Hi Everyone Today was Juliettes’ last animal in her animal studies block. We start Norse Mythology tomorrow. To make this transition smooth, even though it is a completely different subject, we studied the Mountain Lion of North America yesterday and today… Well we crossed the ocean! We looked at a world map, tracking our journey, [...]
Filed under: Waldorf Animal Studies, Waldorf Homeschooling, Waldorf Norse Mythology on November 25th, 2008 | No Comments »
Hey Everyone The kids are climbing trees at the moment before bedtime, I know, rhythm and all that, but it’s a beautiful evening so let them enjoy it, I’ll call them in in a minute…. Tonight is the eve of the last Waldorf Animal Studies lesson for this year for Juliette (Grade 4) We’ve enjoyed [...]
Filed under: Waldorf Animal Studies, Waldorf Homeschooling on November 24th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Hi Everyone I’ve been swamped, good swamped though, and would like to bring the Blog up to date with our school stuff. So today it’s Waldorf Form Drawing. If you’re not a Waldorf person, you’ll be thinking what? Why? I know my husband and I thought the same many years back. Waldorf can be so [...]
Filed under: Waldorf Form Drawing, Waldorf Homeschooling on November 23rd, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Boy have we had a week! We had floods on Sunday, with the rain running through our bedroom. This resulted in no loss of belongings just piles of washing! Towels by the dozen, and….well it rained on my huuuuge ironing pile. So I had to wash it all again. The universe’s hint…hey Sue, how about [...]
Filed under: Bio-Dynamic Gardening, HOMESTEADING, Homeschool on November 21st, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Hi Everyone Just a very quick post…I’ve been busy trying to put up new webpages. So you’ll see I’ve done a Waldorf Curriculum Review and there are new goodies in our Waldorf Inspired Shop! So if you’re considering a Waldorf Education for your child or a new Waldorf Curriculum, please visit the Waldorf Curriculum page. [...]
Filed under: Homeschool, Shop, Waldorf Homeschooling on November 18th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Hi Everyone Last night we celebrated the Festival of St Martin. The story very briefly goes like this…. St Martin was a soldier in the Roman army, who out on patrol one cold winters night, came upon a beggar and took his cloak off and cut it clean in half. In those days the cloak [...]
Filed under: Festivals, Handwork & Crafting, Verses, Waldorf Homeschooling on November 11th, 2008 | No Comments »
On Saturday afternoon we made a lantern each. I couldn’t face the paper ones this year. I saw what happened to them last year. They just got crumpled and ended up in a toy box. So we went with glass. Another reason being we live in a seriously windy area and the candle will continue [...]
Filed under: Festivals, Handwork & Crafting, Homeschool, Waldorf Homeschooling on November 11th, 2008 | No Comments »
Hi Everyone Well, yesterday’s telling of the story the Little Red Hen obviously was absorbed overnight, because when I went to clear another vege bed, harvesting the last brocoli, onions and beetroot and tying up tomatoes,that sort of thing (and weeding….), StJohn asked if he could help, and he did. He dug out brocoli plants, [...]
Filed under: Bio-Dynamic Gardening, HOMESTEADING, Waldorf Homeschooling on November 6th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Hi Everyone, Just a quick post to let you all know that the winner of our Re-Home a Gnome Competition is Cristal Brouwer. I’ve emailed her and she has chosen the Waldorf Inspired Choleric Gnome. Which has already been knitted and posted off. Cristal you should receive it in the next 5 days or so. [...]
Filed under: Handwork & Crafting, The 4 Temperaments, Waldorf Homeschooling on November 5th, 2008 | No Comments »
Hi Everyone Life here has been busy over the past few days, we’ve celebrated the festival of All Souls (Halloween), been to a craft fair and spend the day with friends, had a sleepover for Jules, and have today been harvesting. Hence my lack of blog posts! We have 5 chickens which provide us with [...]
Filed under: Homeschool, Waldorf Homeschooling on November 4th, 2008 | No Comments »