Our Waldorf Homeschool Journey

We’ve done, the creation and plants of Atlantis, yesterday was the turn of the Animals found in Atlantis. Apparently there were elephants, cattle horses etc who lived in Atlantis, but we’d done all of those animal studies in Grade 4, so I wanted something a bit different.And it had to be from the India area…

In the end I chose the Indian Blue Peafowl, commonly called the peacock. So this morning we spoke about the fertile soil, bringing forth the many and varied plants, and because of this there was sure to be an abundance of birdlife, right? Well what better bird to decorate the beautiful Atlantis than a Peacock?

This is the chalkboard drawing I prepared for this morning…

 

Juliette then wrote about it and surrounded her work with a form drawing, in this case being the decoration of the feathers of the peacock…

 Then she drew the peacock, and did something a bit special. I’ve found that during a lesson block, when we’re just drawing, writing and the odd painting and sculpture type work, it can become tedious. So I try and find things that are a bit more interesting. This week it was feathers. Have a look at the picture she drew yesterday. After she had finished, she then glued fine brilliant blue feathers onto the peacocks body. She was thrilled with the result…

 Now I’m off to teach her about the architecture and great temple of Atlantis. And of course StJohn is doing a fable this morning. I need to update the blog with his things as well.

Filed under: Waldorf Grade 5, Ancient Civilisations, Waldorf Homeschooling on September 4th, 2009