SCHOOL STARTS SOON sigh…

We start our lessons again next monday and I’m sitting preparing them now for the first main lesson block. Jules and I have a week of Ancient India left, and then a 4 week block of maths, week 1 being revision of last years work…does she remember how to multiply,divide, fractions etc…I think she will, […]

FINALLY THE MICHAELMAS FESTIVAL

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, […]

WALDORF HANDWORK

I just wanted to add a quick post before I put the babies to bed. The book we use the most for our Waldorf Handwork projects, in fact I’ve based my kids entire handwork curriculum on it is, Rudolf Steiners’ Indications on Handwork. It has everything you’ll ever need in it. It explains, why we […]

THE DESTRUCTION OF ATLANTIS

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 […]

ATLANTIS waldorf grade 5 and the Bean powered car…

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’ […]

WALDORF ATLANTIS THE CREATION

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 […]

ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS - ATLANTIS GRADE 5 WALDORF

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 […]

PLANNING OUR WALDORF LESSONS FOR THE NEW YEAR

Well we’re nearly at the end of our holiday between grades, and I’ve been sleeping, playing with my cat, playing boardgames with the kids, having breakfast at strange places and having numerous pajama days!
And I’ve been reading….in preparation for planning the lessons. Now when you get Melisas’ curriculum you are given the daily lesson plan […]

THANKS TO MY SUPPORT SYSTEM

I just want to type a quick post to say “Thank you”. Something that gets overlooked in our busy full days. A huge Thank you to my support system.
John, my husband, thank you for sharing this journey with us, thank you for being the Husband to me and Father to our kids I always dreamed […]