Sofi Archives

Book Review: How to Bake Pi: Inspiration for Teachers/Parents

Posted on August 27, 2015 by thebearthinstitute in Cooking, Math, Sofi, Uncategorized, Waldorf Books

In Waldorf education math for a first and second grader is a joyous experience. This continues through the lower grades with math being integrated into drawing, form drawing, art, hands-on activities, and handwork. However, as the children get older and the math becomes more challenging it becomes increasingly difficult to...

Read more No comments

What Broadway Shows Can Teach You About Life

Posted on August 6, 2015 by thebearthinstitute in Field Trips, High School, Middle Grades, Sofi

Preface: Our local Civic Center, The Des Moines Performing Arts Center, brings many shows to Des Moines every year. They not only bring amazing Broadway performances, professional dancers & touring shows to our local stage but they give homeschoolers and public school students wonderful chances to see performing art shows & interact...

Read more No comments

Tears in the Classroom & A Breadmaking Poem

Posted on July 4, 2014 by thebearthinstitute in Cooking, Guest Blogger, Sofi

Sometimes we plan the best lesson and get so excited anticipating the results in our class…and then it does not go as planned. This is what happened one day when we were shaping bread and my daughter burst into tears. It was unexpected and disappointing for me. What had I...

Read more No comments

Raising Chickens as Education (Even in the City)

Posted on March 26, 2010 by thebearthinstitute in Animals, Farming, Guest Blogger, Sofi

Hi! I am sharing this report with you that I did about my new chicken. The only problem is that she does not have a name. My brother and sister have names for their chickens but I can’t think of a name for mine. Can you help me? Post your...

Read more No comments

Living My Life in Costume

Posted on September 11, 2009 by thebearthinstitute in Fairies, Fantasy Play, Sofi

I have not posted a lot lately because I’ve been so busy. I auditioned for the Nutcracker, the Ballet Dracula and I am a fairy at the Renassaince Festival again this year (my third year). The Renassaince Festival started last weekend so I worked for three days from 10am to...

Read more No comments

Fashion Design with Big Brother

Posted on August 28, 2009 by thebearthinstitute in Sewing, Sofi

My mom went to run some errands with Mosi (she is my big sister, age 14) yesterday and Sunii and I got bored so I started cutting up some of my old clothes and making new fashions out of them. I am so excited because my mom has boxes of...

Read more No comments

Costume Making with Sofi

Posted on August 9, 2009 by thebearthinstitute in Sewing, Sofi

I’m making some of my costume for the Rennassaince Faire this Autumn. I work as a fairy all day at the Faire – we are actors in the fairy battle with the pirates and we do many jobs around the Faire for three entire weekends. I work from 9am –...

Read more No comments

Mulberry Ink with Sofi

Posted on June 26, 2009 by thebearthinstitute in Arts, Crafts & Handwork, Natural Dying, Nature Walks, Sofi

After our walk today I asked my mom if she had any ink. I bought a really cool feather pen at the farmer’s market yesterday and wanted to use it. She said that we could make some from the mulberries. I wrote a card to my dad with the mulberry...

Read more No comments

Photographing Fairies with Sofi

Posted on June 1, 2009 by thebearthinstitute in Nature Walks, Sofi

Today we went to photograph the fairies. We wanted to take pictures of them by the really nice mushrooms we saw last week but someone took all the mushrooms away so we took pictures of them in different places. I set the fairies up and my mom took the pictures....

Read more No comments

First Farmer’s Market

Posted on May 16, 2009 by thebearthinstitute in Lesson Blocks, Math, Sofi

Sofi is working on the lesson Starting Your Own Business for Kids. This is her experience… Today I had my first actual store. I sold one mermaid and met a lot of people and gave a lot of people my website name. A fiber artist named Wendy came to talk...

Read more No comments

Alpaca Farm with Sofi

Posted on April 9, 2009 by thebearthinstitute in Animals, Farming, Knitting, Sofi

Today we went to visit some alpacas at a farm near where we live. They were very cute. They get very hot in the summer and so they have to be hosed down twice every day. My favorite was the chocolate llama. We bought some wool roving from Snowmobile and...

Read more No comments

Making Mermaids with Sofi

Posted on February 27, 2009 by thebearthinstitute in Felting, Sofi

I’ve made a lot of movies with mom but today I wanted to make a real DVD because I will be setting up a booth at the farmer’s market and I want to show people how I make the felted mermaids. I made little packages of roving and supplies and...

Read more No comments

Category Archives: Sofi