Now both Juliette and StJohn still do form drawing. StJohn has started on his Grade 3 form drawings as he needs that bit of extra challenge. Juliette really doesn’t enjoy the drawing part of our schoolwork any more…which saddens me, but she still has to do it….what she’s going to do next year when her [...]
Filed under: Ancient Civilisations, Waldorf Form Drawing, Waldorf Grade 2, Waldorf Grade 5 on October 19th, 2010 | No Comments »
So we completed Ancient Eqypt with Jules by taking a trip to a history museum in the city and writing in hieroglyphs. It was a really quick lesson block for me, as Juliette has an avid interest in all things Egyptian, so she has done most of the reading on her own. Here is the [...]
Filed under: Ancient Civilisations, Waldorf Grade 5, Waldorf Homeschooling on October 19th, 2010 | No Comments »
Today, we had a treat, John is on leave for the remainder of the week, so he took us into the centre of the city. We visited the Castle in Cape Town. The castle was built in 1656 by the Dutch East India Company as a refreshment station, mainly. Of course being true to type [...]
Filed under: Ancient Civilisations, Waldorf Homeschooling on December 28th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Well it’s been 10 days since I updated the blog which is frustrating! So I’m going to try and summarise what we’ve done over those 10 days. StJohn is finally free of mumps, they went down 2 days ago! And yes, you guessed right, Jules now has mumps, started yesterday…2 days last week were lost [...]
Filed under: Ancient Civilisations, Waldorf Grade 5, Waldorf Homeschooling on October 19th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
When we look at any of our lessons, being Animal Fables in Grade 2 or Mythology in Grade 4, 5, 6 etc I try and include an animal study and a plant study. If I am able to juggle everything then I’m able to do a single chalkboard drawing for both the Gr2 and Gr5 [...]
Filed under: Ancient Civilisations, Waldorf Animal Studies, Waldorf Grade 2, Waldorf Grade 5, Waldorf Homeschooling on October 18th, 2009 | No Comments »
Mmmmhh…you may be thinking, what on earth is this crazy woman doing now? But bear with me there is method in my perceived madness. For Grade 5 we finished Atlantis studies with the destruction of Atlantis taking place in 9600BCE. I didn’t want to then hop forward to 3300BCE and launch myself into India, so [...]
Filed under: Ancient Civilisations, Homeschool, Vimala Alphabet, Waldorf Grade 5, Waldorf Homeschooling on September 22nd, 2009 | No Comments »
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. [...]
Filed under: Ancient Civilisations, Anthroposophy, Rudolf Steiner, Waldorf Grade 5, Waldorf Homeschooling on September 21st, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Unfortunately I haven’t been updating the blog, as I’ve been in hospital, and have spent the better part of a week recovering. So I have lots to blog about. StJohns’ grade 2 lessons have been going according to schedule and I haven’t blogged about 1! Disgusting, I know, but I just want to get Juliettes’ [...]
Filed under: Ancient Civilisations, Rudolf Steiner, Waldorf Grade 5, Waldorf Homeschooling on September 21st, 2009 | No Comments »
Well Friday ended rather badly with StJohns’ horrid behavior, he’s going through that choleric stage at the moment, testing boundaries at every opportunity. So we never got to do is lesson with him on Friday…but that said he helped bake the lamingtons after school. But enough of that…Juliette and I looked at the Architecture and [...]
Filed under: Ancient Civilisations, Waldorf Grade 5, Waldorf Homeschooling on September 6th, 2009 | 2 Comments »
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… [...]
Filed under: Ancient Civilisations, Waldorf Grade 5, Waldorf Homeschooling on September 4th, 2009 | No Comments »