Our Waldorf Homeschool Journey

Yesterday was the first day of Grade 5 and we kicked off with form drawing, then Atlantean mythology. The lesson block I put together went down really well with Juliette. We spoke about how Cronus was overthrown by Zeus, how Zeus split up the earth and how Poseidon found the beautiful Cleito tucked up on a land surrounded by sea. We spoke of Atlantis in the beginning, how it was shrouded in mist, and how that slowly lifted the more the people of Atlantis became one with Earth.

We spoke about how Cleito and Poseidon had children and then the land was split up between them. What was the land like? What grew there?What were their buildings like? Animals?Plants?

A basic introduction to the Continent of Atlantis prior to 9600BCE.

I drew a representation of Atlantis on one of our chalkboards and Juliette drew her representation of Atlantis and wrote about it.  All in all I think we both enjoyed it. We’ll go into detail about each aspect of Atlantis for the remainder of this week and part of next week. I originally set aside a week for Atlantis, but on reflection found we need seven days not 5 to really do it justice. Today we discovered the plants of Atlantis.

Everything that I told Juliette today was based on the study of both Plato and Rudolf Steiners’ work.

Filed under: Anthroposophy, Ancient Civilisations, Waldorf Form Drawing, Waldorf Homeschooling, Rudolf Steiner, Homeschool on September 2nd, 2009