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Free Living Lesson Samples for Second Grade
Fables: The Fox and The Crow, with Waldorf Teacher Mellie
Heroes: Rachel Carson, with Waldorf Teacher Mellie
Language: The Letter M, with Ms. Amy
Form Drawing: Gnomes, with Waldorf Teacher Simone
View the Complete Video Syllabus for Second Grade
Meet Your Main Teacher – Waldorf Teacher Mellie
Living Lessons included in this ‘Main Lessons Only’ Second Grade Set
Our ‘Main Lessons Only’ sets include just the main lessons as Living Lessons.
These sets include;
• Main Lessons (Language Arts, Maths, Form Drawing/Geometry, Social Studies, and Science)
• Main Lesson Book samples
• Chalkboard examples
• Worksheets and Quizzes (as provided by the teachers when needed)
These sets do not include specialised lessons in;
• Music
• Art
• Handwork
• Eurythmy
They also do not contain the printed curriculum.
To purchase the set that includes printed curriculum and extra Living Lessons for music, art, handwork, and eurythmy, please visit the Living Lessons Full Curriculum Set.
A list of all lessons in this Main Lessons Only set is below.
To view details for each block of Living Lessons below, expand the description by clicking the arrow.
STATUS: At this time, the Second Grade Living Lessons are complete. However, we may add additional bonus lessons to expand your options within this curriculum. As we upload them, we will list them here, and the price on this listing will increase.
Circle Time, Movement, Beanbag Games Verse and Craft with Teacher Simone
Using Beanbags in Circle Time
Opening Song and Main Lesson Book Song
6s with Beanbags and Expanded Form with Adding
Fables block (with Teacher Mellie) As is common in Waldorf lessons, you will notice an integration of some phonics lessons on digraphs amongst this fables block. Lesson 1: The Fox and the Crow We’ll begin this lesson with our morning verse followed by an energetic rhythmic clapping activity to wake our minds up. After this, we’ll calm things down with a rhyming story about two little kittens. Next, we’ll get into our fable for the day called The Fox and the Crow. We’ll use this story to learn some new vocabulary words. We will also learn about words that use -er, -ir, and -ur. Teacher Mellie explains why the words are pronounced the way they are, even though they look like they should be pronounced differently. We’ll finish this lesson by using our main lesson book to draw a crayon picture of the fox and crow to summarize the fable we heard. Member Feedback: “I love the inclusion of the numerous rhythm and rhyming activities. It keeps students engaged the whole way through!” Lesson 2: Anansi and the Melon We’ll begin this lesson with our morning verse followed by our energetic rhythmic clapping activity to wake our minds up. After this, we’ll do our rhyming story about two little kittens. Next, we’ll do a brief vocabulary review with the fox and crow story from last time, and this will lead us into our first big part of the lesson: writing with lowercase letters. Teacher Mellie gives us great techniques for writing straight across the page to make sure we get the most out of our paper and don’t write down or uphill. We’ll pay attention to sentence-structure details to communicate as clearly as possible. After this writing activity, we’ll go over spelling -er, -ir, -ur, -or, and -ar words, and then we have another two rhythmic poem activities! Next, we’ll get into our fable-telling portion of the lesson, and we’ll hear the story of Anansi and the Melon. We’ll finish this lesson with a colored pencil drawing activity of the fable we learned about. Member Feedback: “This lesson is dense with content; I can’t believe we get all of this for such a kind price. You can really tell the Teachers and Creators responsible for Earth Schooling truly care about educating.” Lesson 3A: The Lion and the Mouse We’ll begin this lesson with our morning verse followed by our energetic rhythmic clapping activity and our rhyming story about the two little kittens. Next, we’ll review our previous fable and come up with some new vocabulary words to describe those characters. We’ll use these vocabulary words to practice sentence structure in our main lesson book. Next, we’ll do some more practice with -er, -ir, -ur, -or, and -ar words, and we’ll learn something new about the Magic E, which, when put at the end of a word, changes the sound of the vowel. After taking a moment to do our hands and toes verse and our turtle verse, we’ll start our new fable called Lion and the Mouse. Then, we’ll add this fable to our main lesson book by making a drawing of it. Member Feedback: “I really can’t believe how much content is in each lesson. Thank you, Earthschooling!” Lesson 3B: The Lion and the Mouse drawing Teacher Simone shows us how to draw a scene from our fable, The Lion and the Mouse, as told by Teacher Mellie. We’ll use form drawing techniques from our previous blocks and apply those concepts in our art. Simone goes into detail about every form and shape used and how they come together to create the larger picture. We are always encouraged to be creative and embrace any accidents in our drawing! For the next activity of the lesson, we’ll hear the story of The Little Blue Hand, which teaches a wonderful lesson of friendship. Member Feedback: “I love Simone’s sound effects and visuals in her story time.” Lesson 4: Anansi and the Sky God Like our previous lessons, we’ll begin with our warm-up sequence, including our morning verse, an energetic rhythmic clapping activity, and our rhyming story about the two little kittens. Once we’ve woken up our minds a bit, we’ll do a quick review of our previous fable of The Lion and the Mouse, and we’ll create some new vocabulary words to add to our main lesson book above the summary drawing from last time. After this, we’ll review our vowel boat activity, which explains the rule of two vowels side by side, like -ai, -oa, -ay, and -ea words. After that, we’ll take a moment to do our hands and toes verse and our turtle verse, then we’ll start our new fable called Anansi and the Sky God. We’ll complete this lesson by drawing a picture of what took place in our fable in the main lesson book. Member Feedback: “This block, much like the rest of the living lessons, is very consistent in each week’s content.” Lesson 5: The Tortoise and the Hare Like our previous lessons, we’ll begin with our warm-up sequence, including our morning verse, an energetic rhythmic clapping activity, and our rhyming story about the two little kittens. After this, we’ll do a review of our previous fable, Anansi and the Sky God. We’ll come up with some vocabulary words for that story and use those words to practice writing and sentence structure. Once we finish writing our summary of the last fable, we will learn a brand-new movement activity called Trip, Trip, Trill. This activity will lead into the next part of the lesson, where we’ll practice learning about tr-, dr-, fl-, bl-, and other words beginning with two consonants. Next, we’ll take a moment to do our hands and toes verse and our turtle verse, then we’ll start our new fable called The Tortoise and the Hare. Lastly, we’ll add this fable to our main lesson book by drawing it. Member Feedback: “It’s good that there is a variety of movement activities to keep things fresh and new!” Lesson 6A: The Fox and the Grapes Like our previous lessons, we’ll begin with our warm-up sequence, including our morning verse, an energetic rhythmic clapping activity, and our rhyming story about the two little kittens. After this, we’ll do a review of our previous fable, The Tortoise and the Hare. We’ll come up with some vocabulary words for that story and use those words to practice writing and sentence structure. Once we finish writing our summary of the last fable, we will do our newer movement activity, Trip, Trip, Trill, but this time we’ll speed it up a bit. This activity will lead into the next portion of the lesson, where we’ll practice learning about sl-, sp-, st-, sw-, str-, spl-, scr-, spr-, and other words beginning with two and three consonants. Next, we’ll take a moment to do our hands and toes verse and our turtle verse, then we’ll start our new fable called The Fox and the Grapes, and we’ll add this fable to our main lesson book by making a drawing of it. Member Feedback: “I like that Teacher Mellie gives students a moment to say the word themselves before giving the right answer.” Lesson 6B: The Fox and the Grapes drawing In this lesson, we’ll get right into our main book to draw a summary of our previous story called The Fox and the Grapes. Teacher Simone shows us step by step how to draw a scene from this fable, and we get into the Member Feedback: “Such a nice and detailed tutorial!” Lesson 7: Anansi We’ll begin with our warm-up sequence, which includes our morning verse, energetic rhythmic clapping activity, and our rhyming story about two little kittens. After this, we’ll do a review of our previous fable, The Fox and the Grapes. We’ll come up with some vocabulary words for that story and use those words to practice writing and sentence structure. Once we finish writing our summary of the last fable, we will do our newer movement activity, Trip, Trip, Trill, but this time we’ll use some different consonants than the original. This activity will lead into the next portion of the lesson, where we’ll practice learning about words beginning with str-, spl-, scr-, spr-, and other three-consonant beginnings. After that, we’ll learn about words ending in -nd or -mp. Next, we’ll take a moment to do our hands and toes verse and our turtle verse, then we’ll start our new fable called Another Anansi Fable and add this story to our main lesson book by making a drawing of it. Member Feedback: “I LOVE Miss Lonnemann’s organization. Her lesson structure is just perfect, and it’s always so easy to review previous lessons because of the way she has students fill in their lesson books.” Lesson 8: Jackdaw and Eagle Welcome to our eighth and final fable lesson with Teacher Mellie! As in our previous lessons, we’ll begin with our warm-up sequence, including our morning verse, an energetic rhythmic clapping activity (with a twist!), and our rhyming story about two little kittens. After this, we’ll do a review of our previous fable, Another Anansi Fable. We’ll come up with some vocabulary words for that story and use those words to practice writing and sentence structure. Once we finish writing our summary of the last fable, we will do our movement activity Trip, Trip, Trill, but this time we’ll use some different consonants than the original. After that, we’ll review words ending in -nd or -mp, and we’ll learn about words that end in -nt or -nk. Next, we’ll take a moment to do our hands and toes verse and our turtle verse, then we’ll start our new fable called Jackdaw and Eagle and add this story to our main lesson book by making a drawing of it. Lastly, we’ll summarize our story to practice sentence structure, and that will conclude our lesson! Member Feedback: “The lessons always feel so natural and organic. You’d think Teacher Mellie was recording in front of a live class if it weren’t so quiet in the background!” Lesson 9: The Story of a Man, his Son, and a Horse We’ll start this lesson by singing The Lantern Song and an active rendition of This Little Light of Mine. Next, we’ll practice just the second verse of the Autumn Leaves verse, so that in later lessons we can recite it all together! After this, we’ll get into the big portion of the lesson, which is a fable about a man, his son, and a horse. We’ll use this story to start learning how to identify Who, What, When, Where, and Why in stories we hear. Then, we’ll take the information we gather from this story and practice writing and sentence structure in our main lesson books. Lastly, we’ll do a crayon drawing that summarizes our fable of the day. Member Feedback: “The fable in this video has a wonderful lesson behind it.” Lesson 10A: The Ant and the Grasshopper Lesson 10B: The Ant and the Grasshopper drawing Let’s start with an active song, One for the Golden Sun, to wake up our minds. Next, we’ll get right into our main lesson book and draw a picture from the fable The Ant and the Grasshopper. Teacher Simone shares with us her drawing process and goes into great detail about each step she takes to complete this piece of art. Lastly, we’ll do some spelling practice with words ending in -ai and -ay. Member Feedback: “Simone always has such good drawing videos. She explains everything so clearly.” Lesson 11A: The Foolish Rabbit and the Coconut Lesson 11B: The Foolish Rabbit and the Coconut drawing In this lesson, we’ll start with a song called “I Am a Star.” After we’ve sung our song and gotten our minds warmed up, we’ll do a drawing of our previous fable called The Foolish Rabbit and the Coconut. As usual, Simone will guide us through completing the drawing. After that, we’ll practice addition and subtraction. Member Feedback: “I really like Earthschooling’s team of teachers.” Lesson 12: The Turtle and the Geese We begin this lesson by practicing verses that focus on alliteration. Next, Teacher Simone shares fascinating facts about rock formation and how sand is made so we can use this information in our drawing activity. We’ll practice with chalk beforehand, and once you feel comfortable with the pattern, you can do a crayon drawing to make a more permanent version. After that, we’ll do the drawing one last time, but this time we’ll turn it into a wearable headband. Lastly, we’ll get into our fable called The Turtle and the Geese Member Feedback: “Really interesting lessons in here about mountains and rock formation, plus a super fun hat making activity.” LESSON 13A: The Quarreling Quails Lesson 13B: The Quarreling Quails drawing We’ll begin with a verse about a harsh winter that emphasizes alliteration with the letter B. Next, we’ll go over our previous fable of the Quarreling Quails by making a drawing in our main lesson book. First, Teacher Simone will help us practice drawing a bird using form-drawing techniques; then we will put what we learned into context and draw our summary of the fable. Lastly, we will review the story of the Quarreling Quails with sentence-structure and writing practice. Member Feedback: “The verse at the start of this video is such a fun one”
Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
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Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
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Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
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Teacher: Simone Blanchard
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Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
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Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
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Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
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Teacher: Simone Blanchard
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Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
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Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
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Teacher: Simone Blanchard
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Told by guest storyteller, Safia
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
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Teacher: Simone Blanchard
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Teacher: Simone Blanchard
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Teacher: Simone Blanchard
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Heroes & Role Models block (with Teacher Mellie, and Teacher Simone) Lesson 1: Dr. Martin Luther King Hello Earth Schoolers, welcome to our Heroes block! There are countless fantasy stories about incredible characters from different worlds who commit amazing deeds and perform fantastic feats of bravery, but in these next lessons, we’ll be focusing on some truly brilliant heroes from OUR world. Let’s join Teacher Mellie and listen while she shares these real-life hero stories, beginning with Dr. Martin Luther King. We’ll start with a morning verse to help us get focused. Next, we’ll do some movement activities while we recite our first verse called Brave and True and our second verse called I’m a Knight, both heroic poems that will put us in the mindset of the people we’ll be learning so much about. After this, we’ll get into the big portion of our lesson where we’ll hear the story of Doctor King. We’ll cover his early life, his parents, his hard work in school and life, his passionate speeches, and the swift, successful actions he took to end segregation in the United States. After the excitement of this true tale, we’ll wind things down by doing some spelling and writing practice. Then we’ll do one last movement activity and verse before we get to our final part of the lesson, drawing our hero of the day and summarizing what we learned about him in our main lesson book. Member Feedback: “Teacher Mellie’s lesson plans are wonderfully organized; watching her class is always such a pleasant experience” Lesson 2: Mahatma Gandhi Welcome back to our Heroes block! Let’s join Teacher Mellie while she shares stories of real-life heroes. Today’s hero is Gandhi. We’ll start with our morning verse to help us get focused. Next, we’ll do our two movement activities, Brave and True, and I’m a Knight. After this, we’ll review our hero from last time, Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. We’ll think up some new vocabulary words to describe him and use those words to practice our writing and sentence structure. After this, we’ll hear the story of Mahatma Gandhi – a hero born in India who sought to end racism. He was actually an inspiration to our previous hero, MLK. After this, we’ll do some spelling practice with th-, ch-, sh-, and wh- words, and then we’ll do one last movement activity and verse before we get to our final part of the lesson: drawing our hero of the day and summarizing what we learned about him in our main lesson book. These heroes create a never-ending chain of inspiration. Who will be your inspiration? Member Feedback: “I like how many fun verses Miss Lonnemann has. There’s always something new in each block she teaches!” Lesson 3: Wangari Maathai Hello Earth Schoolers, welcome back to our Heroes block! Today’s hero is Wangari Maathai, a Kenyan activist who founded the Green Belt Movement, an organization focused on planting trees, environmental conservation, and women’s rights. She became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. But before we get into her story, we’ll start with our morning verse to help us get focused. After that, we’ll do our two movement activities, Brave and True and I’m a Knight. Next, we’ll review our previous lesson’s hero, Mahatma Gandhi. We’ll use what we learned about him to create a summary on the back of our drawing and practice vocabulary, writing, and sentence structure. Then we can move on to our next hero and begin the story of Wangari Maathai. She went to school and learned to read at a time when this was uncommon for women. She went on to become a biologist, win the Nobel Peace Prize, and she devoted her whole life to environmental activism and women’s rights. After the excitement of this true tale, we’ll wind things down by doing some spelling and writing practice. We’ll focus on -ai, -a, th-, ch-, sh, and -wh words. Then we’ll do one final movement activity and verse before we get to our final part of the lesson, drawing our hero of the day. Member Feedback: “Mellie’s lessons are rich with content. Much appreciated!” Lesson 4 and 5: John Muir Parts I and II Welcome back to our Heroes block! Today’s hero is John Muir, but before we get into his story, we’ll start with our morning verse to help us get focused. After that, we’ll do our two movement activities, Brave and True and I’m a Knight. Next, we’ll review our previous lesson’s hero, Wangari Maathai. We’ll take what we learned about her and create a summary on the back of our drawing to practice vocabulary, writing, and sentence structure. We’ll also practice spelling with ai, a_e, and -ay words. After that, it’s time for our last movement activity and verse, but with some added variations. We’ll get back into some spelling and learn about -igh and -y words; then we can move on to our next hero and begin the story of John Muir – a Scottish man with a love of trees and nature who would later move to America and become a conservationist. After the excitement of this true tale, we’ll draw our hero of the day. Member Feedback: “Teacher Mellie has the best-paced lessons ever. Right when students might be getting a little jittery, bam, movement activity. Always at the perfect time.” Lesson 6: Rachel Carson Welcome back to our Heroes block! Let’s learn about a new hero named Rachel Carson. We’ll start with a morning verse to help us get focused. Next, we’ll do some movement activities while we recite our first verse called Brave and True and our second verse called I’m a Knight, both heroic poems that will put us in the mindset of the people we’ll be learning so much about. After this, we’ll review our hero from the previous lesson, John Muir, and we’ll come up with some vocabulary words to describe him. We’ll use these words to practice writing and sentence structure on the back of our drawing of him. Next, we’ll review our -igh and -y words before we do our last movement activity. After that, we’ll get into the big portion of our lesson where we’ll hear the story of Rachel Carson, a writer and marine biologist. After the excitement of her true tale, we’ll wind things down by making a drawing of our hero of the day and summarizing what we learned about her in our main lesson book. Member Feedback: “I feel that Mellie really understands the age group she teaches, and she knows just what to say and how to say it best!” Lesson 7 and 8: Black Elk Parts I and II Welcome back to our Heroes block! Like previous lessons, we’ll start with our morning verse to help us focus. Next, we’ll review our hero from last time, Rachel Carson. We’ll learn some new vocabulary to describe her and use it to practice writing and sentence structure. After that, we’ll review our spelling from last time and become more familiar with Gentle C and Gentle G, and -igh and -y words. Then it’s time to learn about our new hero, Black Elk, a Native American man blessed with beautiful visions and a connection to his Gods. After we learn about Black Elk, we’ll do some movement activities while we recite our first verse called Two Little Hands. We’ll wind things down by drawing our hero of the day and summarizing what we learned about him in our main lesson book. Member Feedback: “The natural ambiance of all Mellie’s lessons in this block is birds or crickets chirping. I don’t know if this was intentional, but it’s a wonderful touch!” Lesson 9: Jane Goodall Welcome back, Earth Schoolers. It is time for our seventh and final lesson on these real-life heroes. As in previous lessons, we’ll start with our morning verse to help us focus. Next, we’ll do some movement activities while we recite our first verse called Brave and True and our second verse called I’m a Knight, both heroic poems that will put us in the mindset of the people we’ll be learning so much about. After this, we’ll review our hero from the previous lesson, Black Elk. We’ll come up with some new vocabulary words to describe him and use them to practice writing and sentence structure. After that, we’ll learn a new spelling rule about double o’s. Then it’s time to learn about our new hero, Jane Goodall. After we learn about her, we’ll do some movement activities while we recite our first verse called Two Little Hands. We’ll wind down by drawing our hero of the day and summarizing what we learned about her in our main lesson book. Member Feedback: “Earth Schooling is great because they are there for whatever you need. If you need assistance with all subjects, they make it happen. And if you only need a couple of subjects, that is also accessible.” Lesson 10: Hero Books (The King of Ireland’s Son) Lesson 11: Telling the Story Lesson 12: Creating Wax Figures Lesson 13: Finding Adjectives and Adverbs Lesson 14 and 15: Main Lesson Book pictures Lesson 16: Identifying the Beginning, Middle, and End of a Story Lesson 17: Adjectives and Adverbs Lesson 18: Adjectives and Adverbs Lesson 19: The Story Continues Lesson 20: The Character of Balavisx Lesson 21: Paper Cutting Lesson 22: The Story Continues Lesson 23: Timeline
Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
Length: 40:11
Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
Length: 41:12
Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
Length: 43:19
Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
Length: 41
Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
Length: 41:27
Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
Length: 41
Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
Length: 43:51
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Secondary Story – The Guilty Dogs
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Adjective and Adverb review
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
The Color Red
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Lowercase Alphabet block (with Teacher Amy) Story, Verse, Main Lesson Book Picture, Extra Practice. Lesson 1: The Letter a
Acrobatic Apple
Lesson 2: The Letter b
Bella Bunny
Lesson 3: The Letter c
Crying Cloud (inc. Magic Trick for Number 11)
Lesson 4: The Letter d
Divine Dipper
Lesson 5: The Letter e
Easter Eggs (inc. Making a Dodecahedron: Part I)
Lesson 6: The Letter f
Feeling Flowers (inc. Making a Dodecahedron: Part II)
Lesson 7: The Letter g
Grape on the Ground (inc. Number 13 Facts)
Lesson 8: The Letter h
Hiding Hut
Lesson 9: The Letter i
Immortalized Icicle (inc. The Pear Story and Working with Beeswax)
Lesson 10: The Letter j
Jesting Jack-o’-Lantern
Lesson 11: The Letter k
Karate Kick
Lesson 12: The Letter l
Long Lollipop
Lesson 13: The Letter m
Memory Mountain (inc. a Math Maze)
Lesson 14: The Letter n
Neat Nut
Lesson 15: The Letter o
Outgoing Octopus
Lesson 16: The Letter p
Penguin
Lesson 17: The Letter q
Quill
Lesson 18: The Letter r
Rainbow
Lesson 19: The Letter s
Slide
Lesson 20: The Letter t
Topsy Turvy Top
Lesson 21: The Letter u
Umbrella
Lesson 22: The Letter v
Violet
Lesson 23: The Letter w
Worm
Lesson 24: The Letter x
Xylophone
Lesson 25: The Letter y
Yellow Yarn
Lesson 26: The Letter z
Zebra
Phonics block (with Teacher Mellie) Lesson 1-12: Vowels and Digraphs
Stories, verses and drawings
Grammar block based on The King of Ireland's Son (with Teacher Simone) Teacher Simone reads select chapters of this book with the children through the lessons. Lesson 1: Recall Nouns and Verbs Lesson 2: Finding Adjectives and Adverbs Lesson 3: The Guilty Dogs Lesson 4: Identifying the Beginning, Middle, and End of a Story Lesson 5: Topics and Paragraphs Lesson 6: Who, What, and When Lesson 7: Story Writing
Secondary story – The Guilty Dogs
Adjective and Adverb review
Secondary story – Mary’s Garden
Secondary story – Mary’s Garden
Secondary story – Big Red and Little Blue
Language Arts (with Teacher Simone) Lesson 1: House, Tree, and Person Development Exercise Lesson 2: Math Maze Lesson 3: Squirrel Lesson 4: Arrowhead Lesson 5: The Immortalised Icicle, The Pear Story Lesson 6: Jesting Jack-O’-Lantern Lesson 7: Karate Kick Lesson 8: Knight and Courage Lesson 9: Sight Words Lesson 10: Grape on the Ground Lesson 11: Hiding Hut Lesson 12: Crying Cloud Lesson 13: Dodecahedron Part I Lesson 14: Dodecahedron Part II Lesson 15: Two Goats Lesson 16: Acrobatic Apple Lesson 17: Bella Bunny Lesson 18: Phonics Lesson 19: The Ant and the Grasshopper Lesson 20: Selkie Story Lesson 21: Story Writing Lesson 22: Two Goats Lesson 23: Jack and Jane Lesson 24: The Beginning, Middle and End of a Story Lesson 25: Word Sort Lesson 26: Quarrelling Quails Lesson 27: The Beginning, Middle and End of a Story
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 7:04
• letter practice for lowercase m
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 13:38
• letter practice for lowercase n
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 12:13
• letter practice for lowercase; b, m, and e
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 13:47
• working with Beeswax
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 15:10
• letter practice for lowercase j
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 15:10
• letter practice for lowercase k
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 12:13
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 11:30
• subtraction practice
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 15:59
• letter practice for lowercase g
• number 13 facts
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 19:08
• letter practice for lowercase h
• addition practice
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 11:41
• letter practice for lowercase c
• magic trick for number 11
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 10:33
• letter practice for lowercase e
• making a dodecahedron
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 17:07
• letter practice for lowercase f
• making a dodecahedron
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 20:04
• sensory writing
• -oa, o_e words
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 17:03
• letter practice for lowercase a
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 7:35
• letter practice for lowercase b
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 7:25
• -ay words
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 9:29
• -ai, -ay words
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 21:37
• -ea words
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 12:48
• writing a story practice
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 3:53
• word sort
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 19:48
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 17:33
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 14:24
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 10:44
• sentence structure
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 15:18
• adjective and adverb review
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 14:24
Math block I (with Teacher Mellie) Lesson 1: The 2 Times Tables Member Feedback: “Wow, Teacher Mellie can do it all! Language arts, science, history, art, and math too” Lesson 2: The 3 Times Tables Member Feedback: “The visual with the rocks was so helpful, since math is sometimes a harder subject for students to comprehend” Lesson 3: The 4 Times Tables Member Feedback: “Teacher Mellie has this energy that is so comforting and nostalgic. She is such a wonderful presence in the Earthschooling classroom!” Lesson 4: The 5 Times Tables Member Feedback: “I like how much repetition is in the videos” Lesson 5: The 5 Times Tables Member Feedback: “The geometric pattern drawn in this block is so cool. It’s a great way to incorporate art and creativity into the math lessons, and it also is good for visualization!” Lesson 6: The 6 Times Tables Member Feedback: “It’s great how Mellie points out all of these patterns in numbers” Lesson 7: The 7 Times Tables Member Feedback: “I love that there are so many different methods Mellie gives us for all the different kinds of learning styles” Lesson 8: The 8 Times Tables Member Feedback: “You can tell how much Mellie loves to teach and how happy she is to be doing it!” Lesson 9: The 9 Times Tables Member Feedback: “I think it’s really clever of Teacher Mellie to teach the number songs with tunes and rhythms that students will already be very familiar with!” Lesson 10: The 10 Times Tables Member Feedback: “Mellie never skips over anything; she always explains so thoroughly!” Lesson 11: The 11 Times Tables Member Feedback: “The consistency in Mellie’s lessons is so important, especially for math!” Lesson 12: The 12 Times Tables Member Feedback: “Mellie has such clever tips and tricks for mind math!”
Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
Length: 18:44
Welcome to our second-grade math block! We’ll start by learning a verse that we’ll recite at the start of each lesson. Next, we will sing a song to help us review our 2 times tables all the way up to 24. We’ll do some chalkboard practice with our 2s, then a more tangible exercise where we count rocks, or whatever small objects you can use to count with. We will focus on the relationship between 14, 7, and 2. We will work our math equations back and forth so we can fully understand why they yield the answers they do. Next we’ll practice an activity called Best Friend’s Ten, which gives us a visual and physical way to remember which numbers add up to ten. For example – 8 and 2 are best friends because they make 10! 7 and 3 are best friends because they make 10! The incorporation of creativity and art is important in each aspect of learning, so we’ll do a crayon drawing of our Best Friend’s Ten in our main lesson book.
Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
Length: 28:08
In this lesson, we’ll review our 2 times tables and learn our 3 times tables. In this block, repetition is essential. We will start with our morning verse, then review our 2’s song from the previous lesson. After that, we’ll get out our counting rocks to visualize the 2 times table. Then it will be time for our rhythmic movement activity. Teacher Mellie will first show the hand-clapping pattern, then go over each 2 times table with the clapping pattern. Next, we’ll introduce the 3 times table, and we’ll play a chalkboard game. Then we’ll try some word problems to apply what we’re learning to real-life situations. After our word problems, we’ll quickly review our Best Friend’s Ten activity. Then we’ll create another piece of art in our main lesson book. This time, we’ll draw a geometric shape to help us better understand our 2 times-tables, and we’ll use the other side of the page to write out our 2 times-tables.
Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
Length: Part 1 is 20:44, part 2 is 10:17
We’ll start this lesson with our morning verse, then we’ll review our 3 times tables from last time. Next, we’ll move on to 4s, starting with counting by 4s using our leapfrog rule; then we’ll learn a song to count by 4s all the way up to 48. We’ll also practice with all kinds of equations and talk through them as we solve. After that, we’ll do some word problems, then geometric drawings to help us visualize counting by 2s and 3s.
Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
Length: 30:55
We’ll start off with our morning verse, and then we’ll jump right into the lesson. We’ll begin by reviewing our 3s with the snap/clap movement activity. Then we’ll review counting by 4s, and we’ll sing the 4s. Next, we will practice some word problems with 4s, and after that we’ll do more practice with the geometric pattern we have been studying. We’ll add 4s to the pattern this time, then draw the 4 times tables.
Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
Length: 33:15
Just as we’ve done in our previous lessons, we’ll begin with our morning verse. After that, we’ll jump right into the review of our 3s and 4s times tables. We’ll start by practicing the snap/clap activity with 3s, then we’ll sing our 4s song. Next, we’ll be ready to learn our 5s! We’ll learn to count by 5s using the leapfrog rule, then we will do some word problems and learn about odd and even numbers. To finish up, we’ll work on our geometric pattern, add our 5s to it, and then write out our 5 times tables in the main lesson book next to the drawing. The last part of our lesson will introduce the 6s, but we’ll cover that in more detail in the next lesson.
Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
Length: Part 1 is 13:27, part 2 is 19:34
We’ll begin this lesson with our morning verse, then we’ll practice our 6s with the snap/clap movement activity. Next, we’ll review since repetition is key to math! We’ll do our 4s song and review our 5s portion of the geometric drawing we’ve been working on, plus we’ll go over the 5 times tables with the snap/clap movement activity. After that, we’ll learn more about our 6s and see how they relate to our 3s. Next, it’s time to practice with word problems and do some chalkboard equations. Once we’re done, we’ll add our 6s to the geometric pattern and then write our 6 times tables.
Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
Length: 35:00
Like previous lessons in the block, we’ll begin with the morning verse. After waking our minds up a bit, we’ll review the 6s song. Next, we’ll do a quick little story time about a squirrel and turn it into a word problem. After this, we will introduce the 7s! We’ll learn a 7s song, do some chalkboard practice, and add 7 to our geometric drawing.
Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
Length: 30:19
We will start with our morning verse to wake up our minds. After this, we will review our 7s, which we learned in the previous lesson. Next, we’ll introduce our 8s with the leapfrog rule and a song. After that, we will do some word problems, then add 8 to our geometric drawing. We always practice the drawing on chalk before moving to the main lesson book, because the pattern is quite complex.
Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
Length: 29:24
After doing our morning verse, we’ll get right into practicing our 8s. After doing our 8s song and our snap/clap activity for 8s, we’ll move on and do some word problems that focus on reviewing previous material. Next, we’ll learn our 9s! We’ll start by learning the song, and Teacher Mellie will show us a unique and interesting pattern to help us remember the 9 times table. After this, we’ll add our 9s to the geometric drawing, which we will, of course, practice on the chalkboard before transferring to our main lesson book.
Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
Length: 30:28
After reciting our morning verse, we will review both 8s and 9s. Then we will get to learn our 10s. After learning our 10s, we will practice word problems on the chalkboard. Next, we will add our 10s to our geometrical pattern. We will first practice on the chalkboard, then move to the main lesson book to create our final version of the drawing. Lastly, we will write all of our 10 times tables next to our drawing for future reference.
Teacher- Mellie Lonnemann
Length- 25:17
We’ll start this lesson with our morning verse, then warm up our minds by reviewing our 8s, 9s, and 10s. After this, we’ll learn our 11s with a simple pattern and a fun song, of course. Then we’ll practice our equations and word problems on the chalkboard. Next, we’ll add our 11s to the geometrical pattern we’ve been drawing. We will practice on our chalkboard first, then draw the pattern in our main lesson book, and on the next page we will write out our 11 times tables.
Teacher- Mellie Lonnemann
Length- 33:53
We’ll start this lesson off with our verse, and then we’ll jump right into our review of the 9s, 10s, and 11s. We will do some word problems and equations, then review some content from earlier lessons in this block, like the Best Friend’s 10 Rainbow. After that, we’ll learn our final number times table: 12s! We’ll learn the pattern to remember our 12s, then we’ll add our 12s to our geometric pattern. This time, we will add ALL the numbers 1-12 to our geometrical drawing, and we’ll discover what beautiful pattern it creates. After practicing with chalk, we will transfer the drawing to our main lesson book, then use the next page to write down our 12 times tables.
Math block II (with Teacher Simone) As is common in Waldorf lessons, you will notice an integration of some literacy and language arts skill practice amongst these math lessons. Lesson 1: Inches, Centimeters, and Subtraction Member Feedback: “Simone has a very beautiful voice; it’s so nice listening to her sing!” Lesson 2: Advent and the Color Bar Graph Member Feedback: “The color bar graph is a really effective way to introduce graphs to younger students. It’s such a simple activity. After doing it with colors, they’ll want to do it with animals, foods, seasons, and anything else they can think of!” Lesson 3: The Number 17 Member Feedback: “I love how Simone acknowledges that not all students will learn at the same rate. She put up two different sets of questions for students to choose from!” Lesson 4: Counting by 6 and Expanded Form Adding Member Feedback: “It’s nice that Simone puts practice problems of different difficulty levels” Lesson 5: Lowercase Letter ‘m’ and the Math Maze Member Feedback: “Learning such a wide variety of verses is actually a fantastic way to expand vocabulary” Lesson 6: Countdown 20 to 1 and a Dragon Story Member Feedback: “These Waldorf story problems are stellar.” Lesson 7: Odd Todd and Even Steven Member Feedback: “How did Earthschooling find all the best teachers in the land?!” Lesson 8: Numbers 10-20 Member Feedback: “I absolutely love the incorporation of the dragon story throughout this block!” Lesson 9: Sight Words Story Member Feedback: “There is so much care put into each main lesson book” Lesson 10: The Letter G and The Number 13 Lesson 11: Recall Letter H and the Hiding Hut Lesson 12: The Number 11 Lesson 13: The Properties of Numbers 1 and 2 Member Feedback: “Great story about the Chinese Zodiacs. The 12-year cycle is an interesting way to incorporate a cool story into a math lesson.” Lesson 14: Lowercase ‘e’ and Making a Dodecahedron Member Feedback: “The 12-sided dice pattern is really cool!” Lesson 15: Lowercase ‘f’ and Making a Dodecahedron Member Feedback: “I like how Teacher Simone does the entire Dodecahedron activity in the video” Lesson 16: Knights and Dragons Place Value Story Member Feedback: “The dragon story is so creative!” Lesson 17: Nature Symmetry with Bees and Number Practice Member Feedback: “So cool how bees fly in a form drawing pattern!” Lesson 18: Squirrel and Bunny Math and Square Fun with Math Lesson 19: Number Operations and 7 x to 70 Lesson 20: Number Patterns and Gnomes Member Feedback: “The Rain Gnomes chart is wonderful” Lesson 21: Violet: Adding and Subtracting 10 and 100 Lesson 22: Paper Cutting a Circle and The Balavisx Member Feedback: “The paper cutting activity is so much fun. There are so many ways to do it, and it can be done for any season or holiday!” Lesson 23: Counting to 1,000
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 14:16
We’ll start this lesson by moving around a bit and singing two songs together. After waking up our minds, we’ll talk about inches and centimeters. We’ll use Cheerios, or any similar snack you may have available, to measure in inches or centimeters. What other objects can we use to measure things? Next, we’ll talk about Flamingos in a set of subtraction story problems.
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 12:38
We’ll begin this lesson by singing together. Our verse lineup for today is Morning Has Come and The Kookaburra Song. After that, we’ll read about Advent Elf and learn about the holiday Advent, which runs throughout December. Advent is all about the light within the universe, and each week in December, we celebrate a different kind of light. Teacher Simone will share a special verse to remind us which kind of light we celebrate each week of Advent. After learning about Advent and reading the story, we’ll check comprehension by recalling what happened. We’ll split it up into three sections: the beginning, middle, and end. Our last activity of the day will be the Color Bar Graph. We’ll introduce graphs and statistics by creating our own Bar Graphs and asking peers and family what their favorite colors are.
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 8:14
We’ll start off by singing My Lantern and learning some of the verse called The Leaves. After warming our minds up, we’ll learn about the number 17. Is it even or odd? What number combinations can we use to add up to 17? What number combinations can we use to subtract down to 17?
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 16:33
This lesson starts with a fun beanbag activity and a song. We’ll incorporate counting by 6s into the song. Next, we’ll practice some addition problems together, and we’ll look at triple-digit numbers in a different way by splitting them up into three columns: 100s, 10s, and 1s.
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 12:37
We’ll begin this lesson with our verse, The Leaves, then we’ll hear a story. The story is about an adventure in the mountains and the lowercase ‘m’. We’ll do a crayon drawing of our story, and then we’ll move on to another drawing of a maze to get our math minds activated. This math maze goes with a story-word problem combination. We’ll learn to problem-solve and use addition and subtraction to find our way out of the maze together! Lastly,
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 30:12
We’ll start off with two verses. Morning Has Come and Deep Peace. Next, we’ll hear a fantastical story about a dragon, and we’ll apply this story in various mathematical ways. After this, we’ll practice counting backward from 20 while we stomp: moving our bodies and brains at the same time! Next, we’ll go back to our dragon story, and we’ll draw a crayon drawing of the dragon in our main lesson book. Teacher Simone will help us understand the outline of a dragon so we can do our best when drawing. A good tip is to draw the first outline with a light-colored crayon. Our last activity will be making a vocabulary chart.
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 18:07
We’ll start this lesson off with our verse The Leaves and our song Deep Peace. Next, we’ll talk about even numbers and odd numbers, and we’ll do a drawing of two dragons named Odd Todd and Even Steven. After drawing, we’ll tell a story about the dragons, which will help us better understand odd and even numbers.
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 15:13
We’ll start this lesson with our Morning Has Come verse, then we’ll sing a song called If the People Live Their Lives. After waking up our minds a bit, we’ll do some practice counting backward, and we’ll use our magic dragon gems to complete a few addition problems. Lastly, we will sort our numbers into odd and even categories to get more practice in with that.
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 15:59
We’ll begin this lesson with a movement activity and a song called If the People Live Their Lives. Next, we’ll learn a verse called 5 Little Pumpkins. After waking our minds up with some music, we’ll begin in a new main lesson book and welcome it into our hands with gratitude and joy! After we draw in our first page of the main lesson book, we’ll practice reading together.
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 19:08
We’ll start this lesson by singing If the People Live Their Lives and doing the stomps that go along with it, then we’ll do our 5 Little Pumpkins verse. After that, we’ll practice addition and subtraction with the number 13. Next, we’ll hear a story about The Grape on the Ground, and we’ll do a crayon drawing in our main lesson book. We will also practice summarizing our story and writing sentences for the beginning, middle, and end.
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 11:41
This lesson begins with our 5 Little Pumpkins verse followed by our song If the People Live Their Lives. Next, we’ll quickly review the letter G, then talk about the letter H. After hearing a story about the letter H, we’ll practice our summarization skills, and we’ll write a sentence for the beginning, middle, and end of the story. Lastly, we’ll review an addition worksheet and then practice adding numbers.
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 10:33
We’ll start with our Morning Has Come verse. After that, we’ll hear the story of Crying Cloud, write a sentence summarizing it, and practice writing our letter C. Next, we’ll look at the number 11, and we’ll learn a magic trick to help us multiply 11 by other double-digit numbers.
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 23:45
This lesson begins with our Autumn Verse, followed by a story about the 12 Chinese zodiac signs. After that, we’ll learn our 1 and 2 times tables. The rule for 1 times tables is simple, and we’ll do a beanbag activity while we count by 2s.
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 17:07
We’ll start this lesson with our Autumn verse, and then we’ll hear a story about an Easter Egg hunt. After our story, we’ll write a one-sentence summary and then practice writing our letter ‘e’. When we finish our writing practice, we’ll move on to a fun activity where we will create our own dodecahedron out of paper and decorate it with the 12 Chinese zodiacs or the 12 Gemstones.
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 20:03
We’ll begin this lesson with our Autumn verse, and then we’ll hear the story of The Feeling Flowers. After we finish our story, we’ll make a one-sentence summary of it, and we’ll practice writing our lowercase ‘f’. Next, we’ll talk more about our Dodecahedron from the previous lesson. This time, we’re going to cut out our Dodecahedron that we decorated in the last lesson, and we’re going to glue it all together.
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 10:31
We’ll begin this lesson with our Morning Has Come verse and our Joy song. Next, we’ll take a look at a tough subtraction problem with triple digits. We’ll hear a story and learn a special technique for solving this problem together. After this, we’ll talk about the special qualities of the number 11.
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 9:55
We begin this lesson by practicing verses that focus on alliteration. Next, Teacher Simone will share a story with us about bees. We’ll learn about how bees fly in a form-drawing-like pattern and how the symmetry of that pattern occurs in nature. We’ll finish this lesson by practicing number names.
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 11:41
We’ll begin this lesson with a brand-new verse that focuses heavily on alliteration. Next, we’ll hear the story of Squirrel and Bunny. This story will help us practice subtraction. After this, we’ll talk about squaring numbers.
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 24:23
We’ll begin this lesson with our Morning Has Come verse, then we’ll decorate our main lesson book page together. We’ll be learning about number operations! Next, we will turn the page, and we’ll practice our 7 times tables by drawing rainbows.
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 14:26
We’ll begin this lesson with our Morning Has Come verse, then we’ll draw 7 triangles for each color of the rainbow. We’ll use these triangles – or gnome caps – to do some more practice with our 7 times tables. We’ll hear a story about the Rain Gnomes that will help us expand our 7 times-tables charts. Lastly, we’ll look at some subtraction problems and practice that as well.
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 25:09
We’ll begin this lesson by singing our I Am A Star song and reciting our Golden Gates verse. Next, we’ll do a block crayon drawing from our story from the previous lesson. This drawing and story will help us remember how to count by 10s and 100s. We will also review our Rain Gnomes from previous lessons.
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 21:05
We’ll begin this lesson with a few different songs and verses. First, we’ll sing our song called Oh, Be Joyful. Then, we’ll get out our beanbags to use while we sing My Lantern. For our last verse, we will keep our beanbags out, and we will do our Two Squirrels verse. After this, we’ll do a paper-cutting activity, and each of us will create our own paper chain to hang on the wall!
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Form Drawing block I (with Teacher Mellie) Lesson 1: Form Drawing: The Brave Knight and the Dragon Part 1 We’ll begin each lesson in Teacher Mellie’s portion of the block with a verse. For lesson 1, our verse will be the Golden Sun verse. After that, we’ll hear a story that will inspire our drawing for the day. Next, we’ll hear more about the form we’ll be drawing, and we’ll act it out with our hands and draw it in the air. Once we’re done with that movement, we’ll be ready to practice the form drawing with chalk. Chalk is a great opportunity to draw without worrying about making mistakes. We’ll practice on our chalkboard as many times as needed until we feel comfortable moving to our main lesson book. Member Feedback: “The stories that preface each form drawing are wonderful.” We’ll start this lesson with The Golden Sun verse, then add to our story about the brave knight and dragon from the previous lesson. Once we’ve finished this part of the story, we’ll know what the next form drawing will be, and like last time, we’ll start by acting it out and air drawing, then practice with chalk, and finally transition to regular paper or our main lesson book. Member Feedback: “It’s really nice how Teacher Mellie lays out all the lessons. It’s organized and easy to follow.” Lesson 3: Form Drawing: The Brave Knight and the Dragon Part 3 We’ll start this lesson by doing The Golden Sun verse, then we’ll add on to our story of The Brave Knight and the Dragon. Once we finish this part of the story, we’ll learn the next form drawing, and like last time, we’ll start by acting it out and air drawing, then practice with chalk, and finally transition to regular paper or our main lesson book. Member Feedback: “I like how the story is connected throughout all the lessons.” We’ll start this lesson by doing The Golden Sun verse, then we’ll add on even more to our story of The Brave Knight and the Dragon. Once we’ve finished this part of the story, we’ll know what the next form drawing will be, and just like last time, we’ll start by acting it out and air drawing, then practice with chalk, and finally transition to regular paper or our main lesson book. Member Feedback: “It’s cool how all the form drawings connect to each other and to the story!” Lesson 5: Form Drawing: The Brave Knight and the Dragon Part 5 We’ll start this lesson with The Golden Sun verse and review the previous part of the story, then add even more to our story of The Brave Knight and the Dragon. Once we’ve finished this part of the story, we’ll know what the next form drawing will be. But before we get started, we’ll do a clay crafting activity to sculpt our form drawing and see it in three dimensions. After that, we will transition to regular paper or our main lesson book. Member Feedback: “It was nice to have a sculpting activity in this block among all the drawing. Always such a good variety from Mellie!” Lesson 6: Form Drawing: The Brave Knight and the Dragon Part 6 We’ll start this lesson with The Golden Sun verse and review the previous part of the story, then add to our story of The Brave Knight and the Dragon. Once we’ve finished part 6 of the story, it will tell us what the next form drawing will be, and, as before, we’ll start by acting it out and air drawing, then practice with chalk, and finally transition to regular paper or our main lesson book. Member Feedback: “I like that the lessons are realistic and not overly edited. It really feels like a live classroom!” Lesson 7: Form Drawing: The Brave Knight and the Dragon Part 7 We’ll start this lesson with The Golden Sun verse and review the previous part of the story, then add to our story of The Brave Knight and the Dragon. Once we’ve finished part 7 of the story, it will let us know what the next form drawing will be. We will start by crafting our form drawing with string, then go through our other steps: acting it out and air drawing, practicing with chalk, and finally transitioning to regular paper or our main lesson book. Member Feedback: “The story this block has been so captivating!” Lesson 8: Form Drawing: The Brave Knight and the Dragon Part 8 We’ll start this lesson with The Golden Sun verse and review the previous part of the story, then add to our story of The Brave Knight and the Dragon. Once we’ve finished part 8 of the story, it will tell us what the next form drawing will be, and, as before, we’ll start by acting it out and air drawing, then practice with chalk, and finally transition to regular paper or our main lesson book. Member Feedback: “I like the movement included for every form drawing” Lesson 9: Form Drawing: The Brave Knight and the Dragon Part 9 We’ll start this lesson with The Golden Sun verse and review the previous part of the story, then add to our story of The Brave Knight and the Dragon. Once we’ve finished part 9 of the story, it will tell us what the next form drawing will be, and, as before, we’ll start by acting it out and air drawing, then practice with chalk, and finally transition to regular paper or our main lesson book. Member Feedback: “Mellie’s lessons are always so engaging and fun to watch!” Lesson 10: Form Drawing: The Brave Knight and the Dragon Part 10 We’ll start this lesson with The Golden Sun verse and review the previous part of the story, then add to our story of The Brave Knight and the Dragon. Once we’ve finished part 10 of the story, it will tell us what the next form drawing will be, and, as before, we’ll start by acting it out and air drawing, then practice with chalk, and finally transition to regular paper or our main lesson book. Member Feedback: “Mellie tells stories in such a way that you can see everything so clearly”
Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
Length: 10:58
Lesson 2: Form Drawing: The Brave Knight and the Dragon Part 2
Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
Length: 12:35
Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
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Lesson 4: Form Drawing: The Brave Knight and the Dragon Part 4
Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
Length: 13:12
Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
Length: 15:27
Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
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Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
Length: 11:58
Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
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Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
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Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
Length: 13:14
Form Drawing block II (with Teacher Simone, and Teacher Nicole) Lesson 1: Form Drawing with Block Crayons: The Lion & the Mouse We’ll start this lesson with an active bean bag activity. We’ll use our bean bag for a verse about two squirrels and another verse about a little spider. Next, we’ll get into our story time, where we’ll hear the story The Lion & the Mouse. After that, we’ll sit down and talk about block crayons and how to use them with care. Teacher Simone will explain how simple shapes and forms can create full images and pictures from our imagination. We’ll go through lots of different but similar shapes that can be put together in a variety of ways, and then we’ll draw a scene from The Lion & The Mouse story we heard earlier. Member Feedback: “The beanbag activities are a great way to get out some extra energy!” Lesson 2: Form Drawing Practice We’ll begin this lesson with our Golden Sun verse followed by two new songs. Once our creative minds are warmed up, we’ll be ready to do our form drawing practice. We’ll review what we learned in the previous video using the basic form-drawing shapes to create more elaborate visual ideas. We’ll practice repeating the same form together and combining different ones. Member Feedback: “I loved the songs in this video!” Lesson 3: Figure 8 Form Drawing A quick lesson with Teacher Nicole on how to draw the figure eight form. Nicole shares a couple of tips and tricks for making our form even, and she encourages lots of practice before we commit to paper and crayons. Member Feedback: “The advice about drawing a vertical and horizontal line during practice is very helpful” Lesson 4: Running Form #1: Waves Let’s practice running form drawings! In this lesson, we’ll learn about the wave form, like the beautiful waves the ocean makes. First, we’ll practice with chalk using a “watch first and then do” listening style. This will help us to analyze our shapes and be constructively critical about our progress. Lesson 5: Running Form #2: Cat Ears Our next running form drawing will be the cat ears form. Teacher Nicole helps us practice this combination form drawing, which consists of a spike followed by a horizontal line. We will analyze our practice work, comparing each sector of the form for evenness. Once we are comfortable, we’ll move on to paper and crayons, or our main lesson book. Lesson 6: Running Form and Mirror Forms Let’s draw some hand-holding ghosts – or our first mirrored form. We do this by drawing a horizontal or vertical line right in the center of the page, and then mirroring whichever running form we choose to use – in this case, it’s our little ghosts. Teacher Nicole helps us practice with chalk. We will analyze our practice work, comparing each sector of the form for evenness. Once we have practiced and feel comfortable, we’ll move to paper and crayons, or our main lesson book. Lesson 7: Vertical Mirrored Form Drawing Let’s draw a little bug jumping down a tree – or our vertical mirrored form drawing! We do this by drawing a vertical line in the center of the page, then mirroring whichever running form we choose. In this lesson, we’ll be using the jumping bug form. Teacher Nicole helps us practice with chalk, then we will analyze our practice work, comparing each sector of the form for evenness. Once we have practiced and feel comfortable, we’ll move to paper and crayons, or our main lesson book. Lesson 1: Turtle Races Beaver Member Feedback: “I like Mellie’s calm demeanor throughout her lessons” Lesson 2: The Monkey and the Mangoes Member Feedback: “I like how fun these stories are while still encouraging curiosity about animals!” Lesson 3: Butterflies Member Feedback: “Having each activity separated by movement is very effective!” Lesson 4: The Monarch Member Feedback: “Teacher Mellie does a fantastic job of explaining the complex spelling rules of the English language” Lesson 5: The Walnut Member Feedback: “There is so much content in these lessons! Lesson 6: Clay Member Feedback: “The clay story is great; you can learn so much from it.” Lesson 7: Clouds Member Feedback: “I like all of the little verses and poems that accompany each spelling rule. It’s always better when the learned information is then applied in context. Very helpful!” Lesson 8: Weather Member Feedback: “Such a lovely block. Teacher Mellie has a knack for explaining these concepts very cohesively!” Lesson 9: Rock Formations Member Feedback: “Really interesting stuff in here about mountains and rock formation, plus a super fun hat making activity.” Lesson 10: Nature Symmetry with Bees and Number Practice Member Feedback: “So cool how bees fly in a form drawing pattern!” Lesson 11: Animals, Seeds, and Pollination Member Feedback: “Very interesting how all of these animals that look so different have a similar job” Lesson 12: Creating a Timeline for an Inventor or Discoverer
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 23:32
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 21:40
Teacher: Nicole Martinez
Length: 1:33
Teacher: Nicole Martinez
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Teacher: Nicole Martinez
Length: 2:56
Teacher: Nicole Martinez
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Teacher: Nicole Martinez
Length: 1:25
Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
Length: 40:56
We’ll begin this lesson with our morning verse, followed by a movement activity and a song. These activities will warm up our creative minds and help us listen well to today’s story about Turtle and Beaver. After we hear our story, we’ll switch over to our spelling book where we’ll practice spelling “oo” words; then we’ll do another movement activity to transition us into our drawing activity, where Teacher Mellie shows us how to create a crayon drawing of a scene from our story of the day.
Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
Length: 45:03
We’ll begin this lesson with our morning verse, followed by a movement activity and a song. Next, we will review our story from last time about Turtle and Beaver, and we will practice writing and composition by summarizing the story. After that, we’ll switch to our spelling book and practice spelling “oo” words. Then we’ll do another movement activity to transition into our story of the day, The Monkey and the Mangoes. After we listen to our story, we’ll do our drawing activity, where Teacher Mellie shows us how to create a crayon drawing of a scene from our story.
Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
Length: 42:56
We’ll begin this lesson with our morning verse, followed by a movement activity and a song. Next, we will review our story from last time about Monkey and the mangoes, and we will practice writing and composition by summarizing the story. After this, we’ll get right into our next story called The Butterflies. Before doing our drawing for The Butterflies, we will quickly switch over to our spelling book where we’ll do some more practice spelling “oo” words, and we’ll introduce “ou” words. Then we’ll do another movement activity to transition us into drawing a scene from our story of the day.
Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
Length: 40:33
We’ll begin this lesson with our morning verse, followed by a movement activity and a song. Next, we will review our story from last time about The Butterflies, and we will practice writing and composition by summarizing the story. After this, we’ll get right into our next story called The Monarch. Before creating our picture for The Monarch, we will quickly switch over to our spelling book where we’ll practice spelling “oo” words and “ou” words, plus we’ll introduce “igh” words and see how they are similar to “y” words. After we finish spelling, we’ll do another movement activity to transition us into painting a scene from our story of the day. Teacher Mellie shows us how to paint with watercolors, but you may use whatever paint you have available.
Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
Length: 45:46
We’ll begin this lesson with our morning verse, followed by a movement activity and a song. Next, we will review our story from last time, The Monarch, by writing a summary of what happened, and we will also do a crayon drawing of it since we previously only did a watercolor painting. After we complete our summary and drawing, we will move on to the next story, The Walnut. Before drawing, we will quickly switch to our spelling book to practice spelling “oo” and “ou” words, and “igh” and “y” words. After we finish spelling, we’ll do another movement activity to transition us into drawing a scene from our story of the day.
Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
Length: 43:39
We’ll begin this lesson with our morning verse, followed by a movement activity and a song. Next, we will review our story from last time, The Walnut, and practice writing and composition by writing a summary of what happened. After completing our summary, we will move on to the next story called Clay. But before doing a drawing for it, we will quickly switch over to our spelling book where we’ll practice spelling “oo” and “ou” words, and “igh” and “y” words, plus we’ll introduce “ie” and “ck” words. After we finish spelling, we’ll do another movement activity to transition us into drawing a scene from our story of the day.
Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
Length: 40:48
We’ll begin this lesson with our morning verse, followed by a movement activity and a song. Next, we will review our story from last time about Clay and practice writing and composition by writing a summary of what happened. After we complete our summary, we will move on to the next story, Clouds. Before drawing, we will quickly switch to our spelling book to practice our spelling (oo, ou, igh, y, ie, ck). After we finish spelling, we’ll do another movement activity to transition us into drawing a scene from our story of the day.
Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
Length: 42:32
We’ll begin this lesson with our morning verse, followed by a movement activity and a song. Next, we will review our story from last time about Clouds and practice writing and composition by writing a summary of what happened. After we complete our summary, we will move on to the next story, Weather. Before drawing it, we will quickly switch to our spelling book to practice our spelling (oo, ou, igh, y, ie, ck). After we finish spelling, we’ll do another movement activity to transition us into drawing a scene from our story of the day. After we finish our drawing, we will write a summary to conclude our Animal and Science Block with Teacher Mellie.
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 16:33
We begin this lesson by practicing verses that focus on alliteration. Next, Teacher Simone shares fascinating facts about rock formation and how sand is made so we can use this information in our drawing activity. We’ll practice with chalk beforehand, and once you feel comfortable with the pattern, you can do a crayon drawing to make a more permanent version. After that, we’ll do the drawing one last time, but this time we’ll turn it into a wearable headband. Lastly, we’ll get into our fable called The Tortoise and the Geese
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 9:55
We begin this lesson by practicing verses that focus on alliteration. Next, Teacher Simone will share a story with us about bees. We’ll learn about how bees fly in a form-drawing-like pattern and how the symmetry of that pattern occurs in nature. We’ll finish this lesson by practicing number names.
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 8:00
We’ll start this lesson by singing our song, I Am a Star, then learn about the different kinds of animals classified as Seed Dispersers and pollinators. We’ll choose one of the animals we learned about and ask ourselves, “What does this animal need to survive?” and “Is it a seed disperser or a pollinator?” Feel free to draw your animal in any way you like. Focusing on the animal’s appearance and physical traits can help us understand it better.
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 15:00
We’ll start by singing Morning Has Come, and I Am a Star. After warming up our creative minds a bit, we’ll get out our books about a famous inventor or discoverer of our choice, a loose sheet of paper, and some colored pencils. We’ll look at our inventors and discoverers, talk about what they have in common, and hear a story from Teacher Simone about her life. While she tells her story, she will draw a timeline of events, which we will use as an example for our own timelines.
Saints block (with Teacher Mellie, and Teacher Simone) (optional, secular, and international) Lesson 1: Saint George Lesson 2: Saint Martin Lesson 3: Saint Elizabeth Lesson 4: Saint Lucia Lesson 5: Saint Nicholas Lesson 6: Rabia al Basri Lesson 7: Jerome and the Lion Lesson 8: Saint Francis Lesson 9: Saint Rabbi Akiva Lesson 10: Saint Werbungen and the Geese Lesson 11: Amu Nowruz and Santa Claus Lesson 12: Saint Martin Lesson 13: Anthony and the Fishes Lesson 14: Saint Kevin and the Cow Lesson 15: Saint Lucia Lesson 16: Saint Nicholas and the Flute Lesson 17: Saint Nicholas and the Red Wagon Lesson 17: Saint Nicholas and the Coat
Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
Length: 43:37
Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
Length: 40:58
Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
Length: 39:56
Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
Length: 56:18
Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
Length: 45:42
Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
Length: 40:59
Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
Length: 47:58
Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
Length: 44:36
Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
Length: 40:16
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 18:21
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 23:18
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 31:48
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 30:07
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 17:28
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 17:41
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 16:18
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 14:40
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 13:31
(optional enrichment) Santa Lucia Crowns: Handwork Lesson
Create a Holiday: Language Lesson
Advent and the Color Bar Graph: Math Lesson
Amu Nowruz and Santa Claus Comparison: Language Lesson
Favorite Holiday Experience: Language Lesson
St. Nicholas and the Flute: Language Lesson
St. Nicholas and the Red Wagon: Language Lesson
St. Nicholas and the Coat: Language Lesson
SPECIAL LIVING LESSON: Celebrating Loved Ones Who Have Passed On
All Hallows’ Eve (or any time of year) activity
What are Living Lessons?
Students can use these full lessons by watching each video on their own. A Waldorf teacher can teach students using these Living Lessons. However, we also feel it is important that the parent/teacher remains involved in the lessons to stay true to the Waldorf methods. Therefore, Living Lessons can also serve as a classroom assistant and help you become a better teacher by having another teacher lead, guide, and inspire you. However you use them, your student will greatly benefit from these full lessons taught by a Waldorf teacher!
Here are some ways and reasons in which you may use the Living Lessons:
1. You are homeschooling multiple ages and need a virtual teacher now and then so you can offer each of your students individual attention.
2. You are looking for a virtual classroom experience with a Waldorf teacher.
3. You need a break now and then from homeschooling full time.
4. You want to enhance your own skill set by watching other teachers present Waldorf lessons.
5. You want to join a community of other parents experiencing Living Lessons with opportunities for your kids to connect with other kids in the program.
6. You are running a business or working from home and need a virtual teacher to help you homeschool.
7. You recently moved or are experiencing health challenges that make it hard to homeschool full-time.
8. You are new to homeschooling and need a boost of confidence to start off your year.
9. You are new to Waldorf education and unsure about some of the particular ways lessons are presented in this style of teaching.
10. You feel overwhelmed with the prospect of homeschooling, or you have been forced into homeschooling and are feeling lost.
Additional Samples and Upgrades
If you need additional samples beyond those provided on this page, we suggest purchasing smaller lesson blocks, either by individual months or subjects, to sample the curriculum. You will receive credit for your block purchase if you upgrade from a Living Lessons Block within 30 days of your original purchase. You may also be interested in visiting our Testimonial Page or What is Earthschooling page. You can view our company purchase and privacy policies HERE.
This package is also eligible for an upgrade to one of our Best Value Collections when you upgrade within 12 months of your purchase date.

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