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 »
I’ve been asked this about 10 times this week! Maybe it’s the weather??Anyway, so I thought I’d just put it out there and anyone who is curious can get some answers…
I’ve been a vegetarian for 20 years on and off. At least 10 years before I’d even heard of Dr Steiner. I choose not to […]
Filed under: Waldorf Homeschooling, Vegan Stuff on September 26th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
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 […]
Filed under: Anthroposophy, Handwork & Crafting, Waldorf Homeschooling, Rudolf Steiner on September 24th, 2009 | No Comments »
One thing I don’t often blog about, is our handwork…Now I love sewing and knitting and crafting in general so I don’t find this hard going at all. Before I started homeschooling the kids, I used to help out with the Grade 1 and Grade 2 Handwork classes at their Waldorf school. Which looking back […]
Filed under: Waldorf Grade 5, Waldorf Grade 2, Waldorf Toys, Handwork & Crafting, Waldorf Homeschooling on September 23rd, 2009 | No Comments »
Mmmmhh…you may be thinking, what on earth is this crazy woman doing now? But bear with me there is method in my perceived madness. For Grade 5 we finished Atlantis studies with the destruction of Atlantis taking place in 9600BCE. I didn’t want to then hop forward to 3300BCE and launch myself into India, so […]
Filed under: Waldorf Grade 5, Ancient Civilisations, Vimala Alphabet, Waldorf Homeschooling, Homeschool on September 22nd, 2009 | No Comments »
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 […]
Filed under: Waldorf Grade 5, Ancient Civilisations, Anthroposophy, Waldorf Homeschooling, Rudolf Steiner on September 21st, 2009 | 2 Comments »