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’ [...]
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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 »
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 »