Dear Parents and Educators: It is my dearest wish that the contents of these pages inspire and assist you in the sacred task of raising and teaching children to be spiritual and enlightened beings. I hope that the activities, quotes, and games provided here will help enkindle and sustain a passion for child education and increase the beauty, joy and fun for everyone in the learning environment.
Please take a few moments to read this first page before going to any of the 12 documents. You will need to have the Adobe Acrobat reader software (version 6.0 or greater) to read the pdf format documents. This can be downloaded for free from the Internet. If there is no way for you to read the files, please email me and I will send them as attachments.
Please send interested folks to this web site so they can get the most recent versions and print their own. Documents will be dated at the top with last revision date. A tip: Shortly before doing a game or dramatic performance, go to this website and download and print the relevant pages from the manual. I improve and revise frequently, and this way you get the best version. Especially right after I do a game or drama with students, I usually add many details and enhancements to my original description. The Ruhi related document and the games and drama manuals are the ones most frequently updated.
Just an FYI: Most of the games and dramatic activities were extracted from parent letters which I wrote to inform them of what we did in class. Since I also have been asked for my lesson plans, I decided to use the parent letters to describe in great detail everything we did—knowing that these could someday be converted into a teacher’s curriculum. Thus, many of the games and dramatic activities are written in past tense, describing what I did with my students-- and since I was the only teacher for about 30 years, most use the “I” pronoun. (As time went by, my students grew up and some became co-teachers, then “we” is used).
Feedback of any kind via email is always welcome. I know these documents are not professional—they have never been edited by another person. They have run on sentences and mixed up verb tenses, etc. (That is one reason they are free!) I just don’t have the time to spend on such perfection—I know they can be used as is by dedicated educators. However, they are very detailed and hopefully clear enough. If they are not clear, I would like to know. My email address is l.qualls@earthlink.net.
Page 2 of this web site contains links to and descriptions of all 12 documents currently on this site. Click on Available Documents in the upper right hand corner of this page to get to page 2.
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