Why create seasonal celebrations? Because they help us to pause, to take a moment to be grateful, to lighten the load and light the path. For me, seasonal celebrations provide anchor points in the year. The solstices…
How is a meadow like a tree? In Discussion Ten (the afternoon lecture on day ten of the first Waldorf teacher training in 1919), Steiner says that, “…when we look at a tree, it’s as if someone…
It’s a very windy day here and it’s October. I keep singing The Winds of October song, perfect for this day: “Scarlet and yellow, golden and brown, winds of October blow the leaves down…” I wanted to…
I’ve always thought of our homeschooling year as Labor Day to Memorial Day. For over twenty years, that’s been our main rhythm. As my children have become teens, we’ve often had wrapping up to do into June,…
This is a guest post by Jodie Mesler, music teacher and author of The Magic Flute, a music curriculum from Living Music designed to help homeschooling parents teach their children recorder or penny whistle. Jodie’s passion is…
This is a guest post by Alisha Trammell, who is the mother of 4, a handwork teacher, and has been a Waldorf-inspired homeschooler for over 10 years. She has a profound appreciation of the Waldorf curriculum and…
In the 6 Steps to Planning an Awesome Waldorf Homeschooling Year, the final step is setting up your environment, the “E” in our acronym, BRIDLE. Step Six: Setting Up Your Waldorf Homeschool Environment This can be such…
So often, when we are new to Waldorf education, we think something like…”I need to learn to teach math with gnome stories. And I need to learn form drawing. And oh, there is painting and main lesson…
Really, no matter what resources or packaged curriculum we may choose to buy, we each create our own curriculum because we will never use a curriculum exactly as is. We aren’t even meant to, actually, because curriculum…
There is a phrase in twelve step programs called “the geographic cure.” It refers to one’s attempt to move somewhere new to cure whatever pain one is in. It doesn’t work! Because “wherever you go, there you…
