To celebrate the last day of classes, my students played with sticks. To quote one of my kids, “this is something we’d do in a Waldorf school”. I don’t teach at a Waldorf school.
Here are some pictures of my calculus class making a six-pointed star and raising two tetrahedra.
If you look carefully you’ll see that the kids aren’t holding the sticks. These are push-sticks. I am pretty sure I’ve played with them long ago but it wasn’t until a yoga workshop with the wonderful
Circus Minimus last Sunday did I actually realized that I could use them in class. Or, at least, I can have kids play with them. Push-sticks are basically wooden dowels. What makes them special is that they are held up by two people each putting an index finger on each end. It’s a wonderful exercise in movement and trust. It’s also wonderful for doing things like making pretty things.
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