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| "No, it is not the Tour de France, that is me having fun in my last race in the Buda Hills,1992" |
Yesterday
Évi and I were discussing a lovely experience that we had a while ago on a jolly
afternoon in the group.
We all
love it when work works out like it did on the day in question but the children
love it more than we do because they believe that they have distracted Évi from her
planned afternoon programme!
They
did not notice that, while they filled her shoes with nuts and tied her
shoelaces in knots, that she had slipped away to find the next ‘naughty game’
for them to play.
These
children have lived and learnt in conductive environments most of their lives,
they have learnt how to play but what
is most important is that they want
to play.
They
know how to be creative with their time. They have learnt the skill that most
children do without prompting. They have learnt how to show others, the conductors,
their parents or friends, what it is that they wish to be doing. They have
learnt how to guide others to help them in their learning processes just like
other children do, spontaneously.
However
tired they are, these children always want to be doing something. Whether it is
being really active, rushing around doing things, or taking part in activities
at a slightly slower pace, like working at a table painting, sewing or
papier-maché-ing, they know that they have only to ask and then any of the
conductors will facilitate their creativity as well as we can.
Yes,
that afternoon what Évi and I were discussing was indeed successful spontaneous
orthofunction at its very best and it happened because these children know how
to make the most of an unexpected afternoon when the rest of the group, for a
variety of reasons, just happened to not turn up!
They
know us well enough to know that if they use their time well we will allow them
to take the lead and we are all bound to have lots of fun.
Notes
This
story appeared as comments, in a dialogue with Andrew Sutton on a recent
posting on my Conductor blog. I thought it was worth bringing it up for an
airing here.
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