I’m getting ready to teach a new class next year and now is the time to be putting in my order for supplies. The major suppliers (Mercurius, Paper, Scissors, Stone) usually offer discounts if you order early enough in the year, so it pays to stop what you’re currently doing and try to look to [...]
In response to my chalk recommendation, Rachel wrote in asking about making your own chalkboard. Making your own chalkboard is so easy, there really is no reason to go buy one. Here’s a quick tutorial.
The first thing is to find the flat material that will be your board. Some people have sectioned off portions of [...]
This is sort of an oddball topic, I suppose, but today as I was looking around at the children I work with I started to realize some of the opinions I have about Waldorf wearables. In the Waldorf world we’re always wanting to care for the children’s well-being — whether it is so they can [...]
Thanks to everyone who commented in response to my beeswax giveaway. It’s nice to see so many friendly faces pop out of the woodwork. I went to www.random.org which randomly generated lucky number 27, which makes Rose the winner! Rose commented with this:
I love your blog! I am a homeschooling mom trying to incorporate the Waldorf [...]
I’ve been away from blogging for a week or so, with technical difficulties — hate when that happens. But, we’re back up and running just in time for a giveaway!
I’ve been wanting to post a review on one of the Waldorf supplies that I use daily — both for myself and my students — and [...]
Continue reading about Top 5 Uses For Beeswax and . . . A Giveaway!
Colored pencils were easily the material that were used most in my classroom. They are a Waldorf staple that enter the classroom as early as grade 1. This post on pencils is the latest in my series on main lesson supplies — see my other posts on crayons and main lesson books.
Grades 1-3
Beginning in grade one [...]
Continuing my series on main lesson supplies, today I’ll cover crayons. Check here for my other post in this series – main lesson books.
The drawing supplies children use in a Waldorf school evolve as they move through the grades and it all begins with crayons.
Block Crayons
Block crayons are the signature Waldorf early childhood drawing material. They’re [...]
Out of all of the things you will purchase for your students — whether you’ve got a classroom-full or your own homeschooled children — materials for creating beautiful main lesson books are the supplies not to skimp on. Colored pencils and main lesson books are daily-use tools — buy the best and make your everyday [...]
I’ll confess that I’m a bit of a chalkboard snob. The chalk, the eraser, the board — it all has to be just right. And don’t even get me started on keeping it clean! Over the years I have found some tricks to satisfying my obsessive chalkboard tendencies, and I’ll share them with you.
Chalk
For colored [...]
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 [...]
