OUR KNITTED GNOME SHOP

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It’s Saturday afternoon here and we’ve just got home from lunch with my children’s Nana, my dear mother! It was lovely and we’re stuffed to the gills. Let me make this clear. My mother does not cook, my grandmother fed me. BUT…my mother can make 1 dish and she has perfected it (she’s made […]

THE MELANCHOLIC CHILD

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It’s icy cold again here in our part of the Cape. Spring refuses to get going at this time. I’d like to share a very brief summary of the temperament of the Melancholic Child. This is often the most misunderstood of the temperaments. My daughter is Melancholic and it took me years to understand […]

Our Pocket Baby Knitted Gnome

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The past few days here have been freezing and raining, so perfect knitting weather! We’ve been preparing for our new curriculum, by gathering books, resources and making gnomes. I love gnomes, so do the kids of course. You can see the little gnome I knitted for Juliette. It’s pocket size, which really appeals to […]

THE 4 TEMPERAMENTS

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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 […]

STJOHN’S WALDORF GRADE 1 KNITTING

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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 […]

WALDORF GRADE 4 CROSS STITCH

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It’s absolutely Freeeeezing here in Cape Town. We had the most stunning warm spring day last Saturday, where the whole family spent most of the day in the garden weeding vegetable beds, trimming grass, trimming back long overdue shrubs. We even managed to squeeze in a picnic at the beach for dinner that […]

WHICH HOMESCHOOL CURRICULUM TO CHOOSE?!

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As you know if you’ve visited before the curriculum we use for StJohn is Waldorf based and this year I moved Juliette from a Waldorf Curriculum to Clonard, a more academic curriculum.
The main reason for doing this was that she insisted she wished to go to University to study to become a Vet. And […]