What an amazing experience our Fifth Grade class shared this past week at the Southeastern Waldorf School Pentathlon. Eight Waldorf schools from the Southeast joined together at Camp Twin Lakes in Rutledge, GA for 3 days and participated in an authentic Greek pentathlon experience.
The students came together Tuesday afternoon, met as eight separate schools, and by the evening's end, were combined into four, independent city-states representing Athens, Sparta, Corinth, and Thebes. Students from all eight schools reformed into these four city-states stayed in city-state cabins, ate, trained, and competed together. Additionally, our school presented two songs to an audience of approximately 150 students and adults, as did each of the eight fifth-grade classes. Each student was able to experience being a part of something new and bigger than simply representing their school. The inner confidence gained from this experience is priceless and timed beautifully as they transition from elementary to becoming middle school students.
A special and tremendous thank you to Mr. Matan for the excellent training year, and for supporting all the student-athletes at the games, Ki Ben for preparing the students to shine at their presentation, Asher’s mom, Heather, for chaperoning, Rory’s dad, Zach, for being a judge, Christopher’s mom, Debbie, for helping to support the dissemination of information, and a special thank you to our fifth-grade student Violet, who read her Ode to Aphrodite in front of close to 100 students, plus all the supporting adults and families in attendance from 8 different schools! Thank you, also, to all the Fifth Grade parents for your constant support, patience, and understanding as we shared this journey to the Pentathlon.
