Well it’s the 3rd week of Advent, the light of beasts.
“The third light of Advent is the light of beasts. Animals of farm, field, forest, air and sea. All await the birth in greatest and in least.”
Rudolf Steiner
It’s one week until Christmas day, which we’ll just spend together, my husband, John, Juliette-Marie and StJohn and me. […]
Filed under: Festivals, Waldorf Homeschooling, Vegan Stuff on December 18th, 2009 | No Comments »
We’re in the 3rd week of Advent here and I just wanted to share last weeks advent chalkboard drawing with you. Down below you’ll see a drawing I did of a Mother with her child, for me we are all children of 1 mother, great spirit…whatever you wish to call it.We use the verse of […]
Filed under: Festivals, Waldorf Homeschooling on December 16th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
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, […]
Filed under: Anthroposophy, Festivals, Verses, Waldorf Homeschooling, Rudolf Steiner on October 7th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
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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 […]
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On Tuesday, we did a version of the story of St George, how he received his name. But first I just want to share a little something I do to make my life easier and hold the kids attention…Those chalkboard drawings…I get a lot of emails asking how to do them or if they’re really […]
Filed under: Waldorf Grade 5, Waldorf Grade 2, Festivals, Handwork & Crafting, Waldorf Homeschooling on October 2nd, 2009 | No Comments »
So it is that awesome time of year again, the Festival of Michaelmas. I want to share this week with you so that you can maybe get some ideas, or some resources that may make your Michaelmas a bit easier and richer. It’s often the planning which can be exhausting and it takes a lot […]
Filed under: Waldorf Grade 5, Waldorf Grade 2, Festivals, Verses, Waldorf Homeschooling on September 29th, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Hi Everyone,
We’re in the throws of advent and I haven’t had any time to blog, but I got a really nice email from someone thanking me for sharing my work, and it got me thinking…I’ve been planning advent for our family from a Steiner Waldorf Perspective and have done all the research and searching for […]
Filed under: Festivals, Waldorf Homeschooling on December 9th, 2008 | No Comments »
Hi Everyone
Last night we celebrated the Festival of St Martin. The story very briefly goes like this….
St Martin was a soldier in the Roman army, who out on patrol one cold winters night, came upon a beggar and took his cloak off and cut it clean in half. In those days the cloak of a […]
Filed under: Festivals, Verses, Handwork & Crafting, Waldorf Homeschooling on November 11th, 2008 | No Comments »
On Saturday afternoon we made a lantern each. I couldn’t face the paper ones this year. I saw what happened to them last year. They just got crumpled and ended up in a toy box. So we went with glass. Another reason being we live in a seriously windy area and the candle will […]
Filed under: Festivals, Handwork & Crafting, Waldorf Homeschooling, Homeschool on November 11th, 2008 | No Comments »