Sunfield Waldorf School's Grade 6/7 class is presenting Roma Amor, a play set in ancient Rome, at 7 p.m. on Friday, February 15. We invite you to join us in the Chimacum Grange for this single performance. Admission is by donation.

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Our new Sunfield calendars for 2013 feature images from Sunfield student work, reflecting the seasons and the stories and studies of all our grades and kindergarten classes.

Each monthly calendar page has notations of important dates and moon phases, and ample room for noting your own important events on each day.

These beautiful calendars are available in the office. Cost is now only $5.

Please call 385-3658 for more details or to place an order.

A cricket and not a ghost brought about transformation in this magical Christmas tale by Charles Dickens, with teacher Helen Curry directing Grade 8 and 9 students, supported by students from Grade 4 and 5, in a presentation of Cricket on the Hearth, a Fairy Tale of Home on Saturday, December 22 at 7 p.m. and on Sunday, December 23 at 3 p.m. at the Chimacum Grange Hall.

Throughout Dickens’ lifetime, the novella Cricket on The Hearth outsold the more renowned tale of A Christmas Carol. It is, by contrast, much sweeter, bringing up social criticism with a good mouthful of bonbons. Dickens himself describes the story as “quiet and domestic, innocent and pretty.”

In the play, a magical cricket helps the characters to “see the truth.” Caleb Plummer (Johnas Stocking), a toymaker, and his blind daughter, Bertha (Sydney Louchard), live in impoverished conditions in the squalor of London, but “to keep her happy” her father has hidden from her the truth of their condition. This question around the depiction of an ideal Victorian home is entwined with another plot regarding deception and marriage relating to Bertha’s dear friends, Dolly (Mahina Gelderloos) and John Peerybingle (Clayton Sturgis), and Bertha’s long lost brother, Edward (Enomi Hawk), who returns to claim his sweetheart, May (Ciel Pope), the daughter of the dominating mother, Mrs. Fielding (Moonblossom Dean). May is reluctantly engaged to Mr. Tackleton (Noah Phillips), the arrogant wealthy “Scrooge-like” antagonist, who at the play’s end, also “sees the truth” and is softened, thanks to the cricket.

The cramped interior world of Caleb and Bertha’s shack is contrasted with the bustle of London streets, filled with children playing and singing, surrounding the audience. The songs throughout the play are all drawn from traditional sources.

The two performances were well-received by audiences, and the play was a welcome addition to Ms. Curry’s traditional holiday theater experience.

Grandparents Day is a special event for all Sunfield students on Wednesday, November 21. We honor grandparents with their own special day to experience Sunfield with their grandchild.

For grade school students, grandparents start the day in their grandchild’s class with a main lesson at 8:30 a.m. This is a great opportunity for grandparents to discover what their grandchild is learning. At 10 a.m. everyone joins in an all school assembly, with a tea for the grandparents following in Ms. Curry’s classroom at 10:30 a.m. Hale and hearty grandparents may also join in farm chores at 11 a.m. if they wish.

For grandparents of kindergartners, the day starts with the tea in Ms. Curry’s room at 10:30. At 11 o’clock, grandparents are invited to join in craft activities in the kindergarten classroom.

Of course grandparents are welcome to choose to schedule their day with any segment that best fits their circumstances. The most important thing is to share the Sunfield experience with each other, in the way that best suits grandparent and grandchild. Welcome!