THE FAIRY TALE OF FASCISM New Stories for a New Millennium Living storytelling, whether for teachers or parents, is the creation of new, apt, morally sound yet exciting images for our children. Dead storytelling is practiced by the creatively indolent, who try to breathe life into the corpses of long-dead folk souls by endlessly regurgitating […]
SKILLS: Storytelling
World Within – Child Without: The Four Elementals
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 […]
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: 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 […]
Earthschooling – an Award Winning Curriculum
