Though there are a lot of great Waldorf math resources, I sometimes found that I needed a little more than what I found there. Waldorf resources are great for detailing how to go about explaining a concept holistically, but when you just need a whole slew of problems for practice, mainstream resources are the way [...]
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I guess music is on my mind these days. I’ve been going through my music resources a lot these days and having a lot of fun finding songs I had never discovered before.
This week I was asked to bring some activity to our school’s Parent Council meeting. I taught them one of the songs and dances [...]
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I know it isn’t bright and sunny everywhere, but in my neck of the woods spring arrived a bit early and it has me feeling like getting outside and moving! As a teacher, leading games was never my strong suit, but as my teaching years went on I appreciated more and more the value of [...]
Dear readers, thank you so much for bearing with me through my spotty posting record. Lots has been happening here — visiting schools, watching for the next adventure that looms on the horizon.
I’ve promised (for weeks) to post resources for 7th and 8th grade history stories, but before I do that I wanted to share [...]
Continuing my series on story resources through the grades, here are my thoughts on grade five.
In grade five the students are slowly moving from the realm of mythology into the realm of history. This is a big transition that happens in this golden year of childhood, and I found that around this time my homeschooled [...]
A Path of Discovery is a curriculum resource written by Australian Waldorf teacher Eric Fairman. I have found his work to be inspiring and full of great ideas. From Bob and Nancy’s Bookshop website,
Eric Fairman is a delightfully creative (and amazingly well-organized!) Waldorf grade school teacher in Australia who has done us all a great [...]
There are a handful of books that make great introductions to Waldorf education. A couple of these books have been my go-to gift choice for new parents, or friends who are exploring education options.
You Are Your Child’s First Teacher by Rahima Baldwin-Dancy
This Waldorf Education classic was my first Waldorf book. It has been the first [...]
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As a teacher in a Waldorf school, I actually have little experience with any of the complete Waldorf curriculum resources that are out there. In my training we were taught that ideally the teacher crafts the curriculum entirely from scratch, following Rudolf Steiner’s guidelines and his or her own intuition about the students’ needs. This [...]
When I first began teaching at a Waldorf school I quickly found that there were resources for teaching that everyone used. Usually the not-to-be-missed resource titles were passed down from teacher to teacher, as each one of us shared with the teacher of the class behind us what worked, what didn’t, and what resources we couldn’t have lived [...]
