Our Waldorf Homeschool Journey

It was the final day of Atlantis studies. Again there was a chalkboard drawing waiting for Jules when she woke up…

We spoke about how the Atlanteans changed, how they started to use their powers not for the good of all but for the gain of a few and how this lead to their destruction. We spoke about how there were Atlanteans that remained true to the spirit. They saw where the fate of Atlantis was heading. They made plans to set up civilizations across our planet.

As I told Juliette,” These Atlanteans set sail in the wooden ships with beautiful painted sails. In each ship they had an extremely wise person, a poet, a healer, a teacher, a farmer, a scientist and a magician. Their leaders name was Manu.” (This sets us up as the intro to Ancient India!)

We then spoke about how the climate changed in Atlantis, how the storms became worse. We spoke about how in one terrifying day and night Atlantis was destroyed. How the storms tore it apart, how a volcano erupted from the very center of the earth, and how Atlantis broke apart and dissappeared, and how still to this day we are searching to try and find the lost continent of Atlantis…

Juliette then writes  bit about what I’ve taught her, and sometimes it can be quite interesting…when she wrote about the “good” Atlanteans getting into their ships to sail away, she wrote,

“Their leaders name was Manu!Yay!!Go Alanteans!!!!!”

As you can see she has a passion for exclamation marks, and she really got excited about Atlantis. We then took a 3 day weekend and started on the Ancient History of Pakistan…I know, not India, but I’ll explain why in the next post… it all started with the Harappa Civilization you see…

Filed under: Waldorf Grade 5, Ancient Civilisations, Anthroposophy, Waldorf Homeschooling, Rudolf Steiner on September 21st, 2009