JOIN THE BOOK CLUB HERE Every once in a while, I come across a formative book that makes me say, “Wow, I wish I had read this when I was in high school,” or “I wish I had known about this book when my kids were teens.” A Man of Salt and Trees is one […]
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Welcome to One of Our Legacy Projects: The Golden Beetle Books Comeback!
Welcome to Our Legacy Project: The Golden Beetle Books Comeback! At Waldorf Books we are so excited to have taken on this project – the comeback of Golden Beetle Books! This is a public service project from Waldorf Books and is not profit driven. Read below for how you can get involved! Alan Whitehead’s books […]
Bringing the World to Your Learner: Article
Waldorf schools and homeschooling communities are made up of families and individuals like you, reader, who have chosen a form of alternative schooling for reasons often related to diverse student needs that aren’t being met in traditional public and state schools. Cultural heritage, geographic location, native language, age and ability, neurodiversity, and even temperament— for […]
The Gift of a Diverse Library in Waldorf Education: Book List
The striving that is characteristic of our present age involves a search for the universally human, that which – in spite of all the differences of race, skin-color, creeds, customs and traditions – defines us as human beings. It is exactly in that sense that the spiritual element in a Waldorf school is active. It […]
Golden Beetle Books Curriculum Guides Announcement
The Spiritual Syllabus Series Alan is the cheerleader we all need. After reading each chapter I come out of it feeling like “I can do this! Let’s go! I’m going to succeed!” And I’m not even actively homeschooling right now. His words just have that impact! Along with the amazing lessons, plans, and insight his […]
Experimental and Experiential Science
Science in Waldorf Education A study of the natural sources of light is interesting; the first of course Is the sun, lamp of the world. Then there is its reflected light, as in the moon and sky-glow – then starlight, lighting and bioluminescence. Light radiated by heat energy varies in color according to intensity, from […]
Books at the State Park
It’s rather academic, and a matter of personal emphasis, whether one chooses the term ‘homeschooling’ or natural learning. From the Steiner, standpoint, World Schooling might be more fitting. All three agree, however, that the school environment, by definition focusing on the group rather than the individual, will gradually become obsolete. Schools are a convenience for […]
Neurodiversity and Education
Imagine you had a phlegmatic child who was diagnosed with some kind of Autism— anything ranging from high-functioning to severe? Now imagine, that instead of looking for a miracle cure to wipe out all their “symptoms” you can sort them first— you can take out the ones that “belong” to their temperament and leave some […]
Adventures with Findus
Potato Loves the Publisher Boxes The books are kept in closed rooms to avoid cat hair contamination, especially for those with allergies. Kitty loves to play with the boxes and paper though! She loves delivery days! All the Findus Adventures Findus… …Rules the Roost: Hardcover …Goes Fishing: Hardcover …Goes Camping: Hardcover …and the Fox: […]
Books at the Sculpture Exhibit
It’s rather academic, and a matter of personal emphasis, whether one chooses the term ‘homeschooling’ or natural learning. From the Steiner, standpoint, World Schooling might be more fitting. All three agree, however, that the school environment, by definition focusing on the group rather than the individual, will gradually become obsolete. Schools are a convenience for […]
Grammar in the Upper Grades
Publisher Feature: The Teenage Edge Spirit self is transformed astral or ‘sentient’ body; astral pictures become spirit self imaginations; visions couched in ringing, inspiring language – ‘Word pictures’! How vital is it to lift the grammatical concepts 11-year-olds need to know onto a higher, more assimilable level through imagination. Only this can resurrect grammar to […]
Music in the Mood of the Fifth
Earthschooling – an Award Winning Curriculum
