Second Grade Waldorf Living Lessons ‘Main Lessons Only’ Set – 18 Month Access

Description

WELCOME and Introduction to Second Grade with Teacher Mellie

Living Lessons included in this Second Grade Set

Our ‘Main Lessons Only’ sets include just the main lessons Living Lessons. These sets do not include extra lessons for music, handwork, and eurythmy. These sets do not include printed curriculum. However, they do include Main Lesson Book samples, worksheets, and quizzes as provided by the teachers when needed. A list of all the lessons in this set can be found below.

To purchase the set that includes printed curriculum and extra Living Lessons for music, handwork, art, and eurythmy please visit the Living Lessons Full Curriculum Set.

We will update this list as we add more lessons. Currently the following lessons are included (all of these have been provided by Waldorf teacher Simone and teacher Amy Williams. See “Our Team” for more information)

The following lessons are currently online. When you make your purchase you gain access to all the current and future lessons available during your access time. This means that you are only paying for the lessons listed on this page at the time of purchase. You will receive any other lessons we upload during your access time for free. However, there is no guarantee as to how many additional lessons you will receive for free.

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 they are uploaded they will be listed here and the price on this listing will increase.

Living Lesson Circle Time/Movements/Beanbag Games

Verse and Craft with Teacher Simone
Using Beanbags in Circle Time
Opening Song and Main Lesson Book Song
6’s with Bean Bags and Expanded Form with Adding

Living Lesson Main Lessons: Form Drawing

Form Drawing Practice 
Jack and Jane Story & Drawing
House, Person, and Tree Development Exercise

Living Lessons: Main Lessons: Heroes & Role Models Block

Lesson One: Dr. Martin Luther King
Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
Length: 40:11

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. His early life, his parents, his hard work in school and life, his passionate speeches, and the swift and 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.

• Morning verse
• Brave and True movement activity
• I’m a Knight movement activity
• True hero stories: Martin Luther King
• Bus boycott
• “I Have a Dream” speech
• The Magic E
• Vocabulary
• Spelling practice
• Writing and sentence structure
• Drawing activity

Member Feedback: “Teacher Mellie’s lesson plans are wonderfully organized, watching her class is always such a pleasant experience”

 

Lesson Two: Mahatma Gandhi
Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
Length: 41:12

Welcome back to our Heroes block! Let’s join Teacher Mellie while she shares stories of real-life hero. 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?

• Morning verse
• Brave and True movement activity
• I’m a Knight movement activity
• Review Doctor MLK
• True hero stories: Mahatma Gandhi
• The Magic E
• Vocabulary
• Spelling practice
• Writing and sentence structure
• Drawing activity

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 
Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
Length: 43:19

Hello Earth Schoolers, welcome back to our Heroes block! Today’s hero is Wangari Maathai, a female activist from Kenya who founded the Green Belt Movement, an organization focused on the planting of 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 take what we learned about him and create a summary on the back of our drawing to 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 during a time when this was not common for women to do. 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.

• Morning verse
• Brave and True movement activity
• I’m a Knight movement activity
• True hero stories: Wangari Maathai
• The Green Belt Movement
• Spelling practice (th-, ch-, sh, and -wh, -ai, a)
• Writing and sentence structure
• Drawing activity

Member Feedback: “Mellie’s lessons are rich with content. Much appreciated!”

 

Lesson 4: John Muir Parts 1 & 2
Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
Length: 41

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.

• Morning verse
• Brave and True movement activity
• I’m a Knight movement activity
• True hero stories: John Muir
• 1000-mile walk
• Spelling practice (-igh, -y)
• Writing and sentence structure
• Drawing activity

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 5: Rachel Carson
Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
Length: 41:27

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 our hero of the day and summarizing what we learned about her in our main lesson book.

• Morning verse
• Brave and True movement activity
• I’m a Knight movement activity
• True hero stories: Rachel Carson
• Vocabulary
• Spelling practice (-igh, -y)
• Writing and sentence structure
• Drawing activity

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 6: Black Elk part 1 & 2
Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
Length: 41

Welcome back to our Heroes block! Like previous lessons, we’ll start out with our morning verse to help us get focused. Next, we’ll review our hero from last time, Rachel Carson. We’ll come up with some new vocabulary words to describe her and use them 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 who was 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 making a drawing our hero of the day and summarizing what we learned about him in our main lesson book.

• Morning verse
• True hero stories: Black Elk
• Vocabulary
• Spelling practice (gentle c and g)
• Writing and sentence structure
• Drawing activity

Member Feedback: “The natural ambience of all Mellie’s lessons in this block are birds or crickets chirping. I don’t know if this was intentional, but it’s a wonderful touch!”

 

Lesson 7: Jane Goodall
Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
Length: 43:51

Welcome back Earth Schoolers. It is time for our seventh and final lesson on these real-life heroes. Like previous lessons, we’ll start out with our 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, 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, 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 things down by making a drawing our hero of the day and summarizing what we learned about her in our main lesson book.

• Morning verse
• Brave and True movement activity
• I’m a Knight movement activity
• True hero stories: Jane Goodall
• Vocabulary
• Spelling practice (double o’s)
• Writing and sentence structure
• Drawing activity

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.”

Second Grade Math Block with Waldorf Teacher Mellie

Lesson 1: The 2 Times Tables
Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
Length: 18:44
Welcome to our second-grade math block! We’ll start off by learning a verse which we’ll be reciting 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 2’s, then we’ll do a more tangible exercise where we count rocks, or whichever 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 that we may thoroughly understand why they yield the answers that 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.

• Morning verse
• 2’s song
• 2 times-tables
• 14, 7, and 2
• Counting with rocks
• Multiplication
• Best Friend’s Ten

Member Feedback: “Wow Teacher Mellie can do it all! Language arts, science, history, art, and math too”

 

Lesson 2: The 3 Times Tables
Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
Length: 28:08
In this lesson, we’ll be reviewing our 2 times-tables and learning about our 3 times-tables. In this block repetition is of utmost importance. We will start off doing our morning verse, then we’ll review our 2’s song from the previous lesson. After this, we’ll get out our counting rocks so we can visualize the 2 times-tables. Then it will be time for our rhythmic movement activity. Teacher Mellie will first show the hand clapping pattern, then she will go over each of the 2 times-tables with the clapping pattern. Next, we’ll introduce the 3 times-tables, and we’ll play a chalkboard game. Then we’ll try some word problems so we can 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 be drawing 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.

• Morning verse
• 2’s song
• Counting with rocks
• Clapping pattern
• 2 times-table review
• Introduce 3 times-table
• Word problems
• Geometric drawing

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
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 4’s, and we’ll start with counting by 4’s with our leapfrog rule, then we’ll learn a song to count by 4’s all the way up to 48. We’ll also practice with all kinds of equations and talk through them as we solve. After this, we’ll do some word problems, then we’ll do some geometric drawings that help us visualize counting by 2’s and 3’s.

• Morning verse
• 3 times-table review
• Clapping pattern
• Introduce 4 times-table
• Word problems
• Geometric drawing

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
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 3’s with the snap/clap movement activity. Then we’ll review counting by 4’s and we’ll sing the 4’s. Next, we will practice some word problems with 4’s and after that we’ll do more practice with the geometrical pattern we have been studying. We’ll add 4’s to the pattern this time and then we will draw the 4 times-tables.

• Morning verse
• 4’s song
• Clapping pattern
• Word problems
• Geometric drawing

Member Feedback: “I like how much repetition is in the videos”

 

Lesson 5: The 5 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 3’s and 4’s times-tables. We’ll start by practicing the snap/clap activity with 3’s, then we’ll sing our 4’s song. Next, we’ll be ready to learn our 5’s! We’ll learn to count by 5’s 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, adding our 5’s to it, and then we will write out our 5 times-tables in the main lesson book next to the drawing. Our last part of the lesson will be introducing the 6’s, but we’ll get more into that in the next lesson.

• Review 3’s
• Review 4’s
• Clapping pattern
• Word problems
• Introduce 5 times-tables
• Odd vs even
• Geometric drawing

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
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 6’s with the snap/clap movement activity. Next, we’ll do some review since repetition is the key to math! We’ll do our 4’s song and review our 5’s 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 6’s and we’ll see how it relates to our 3’s. Next, it’s time to practice with word problems and do some chalkboard equations. Once we’re done with that, we’ll get to add our 6’s to the geometric pattern and then write our 6 times-tables.

• Introduce 6’s
• 6’s song
• Review 4’s
• Review 5’s
• 6 in relationship to 3
• Odd vs even
• Word problems

Member Feedback: “It’s great how Mellie points out all of these patterns in numbers”

 

Lesson 7: The 7 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 go back and review the 6’s 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 7’s! We’ll learn a 7’s song, do some chalkboard practice, and add 7 to our geometric drawing.

• Review 5’s
• Review 6’s
• Introduce 7’s
• 7’s song
• Word problems
• Even vs odd
• Geometric drawing

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
Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
Length: 30:19
We will start with our morning verse to wake up our minds. After this we will review our 7’s which we learned in the previous lesson. Next, we’ll introduce our 8’s with the leapfrog rule and a song. After that, we will do some word problems and then we will 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. 

• Review 7’s
• Introduce 8’s
• Down by the Banks song
• Odd vs even

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
Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
Length: 29:24
After doing our morning verse, we’ll get right into practicing our 8’s. After doing our 8’s song and our snap/clap activity for 8’s, we’ll move on and do some word problems that focus on reviewing previous material. Next, we’ll learn our 9’s! 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-tables. After this, we’ll add our 9’s to the geometric drawing, which we will of course practice on the chalkboard before transferring to our main lesson book.

• Review 8’s
• Word problems
• Even vs odd
• Introduce 9’s
• 9’s song
• Geometric drawing

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
Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
Length: 30:28
After reciting our morning verse, we will review both 8’s and 9’s. Then we will get to learn our 10’s. After learning our 10’s we will do some practice on the chalkboard with word problems. Next, we will add our 10’s to our geometrical pattern. We will first practice with our chalkboard, then we will move on 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 us to reference in the future.

• Review 8’s
• Review 9’s
• Introduce 10 times-tables
• Odd vs even
• Geometric 
• Word problems

Member Feedback: “Mellie never skips over anything; she always explains so thoroughly!”

 

Lesson 11: The 11 Times Tables
Teacher- Mellie Lonnemann
Length- 25:17
We’ll start this lesson with our morning verse and then we will warm up our minds by reviewing our 8’s, 9’s and 10’s. After this we’ll learn our 11’s with a simple pattern and a fun song of course. We will then practice our equations and word problems on the chalkboard. Next, we’ll add our 11’s to the geometrical pattern we’ve been drawing. We will practice on our chalkboard first and then we will draw the pattern in our main lesson book, and on the next page we will write out our 11 times-tables.

• Review 8’s
• Review 9’s
• Review 10’s
• Introduce 11’s
• 11’s song
• Word problems
• Odd vs even
• Geometrical drawing

Member Feedback: “The consistency in Mellie’s lessons is so important especially for math!”

 

Lesson 12: The 12 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 9’s, 10’s and 11’s. We will do some word problems and equations, then we will do more review of some of the content in our earlier lessons from this block, like the Best Friend’s 10 Rainbow. After this, we’ll learn our final number to learn times-tables; 12’s! We’ll learn the pattern to remember our 12’s then we’ll add our 12’s to our geometric pattern. This time we will get to add ALL the numbers 1-12 to our geometrical drawing, and we’ll discover what beautiful pattern it creates. After practicing with chalk, then we will transfer the drawing to our main lesson book, then we will use the next page to write down our 12 times-tables.

• Review 9’s
• Review 10’s
• Review 11’s
• Introduce 12’s
• 12’s song
• Word problems
• Odd vs even
• Geometrical drawing

Member Feedback: “Mellie has such clever tips and tricks for mind math!”

 

Second Grade Math Lessons with Teacher Simone

Lesson 1: Inches, Centimeters, and Subtraction
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.

• Santa Lucia song
• Measuring
• Inches
• Centimeters
• Subtraction
• Flamingo story problem

Member Feedback: “Simone has a very beautiful voice, it’s so nice listening to her sing!”

 

Lesson 2: Advent and the Color Bar Graph
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 this, we’ll read about Advent Elf and learn about the holiday Advent which goes all throughout December. Advent is all about the light within the universe and each week of December, a different kind of light is celebrated. Teacher Simone shows us a special verse that helps remind us which kind of light is celebrated each week of Advent. After learning about Advent and reading the story, we’ll do a comprehension checkup by trying to recall what occurred in the story. 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 the concept of graphs and statistics by putting together our own Bar Graphs and asking piers and family what their favorite colors are.

• Morning Has Come song
• Kookaburra song
• Advent Elf story
• Advent Lights Verse
• Beginning, middle, and end
• 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: Hannukah and Estimation
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 10:18
In this lesson we’ll learn all about Hannukah and the Menorah. After hearing the story about the Menorah we’ll do a comprehension check and try to recall the beginning, middle, and end of the story. We’ll work together and do a crayon drawing for each section of our story. Next, we’ll learn about estimations.

• Hannukah and the Menorah
• Beginning, middle, and end
• Estimations

Member Feedback: “It’s very effective that there are a lot of short lessons rather than a few long ones. It’s like every concept is pre-cut into bite sized pieces, so students don’t get overwhelmed with information.”

 

Lesson 4: The Number 17
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 minus down to 17?

• My Lantern
• The leaves
• The number 17
• Addition and subtraction 

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 5: Counting by 6 and Expanded Form Adding
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 16:33
This lesson starts with a fun beanbag activity and a song. We’ll incorporate counting by 6’s 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: 100’s, 10’s, and 1’s.

• Beanbag activity
• Triple digit addition
• 100’s, 10’s, and 1’s
• Expanded Form Addition

Member Feedback: “It’s nice that Simone puts practice problems of different difficulty levels”

 

Lesson 6: Lowercase Letter ‘m’ and the Math Maze
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 draying 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, 

• The Leaves verse
• Lowercase ‘m’ story
• Lowercase ‘m’ drawing
• Math maze drawing
• Story problems
• Point

Member Feedback: “Learning such a wide variety of verses is actually a fantastic way to expand vocabulary”

 

Lesson 7: Countdown 20 to 1 and a Dragon Story
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 backwards 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 helps us to understand the outline of a dragon so we can do our very best when drawing. A good tip is to draw the first outline with a light color crayon. Our last activity will be making a vocabulary chart.

• Morning Has Come verse
• Deep Peace verse
• Dragon story
• Dragon story problems
• Counting backwards
• Dragon drawing
• Vocabulary chart

Member Feedback: “These Waldorf story problems are stellar.”

 

Lesson 8: Odd Todd and Even Steven
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 we’ll help us better understand odd and even numbers.

• Dragon story
• The Leaves verse
• Deep Peace verse
• Odd and even numbers
• Dragon drawing

Member Feedback: “How did Earthschooling find all the best teachers in the land?!”

 

Lesson 9: Numbers 10-20
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 backwards 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.

• Morning Has Come
• If the People Live Their Lives
• Counting backwards
• Numbers 10-20
• Dragon gem math
• Odd and even numbers

Member Feedback: “I absolutely love the incorporation of the dragon story throughout this block!”

 

Lesson 10: Sight Words Story
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. 

• If the People Live Their Lives song
• 5 Little Pumpkins
• New Main Lesson book
• Reading practice

Member Feedback: “There is so much care put into each main lesson book”

 

Lesson 11: The Letter G and The Number 13 
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 this, we’ll do some practice with addition and subtraction and 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.

• If the People Live Their Lives
• 5 Little Pumpkins
• The Grape on the Ground
• The number 13

 

Lesson 12: Recall Letter H and the Hiding Hut
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 do a quick review of the letter G and then we’ll 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 look over an addition worksheet and then practice adding numbers together.

• 5 Little Pumpkins verse
• Review the letter G
• The letter H
• Beginning, middle, and end
• Addition

 

Lesson 13: The Number 11
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 10:33
We’ll start with our Morning Has Come verse. After this, we’ll hear the story of Crying Cloud, and we’ll write a sentence summarizing the story and then 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.

• Morning Has Come verse
• Crying Cloud story
• The Number 11
• Multiplying double-digits

 

Lesson 14: The Properties of Numbers 1 and 2
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 23:45
This lesson begins with our Autumn Verse, followed by a story about the 12 Chinese zodiac signs. After this we’ll learn about our times-tables for the numbers 1 and 2. The rule for 1 times-tables is a simple one, and we’ll do a beanbag activity while we count by 2’s.

• Autumn verse
• Beeswax crafting activity
• The 12 gemstones
• Chinese zodiac story
• Times-tables for 1 and 2
• Beanbag activity

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 15: Lowercase ‘e’ and Making a Dodecahedron 
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 and do a fun activity where we will create our very own dodecahedron out of paper that we will decorate with the 12 Chinese zodiacs or the 12 Gemstones.

• Autumn verse
• Easter Egg story
• Lowercase ‘e’
• Dodecahedron pattern
• Crayon drawing Chinese zodiac

Member Feedback: “The 12-sided dice pattern is really cool!”

 

Lesson 16: Lowercase ‘f’ and Making a Dodecahedron
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.

• Autumn verse
• The Feeling Flowers story
• Lowercase ‘f’
• Dodecahedron pattern
• Creating a Dodecahedron

Member Feedback: “I like how Teacher Simone does the entire Dodecahedron activity in the video”

 

Lesson 17: Knights and Dragons Place Value Story
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 on how to solve this problem together. After this, we’ll talk about the special qualities of the number 11.

• Morning Has Come verse
• Joy song
• Triple Digit subtraction
• Place Value
• Special qualities of 11

Member Feedback: “The dragon story is so creative!”

 

Lesson 18: Nature Symmetry with Bees and Number Practice
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 gorm drawing like pattern and how the symmetry of that pattern occurs in nature. We’ll finish this lesson by practicing number names.

• Alliteration verse
• Bee story
• Form drawing bee pattern
• Number name practice

Member Feedback: “So cool how bees fly in a form drawing pattern!”

 

Lesson 19: Squirrel and Bunny Math and Square Fun with Math
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 11:41
We’ll begin this lesson by starting a brand-new verse which heavily focuses 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. 

• Alliteration verse
• Squirrel and Bunny
• Subtraction Practice
• Squaring numbers

 

Lesson 20: Number Operations and 7 x to 70
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.

• Morning Has Come verse
• Number operations
• 7 to 70 rainbows
•  

Lesson 21: Number Patterns and Gnomes
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 get some practice in with that as well.

• Morning Has Come verse
• Crayon Drawing
• 7 times-table charts
• Rain Gnomes story
• Subtraction practice

Member Feedback: “The Rain Gnomes chart is wonderful”

 

Lesson 22: Violet: Adding and Subtracting 10 and 100
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 10’s and 100’s. We will also review our Rain Gnomes from previous lessons.

• I am a Star song
• Golden Gate
• Crayon drawing
• Counting by 10’s and 100’s 

 

Lesson 23: Paper Cutting a Circle and The Balavisx
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 21:05
We’ll begin this lesson with a few different songs and verse. 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 we will each get to create our own paper chain that we may then hang up on the wall!

• Oh, Be Joyful
• My Lantern
• Two Squirrels
• Paper cutting activity

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!”

 

Form Drawing with Waldorf Teacher Mellie

Lesson 1: Form Drawing: The Brave Knight and the Dragon Part 1
Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
Length: 10:58

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.

• Golden sun verse
• Dragon story part 1
• Air drawing
• Chalk drawing
• Sword form drawing

Member Feedback: “The stories that preface each form drawing are wonderful.”

 
Lesson 2: Form Drawing: The Brave Knight and the Dragon Part 2
Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
Length: 12:35

We’ll start this lesson by doing The Golden Sun verse, then we’ll add on to our story about the brave knight and dragon from the previous lesson. Once we’ve finished this part of the story it will let us know what the next form drawing will be, and just like last time we’ll start by acting it out and air drawing, then practicing with chalk, and finally transitioning to regular paper or our main lesson book.

• Golden sun verse
• Dragon story part 2
• Act out drawing
• Chalk drawing
• Sun form drawing

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
Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
Length: 10:21

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’ve finished this part of the story it will let us know what the next form drawing will be, and just like last time we’ll start by acting it out and air drawing, then practicing with chalk, and finally transitioning to regular paper or our main lesson book.

• Golden sun verse
• Dragon story part 3
• Act out drawing
• Chalk drawing
• Mountain form drawing

Member Feedback: “I like how the story is connected throughout all the lessons.”

 
Lesson 4: Form Drawing: The Brave Knight and the Dragon Part 4
Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
Length: 13:12

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 it will let us know what the next form drawing will be, and just like last time we’ll start by acting it out and air drawing, then practicing with chalk, and finally transitioning to regular paper or our main lesson book.

• Golden sun verse
• Dragon story part 4
• Act out drawing
• Chalk drawing
• Scale form drawing

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
Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
Length: 15:27

We’ll start this lesson by doing The Golden Sun verse and reviewing our previous part of the story, 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 it will let us know what the next form drawing will be. But before we get started on that, 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.

• Golden sun verse
• Dragon story part 5
• Clay crafting
• Reflection form drawing

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
Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
Length: 13:18

We’ll start this lesson by doing The Golden Sun verse and reviewing our previous part of the story, then we’ll add on to our story of The Brave Knight and the Dragon. Once we’ve finished part 6 of the story it will let us know what the next form drawing will be, and just like before we’ll start by acting it out and air drawing, then practicing with chalk, and finally transitioning to regular paper or our main lesson book.

• Golden sun verse
• Dragon story part 6
• Act out drawing
• Chalk drawing
• Zigzag form drawing

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
Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
Length: 11:58

We’ll start this lesson by doing The Golden Sun verse and reviewing our previous part of the story, then we’ll add on 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 out with string and then we will 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.

• Golden sun verse
• Dragon story part 7
• String activity
• Act out drawing
• Chalk drawing
• Fly loop form drawing

Member Feedback: “The story this block has been so captivating!”

 

Lesson 8: Form Drawing: The Brave Knight and the Dragon Part 8
Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
Length: 13:01

We’ll start this lesson by doing The Golden Sun verse and reviewing our previous part of the story, then we’ll add on to our story of The Brave Knight and the Dragon. Once we’ve finished part 8 of the story it will let us know what the next form drawing will be, and just like before we’ll start by acting it out and air drawing, then practicing with chalk, and finally transitioning to regular paper or our main lesson book.

• Golden sun verse
• Dragon story part 8
• Act out drawing
• Chalk drawing
• Trot form drawing

Member Feedback: “I like the movement included for every form drawing”

 

Lesson 9: Form Drawing: The Brave Knight and the Dragon part 9
Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
Length: 14:04

We’ll start this lesson by doing The Golden Sun verse and reviewing our previous part of the story, then we’ll add on to our story of The Brave Knight and the Dragon. Once we’ve finished part 9 of the story it will let us know what the next form drawing will be, and just like before we’ll start by acting it out and air drawing, then practicing with chalk, and finally transitioning to regular paper or our main lesson book.

• Golden sun verse
• Dragon story part 9
• Act out drawing
• Chalk drawing
• Fly loops II form drawing

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
Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
Length: 13:14

We’ll start this lesson by doing The Golden Sun verse and reviewing our previous part of the story, then we’ll add on to our story of The Brave Knight and the Dragon. Once we’ve finished part 10 of the story it will let us know what the next form drawing will be, and just like before we’ll start by acting it out and air drawing, then practicing with chalk, and finally transitioning to regular paper or our main lesson book.

• Golden sun verse
• Dragon story part 10
• Act out drawing
• Chalk drawing
• Ribbon form drawing

Member Feedback: “Mellie tells stories in such a way that you can see everything so clearly”

 

Form Drawing with Waldorf Teacher Simone

Lesson 1: Form Drawing with Block Crayons: The Lion & the Mouse
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 23:32

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 explains how different 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 be able to draw a scene from The Lion & The Mouse story we heard earlier.

• Beanbag activities
• Story time: lion and mouse
• Crayon care
• Form drawing basic shapes
• Applied form drawing

Member Feedback: “The beanbag activities are a great way to get out some extra energy!”

 

Lesson 2: Form Drawing Practice
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 21:40

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.

• Golden sun verse
• Golden sun song
• Crayon care
• Form drawing basics
• Form drawing practice

Member Feedback: “I loved the songs in this video!”

 

Form Drawing with Teacher Nicole

Lesson 1: Figure 8 Form Drawing
Teacher: Nicole Martinez
Length: 1:33

A quick lesson with Teacher Nicole on how to draw the figure eight form. Nicole shares a couple of tips and tricks on how to make our form even and she encourages lots of practice before we commit to paper and crayons.

• Form drawing
• Figure eight
• Chalk drawing
• Crayon drawing

Member Feedback: “The advice about drawing a vertical and horizontal line during practice is very helpful”

 

Lesson 2: Running Form #1: Waves
Teacher: Nicole Martinez
Length: 3:04

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 doing a “watch first and then do” style of listening. This will help us to analyze our shapes and be constructively critical about our progress.

• Running form drawing
• Chalk drawing
• Crayon drawing
• Wave form

 
Lesson 3: Running Form #2: Cat Ears
Teacher: Nicole Martinez
Length: 2:56

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.

• Running form drawing
• Chalk drawing
• Crayon drawing
• Cat ears form

 

Lesson 4: Running Form and Mirror Forms
Teacher: Nicole Martinez
Length: 4:56

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.

• Running form drawing
• Mirrored form drawing
• Chalk drawing
• Crayon drawing
• Hand holding ghost form

 

Lesson 5: Vertical Mirrored Form Drawing
Teacher: Nicole Martinez
Length: 1:25

Let’s draw a little bug jumping down a tree – or our vertical mirrored form drawing! We do this by drawing a vertical line right in the center of the page, and then mirroring whichever running form we choose to use. 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.

• Vertical form drawing
• Mirrored form drawing
• Chalk drawing
• Crayon drawing
• Jumping bug form

 

Living Lesson Main Lessons: Fables

Lesson 1: The Fox and the Crow Fable
Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
Length: 40:12

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 as a way to learn of 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 that they are, despite looking like they should maybe be pronounced in a different way. 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.

• Morning verse
• Rhythmic poem activities
• Rhyming stories
• Waldorf fables
• Spelling (-er, -ir, -ur)
• Drawing activity
• Sentence structure
• Vowel rules

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 Fable
Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
Length: 41:01

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 some great techniques for writing straight across the page to make sure we are getting the most out of our paper and not writing down or uphill. We’ll pay attention to sentence structure details to make sure we are communicating as clearly as possible in our writing. 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.

• Morning verse
• Rhythmic poem activities
• Rhyming stories
• Waldorf fables
• Vocabulary words
• Sentence structure
• Writing practice
• Spelling (-er, -ir, -ur, -or, -ar)
• Drawing activity
• Vowel rules

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: Lion and the Mouse Fable
Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
Length: 43:30

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. These vocabulary words will be used to practice some 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.

• Morning verse
• Rhythmic poem activities
• Rhyming stories
• Waldorf fables
• Vocabulary words
• Sentence structure
• Writing practice
• Spelling (-er, -ir, -ur, -or -ar)
• Drawing activity
• Vowel rules
• The Magic E

Member Feedback: “I really can’t believe how much content is in each lesson. Thank you, Earthschooling!”

Lesson 3B: Lion and the Mouse Drawing Activity 
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 29:56

Teacher Simone shows us how to draw a scene from our fable 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 shaped used and how they are put together to create that 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.  

• Crayon drawing
• Form drawing in context
• Fable drawing activity
• Writing practice
• Storytime

 Member Feedback: “I love Simone’s sound effects and visuals in her story time.”

Lesson 4: Anansi and the Sky God Fable
Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
Length: 43:48

Like our previous lessons, we’ll begin with our warmup sequence, which includes our morning verse, 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 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.

• Morning verse
• Rhythmic poem activities
• Rhyming stories
• Waldorf fables
• Vocabulary words
• Sentence structure
• Spelling (-er, -ir, -ur, -or, -ar) 
• Writing practice
• Drawing activity
• Vowel rules

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 Fable
Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
Length: 43:37

Like our previous lessons, we’ll begin with our warmup sequence, which includes our morning verse, 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 us into our next portion 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 making a drawing of it.

• Morning verse
• Rhythmic poem activities
• Rhyming stories
• Waldorf fables
• Vocabulary words
• Writing practice
• Sentence structure
• Spelling (tr-, dr-, fl-, bl-)
• Drawing activity

Member Feedback: “It’s good that there is a variety of movement activity to keep things fresh and new!”

Lesson 6A: The Fox and the Grapes Fable
Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
Length: 41:16

Like our previous lessons, we’ll begin with our warmup sequence, which includes our morning verse, 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 us into our 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.

• Morning verse
• Rhythmic poem activities
• Rhyming stories
• Waldorf fables
• Vocabulary words
• Sentence structure
• Writing practice
• Spelling (sl-, sp-, st-, sw-, str-, spl-, scr-, spr-)
• Drawing activity

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 Activity
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 15:34

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

• Crayon Drawing Activity
• Drawing tutorial

Member Feedback: “Such a nice and detailed tutorial!”

Lesson 7: Another Anansi Fable
Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
Length: 44:38

We’ll begin with our warmup 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 us into our next portion of the lesson where we’ll practice learning about str-, spl-, scr-, spr-, and other words beginning with three consonants. 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.

• Morning verse
• Rhythmic poem activities
• Rhyming stories
• Waldorf fables
• Vocabulary words
• Sentence structure
• Writing practice
• Spelling (str-, spl-, scr-, spr-, -nd, -mp)
• Drawing activity

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 student’s fill in their lesson books.”

Lesson 8: Jackdaw and Eagle Fable
Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann
Length: 42:45

Welcome to our eighth and final fable lesson with Teacher Mellie! Just like our previous lessons we’ll begin with our warmup sequence, which includes our morning verse, 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!

• Morning verse
• Rhythmic poem activities
• Rhyming stories
• Waldorf fables
• Vocabulary words
• Sentence structure
• Writing practice
• Spelling (-nd, -mp, -nt, -nk)
• Drawing activity

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
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 19:22

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 as a tool to begin learning how to identify the Who, the What, the When, the Where, and the 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.

• Little lantern song
• This Little Light of Mine
• The Story of a Man, his Son, and a Horse
• Who, What, When, Where, and Why!
• Writing practice
• Sentence structure

Member Feedback: “The fable in this video has a wonderful lesson behind it.”

Lesson 10A: Ant and Grasshopper Fable
Told by guest storyteller, Safia

Lesson 10B: Ant and Grasshopper Drawing Activity
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 21:36

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 Ant and 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.

• Active song activity
• Applied form drawing
• Crayon drawing activity
• Spelling practice (-ai, -ay)

Member Feedback: “Simone always has such good drawing videos. She explains everything so clearly.”

Lesson 11A: The Foolish Rabbit and the Coconut: Telling the Fable

Lesson 11B: The Foolish Rabbit and the Coconut Drawing Activity
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 17:18

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 offers guidance on how to complete the drawing. After this, we’ll do some practice with addition and subtraction. 

• I am a Star song
• Crayon drawing
• Sentence practice
• Addition +
• Subtraction –

Member Feedback: “I really like Earthschooling’s team of teachers.”

Lesson 12: Tortoise and Geese Fable
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 16:33

We begin this lesson by practicing verses that focus on alliteration. Next, Teacher Simone shares some fascinating facts about rock formation and how sand is made, so that 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 this, we’ll do the drawing one last time, but now we’ll turn it into a wearable headband. Lastly, we’ll get into our fable called Tortoise and Geese

• Alliteration verse
• Rock formations
• Nature form drawing
• Chalk drawing
• Tortoise and Geese Fable

Member Feedback: “Really interesting lessons in here about mountains and rock formation, plus a super fun hat making activity.”

LESSON 13A: The Quarrelling Quails Story

Lesson 13B: Quarreling Quails Drawing Activity
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 15:18

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 in context and draw our summary of the fable. Lastly, we will review the story of the Quarreling Quails with some sentence structure and writing practice.

• Alliteration verse
• Bird drawing practice
• Quarreling Quail drawing
• Sentence structure
• Writing practice

Member Feedback: “The verse at the start of this video is such a fun one”

 

Living Lesson Main Lessons: Language & Phonics

Main lesson: Learning About the Beginning, Middle, and End of a Story
Main Lesson: Drawing and Word Sort
 -ay Words; Main Lesson
Ant and Grasshopper Fable: -ai and -ay Word Practice
 -ea Words and Selkie Story
Selkie Story Writing Practice
Two Goats Story and Word Sorting
Sensory Writing, Comparing -oa and o_e, Sentence about Two Goats Story
Letter Review: Knight and Courage Story
Sight Words Story, New Main Lesson Book, Subtraction
Arrowhead Story and Beginning, Middle, and End Activity
King of Ireland’s Son: Learn about Adjectives & Adverbs & The Guilty Dogs 
Guilty Dogs Picture and More Adverbs
Big Red and Little Blue Story with Writing Opinions
Adjectives and Adverbs in King of Ireland’s Son
Recognizing the Beginning, Middle and End of a Story
Quarreling Quails Drawing and Sentences
“In Mary’s Garden” – Learning about Topics and Paragraphs
“In Mary’s Garden” – Learning about Who, What & When

SPECIAL LIVING LESSON: Celebrating Loved Ones Who Have Passed On
Hallows Eve Activity (or any time of year)

Living Lesson Main Lessons: The Lowercase Alphabet

The Letter a: Story, Verse, Main Lesson Book Picture, and Extra
Acrobatic Apple: Story and Drawing
The Letter b: Story, Verse, Main Lesson Book Picture, and Extra
Bella Bunny and Lowercase b Practice
The Letter c: Story, Verse, Main Lesson Book Picture, and Extra
Crying Cloud and Magic Trick for Number 11
The Letter d: Story, Verse, Main Lesson Book Picture, and Extra
The Letter e: Story, Verse, Main Lesson Book Picture, and Extra
Lower Case ‘e’ and Making a Dodecahedron: Part I
The Letter f: Story, Verse, Main Lesson Book Picture, and Extra
Lower Case ‘f’ practice and Making a Dodecahedron: Part II
The Letter g: Story, Verse, Main Lesson Book Picture, and Extra
 The Letter g: Grape on the Ground, Number 13 Facts
The Letter h: Story, Verse, Main Lesson Book Picture, and Extra
Recall Letter h and the Hiding Hut, Addition Paper
The Letter i: Story, Verse, Main Lesson Book Picture, and Extra
The Immortalized Icicle, The Pear Story, Working with Beeswax
The Letter j: Story, Verse, Main Lesson Book Picture, and Extra
Lower Case Letter ‘j’ and the Jesting Jack-o-Lantern
The Letter k: Story, Verse, Main Lesson Book Picture, and Extra
Lower Case Letter ‘k’ and the Karate Kick
The Letter l: Story, Verse, Main Lesson Book Picture, and Extra
The Letter m: Story, Verse, Main Lesson Book Picture, and Extra
Lower Case Letter ‘m’ and the Math Maze
The Letter n: Story, Verse, Main Lesson Book Picture, and Extra
 Lower Case Letter ‘n’ and Practicing
The Letter o: Story, Verse, Main Lesson Book Picture, and Extra
The Letter p: Story, Verse, Main Lesson Book Picture, and Extra
The Letter q: Story, Verse, Main Lesson Book Picture, and Extra
The Letter r: Story, Verse, Main Lesson Book Picture, and Extra
The Letter s: Story, Verse, Main Lesson Book Picture, and Extra
The Letter t: Story, Verse, Main Lesson Book Picture, and Extra
The Letter u: Story, Verse, Main Lesson Book Picture, and Extra
The Letter v: Story, Verse, Main Lesson Book Picture, and Extra
The Letter w: Story, Verse, Main Lesson Book Picture, and Extra
The Letter x: Story, Verse, Main Lesson Book Picture, and Extra
The Letter y: Story, Verse, Main Lesson Book Picture, and Extra
The Letter z: Story, Verse, Main Lesson Book Picture, and Extra

Second Grade Science 

Lesson 1: Turtle Races Beaver
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 be good listeners for the story of the day 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.

• Morning verse
• Movement activity
• Critter song
• Story time
• Spelling: “oo”
• Crayon drawing

Member Feedback: “I like Mellie’s calm demeanor throughout her lessons”

 

Lesson 2: The Monkey and the Mangoes
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 making a summary of the story. After this 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 story of the day called The Monkey and the Mangoes. Once we listen to our story, we’ll be able to do our drawing activity where teacher Mellie shows us how to create a crayon drawing of a scene from our story.

• Morning verse
• Movement activity
• Critter song
• Story time
• Spelling: “oo”
• Crayon drawing

Member Feedback: “I like how fun these stories are while still encouraging curiosity about animals!”

 

Lesson 3: Butterflies
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 making a summary of 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.

• Morning verse
• Movement activity
• Critter song
• Story time
• Spelling: “oo” and “ou”
• Crayon drawing

Member Feedback: “Having each activity separated by movement is very effective!”

 

Lesson 4: The Monarch
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 practice writing and composition by making a summary of 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 whichever kind of paint you have available.

• Morning verse
• Movement activity
• Critter song
• Story time
• Spelling: “oo” “ou” and “igh” “y”
• Watercolor painting

Member Feedback: “Teacher Mellie does a fantastic job of explaining the complex spelling rules of the English language”

 

Lesson 5: The Walnut
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 about The Monarch by writing a summary of what happened, and we will also do a crayon drawing of it since previously we had only done a watercolor painting. After completing our summary and drawing, we will move on to the next story called The Walnut. But before doing a drawing we will quickly switch over to our spelling book where we’ll 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.

• Morning verse
• Movement activity
• Critter song
• Story time
• Spelling: “oo” “ou” and “igh” “y”
• Crayon drawing

Member Feedback: “There is so much content in these lessons!

 

Lesson 6: Clay
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 about 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.

• Morning verse
• Movement activity
• Critter song
• Story time
• Spelling: “oo” “ou” and “igh” “y”
• Introduce “ie” and “ck” spelling
• Crayon drawing

Member Feedback: “The clay story is great; you can learn so much from it.”

 

Lesson 7: Clouds
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 completing our summary, we will move on to the next story called Clouds. But before doing a drawing for it we will quickly switch over to our spelling book where we’ll 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.

• Morning verse
• Movement activity
• Critter song
• Story time
• Spelling: “oo” “ou” and “igh” “y”
• Introduce “ie” and “ck” spelling
• Crayon drawing

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 
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 completing our summary, we will move on to the next story called Weather. But before doing a drawing for it we will quickly switch over to our spelling book where we’ll 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. Once we’ve completed our drawing we will write a summary, and this will conclude our Animal and Science Block from Teacher Mellie.

• Morning verse
• Movement activity
• Critter song
• Story time
• Spelling: “oo” “ou” and “igh” “y”
• Introduce “ie” and “ck” spelling
• Crayon drawing

Member Feedback: “Such a lovely block. Teacher Mellie has a knack for explaining these concepts very cohesively!”

 

Lesson 9: Rock Formations
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 16:33
We begin this lesson by practicing verses that focus on alliteration. Next, Teacher Simone shares some fascinating facts about rock formation and how sand is made, so that 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 this, we’ll do the drawing one last time, but now we’ll turn it into a wearable headband. Lastly, we’ll get into our fable called Tortoise and Geese

• Alliteration verse
• Rock formations
• Nature form drawing
• Chalk drawing
• Tortoise and Geese Fable

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
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.

• Alliteration verse
• Bee story
• Form drawing bee pattern
• Number name practice

Member Feedback: “So cool how bees fly in a form drawing pattern!”

 

Lesson 11: Animals, Seeds, and Pollination
Teacher: Simone Blanchard
Length: 8:00
We’ll start this lesson by singing our song called I Am a Star, then we’ll learn about all the different kinds of animals that are 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 “are they a seed disperser or a pollinator?” feel free to do any kind of drawing of your animal. Focusing on the appearance and physical traits of the animal can help us better understand them.

• I Am a Star song
• Seed dispersers
• Pollinators

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: 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 all of our inventors and discoverers and talk about what they all have in common with each other, and we’ll hear a story from Teacher Simone about her life. While she tells her story, she will be drawing a timeline of events, which we will use as an example for our very own timelines.

• Morning Has Come song
• I Am a Star song
• Story time
• Timeline

King of Ireland’s Son

King of Ireland’s Son: Telling the First Stories
King of Ireland’s Son: Learn about Adjectives & Adverbs & The Guilty Dogs 
Adjectives and Adverbs in King of Ireland’s Son
Recognizing the Beginning, Middle and End of a Story
The Color Red and King of Ireland’s Son: Chapter 6
King of Ireland’s Son: Chapter 8
The Balavisx & The King of Ireland’s Son
King of Ireland’s Son Chapters 11 & 12
Paper Cutting a Circle and The Balavisx

Living Lessons: Holiday Lessons (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

Living Lessons: Saints (Optional, Secular, and International)

Second Grade Saints: Saint George
Second Grade Saints: Saint Martin 
Second Grade Saints: Saint Lucia
Second Grade Saints: Saint Nicholas
Second Grade Saints: Saint Elizabeth
Second Grade Saints: Rabia all Basri 
Second Grade Saints: Jerome and the Lion
Second Grade Saints: Saint Francis 
Second Grade Saints: Saint Rabbi Akiva 

See Living Lesson Samples Below

Teacher Simone: 2nd Grade: The Main Lesson Book Verse Teacher Simone: 2nd Grade: The Ant and Grasshopper Fable Teacher Amy W: 2nd Grade: Lowercase Letter ‘l’