Our Waldorf Homeschool Journey

Hi Everyone

We’ve been so swamped this past week. We’ve started a new Waldorf Curriculum, you can have a look at www.alittlegardenflower.com. It’s been truly amazing, the kids are loving it, and as importantly I love it and am able to teach it with an ease that makes life much happier for me.

Juliette has been doing a bit of local geography and history and map making. StJohn has been doing mainly form drawing and I’ve been reading him a good few stories. They’ve both being doing maths exercises, which they enjoy as the gnomes help out!

On the home front we’ve had a swarm of bees move into our roof which our local bee man is in the process of getting out. We just can’t keep them as much as we’d like to. It’s not practical or safe come to think of it. The bee man arrived and he was thrilled with our plants he said,”It’s fantastic to see people planting bee food!” Which I thought was funny, as when we put our fruit trees in, we specifically planted flowers to attract the bees. Not for a minute thinking they’d want to move in!!!

I love spring, as the garden is just amazing with it’s colours. I thought it was quite interesting that this coming week we start a lesson block with Juliette comparing man to animals, in respect of thinking feeling and willing, and we have a swarm of bees to study. Which I couldn’t have asked for more. They are a great example of working together as a team on pure instinct. Many times I’ve spoken to the children about how bees communicate in that funny little dance thing they do, and yesterday they were able to watch it in real life.

We have no TV! Yes I know, gasp gasp, how do we survive? Actually quite well.LOL! Anyway so they’ve never seen a hive close up on DSTV’s nature channel. Now they get to see it in a truly natural way, and honestly we’ve all been awestruck. As I watched the children’s fascination and joy at being a part of this, again I understood the reason for not letting them near a TV.

Oh and on a lighter note, John got stung on the top of his head, as the bee man handed him a new piece of beeswax. I’ll post a picture of it later today, the beeswax, not John’s head. So maybe the Bee also has a seagull mentality….You know the typical human (we call it the seagull mentality) response, “Mine!Mine!Mine!” I Know, I know, they’re just protecting their hive and it’s contents. But it was interesting that the bee picked that moment.

Anyway blessings to all of you for this coming week. I’m off to finish the painting in our upstairs dining room/school room, I’ve done the bottom part now its up on the ladder to do the top part of the wall, I don’t feel like it at all, but I’m forcing myself to finish tasks as that is one of my weaknesses…starting and not finishing something.

Love Sue.xx

Filed under: Waldorf Homeschooling, HOMESTEADING, Homeschool on October 19th, 2008