Why Christmas comes early this year. We introduced “theme weeks” this year, to have some over-arching structure on classes that otherwise can become pretty splintered as the age difference in the group is so big. It’s nice to work on something together. It quickly transpired that this age group needs much more than five days …
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Priming your child for a day in kindergarten
Just some ideas for things you might find fun: The week’s morning song. If possible, get your child acquainted with the song (usually mentioned in the weekly EFD Newsletter). Some of you are clearly doing this already. Many of the kindergarten kids contributed fiercely to “Go Down Moses” last week!Talk about what day today is. …
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Revenge of the EFD robots
We will be represented at the first Maker Fair in Copenhagen this weekend. We will have our own stand, and so will our own Nell, “Little Pink Maker”. Here’s a sampling of what we have to offer: “Maker fairs” are gatherings of assorted creators, inventors and tinkerers. There will be quite a lot of interesting …
Relax, just do it
Claire had a course in relaxation techniques today. It was also, for all practical purposes, a lesson in French. At evaluation everybody who participated said they wanted to do more.
A god for children and war
We had our first experimental family field trip today, and visited Glyptotekets exhibition “Bes. Demon. God – Protector of Egypt”. We ended up at Islands Brygge afterwards to swim, dive and eat our packed lunches. Bes was the god for childbirth, children, sex, fertility, play and war. An intriguing combination, and also one that makes …
The great reading challenge
This year, we have an exceptionally large group of pre-readers in school. Almost a quarter of the kids have come straight from kindergarten. They all know the alphabet and most can at least read syllables, but before summer vacation few in this group could confidently read instructions in their textbooks. Traditional reading training, where one …
The HUM update: Theme weeks
As you know, the time after lunch at school is dedicated to the students’ own projects. This hasn’t worked out for everyone. And even those who do succeed in steering their ship to port, don’t do it quite as often as I know they could. So this year we are trying out a much tighter …
An experimental excursion
Just checking the waters here: Maybe it would be nice to visit museums and exhibitions more. But school time is limited, and not every exhibition is interesting or relevant to every student. Furthermore, our field trip competence is now a little bit low after corona. To cut through this Gordian knot, I thought we’d start …
Some words about the school library
I have sifted through the entire library upstairs at school and culled quite a few books from the collection. This made me very philosophical about the state of school libraries in general. When I was a kid, books were restricted resources while time to read them was almost unlimited. I could either read books, or …
Renovation update
One parent commented to me once, in a fragrant French accent: “When I first came to the school, I thought it was so cool. And also so ugly.” We are extremely proud to announce that we are now less ugly. We have upgraded the entrances, cleaned and tidied up the school’s wardrobe beyond all recognition …