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Simple felt puppets made of wool roving or wool felt and a silk cloth are the basis for an easy and lovely puppet story. This month Suzanne Down brings us verses and pictures of a delicate felt butterfly to fly and a turtle that creeps along, then swims so free.
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For many years he does sleep. […]
With Waldorf education, so much is about how we bring work to children, what is our intention in bringing this to the child. Beginning with a verse helps convey the mood that the adult is carrying within, in bringing the learning material, to the child.
Opening verse for handwork:
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Before learning to knit, I treat the children to a story. The story sets the stage for their knitting skills, puts them in a listening place, and allows for a “sleeping.” In other words, they take in information from the story, let it rest for a day or two, and then we proceed with knitting.
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To make one pair of knitting needles:
~ one 1/2 inch wooden dowel to cut into 2 ten inch lengths
~ a bead for the top of each
~ sandpaper
~ glue
~ a small chunk of beeswax and a cloth rag for […]
Knitting is central to first grade handwork in the Waldorf curriculum. It is often the focus of handwork for the entire year. While knitting is hand work and productive work, it also fosters thinking and nourishes brain development through hand movement. It is said that Knitting Begets Thinking.
We begin our with a […]
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Waldorf education is about teaching out of universal, human principles, whatever the subject and an orderly Education of Head, Heart and Hands is central to these principles.
However, handwork and crafts are to have a specific task within the context of the curriculum, namely to awaken creative powers which would find fruitful and useful application in as […]
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Still “trailing clouds of glory,” First Graders enter the Waldorf classroom with great expectations. If they have gone to a Waldorf Kindergarten before coming to Grade One, then they are not yet writing or reading, and their arithmetic skills may be limited to some simple counting. Not having had academic subjects forced upon them in their […]
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Each month, we will bring you a picture of an early childhood program. With our debut issue, I am delighted to bring you a picture of Margaret’s Garden, tended by devoted caretaker, Danielle Epifani. Danielle works with children from 18 months to 9 years of age and has been doing this work for […]
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An Introduction and a Lesson in Mango Math
I didn’t always know I wanted to homeschool my children. To be honest, I hadn’t given theireducation much thought. But once my twin girls arrived and we began attachment parenting, the bond that formed was so intense that teaching them at home […]
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