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: Ancient Civilisations, Waldorf Grade 5, Waldorf Homeschooling on October 19th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
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: Ancient Civilisations, Waldorf Animal Studies, Waldorf Grade 2, Waldorf Grade 5, Waldorf Homeschooling on October 18th, 2009 | No Comments »
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, Rudolf Steiner, Verses, Waldorf Homeschooling on October 7th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Filed under: Festivals, Homeschool, Homesteading Recipes, Vegan Stuff, Waldorf Homeschooling on October 7th, 2009 | No Comments »
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 [...]
Filed under: Festivals, Waldorf Homeschooling on October 2nd, 2009 | No Comments »
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: Festivals, Handwork & Crafting, Waldorf Grade 2, Waldorf Grade 5, Waldorf Homeschooling on October 2nd, 2009 | No Comments »