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 […]
Golden Beetle Curriculum Guides
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 […]
World Within – Child Without: The Four Seasons in Second Grade
“AUTUMN IS SPRING?…YOU’RE JOKING!! 4 Seasons Main Lesson – Physical Sciences – Class 2 See Four Seasons song/poems The concept of the 4 seasons seems to be a real problem for a lot of Northern Hemisphere immigrants to the South. They resolutely attempt to import the seasons unchanged from Munich, Manchester or Maine. This is […]
World Within – Child Without: Plant Stories for First Grade
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 […]
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 […]
Earthschooling – an Award Winning Curriculum
