A PRISON OF OUR MAKING Plant Stories – Living World Middle Lesson– Class 1 The dying furnace of a Kimberley sun promised the relief of a purple night; a flock of Pied Geese over-flew the straggling line of chained Aboriginal men – the birds mocking in their freedom. The line stopped beside a gnarled, old […]
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World Within – Child Without: Rock Cycle Stories for First Grade Science
MY GEOLOGY TEACHER’S AN OLD FOSSIL! Rock Cycle Stories Physical World Middle Lesson – Human Sciences – Class 1 It was a beautiful piece of diatomaceous earth that evoked a sweet but nameless ringing on the lyre-strings of the 14-year-old’s psyche. “It looks like a cradle for the fish.” He said quietly as he slowly […]
World Within – Child Without: A Four Elements Play for First Grade
GOLDA AND THE CRAB 4 Elementals Main Lesson – Human Sciences – Class 1 Golda sat on a rock, staring at the mirror surface of the river, she paddled her bare feet idly in the warm water. It was late afternoon; she was pondering on the next main lesson she was to take with her […]
World Within – Child Without: The Four Elements in First Grade Science
WHAT FAIRY STORIES? 4 Elementals Main Lesson – Life Sciences – Class 1 Once upon a time, it could have happened here, there, or anywhere, a Class 1 teacher in a Rudolf Steiner school sat in his study starting at a blank piece of white paper. The sun had just set over the distant, violet […]
World Within – Child Without: Physics in First Grade
SPIRITS OF POWER Physics Main Lesson – Physical Sciences – Class 1 The human being experiences the reality of science from the moment of entry into this physical world – as he tumbles out of the womb, he is already aware of gravity! From that time on, life is a continuum of coming to terms […]
World Within – Child Without: A First Grade Science Story
A Dome Away From Home Since 1413. We in the Southern Hemisphere have been enjoying the aegis of a vernal rising Virgo. Our time is primarily one of a striving for moral purity and charity. In the mighty Creation tableau, The Master places the Coelenterates (‘hollow stomachs’) as those creatures created, in the great laboratory […]