TELL US A STORY The Four Elementals Their Activity in a Living Teaching The Class 1 children wondered why the small lump of rock was taking pride of place in the classroom. This is until the teacher introduced it – him! – ; Basil Basalt. He (the teacher) explained that for this Four Elementals (or […]
BOOK: World Within
World Within – Child Without: A Spiritual Lesson Preparation
FOR ALL TIMES – FOR ALL PLACES A Spiritual Lesson Preparation Children audiences at afternoon matinees often get so excited at the hero’s ignorance of impending doom, that they impotently shout warnings at the screen. Of course the hero fails to hear them and – predictably! – blunders right into disaster. Rudolf Steiner describes a […]
World within – Child Without: Water Cycle Stories & Verses in Second Grade
BOTTLED WISDOM Water Cycles Stories Physical World Middle Lesson – Class 2 The Indina Sisters swam lazily around in their bottle of water on The Teacher’s desk. They had a perfect view of the whole class of 8-year-old children – and they could hear every word of this Water Cycle Stories middle lesson. It had […]
World Within – Child Without: The Four Kingdoms in Second Grade
TARA AND THE CANE TOAD 4 Kingdoms Main Lesson – Human Sciences – Class 2 “…and then the boys got a baseball bat out of the bus and ran back to the public toilets. The fluorescent lights attracted the cane toads. Anyway the boys began belting the ugly amphibians all over the place – ugh […]
World Within – Child Without: Telling Animal Fables in Second Grade
CONFESSIONS OF A FABULIST Animal Fables Main Lesson – Life Sciences – Class 2 …and so Posea-Sol concluded the story of Clever Hermit. After many days of the Animal Fables main lessons, the Class 2 children knew what was to happen next; they had to be very quiet, and get on with their drawings or […]
World Within – Child Without: An Animal Fable for Second Grade
CLEVER HERMIT – An Animal Fable – Once, it could have been near your favorite beach or mine, long ago or yesterday, a large Turban Shell moved slowly across the wet, black rocks. Spotty Terrier cocked his head at this puzzling sight. Perhaps it was a toy of some kind? With his mind on fun […]