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, […]
Filed under: Waldorf Grade 5, Waldorf Grade 2, Waldorf Homeschooling, Rudolf Steiner, Homeschool on January 12th, 2010 | No Comments »
John gave me a huge Christmas present of an easel, oil paints, etc. Which at the time I thought wow, that’s so awesome of him… what I didn’t put together was how awesome…he knows I’ve been going through a bit of a dark space and he knows me well enough (he met me when I was […]
Filed under: Anthroposophy, Waldorf Homeschooling on December 29th, 2009 | No Comments »
Today, we had a treat, John is on leave for the remainder of the week, so he took us into the centre of the city. We visited the Castle in Cape Town. The castle was built in 1656 by the Dutch East India Company as a refreshment station, mainly. Of course being true to type […]
Filed under: Ancient Civilisations, Waldorf Homeschooling on December 28th, 2009 | No Comments »
I’ve been feeling extremely restless this past little while, yet tired, so ended up baking a batch of chocolate muffins for breakfast tomorrow morning - sooo healthy!LOL!
Usually I bake everything from scratch, using as many organic ingredients as possible, but a few days back I was given the gift of a packet of muffin mix […]
Filed under: Waldorf Homeschooling, Vegan Stuff, Homesteading Recipes, HOMESTEADING on December 26th, 2009 | No Comments »
In one way I’m relieved that advent and christmas are now behind us. I find it a trying time. I love it for the kids sake and it is a beautiful season, but there are many hurts that happen over this time. Family that cannot be with us for so many reasons…I’m just glad to […]
Filed under: Waldorf Homeschooling on December 26th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
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 have been so busy it’s been impossible to add to our blog. My apologies to all of you who follow us…Jules is finishing Ancient India next Thursday, and we’ll then stop school until next year! StJohn has finished all his animal fables already so he’s practising reading. We’re in the throws of advent -I’ll […]
Filed under: Organic Vege Boxes, Bio-Dynamic Gardening, Waldorf Homeschooling, Vegan Stuff, HOMESTEADING on December 3rd, 2009 | No Comments »
Well it’s been 10 days since I updated the blog which is frustrating! So I’m going to try and summarise what we’ve done over those 10 days. StJohn is finally free of mumps, they went down 2 days ago! And yes, you guessed right, Jules now has mumps, started yesterday…2 days last week were lost […]
Filed under: Waldorf Grade 5, Ancient Civilisations, Waldorf Homeschooling on October 19th, 2009 | No Comments »
When we look at any of our lessons, being Animal Fables in Grade 2 or Mythology in Grade 4, 5, 6 etc I try and include an animal study and a plant study. If I am able to juggle everything then I’m able to do a single chalkboard drawing for both the Gr2 and Gr5 […]
Filed under: Waldorf Grade 5, Waldorf Grade 2, Ancient Civilisations, Waldorf Animal Studies, Waldorf Homeschooling on October 18th, 2009 | No Comments »