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: Ancient Civilisations, Homeschool, Vimala Alphabet, Waldorf Grade 5, Waldorf Homeschooling 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. [...]
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’ [...]
Filed under: Ancient Civilisations, Rudolf Steiner, Waldorf Grade 5, Waldorf Homeschooling on September 21st, 2009 | No Comments »
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 »
I was having a bit of a bad day with my darling 7 year old son… So I thought, you know what…I’m going to bake. I always feel better after a baking session, and this one seemed perfect as it has 3 easy steps. Each child was able to do something. I baked the sponge [...]
Filed under: Homesteading Recipes, Waldorf Homeschooling on September 4th, 2009 | No 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 »
Yesterday we did the first of StJohns’ animal fables for the year. We started with the fox and the crow. First thing yesterday we did a form drawing, then I told him the story of the crow. The chalkboard drawing was ready for him, it is sooooo important. I know a lot of Mom’s don’t [...]
Filed under: Waldorf Grade 2, Waldorf Homeschooling on September 2nd, 2009 | No Comments »
Yesterday was the first day of Grade 5 and we kicked off with form drawing, then Atlantean mythology. The lesson block I put together went down really well with Juliette. We spoke about how Cronus was overthrown by Zeus, how Zeus split up the earth and how Poseidon found the beautiful Cleito tucked up on [...]
Filed under: Ancient Civilisations, Anthroposophy, Homeschool, Rudolf Steiner, Waldorf Form Drawing, Waldorf Homeschooling on September 2nd, 2009 | No Comments »
Many people seem to only give their boys traditional “boys” toys. I’ve found having a son and daughter that they both seem to like all sorts of toys until the age of about 8/9. Juliette still loves her “Barbie” dolls (for want of a better description). Dolls that go places, get dressed into many clothes, [...]
Filed under: Anthroposophy, Handwork & Crafting, Waldorf Homeschooling, Waldorf Toys on August 29th, 2009 | 1 Comment »