Category Archives: Organization

What is Your Homeschooling Style?

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What is Your Homeschooling Style?   Purchase Golden Beetle Curriculum Guides Here Purchase Earthschooling CORE Curriculum Bundles Here Purchase  Earthschooling Curriculum Packages Here Enroll at The BEarth Academy Here GUIDE: Guides you pedagogically through the curriculum. Insights into the ‘why’ of what you teach each year. Inspires you with ideas...
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Can I homeschool my child after they attended public school? What about sending them back afterwards?

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With so many current unknowns in the public and private school system we have been receiving multiple questions every week about parents wanting to transition into homeschooling but wondering if that is even possible. The most popular question we have received is, “can I homeschool my child after they have...
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Why I’m So Excited About the Spiritual Syllabus/Golden Beetle Books

Posted on by in Modeling, Organization, Organization, Planning, Waldorf Books, Waldorf Philosophy
As you have already read in this post here, Earthschooling has taken over publishing and distribution rights to the Spiritual Syllabus of Alan Whitehead, also known as Golden Beetle Books. Many of you may already know that within this collection of 54 books is a subset of what has been...
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Top Ten Fun Ways to Prepare for Homeschooling Next Year

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Whew! We made it through another year! All that preparing, planning, teaching and purchasing of supplies and all those adventures have me worn out! Not to mention the challenges we overcame this year and all the new things we learned. I feel full, satisfied, amazed and slightly worn out and...
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Focusing on Home Life By Rahima Baldwin Dancy

Posted on by in Guest Blogger, Inner Work, Inner Work, Modeling, Modeling, Monday Meditation, Organization, Organization, Parenting, Teachers, Waldorf Philosophy
You, as a parent, are your child’s first teacher, and your home is the where the most living and learning take place. This is true whether your child is home with you full-time or enrolled full- or part-time in child care, preschool, or kindergarten. It is also true regardless of...
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First Grade Readiness – Are We Asking the Right Questions?

Posted on by in First Grade, Inner Work, Inner Work, Organization, Organization, Parenting, Planning, Planning, Teachers, Waldorf 101, Waldorf Philosophy
Looking back on my children’s education I can honestly say that the question, “When are they ready for first grade?” was one of the hardest issues I had to deal with during their entire educational career. But why did I struggle so much with this question and why is it...
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Space Clearing Reminder

Posted on by in April, Inner Work, Inner Work, March, Organization, Organization, Space Clearing
We often forget how simple healing can be and how taking care of just the basic things in our life can heal us. Water – air – and our environment can all heal us if we take care to drink enough, breathe deeply enough and clear our space. I send...
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A Dozen Anti-Anxiety Tips for Parents and Teachers

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Are you anxious? Here is a simple test. When you look at the photo of the rocks by the seashore are you thinking about how beautiful and relaxing it looks or are you thinking about how those rocks are probably going to fall down any minute? After 20 years of parenting...
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Creating Warmth in Your Home

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A recent study has shown that people who have a warm beverage in their hands rate a stranger’s personality as warmer than those without the warm beverage and are more likely to be agreeable in negotiations. The same effect can be seen with touching soft things and being surrounded by...
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Diversity in Homeschooling

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Start your week with an Inner Work Meditation. Take some time to reflect on the following short essay/blog post and let it inspire you this week as you parent, teach, study and live! DaVinci was a scientist, a philosopher, a writer, an artist, a mathematician, painter, sculptor, architect, cartographer, geologist,...
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A Meal Planning, Daily Planning, Organizational Chart (Gift for You)

Posted on by in Cooking, Healthy Meals, Organization, Organization, Parenting, Planning, Planning, Rhythm, Teachers, Waldorf Philosophy
We have updated our “Color and Grain of the Day” chart so it looks pretty for you. If you want to share this please send people to our BLOG here to download it. It is free for anyone who downloads it from us. However, please do not distribute it (re-pinning...
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Hands On Education: Working with Your Hands in the Classroom

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As parents and teachers using Waldorf-inspired methods we learn about the importance of making sure there is a balance between the head, heart and hands* in daily education. Steiner teaches that this balance is essential to learning and that when a child is engaged and balanced on all three levels...
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Lesson Planning – A Dozen Tips

Posted on by in Curriculum, Lesson Blocks, Organization, Organization, Parenting, Planning, Planning, Teachers
This month has been all about lesson planning for us. I’ve been spending hours every day putting the finishing touches on the new daily lesson planners for the First and Second Grade Earthschooling Curriculum for this coming year, planning our coming year and listening to everyone talk about lesson preparation and planning....
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