This morning we started school with a few movement exercises. StJohn was skipping and Juliette was doing some hoop work, which worked well to calm things down for their main lessons. For Juliette today it was The Plant Kingdom of Atlantis. Now in neither Plato nor Steiners’ work is there much to go on other [...]
Filed under: Ancient Civilisations, Anthroposophy, Waldorf Grade 5, Waldorf Homeschooling on September 2nd, 2009 | No Comments »
Yesterday was the first day of Grade 5 and we kicked off with form drawing, then Atlantean mythology. The lesson block I put together went down really well with Juliette. We spoke about how Cronus was overthrown by Zeus, how Zeus split up the earth and how Poseidon found the beautiful Cleito tucked up on [...]
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I sat down a while back with the grade 5 curriculum and started to plan the study of Atlantis. Step 1 – find as much info as possible, from everywhere, differing opinions etc. Now this is where planning really takes off and there is usually such a glut of info that one needs to sift [...]
Filed under: Ancient Civilisations, Anthroposophy, Rudolf Steiner, Waldorf Homeschooling on August 23rd, 2009 | No Comments »