Online Resources for Waldorf Education
To access the works of Rudolf Steiner:
- Anthroposophical Society in America (to join lending library)
- Rudolf Steiner Archives
- Rudolf Steiner Audio
- Rudolf Steiner Lending Library
Inner Work:
- Imagine Self ~ Inspiring, Liberating, Empowering, biography work and anthroposophy made juicy
- Moving through the Year with the Calendar of the Soul
- Steiner Study Group: ~ Currently taking up The Foundations of Human Experience
Development of the Child:
Curriculum Support:
- Chalkboard Drawing
- Form Drawing
- Handwork Curriculum
- A Waldorf Journey : A Fifth Grade Teacher offers curriculum material and reflection
- Waldorf Curriculum Supplies ~ A place to buy, sell and trade materials
- Planning Your Year
Practical Endeavors
- How to Make a Coloring Pad
- How to Make Buns (or bread) from Scratch
- How to Make Soup Stock
- How to Set up for Wet on Wet Watercolor Painting
Puppetry
- Juniper Tree Puppetry
- Starlite Puppets ~ available for birthday parties, festivals, see Connie Manson and Peter Chen here
Homeschool Blogs
- Ancient Hearth
- Catherine and les Fées
- Ducks in the Pond
- Frontier Dreams
- Heirloom Seasons
- Homeschooling Waldorf
- Joyful Living
- Our Ash Grove
- Our Island Home
- The Parenting Passageway
- Schooling from the Heart
- Syrendell
Waldorf Curriculum Charts
- At Chicago Waldorf School here
- At Three Cedars Waldorf School here
- Chart Available for Purchase here
Movement and Play
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Yahoo Discussion Groups:
Waldorf inspired educational information, methods, artistic ideas, and pragmatics, sharing spiritual insights and practical advice with others. An outgrowth of the Shining Star School’s Suns and Moons home school program, located in Portland, Oregon, and founded in 2003.
This discussion group is a place to share questions, ideas, inspiration and challenges for those who are actively offering home based programs to the public such as childcare, nursery, preschool, kindergarten out of a Waldorf/Anthroposophy impulse in a home based setting.
Waldorf Early Childhood ~ Bringing it Home
This group is for parents and those who care for young children and wish to bring a nourishing and juicy living anthroposophical perspective on parenting and education to the children in their lives, in our homes. Topics include daily life with children, parenting, child development, crafts, creating a home, homesteading, circle, curriculum, cooking with children, rhythm in the home, all aspects of caring for children in the rhythm of life. This is no place for rigid thinking and dusty cobwebs.
Waldorf Kindergarten Afternoons
The group explores topics for afternoon kindergarten teachers in Waldorf school or homes. The goal of this group is to address how to create a smooth transition into the rest, rhythm, repetition and play of afternoon time. We also want to support and encourage building sustainable and genuine Afternoon Programs in Waldorf Schools.
This group has been created for parents, teachers and child care providers who are working with the very youngest children, from birth to four who are interested in the healing art of Waldorf education and other healing methods such as R.I.E./Pikler and Attachment Theory. The intent of this group is to provide a forum for questions, suggestion, inspiration, challenges, support and sharing.
This group is open to Waldorf/Steiner Kindergarten and Early Childhood Teachers and those enrolled in Waldorf Steiner Training to become a teacher. Share ideas from your class for circle, projects, stories and the like. Support one another as peers as we strive to better ourselves and our teaching methods.
Our primary group purpose is to serve the Waldorf inspired community residing in the Northeast U.S. region – specifically Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania by providing a vehicle for personal networking, as well as for promoting and learning about events, activities and initiatives happening in this region.
