Our Waldorf Homeschool Journey

On Tuesday, we did a version of the story of St George, how he received his name, supposedly from a King. Today I told them a story of how StGeorge was as a child and how he met the Archangel Michael. How Michael taught him about using strength for the good of all. The story was written by Christine Natale and is positively beautiful.Read it by clicking HERE!

I changed it slightly for my two, to include being kind to small animals, as StJohn can sometimes be a bit rude to our cats and dog.I was also guided to add a line on the end. “And this strong boy, who had grown into such a fine courageous mans’ name was George.”

As I said this StJohn just about jumped out of his chair. He started babbling really fast…”You see St George was just like me, I can grow into a strong kind man.” And I said to him, “Sweetheart you are already a strong kind boy.” I just had to share that with you. The more we work with our angels and our childrens’ angels the more we get out of our lessons, and our life, in fact. I firmly believe that story was needed for StJohn at this time on his journey.

As I was telling the story to the kids, I got to the part where Michael lifts the strong boy onto his horse and the horse sprouts wings as does Michael, and I was looking at StJohn at this point. His eyes opened wider and his mouth formed a perfect “O”.

Before we did the story we needed a few additions to the chalkboard, so we popped the Archangel Michael in, so here it is…you see, the drawing is the same, but has a few new goodies in. My kids love discovering the new additions…

It was a sculpting day so the children used their clay to make well…I encourage them to create what they feel about the stories. StJohn made St George, a horse, a dove and a sword. Jules made a horse, a horse brush and food bowl and a sword. We used grey clay this day instead of the terracotta we usually use, because we want to paint them when they dry tomorrow. Tomorrow we paint our sculptures, make dragon bread for the feast that evening, and decorate our “dragon egg” cupcakes.

I can’t wait… I looove festivals! Now I’m off to make lunch and make a start of the cupcakes and capes…Have a blessed day!

 I left the children with a small verse/thought from our story today, which they have written in their festival book…

When strength and freedom are joined with love and healing, all evil can be overcome and great things can happen!

Filed under: Festivals, Waldorf Homeschooling on October 2nd, 2009