Our Waldorf Homeschool Journey

We woke up on Saturday morning, all excited and looking forward to our festival only to discover when StJohn woke up that he had …mumps! Oh no! What to do? We couldn’t delay the festival, they’d been looking forward to it for weeks…So we went ahead with it…I had to cancel our friends coming round, and feed Sin pain killers, but he had a good time despite all of this. Strangely enough it was the best festival we’d had…here are the pics!

First thing that morning we made Dragon Bread together…

 It came out looking like a fat cat with a spikey back, but the kids were thrilled with it! I made flames out of the dough (for it’s mouth) as well but it fell off LOL! Anyway as I said the kids loved it and it tasted great. We used Almonds for the claws, teeth and ridges on his back.

Then we made flapjack batter for dessert. Then we had to wait. We threaded fairy lights through the stairs and set the table. Finally it was time to start…

We always start with the lighting of candles for everything we do…I told the story again about StGeorge and the Archangel Michael, then John presented StJohn with his sword and shield that he and StJohn had worked at all week and read the inscription on the back.

On the back was written,

“When strength and freedom are joined with love and healing all evil can be overcome.”

Then I presented each child with a cloak which I’d made quickly the night before. I found the verse for “cloak giving” here!StJohns was a golden yellow satin, and as I placed it around his shoulders I said,

“I give to you a cloak of golden light, to give you courage, strength and might.”

Then Juliette was presented with a shimmering silver cloak and was told,

“I give to you a cloak of silver light to give you courage,  kindness and might.”

 

 You’ll notice the Ben 10 t-shirt. We don’t own a TV, StJohn saw Ben 10 twice at his Grandmothers house. Just twice! And he became crazy about this character, also he’s constantly bombarded by merchandise at the various stores. I cannot bear Ben 10! So what to do? Obviously Sin needed a hero so we made a huge fuss about Michaelmas, and StGeorge, and as I put StJohn to bed that night, all my hard work was rewarded, he said,”Mom, I don’t like Ben 10 anymore, he’s just a drawing. StGeorge was a real man. He was awesome, I can be just like him.” Ahem..end of rant,sorry!

Then we sat down together, said our dinner verse and had a feast. I wrapped baked potatoes in foil for the kids, as a surprise on their plates. Here they are…dragon potatoes…

 

StJohn then took off his foil wrapping and shaped into a heart for his sister…And that was it…Michaelmas was at an end. What an incredible week we had. I’d like to leave you with a link to an Article written by Ita Wegman about the work of the Archangel Michael. It changes the way you view the festival of Michaelmas, and also is a wonderfully concise history of the human race, from the perspective of Spiritual Science. Read it HERE.

 

Filed under: Anthroposophy, Festivals, Verses, Waldorf Homeschooling, Rudolf Steiner on October 7th, 2009