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 »
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
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 »
Hi Everyone
Today was a really fun day, and I also wanted to share what happened at dinner last night…Our family has a rhythm that we try and stick to, well we have a rhythm within a rhythm within a rhythm. We have a daily rhythm, a weekly rhythm, a seasonal rhythm and of course a […]
Filed under: Anthroposophy, Verses, Waldorf Homeschooling, Homeschool on October 20th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’d like to share a Waldorf Verse that I’ve been using with StJohn and Juliette, specifically for StJohn to calm him down before a lesson….
My hands upon my head I place
On my shoulders, On my Face
On my Lips, By my side
Then behind me they will hide
Then I lift them way up high
And let my […]
Filed under: The 4 Temperaments, Verses, Waldorf Homeschooling, Homeschool on October 2nd, 2008 | No Comments »
Hi Everyone,
We’ve been homeschooling now for nearly 3 years, yet started our Waldorf journey 6 years ago when we decided to enroll our daughter in a Waldorf School. During this time we’ve learnt much, moved away from Waldorf for a good few months, and then back again, with a huge sigh of relief to be […]
Filed under: Verses, Waldorf Homeschooling, Homeschool on September 22nd, 2008 | No Comments »
Hi Everyone!
It’s Friday and we’ve had a great week! Juliette has been cross stitching a bookmark for her Dads birthday next month. She’s really enjoying this activity. She wasn’t too keen on knitting when we did it last year, though she did finish the project, a pink pig. It’s just so relaxing sitting with both […]
Filed under: Verses, Handwork & Crafting, Waldorf Homeschooling, Homeschool on September 19th, 2008 | 1 Comment »