Question from Member: My Kids Get Frustrated Their Drawings Don’t Look Like Mine… While you are on drawing, my kids (especially my younger one) get frustrated that their drawings don’t look like mine (which aren’t that great, but as she’s only 4 obviously I’ve got a bit better control). Beyond saying ýou’ll get better as […]
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Using Beeswax with a First Grader
Using Beeswax with a First Grader: Question from Member The other day in the Grade 1 weekly catch up, we were discussing beeswax… Specifically for sculpting the letters as we learn them. Our daughter really struggled with being able to bring the letter together well in this medium, because of it’s firmness and often its inability […]
Purring When Pleased: A Mother’s Day Story
Suitable for preschool and kindergarten They had been licked over hundreds of times by the same mother, had been brought up on the same food, lived in the same house, learnt the same lessons, heard the same advice, and yet how different they were! Never were there two kittens more thoroughly unlike than those two! […]
The Three-Day Rhythm
As we have described in Waldorf 101 there are many rhythms to Waldorf education that the teacher/parent must be aware of. We have already discussed the rhythm of breathing in and breathing out. We have also discussed the rhythm of balancing the head, heart and hands. A sample day balancing the head-heart and hands might look […]
Earthschooling Member BLOG
The BLOG posts on this page are accessible by Earthschooling members once they log into their account. Enjoy! These BLOG posts contain a lot of extra verses, stories, crafts and lessons – all categorized by month, grade and topic! How it Works You can browse by scrolling through the pages or you can use the […]
A Verse for March, Spring, Equinox
A Spring Story from Sweden
This story can be used in connection with a nordic storytelling day on spring equinox (March 20, 2010). This post is visible to members of Earthschooling once they log into their account online. Once upon a time there was a tramp walking through a deep forest. He made his living selling a little bit of […]
Harmony in the Home and Classroom (Discipline)
We are always working together to develop workable class mantras. By workable, I mean ideas that work for everyone in the class, are understood by everyone in the class and are meaningful to what we want to accomplish. I thought I would share some of my favorite “mantras” with everyone. What are some of your […]
Earthschooling – an Award Winning Curriculum
