunities around the school
Waldorf Community Association update week of December 23
Hopefully, you have received the minutes of our recent WCA general meeting from your class parent. Each class parent is given a copy of the meeting minutes to share with the families in that class. Class parents are also invited to attend a meeting in the fall semester and in the spring semester.
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New WCA Meeting Format
Our new meeting format has been designed to promote more engagement and less updates. Each meeting will include some or all of the following…
- guest speakers
- presentation by a school committee
- articles about a topic of interest
- opportunity to sign up for an upcoming event
- snacks and social time
- fun ways to learn more about Waldorf education ~crafting (sometimes for charity)
- exchange of ideas
We also held our fourth monthly WCA meeting on the evening of Tuesday, December 10. We discussed upcoming events and signed up to help plan and run these events. We handed out articles about the four temperaments, Sanguine, Choleric, Melancholic and Phlegmatic, which are the characteristics we display in our personality in varying degrees of balance. If you wish to read further, let us know. Not all the articles have shareable links but we can help you find them.
Next WCA General Meeting
Tuesday, Jan 14, 8:15 am – 10:00 am, in the Trayes Room
At every meeting, we give you an article that is of interest to you. We have crafting and idea exchanges and snacks and social time. We offer this helpful reminder- we alternate our meetings each month between evening times and morning times to help accommodate as many of you as possible and we provide childcare free of charge at our evening meetings. Class Parents are graciously requested to attend at least one meeting in the fall semester and one meeting in the spring semester and meeting minutes will always find a path back to all parents through their designated class parents.
Eurythmy for Parents
Thursday, January 30, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm in the Trayes Room (childcare provided).
You won’t want to miss this. Eurythmy is an expressive movement art that originated with Rudolf Steiner. It is typically part of a full Waldorf educational curriculum. Waldorf School at Moraine Farm currently does not include this valuable work. Come learn why it is vital to our children’s development. We’ll learn from an expert all about Eurythmy and how it can help children as well as participating in some yourself. If you would like to utilize the childcare, please RSVP to wca@waldorfmoraine.org to help us plan ahead.
Book Group
Saturday evening, January 25th at the Reyes-Wangh home
We are reading This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel. We’d love to have you. Invite a friend. Join the conversation by emailing Branigan Reed at breed@waldorfmoraine.org.
Eco-Cleaning
Thursday, February 6, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm in the Trayes Room (childcare provided)
We share many interests as a community and one of them is using non-toxic products to keep our homes clean. Come to this fun, parent-led class on environmentally friendly home care solutions in February. Parents can sign up to take home a cleaning recipe, trial it at home and report back to us. Then we will all have a chance to make samples to take home and try for ourselves! We will also raffle off a gift basket of eco-friendly goodies for your home.
And don’t forget:
- Faculty Lunch – January 31, 2020, 11:00 am – 3:00 pm
- Pi Day Pie Auction – Saturday, March 14, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
- CPR for Parents – Saturday, April 4th. Time TBD
Current volunteer opportunities around the school
- WCA is looking for volunteers to participate on a committee to bring back the cafe. Express your interest in planning this community favorite by emailing wca@waldorfmoraine.org
- WCA is looking for all of you talented makers among us. There is interest in a Makers’ Fair in which we gather and celebrate those of us who make our own crafts, remedies, knitted things, household cleaners, etc. We will hear from each other about why we do what we do, how we came to decide to make what we make and how we can support each other, the ultimate local business model!
- WCA wants you to let us know what ideas you have by coming to our meetings, dropping a note in the WCA suggestion box in the Community Space or any other preferred form of communication.
Lastly, but not least, we share the verse we speak at each meeting…
“A healthy social life is found only when, in the mirror of each soul, the whole community finds its reflection, and when, in the whole community, the virtue of each one is living.”
– Rudolf Steiner
