waldorf physics class

 i was early to the waldorf class this morning, and got to see them run through their morning exercises.

svetlana has them chanting with one partner and four sticks.

chanting with a group of four and eight sticks.

 physics lesson: refraction. there is a pinhole in the white paper through which you shine a flashlight which catches the wavelengths in the prism and reflects a rainbow onto the second piece of paper on the left.

 chanda took these pictures and captured the rainbow rather well considering how dark it was in the room (you needed a steady hand on the camera). we also observed an image from outside the apartment projected through a pinhole in a sheet of paper completely covering the window and onto a large white paper. the image was inverted, and the children all had fun taking turns dancing around outside next to a car while the others observed both them and the car upside down on the paper inside. 

 here they observed the rainbow through a prism aimed at paper on the floor. black and white papers reflected a different order of rainbow colors. 

the order of the colors for black on white are blue, violet, yellow, red; and for white on black are red, yellow, violet, blue . . 

 painting a colorwheel . .

they would let the paintings dry and then add more layers . . you can hear the hair dryer we used in the movie below . . it's a little loud . . ah well . . 

seeing how when you move the white pages into each other the colors blend into magenta. colors on the right side of the paper when looking through the prism are blue and violet, and the colors seen on the left side are yellow and red.

the colors are reversed when it is black on white and blend into green.